Chapter 20- Claret Doesn't Believe That Someone Is Capable To Touch Her Heart.

With their entire body and clothes wet from the river, Claret and Theo have finally stepped in a dry solid ground, while Squishy continues to float silently behind them, although he has been secretly muttering something definitely bad toward his bound partner which was thankfully something that he didn't share in their spiritual link.

"Theo thank you, I am really alright now."

Claret can only helplessly smile as the gorgeous young man hovering at her side with a rather worried expression on his gorgeous face, although she was much older than this person, her height only reaches till the young man chin, at least she doesn't have the height of a dwarf while appreciating the fact about having mix blood from her foreign father side.

After seeing as the young woman is really alright, Theo let out a sigh, before finally perceiving the current appearance of the person before him, which causes him to be stunned in a trance at the somehow incredible images that he was seeing.

Right at this instant, Claret wet clothes is currently sticking close to her body which has perfectly highlighted the beautiful curve belong to a grown woman while those slim waists are more pronounced than usual along with long black hair that is currently sticking to a beautiful face and slender white neck, while those emerald eyes gazing upward which shine so brightly.

Suddenly, Theo's ears turn pink again before quickly turning his head around to give the young woman the respect she deserves.

Suddenly, Theo felt like he was some kind of a pervert, causing his entire body to turn a bit red from complete embarrassment before finally remembering that the young woman could get a cold when a strong breeze of wind past by, besides as amber eyes glance around their current surrounding, it is currently dark and the star and the half-moon in the sky is the only source of their light at the moment.

Although he was capable to see better in the dark, and knowing that Claret having the rare magical perception the entire time that he has stayed with her, but now that she has her eyesight back, Theo could tell that she could not see properly in darkness.

Thus he decided to stay in this place for a bit, after glancing one last time at the young woman, though only making sure to stare at her face only, and has finally voiced out about going to get the items needs to prepare their outdoor stay for a bit.

"I am going to get a fire started, I'll be back after picking some woods, stay here and don't move around."

Before Claret could answer back, Theo has already started walking away, though not before making sure that the unusual slime monster keeps the young woman safe, base from his guts, he knew that this monster hasn't been showing what he was really capable of.

Claret couldn't help but sigh a bit, this person's reaction is really amusing and delightful to her eyes, especially when he worries and tried to take care of her.

Um… it really is unusual that she really dislikes the feeling she was currently experiencing besides that...

"... Squishy… aren't he so adorable?"

Watching the little sadistic bound partner of his that is currently having fun teasing a certain poor innocent young man, Squishy tried to show his white eyes toward her, although he wasn't able to do it because of the kind of body that he has, Squishy still tried hard.

"Claret… you're not falling in love with him right?"

Squishy couldn't help but asked those words with a curious and suspicious tone, after all, base on what he has seen in Claret's memories, she has never reacted that way to anyone else, much less to a man.

Emerald eyes blink at the sudden question of her bound System before letting out a chuckle expressing great skepticism in her beautiful face.

"Huh? Hahaha, your so funny Squishy. I just met him for a few days, and I only see him as a fellow friend which is a rare thing for me to do! So I treat him more nicely and sincerely than most other people I met so far."

Claret falling in love with another person?

It's impossible, after all, there have been many men that has tried to get her heart but no one is capable to make her heart skip a beat and feel warmth.

She even started to have a suspicion and doubt if her heart is really that cold and can't be touch and move by another person aside from her Mother.

So falling for Theo? It seemed to be impossible to happen, after all, the young man is younger than her and well, she might see Theo more fitting to be her younger brother.

Besides, Claret felt like she has exceptionally high standards for her other half that she might never have the chance to have a romantic relationship in her entire life.

Although she felt comfortable with his presence and likes to tease him sometimes, yet it doesn't mean that she loves the gorgeous young man.

After all, the entire time, Clare has been treating Theo as a friend that she particularly feels that she can give her trust with, especially when she felt the sincerity coming from the young man always been true toward her.

So without so much pondering deeply about Squish sudden question, Claret's attention quickly turns to something else when she felt her stomach growl with hunger before telling Squishy to go catch some fresh fish in the river since they seemed to be staying in this place for a bit.

Anyway as long as it's about food, Squishy will always follow without any hesitation so he directly floats and went into the river to catch some fish without any hesitation.

Finally seeing the disappearance of Squishy, Claret has turned her attention at the item that she is currently holding on her hand tightly the entire time.

It was a normal-looking bracelet with an eye-catching white bone surrounding around a purple stone and noticing that the bracelet has a rather strong black thread that keeps it from breaking despite being submerged in the water for a long time.

With a bit of complicated expression on her beautiful face, emerald green eyes turned cold while her mind started to process about the best way to finish her task, after all, this item and broken memories she has seen are all part of what mission she needs to do in order to keep her eyesight permanent.

If she failed, then she has to wait for the next task to appear again and she doesn't know how long it will happen.

"... Now then… how should I handle this?"