142 Mortal World 8

The night in the Mortal World was extraordinarily refreshing. Few animals strolled around following the pair of immortals on their way to their mission. Faint moonlight hit the branches of the trees, reflected by the thin necklace Lia wore.

Yano walked next to Lia and gave the necklace a smug, then he looked forward to enjoying the fact that Lia was holding his life force in his hands.

It was a great feeling and he thoroughly enjoyed it. Yano led Lia to a small town next to the city they were in. In the middle of the town, several exorcists led by Holn and Lu waited there.

They saluted when they saw Yano. Holn, however, jumped around Lia and excitedly said, "You also came!"

Lia only nodded as Yano picked Holn by the collar from behind and set him next to Lu.

"Stay there, don't get close to her."

Holn pouted but immediately gave a knowing smile to Lia which made Yano involuntarily scowl.

"How's the situation?" Yano turned the topic around.

"Several vengeful ghosts scattered throughout the town, but at one particular spot they're crowding it… like crazy," Lu answered.

"You guys take care of the stray ones, Kim and I will sort out that clump then."

"Wait, you two alone?" Holn sneakily approached Lia again but was caught by Yano.

"What do you think I'm not enough?" Yano smiled at Holn but Holn could feel it.

The danger. For obvious reasons, Holn shouldn't embarrass Yano.

Holn sighed dramatically, just how much did Yano like this Kim? It was unfathomable. Usually, Yano didn't care about any females clinging onto him. Maybe Yano liked the cold ones?

Having a sort of realisation Holn knowingly smirked again. He was sure to have figured out Yano's preference. Seeing that mischievous and up to no good smile, Yano shooed Holn away.

"He's right, you can manage them on your own," Lia spoke up only to shatter Yano again, "I'll help Lu then."

Lia actually approached Lu and stood next to him, not realising what bad fate she cursed upon Lu.

Lu, who was always too lazy and unbothered to give any reactions, froze on the spot. Why did he have to endure this? Lu turned his head away from Yano who continued to smile.

But behind that smile was nothing more than malicious intent. On the other side, Holn cracked up. He had to hold his stomach as he crouched on the ground and held his thumbs up at Lia.

She became his new idol.

"You've done what I wanted to achieve for almost 10 years, in less than 10 seconds. You got my admiration and the necessary guts to survive."

"Be quiet," Yano kicked Holn until he rolled on the ground away as Lia was confused.

"Achieved what?"

"Getting a reaction out of Lu."

Lia eyed Lu and he strategically mini-stepped away from her.

"Am I burdening you?"

Lu shook his head but made no attempt to not scurry away from Lia.

"I see, then I have to submit to my fate," Lia looked at Yano who opened his arms and said, "Come here, come."

She wanted to contort her face but remembered to be dignified, "The faster we're done, the faster I can be away from him."

Yano lowered his arms and scratched the back of his head. The black uniform he was wearing emphasised his strong body, he was a dark and attracting force able to pull everyone in but Lia.

"You know how the drill goes, see ya later," Yano rushed off with Lia following him.

The town was peaceful and tranquil. It was the farthest away from the eeriness Lia has experienced in the Veil and Mistand.

"Do you know where the ghosts are?" suspicion rose as Lia thought Yano was blindly charging ahead.

"I do," Yano held up his hand that had a yellow circle with a random pattern inside.

"Is that your power?"

"You're finally curious?"

"I'm not," even though Lia really was. If Yano's power was drawing those circles and having different abilities, just how strong was he? Was that the secret behind his reputation as the top exorcist?

"Be careful" Yano stopped in front of a part of the town that had fewer houses that stood farther away from each other.

At one particular house, a terrifying amount of ghosts swarmed around. Lia noticed another point, "Wait aren't these mortals?"

Just as her question finished, a scream appeared from inside the house. Yano instantly drew a sword out of his hand made out of his life force and said, "I'll go inside, you can take care of the ghosts outside, right?"

"Yes, no problem," Lia reassured as Yano slashed his way through the ghosts that had already detected them and flew towards them.

The hungry ghosts were exhilarated at the appearance of immortals as their life force was more satisfying than the mortals'. Lia used to fight with swords when she was an exorcist, so with ease, she was able to purge them quickly.

However, what puzzled her was the fact that all these ghosts only crowded this one house instead of the others. There were so many people here, why did the ghosts only target this one particular place?

As Lia was finishing slicing the sharp edge through the translucent ghosts, she heard another scream. Without thinking she rushed into the house.

It had two floors and on the upper floor, she was met with a sight that quickly put her in a bad mood.

"So, you indeed love to fool around," Lia turned away and headed down to not have to witness a mortal female clinging onto Yano, constantly telling him how handsome he was and how he was her shining knight in armour rescuing her.

When Lia stopped out of the door, Yano caught up, "Let me explain. She just threw herself at me, I've nothing to do with her!"

Lia took a deep breath and handed Yano's sword back to him, "I don't care, you can do what you want. Don't explain yourself as if we are in a relationship. What you do, who you are with, has nothing to do with me."

These cold words and treatment made Yano lower his head, Lia could swear she could see his puppy ears lowering but what she said wasn't wrong.

There was nothing between them and never would be. Yano was just a playboy who loved to fool everyone. Lia was particularly eye-catching to him because she didn't immediately fall for this charm.

If she did, he'd just treat her like the mortal girl, uncaring and tossed away. She destested men like this. Playing around with other people's feelings just because they could.

Lia didn't spare Yano another glance and headed to the town centre again where Lu and Holn were already present.

"You only came now?" Holn raised his eyebrow mockingly as Yano arrived.

"He takes his sweet time fooling around with females, so you can't blame him," Lia's words stunned everyone.

"Damn Yano, you can't get yourself out of this one so easily," Holn wriggled his eyebrows.

"Be quiet," Yano was annoyed.

It was out of his control how that girl behaved. Why was Lia so mad? More importantly, how could he foster a good relationship with her now? This damn job!