Chapter 163: Get Your Own

He told Lily everything. From his meeting with Dante a couple of months ago. All the way to his meeting with Alice and what she had told him.

To say that Lily was upset was an understatement. He didn’t know what she was more angry about. At first, she was worried about the condition of his soul and wanted to know all the details about its circumstances.

However, when he began to tell her about his nonstop training at night and recent Concept acquisitions, she got furious.

He had a feeling that if he wasn’t “injured” at the moment, she would have given him an ass whooping or his mind a good blending. And honestly, he wouldn’t have blamed her. He had been stupid. It was his own fault that his soul was even in this condition in the first place.

He should just be thankful that Alice said there might be a way to fix it. While he didn’t know how she was going to go about it yet, she seemed confident that it was at least a possibility.

“I told you that it was important for you to get some actual rest,” Lily scolded him for the tenth time within several minutes. She was currently following Julius back to where Alice had dropped him off in front of the gates but was giving him a tongue lashing as she did.

“I can’t believe you weren’t getting any sleep whatsoever! We all know that you trained like a freak, but I didn’t know you were that stupid. You should have told us!” Lily continued to vent at him.

Julius tried to calm her down. “I technically did tell Aubrey about my sleep schedule,” he reasoned.

However, that didn’t calm the irate blonde in any capacity. If anything he just made it worse. He saw her purple eyes glow dangerously for a moment and felt her aura go slightly out of control, which was completely out of the norm for her. Lily had some of the best aura control he had seen outside of Declan and Professor Youma.

She calmly turned to face Julius. “You’re saying that Aubrey knew about your training?”

He winced. “Not everything,” he backtracked his previous statement.

“But she knew that you were forgoing sleep?” Lily asked very softly.

He didn’t have the courage to reply with words, so he just slowly nodded his head.

She saw his answer and nodded her head as well. “I see,” she said vaguely.

I’m sorry Aubrey! Julius apologized to Aubrey, wherever she might be. He had just unleashed an angry Lily and pointed her toward the other girl. It almost made him feel bad, but then he remembered all of Aubrey’s teasing and he felt a little less guilty about it.

Eh, could be worse, he told himself.

“Are you sure you’re okay with doing this?” Julius asked her, trying to change to subject slightly.

He had told Lily what he needed of her already but wasn’t really able to explain the complete reason for it. He himself didn’t know the exact reasons either. He just knew that Alice wanted to him to share all of his skills and that he didn’t feel comfortable unless there was some sort of protection.

She turned to look at him with a frown. “Of course I am. If you think that I am not going to help you out just because I am mad at you, then you are dumber than I thought.”

Julius looked down and hid the smile that inched to his face.

***

When they finally got to the front gates, Alice was there standing at the same place Julius had left her.

He still couldn’t sense her with [Spatial Perception] much to his frustration. He hated that he had to rely on his eyes.

Is this how normal people have to see the world? I kind of feel bad for them now.

However, it was surprising when he saw Lily start walking a little bit faster toward Alice. There was a smile on the young girl’s face. Which was reciprocated by Alice.

The two women met together in a big friendly hug. When he got to them, he heard them talking animately to each other.

Huh, odd.

“Alice! What are you doing here?” Lily asked enthusiastically.

“Lily!? You’re the person that boy was bringing?” Alice asked at the same time.

“Yeah, he came to my dorm asking me for help setting up a ritual for him. Are you the person he was talking about?” Lily asked Alice.

“You guys know each other?” Julius interrupted the two of them when he got there.

Lily turned to him. “Of course! Alice is one of my family’s good friends. I’ve known her for most of my life!” she happily said to Julius. “You should have told me it was her that was helping you.”

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“I had no idea that you two knew each other,” Julius commented. It actually made him feel a lot better about sharing his “secrets” even under a vow to Alice. Lily was in his opinion, an excellent judge of character.

“Yep, Alice here is the spatial magic consultant my family relies on for some of our projects. She is one of the foremost experts in her field,” Lily announced proudly.

“Hush, you are going to make this old lady blush. There are many other people who are much more knowledgeable about spatial theory than me. I would hardly call myself an expert,” Alice added with a grin.

“Old?” Julius muttered out loud confused. He was surprised that she would refer to herself as old.

Alice snapped her head to him and gave him a glare that stopped him from saying anything more. He put his hands up in mock surrender.