Arch-Sabre: The Inheritor of The Blade

Chapter 12: Capture The Leader

--- [Grand Arena] ---

"I think I had eaten a bit too much yesterday..." Quinn sighed.

"Chill, it's not our turn yet."

"But I wonder where Elea is?" Quinn being curious.

"I don't know," I reply while lifting both of my shoulder.

"Ah, I wonder how today will went, since Eva's group is so overpowered yesterday..."

So, today is the second day of the Blade Festival. Only me and Quinn are currently here, waiting for Elea. The first match is about to start so we just take a sit at some random vacant seats. For yesterday, I knew that Lilith team succeed to win the division E round from the tournament group chat in my smartphone. Lilith's team must be strong.

"Evans, actually, since when did you nicknamed Princess Eleanor as Elea, I didn't hear anyone call her that," Quinn embarked another topic.

"Hm... since I met her at the armament shop at Azalea district," I said.

"Is that like your tenth time meeting her?" Quinn assumed.

"No, that was a second," I stated.

"Eh, just the second time and you already call her by a nickname?"

"Um... yes?"

"Wow, that's crazy!"

"Why?"

"I heard that she is quite a cold person, she's not talking to anyone in her class at all even though they went swarming to her."

"Eh, really? That's weird, she talks to me just normally..."

"I heard that she is a kind of introvert, she doesn't talk much. Her 'princess aura' is making everyone anxious to even get near her. Even every time I try to talk to her, even I can feel that anxiety you know!" Quinn exaggerated.

"Princess... aura... hahaha that's kind of accurate!"

"Yeah, I mean... you know if a royal family and the nobles talk about status and stuff, they become kind of arrogant and start ordering people around. Most of royal members that studying here pretty much fit the description, so most students like us don't want to get involved with that. But for princess Elea, it's more like she is very dutiful and 'busy-looking' all the time so people kind of don't want to annoy her or something. I have never seen he talk to another guy aside from the prince," Quinn explained.

"Oh... that makes me an exception then hehe..."

"Nah... you may even not in her list, many attractive and hot guys have tried get near her, but none have succeeded. Maybe it's just because of the tournament that she is being nice so you should not keep your hopes up Evans. Most importantly is we can't mess up this tournament, I always heard she is training extremely hard every single day since last year."

"Hm..." I reply with a nod.

But what if she likes m—

"Hey sorry, looks like I come late again!"

We both are startled by Elea voice that suddenly appeared from our backs.

"E-Elea... when did you arrive...?" I asked, a little bit surprised from her sudden emergence.

"Just now," she replied shortly while trying to catch her breath.

Princess is catching her breath after coming late. A rare sight indeed. But most importantly, we almost caught talking behind her back. Oh, thank God we just finished the topic before she heard it.