The Tale of the Guardian

11

"We won't be transferring to Level 1" Asha said with finality.

"Let's go, El" she held my hand and pulled me towards her. She tap the teleportation clock and we were immediately transported to our dorm.

Before the images blur, I saw all of the kids expressions. So they were really against us going into Level 1 without the Mana Meter's validation, huh?

I smirk, finding this drama really funny.

I look at Asha who sat down on our sofa while wiping away her tears. She is still sobbing hard at malayo lang ang tingin. I couldn't say a word, all I could do is to look at her cry.

"How could they be so mean?" She said in between sobs. While I still can't find the right words to say.

"Come on, we still have classes" is what I could only say. Asha sob harder when she turned to look at me.

"Don't be so angry, El. Hindi pa maayos na nag r-regenerate ang mana mo. You might get low in mana, you are transmitting too much" I blink fast and look down only to see my hands gripping my pants. And it was covered in mana.

I'm annoyed, but I didn't know I was this annoyed that I didn't even notice my mana escaping.

"I'm not angry" even when I knew she is affected the most in this situation, she could still give me a small smile.

Kahit na may sipon pang tumutulo sa ilong niya, even when she can't see clearly because of all the tears in her eyes, she still gave me a smile.

"Let's go" I said habang tumatalikod sa kanya.
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"This is suprisingly delicious!" napangiwi ako nung walang tigil niyang nginatngat ang mais na hawak hawak.

"Slow down" I said and took a sipped on my drink.

2 weeks have passed after the commotion that happened on the HM office. Walang paramdam o kung ano man ang Level 1 samin. Asha seems fine with it, but every now and then I could spot Leven lingering around Level 2 classrooms. And I don't want to tell Asha about it.

Ngayong naalala ko si Leven, I kept thinking about Asha's battle. Alam kong nawawalan ako ng conciousness kapag nag l-link. It's not that I passes out sa mundo ko. But because my mana regeneration is in trouble here, I passed out when I triedd the link with Asha. Ang hindi ko lang maintindihan ay kung bakit wala akong narinig na tanong mula sa apat nung time na 'yun.

Why haven't they asked me about passing out that time?

Our classes ended 4 in the afternoon and we could get the rest of the day strolling around the academy or doing our things. Asha and I just decided to stay inside our dorms and sleep for the rest of the day.

"Sigurado ka bang okay ka lang? I could give you some of my mana" she woke up and saw me pacing back and forth in the kitchen.

"Hmm. It's fine" is all I could say.

This is what I get from forcing my teleportation clock. I also tried opening a portal which ended up failing and draining my mana.

"This is not fine, we should go to the infirmary now" when I went down to get water matapos sinubukang gumawa ng portal, my head just started spinning around.

Asha got her teleportation clock and tick it into the infirmary. She quickly lay me down in one of the beds there and found Ms. Norris, the infirmary healer.

"When did you started feeling dizzy?" She injected me some liquids and I could feel my eyelids dropping.

"6 o'clock." I simply said and turned towards Ash.