A Rose Between the Thorns

Chapter 13

Just as the three fully exited the portal, and I stood trying my best to open a portal to leave, I could feel someones eyes on me and when I turned my head just as the portal appeared I noticed it was Rhya. I ran through the portal and arrived with the others. Asta and Finral giving me two welcomed nod.

"Who are these guys?" Gauche asked, Yami replied sounding none to pleased. "More enemies." I noticed Asta's confused expression. "Spacial magic, but how? He's still out cold." Rhya must have been the one to open the portal. Speaking of Rhya when I looked across the rubble of rocks that divided our side and theirs I spotted Rhya yawning away, I'm not surprised.

"Oh man looks like something didn't go as planned." Rhya spoke as he looked around noticing the destruction of the cavern caused by our fights. When he stopped looking around I thought his gaze had gone to observe me for a second then. "There was a hell of a battle and Licht and Valty were clearly not the winners."

He began looking around again and I was surprised he was being this observant. "Cleaning up this mess will be a bit of a pain, but gotta help out your friends right." Suddenly Rhya disappeared and then reappeared in front of Yami, to fast for me to get Yami's grimoire out of the way.

Yami was quick to attack Rhya, sending him back with a cut on his arm. "Don't let him touch your grimoire!" I shouted warning the others. "Ow geez now that's literally a pain." He soon landed back on his feet. "Well whatever, I can heal it up easily enough. Light magic: healing light particles."

I heard Asta's shock over the spell, but I didn't pay to much attention as I watched on as Fana began to heal Patri, that liar, he was hurt badly. "Flame recovery magic: Phoenix robe." Patri was soon encompassed in her healing flames, which brought him off the ground.

"I know you'll succeed were I failed. Thank you my friends." The others were confused now, not understanding who the third eye were. "Right so who are these people exactly?" Asta asked, well rather shouted. "I'll introduce you." I could feel Patri's tired gaze stare at me though he assessed us all.

"These three are the strongest members of the Midnight Sun. Their power surpasses my own, especially when it comes to battle. They are the third eye." I noticed Finral's expression turn to distress at Patri's words. "Stronger than a light mage, that's got to be impossible right?" I wished I could reassure him and say it wasn't, but I'd be lying.

Rhya began yawning again, he really needs to take a long nap. "We wouldn't, bluffing such a pain you know." My attention went back to Patri as he bang to explain the third eye's epithets. "Your kingdom takes the clover as it's symbol, as befits it's name. Let's consider it shall we."

I couldn't help the small spark of excitement at finally hearing someone explain the leaves of the clover like in the anime. "Each of the clover's leaves supposedly represents one ideal, none of which your kingdom truly embraces. They are integrity, hope and love."

Everyone seemed engrossed in what Patri was saying and so was I. "Such pretty words. These three bare titles with the opposite meanings. Antithetical to integrity, we have Rhya the disloyal. As the antiphrasis to hope, we have Vetto the despair. Finally, as the inverse of love, we have Fana the hateful."

"If someone dares to harm Licht I will gladly kill them." Fana spoke, her voice and gaze seemed so distant and made my heart twinge at the thought of what brought her to this state. Don't worry Fana, I'll help you one day and soon.

Yami as always was unfazed by Patri's words. "Congratulations those are some really spiffy names you got there. Of course that doesn't tell me if you're worth a dam when it comes to a fight." Sometimes it just shocked me, the fact Yami was so strong and yet never bothered to see the amount of mana spilling out of someone, because now that I could I'm surprised he never acknowledged it.