The Author's POV

Chapter 53

The air around the room was tense. It felt suffocating. Almost as if I was stuck inside of a cramped room with no room to breathe.

The reason for such atmosphere?

Quietly sitting on my chair, a stunningly beautiful young girl with glossy black hair and porcelain white skin devoid of any imperfections, was curiously looking around my room.

Amanda stern.

Someone who I had never thought of interacting with privately.

Seeing her sit on my seat as if it was the most natural thing to do, my eyebrows twitched.

Just what did I do to deserve this?

...no, I knew why, I just wanted to deny reality.

Sighing, I spoke up to try to break the awkward atmosphere.

"Would you like green tea or water?"

Hearing my voice, Amanda's eyes paused on my face for a couple of seconds and after a short pause she said

"...green tea"

"Alright"

Heading to where my teapot was stashed, I took it out and poured steaming hot water into the pot.

After a couple of seconds, I took a bag filled with tea leaves and gently threw them into the pot.

While waiting for the tea to be ready, I turned around and noticed Amanda's obsidian black eyes staring at me.

Taken aback by her odd behavior, I asked

"...Need something?"

Hearing my voice and seeing that I had caught her red-handed, Amanda looked to the side and acted as if nothing happened as she lightly murmured.

"...Nothing"

Smiling, I looked back at the teapot.

What do you mean nothing? You were obviously staring at me!

Even a blind person could tell you were looking at me.

Pinching my brows, I decided to think about this in a positive way.

From the looks of things, it at least seemed that she had no hard feelings against me. Since I knew her personality well, I knew that if she were to have had a grudge against me, she would've avoided me at all costs.

Treating me as if I was nonexistent.

Seeing how she had actively come looking for me, I knew that she didn't hold what happened against me.

...so what did she come here for?

There was definitely a reason for her visit. I sort of had a hunch on what it was, but I wasn't too sure.

Most likely, she came to express her gratitude for saving her.

If so, I better get this over with fast. If someone found out 'the Amanda Stern' who was the talk of the academy was having a private meeting with a boy in his own room, I wouldn't even know how I died.

The fact that she was in my room meant that my life was in danger.

Sigh.

Just when I thought things weren't going to become more troublesome suddenly a new troublesome situation arose.

Looking at the water in the teapot that had started turning murky brown, I carefully removed the teapot from the heater and poured the tea into two porcelain teacups.

Walking back to where Amanda was seated, I handed the steaming hot teacup to her and sat in front of her.

"Thank you"

Taking the teacup with both hands, Amanda gently blew on the cup and took a sip.

Closing her eyes and savoring the taste of the tea, Amanda nodded slightly said

"...it's good"

"Thank you"

aftertaste

you

that we couldn't just spend all the time drinking tea, I decided

face stared

"...Thank you"

Frowning slightly, I said

"For what?"

"For saving me"

head, I leaned back on

don't ever recall helping

"Yo-.."

about to

seems like you forgot what I had

'..forget what you saw'

said, Amanda remained quiet for a little bit.

"I can't do that..."

teacup down. Her response was within

eyes that were looking back at me, I thought for a moment

you're really sorry

reply, Amanda sighed

was visibly relieved by my

"Okay"

phone, she quickly went to

this, I couldn't help but bitterly

was just

owing anyone

want to feel indebted to anyone other than herself. No, it was more like she

to pay back every single favor she owed so that

million

million U? I guess

I processed what she had said,

what did

who had just stood up and

million, not

that's not

I

second generation kids treating money as if it was

"...so 5 million okay?"

"Sigh, hold on"

my chair, I

U would definitely help me. With that much money, I could pretty much solve the

Amanda, an idea suddenly came into

ask for something else instead

room temperature dropped and Amanda's demeanor became increasingly

something, I quickly followed up by

am not asking for any dates or anything that is

my next part, Amanda's brows relaxed. Nodding her head she

"...Okay"

in relief,

get me a

"A sword art?"

by my request, Amanda looked at me

remembering what had happened a

something to disguise my main sword

"oh"

understood something,

react like that, I knew she still had a misconception about my strength. In the end, I said nothing. I was honestly too tired to

try to solve the misunderstanding,

matter if she misunderstood or not. At the end of the day, she wasn't the

Meaning that

type of sword art would

for a bit,

sword art that

Amanda pondered for a

"How many stars?"

previously offering me around 5 million

her

let me

holographic function on the phone, a long list of sword

is what I got from the criteria that you had given

mouth twitched. If I said I wasn't jealous right

daughter of the guild master of the

amount of resources and manuals that

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