[Come to the gym. Quick.] Luke said. He sent a telepathic message.
Sabrina lay on the floor unconscious. Luke erased her memory of the fight and the interrogation. He replaced it with a different memory where there was no attempted murder.
This was because Luke was with someone else in the gym. In this memory he had Sabrina challenge him to a friendly duel, to try to find out Luke’s strength, since she couldn’t kill him. Luke accepted, and so the gym ended in these conditions.
In the duel, due to a distraction, Sabrina was hit by a disc that hit her head and left her unconscious. As for the destroyed ring, it was damaged by a disc.
It was the only thing he could think of. As Sabrina would not use the ring in this duel it was feasible that it was destroyed by a random disc. According to Edgar, these artifacts are not indestructible.
The door to the gym opened and in walked a girl with straight black hair, long eyelashes, amber eyes, and an upright posture showing her confidence. It was Veronica Umbrio.
Veronica was the only Nevermore student who knew that Luke possessed two auras. He had told her himself. Mainly because of two things. First, he asked her for books on control, defense, and mind reading. It would be obvious that Luke wants these books to train his blue aura.
Second, why did he ask Veronica for advice. She was also a psychic with a blue aura. She was from the Umbrio family. It was not an uncommon thing.
Veronica looked with surprise and confusion at the state of the gym. There were cracked and burned parts of the floor and discs lying everywhere.
What surprised her most was seeing a student unconscious on the floor and Luke sitting near her.
“What happened here? What did you do to that poor girl?” asked Veronica approaching Luke. What frightened her the most was seeing the state of Sabrina’s arm and her fingers pointing in an unnatural position.
“Poor girl? This bitch tried to kill me. She’s from the Spellman family. I guess you’d know something,” said Luke, showing her the cut on his cheek.
Luke quickly summed everything up for her. Veronica was supposed to play witness since that’s the reason Sabrina didn’t try to murder Luke and just wanted to have a friendly duel with him.
“Act nice or the video will come out,” Luke said finishing his summary of what happened here. They had to be quick. They didn’t know when Sabrina would wake up.
“I understand,” Veronica said, nodding her head. Then she walked over to Sabrina and healed her bones. Her healing ability was very good compared to Luke’s companions who had green aura. She was on another level.
Finished with Sabrina’s treatment, Veronica steeled herself to Luke.
“What are you doing?” asked Luke taking a step back.
“I’m going to dress your cheek wound. It would be strange for her to see a wound like that on your face. You were just supposed to have a friendly duel,” Veronica replied.
“Fine,” nodded Luke. He forgot that important part.
Veronica placed her hands just inches away from Luke’s wound. A greenish aura could be seen coming out of her palms.
“How much longer?” asked Luke after a minute passed. It was uncomfortable to have Veronica so close and staring at him.
“Don’t talk. I need to concentrate. The cut is deep,” Veronica replied. If it were her mother she could heal it in a few seconds, but she wasn’t that advanced.
In the past, Veronica wouldn’t dare respond this way to Luke. Since he has a very embarrassing video of her in his hands, and if she acts disobedient or rude it could make him angry with her. But she realized that her cousin is not as arrogant and ill-tempered a person as he appears. She had imagined that Luke would ask her for more difficult requests, but that wasn’t the case. He would only ask her for books once in a while and ask her about some doubts about the blue aura.
She realized that he only threatened her because she threatened him first. Otherwise, she would never have found herself in this situation. Although she no longer saw it as a bad thing.
“There. Good as new,” Veronica said after about five minutes. Luke touched his cheek and no longer felt any cuts.
“Thanks,” Luke said, and Veronica’s mouth dropped open in the shape of an O. She was surprised that Luke had thanked her.
“What’s with that face?” asked Luke with little patience. He already imagined the answer she would give him.
“I didn’t know you could say thanks. It’s the first time you’ve done it and I gave you several books and some lessons,” replied Veronica with a slight smile.
‘Why does everyone think I’m someone ungrateful?’ Luke thought with some anger, though not that much. He was always grateful to the people who helped him. With Natasha when she gave him shelter and food, with Larissa, with Enid, with Xavier, and so on.
Ten minutes later Sabrina regained recognition. Her head hurt, and she didn’t understand what had happened. Luckily, the memories Luke implanted in her plus his and Veronica’s testimony were enough to convince her that it had happened.
Although she found it strange that she had lost the duel because of a distraction, from the memories she could tell that Luke was at level 2. Something she had expected.
It was good to have checked. If she had tried to assassinate him she could have easily done it with her current powers. Unfortunately, there was an annoying fly in the place. ‘Another day, I’ll assassinate him once and for all. He won’t be as lucky as today,’ Sabrina thought. The only bad thing was that her protective ring was destroyed. She didn’t think much of it. Her family was rich. She could ask her father for another one.
Sabrina said goodbye and left the gym. She said she would take it upon herself to tell Principal Weems about the friendly duel and the minor inconveniences caused because of her fire.
She showed a kind attitude very different from her real personality.
‘It all worked out somehow,’ thought Luke, coming out of the gym. ‘ He already set up the disks. Now it’s time to go back to his room and finally have Edgar tell him about the demons
and the Spellmans.
“Are you okay?” asked Veronica, quickening her pace so Luke wouldn’t leave her behind.
“Mm? You’ve already healed me. That was the only injury I had,” Luke said quizzically at this
question.
“That’s not what I meant. I mean, they just tried to assassinate you, and you ran into a person belonging to the family that… murdered your parents,” explained Veronica.
Veronica had a little information about her aunt’s death. She knew that the Poe’s had an old grudge against the Spellmans. This was told to her by her father. But more than this she didn’t
know.
“I’m fine. I don’t need your concern,” Luke said with a grimace.
“You got me involved,” Veronica said, angrily for some reason.
“I got you involved because I have a compromising video of you. Not because I want your honest help. Relax, I won’t force you to fight the Spellmans. That’s a matter I’ll take care of myself,” Luke said.
“On second thought it’s time for you to be free. I’ll erase the video. You don’t need to follow my orders anymore. What you did today is more than enough. We don’t need to talk to each other anymore,” Luke added with a dismissive wave of his hand.
He felt that Veronica’s help in this case had earned him her freedom. The girl would no longer feel fear that her social life might be over.
“Now that I’m of no use to you, you’re getting rid of me?” asked Veronica in a loud, angry
tone. She stopped and looked at Luke angrily.
‘What? What is this girl saying?’ Luke thought in confusion as he stopped and looked at
Veronica.
“Looks like I was the only idiot who thought our relationship had improved,” Veronica said
with glazed eyes.
In these months, she thought her relationship with Luke had gotten closer. At first, she saw him as an arrogant guy, but by this time, she had grown to like him. They both had two auras, were both geniuses and were from families of major psychics.
“Okay, bye! I won’t bother you anymore!” said Veronica in pain, turning around and walking
away from Luke.
She was always the most popular girl, and everyone fell at her feet. Even Tommy a talented werewolf from a good family. However, Luke was different the more she got to know him the more he captured her attention.
The conversations they had when she was teaching him were very interesting, and she was already doing it for the fun of it. She didn’t care about the video. She knew Luke wouldn’t post it. He wasn’t that kind of person.
“…” Luke watched Veronica’s back move farther and farther away. He didn’t understand what
had just happened.
He had told her that he would delete the video, and she would no longer have to give him lessons on the blue aura or bring him books from the Nightshade Society. It was a good thing, wasn’t it? She should be happy.
“You still don’t understand the heart of a young damsel,” Edgar said, shaking his head. He witnessed the whole drama. He had already witnessed two dramas that day.
“What do you mean?” asked Luke. Usually, he would ignore his great-great-grandfather’s taunts, but on this occasion he needed answers.
“That girl from way back has been helping you because she likes you. Not because of the
threat. Didn’t you see her face when she was helping you study the blue aura?” replied Edgar. Luke remembered, and it could be that his great-great-grandfather was somewhat right. Veronica when she helped him didn’t seem reluctant to do so. Usually, someone who is threatened would not have enthusiasm, but she did.
“You seem to have some charm to have caught her interest,” Edgar added, stroking his
mustache.
“We’re cousins…” said Luke with a grimace.
“So what? My wife was my cousin. Before you ask psychics don’t have inbreeding problems
like normies. It’s been proven. It’s even more beneficial since you can carry on a specific aura
of family,” said Edgar.
The birth of babies to parents who are siblings or close cousins is called inbreeding, and
children who come from these unions are more likely to suffer from several genetic disorders, which can lead to various diseases. This would be the case for normies. In the outcast world, this problem did not exist.
Luke made a barely audible sound and started walking toward his bedroom. He would not start a moral discussion about whether it was right or wrong to marry between cousins. He didn’t care, and he didn’t see Veronica that way. He already had a girlfriend.
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