CH 75.1

One Star Mage Promotion Assessment (1)

Rothgarr didn’t deny it immediately. He remembered that his current purpose was to win Anna’s heart so that she would agree to his proposal, he stared at her, who had a mischievous smile on her face, and admitted almost expressionlessly: “Yes , I’m jealous of her.”

Anna was stunned for a moment. Whether it was Raymond on the outside or the demon on the inside, his expression was so serious, as if what he said was true.

She looked away slightly, suppressed the strangeness in her heart, and said with a smile: “There’s nothing to be jealous of, I really only like men, and have a pure friendship with Natalie. She is my best friend in this world, if something happened to her, I would lose it.”

The last sentence of Anna’s seemed to only express her concern for Natalie as a friend, but actually meant something else. She was warning the demon in a seemingly casual way not to interfere with her friend.

Rothgarr understood Anna’s suggestion. Of course, he didn’t know that it was Anna’s suggestion. He just thought she was saying it casually, but he listened.

However, for a while he still had some doubts that Anna was doing this to protect Natalie and to not let him do something to her. After all, he was now Raymond, the son of a nobleman who was very obsessed with her. It was normal for him to do irrational things for love.

Just as Rothgarr hesitated, Anna suddenly raised her hand and tugged at his collar, pulling him closer, their faces almost touching.

In the slightly dark night, Rothgarr heard Anna’s light laughter that smelled a hint of refreshing wine: “Why are you so unconfident in yourself? I just need time.”

The low, seemingly lingering voice was close at hand, Rothgarr’s breathing almost stopped, like he was expecting something in the next moment.

When Anna met eyes with the demon who was staring intensely into her eyes, she hesitated… Should she kiss him now to make her words sound more convincing?

I’m sacrificing so much for friendship…

Anna thought this, and closed her eyes as she moved in, but suddenly there was a force on her shoulders pushing her away.

She expected this, but she still breathed a sigh of relief and opened her eyes to look at the demon.

After pushing Anna away, the demon likely wanted to hide; he had already returned to a seat toward the inside and sat down. There was no light source in the carriage, and the moonlight couldn’t shine in, so only the outline of a person inside could be seen.

The outline said, “I understand.”

He paused for a while, then added: “Drink less in the future.”

“Got it, it was just a spur of the moment decision today, I don’t like drinking very much.” Anna smiled and waved to the demon, “Be safe on the road.”

Anna closed the carriage door, and then watched the driver drive the carriage away, finally feeling completely relieved.

Inside the carriage, Rothgarr took a moment to calm down.

He didn’t know if it was because Anna’s methods were too superb, or because Raymond’s body was too fragile. At such a close distance just now, when Anna approached him, he almost couldn’t push her away.

His heartbeat was still so fast. When he closed his eyes, he could see Anna with her eyes closed, leaning in for a kiss…

Rothgarr opened his eyes suddenly, and gritted his teeth angrily.

Anna this woman!

Anna stood there for a moment until the carriage completely disappeared from her sight. She unconsciously raised her hand and touched her lips. Although she didn’t kiss him just now, the distance between the two was very close, and his breath could be felt.

Fortunately, she guessed right. Even if the demon wanted to deceive her soul, it was unlikely that he would actually kiss her, otherwise she might have avoided him herself before the kiss actually happened.

Because of the previous experience, this time, although the demon was downstairs and Abel  was in the attic, Anna was not too nervous.

As long as she was calm enough, the person hiding in her home could be regarded as non-existent.

As soon as Anna opened her door, she heard Abel’s unfriendly voice: “I thought you would go with that person tonight.”

Anna: “…”

She silently looked at Abel, who was lying on the ground. Ignoring him, she went into the bathroom and locked the door.

Unexpectedly, Abel got excited. He turned over and walked to the door and said maliciously, “Hey, if he knew that there was a man hiding in your room, would he be very angry?”

The sound of water in the bathroom stopped, and Anna’s sarcastic voice came out: “You are also worthy of being called a man?”

Abel glared, and smacked the door hard: “Why am I not a man!”

Anna turned on the faucet and continued to wash her face. After drying off, she opened the door. Looking at Abel, who was furious, she smiled and said, “A real man would not be like you, hiding away in a woman’s house.”

You don’t need to care about political correctness at all, as long as you could keep the other party speechless.

Abel’s face flushed with anger, and suddenly said: “Okay, I’ll go right now!”

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left. After opening the door, he walked out without stopping, and closed the door again without making much noise.

Anna didn’t stop him. She smeared some of the cream Natalie had given her on her face, slowly rubbed it into her skin with her fingertips. Then she got up and cleaned up the room for a while, and then walked over to open the door.

Abel was sitting on the steps outside the door, and she had already known this using a detection  spell.

“It’s getting late, it’s time to go to bed.” Anna said, “I’m sorry, I drank a little bit of wine today, and I lost my composure a bit.”

Abel didn’t want to talk to Anna at first, but when he heard her apology, he got up awkwardly, grabbed the door panel and slipped in.

“Since you have apologized, then I will forgive you.” Abel muttered, sitting down on the meditation mat that now belonged to him, and tied up his legs first.

Anna didn’t say anything. She went over and tied his hands up, then blew out the candle and went to lie down on the bed.

Although there were a lot of things hidden in her heart, but after a long day of exhaustion today, Anna soon fell asleep.

There were ten days before the exam, Anna decided to use a wheel battle* review strategy. The first day, she would study theory in the morning, in the afternoon, she would go to the meditation room. On the second morning, theory. In the afternoon, potion lab room. On the third day would be a full day of actual combat, and then the above cycle would be repeated for two or three days. The last day would be a rest day where she would prepare to welcome the next day’s promotion assessment.

[T/N: wheel battle is a tactic where several people take turns fighting one opponent to fire him out.]