Entering a room with a large glass table and a view of the city center, Vicente ignored the holographic screens here and there, keeping an eye on the brown-haired woman who sat in front of him with a smile on her face.
"You're hiding your appearance..." she said as she flashed her very white teeth at him, obviously identifying Vicente.
"You..."
"Don't worry." She gestured with her hands, seeing the hardened expression on his face. "I'll keep your secret, if you like. Zigam informed me that you were coming."
Vicente's eyebrows rose as he immediately summoned from his spatial ring the box and the message the man had sent. "In that case, he must have warned you about it, too."
"Yes, thank you for bringing them to me. I'll pass them on to my fiancé." She smiled as she received the item and the message without paying much attention to them. "Anyway, can you tell me why you're hiding your identity?"
He looked through the glass lenses on his face, focused on this woman's black eyes. For a moment, he didn't know what to answer. The answer was so obvious that her question caught him off guard.
"Because of my pentagram configuration?"
"Your pentagram configuration is really impressive." She nodded as she snuggled into her armchair. "But there are many special people on Light Cay, Mr. Fuller. Besides, on an island like ours, where we can easily afford artificial enhancements to the grade of our pentagrams, configurations close to yours aren't hard to find."
'Perhaps for a group in control of such a wealthy force, this really is easy to achieve.' He looked around and smiled.
He hadn't expected to hear about such a thing there, something he had almost neglected in his studies over the last year.
However, even hearing and reading such a thing, Vicente was skeptical of the idea propagated by this place that they lived on a peaceful island without the problems of other parts of the cultivation world.
Cultivation was something that went against external desires, a desire to achieve something that had never been achieved before. How could people following such a path be so good and righteous, as these two seemed to mean with their carefree and confident words?
"Even so, I prefer to keep my identity a secret, if possible. Anyway, I'm curious. The moment I arrived here, I swore I'd find someone more or less in my situation." He changed the subject by relaxing his expression. "Is it common for those sponsored by the Manifold Family to work inside one of their establishments?"
She relaxed too, letting the dense subject of a moment ago die down. "No, I'm a special case." She smiled. "I'm engaged to a family member, so my benefits have multiplied, haha. I'm gradually moving from being a sponsored member to becoming an actual member of the family.
But you can do that too. There are good single women who would certainly love to be with you, I'm sure of it."
"I'm not interested. Although the benefits sound great, I have other plans for the future."
She was silent before asking. "Anyway, are you ready to train me? I was told that you would eventually be my training partner. But it was expected to take another year to start. You're a bit ahead of schedule."
"Yes, I'm ready." He assured her, certain that she was underestimating him because he was one level below her.
As she wondered if he would be able to train her, he couldn't help but be excited to fight someone as strong as him for the first time in his life!
"Then accompany me to my individual training room. Oh, don't worry, no one will know who you are there, so you can use your powers and reveal your actual appearance." She laughed as she led the way.
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