Chapter 214: Dream Manipulation
Ash stood still for a while, weighing his options in silence. The faint night breeze rustled the leaves above him, carrying with it the cool scent of damp grass from the academy gardens. His eyes lingered on the dimly lit windows of the girls’ dormitory, one of them belonging to Melissia’s room.
In his mind, he kept running through the same problem again and again.
If he sent someone else, what would he even tell them? That he just happened to know something was wrong? If he said he could see through the walls, people would look at him as nothing more than a creep... and that was the last kind of reputation he wanted.
Besides, there was still the shock of Snow’s sudden ability lingering in the back of his mind.
Not everything is mentioned in the status window... looks like there are things I’ll only discover after experiencing them firsthand...
Even so, that didn’t erase the question pressing in his mind.
Should I really be here...?
He now found himself back in the garden again, the moonlight spilling over the wet grass, casting silver shadows beneath his feet. For the teleport to work, he needed a clear and direct view inside Melissia’s room, but the vision Snow had shown him earlier wasn’t enough to lock onto the location with certainty.
His eyes narrowed slightly as he considered his options. He wasn’t exactly confident about this. The truth was, Ash had never been good at comforting people, nor was he any better at dealing with someone crying. Situations like that felt far more suffocating to him than facing dangerous enemies in battle.
I’d rather fight angels than deal with something like this... but alas, my luck has never been that good...
He sighed, lamenting his own fate and even cursing it quietly under his breath a few times, as if that might somehow make this task easier.
After a moment of stillness, he muttered in a low voice, almost as though trying to convince himself,