Chapter 16: Crack
"How did I get here," Zaephiel thought, sitting in a luxurious car, looking out its window. The shops and tall buildings were left behind as the car started to move.
Sitting beside him in the back seat was Sylveraine, and in the front two seats sat two guard women—one driving, the other scanning the surroundings from the passenger seat for safety.
’How could the doctor just agree with her to adopt me? What if she abuses me like my previous parents?’ he thought, his fingers tensing slightly, and he glanced at Sylveraine from the side, stealthily.
Sylveraine sat there with a blank face, using her mobile phone. She looked quite immersed in it.
’But...’ he thought, ’she doesn’t look like someone who would abuse others for no reason. She has been quite nice to me... so maybe it’s okay,’ he thought internally, trying to reassure himself, his gaze still focused on her.
’She’s really pretty,’ he thought suddenly, admiring her perfectly shaped face, her glistening skin, and her silver hair falling smoothly down her back like silk.
’Her body too is perfect,’ he added, and his gaze slowly went down, observing the proportions and tone of her form. Suddenly, an idea struck him. ’Why don’t I try to study and replicate it in my body? Those perfect muscles and that perfect bone structure—if I can copy that, I would become really strong,’ he thought inwardly. Without realizing it, his power activated. Being so focused on Sylveraine’s body, he didn’t even notice that he could now see through her clothes, her skin, and even into her muscles.
But someone else did.
Sylveraine, who was engrossed in her mobile, suddenly noticed a golden gleam reflected off the screen—coming from Zaephiel’s direction. It didn’t take her long to realize what was happening.
’Ohh... he’s using his bloodline powers to look at my body again,’ she thought, a sigh forming in her mind. ’But what do those powers even do, exactly?’ She remembered only hearing that he had a God bloodline related to eyes.
’Wait—what if his power lets him see through everything?’ she thought suddenly and instinctively brought her legs together, covering her private parts a little tensely.