Chapter 190: Jonas’ Decision
As Elmo finished eating some breakfast, he had thought that he'd be able to go out to get more training done,and building his spells at least a little more, but then Jonas let him, Elin, and Kim know that he wanted a meeting to discuss something that he wanted to discuss.
He couldn't think of any reason to object to it, although he would like to get more of his spells built up, since he found that he was lousy at learning how to fight with his fists and feet. Maybe if he had years and all that to work on it, then he might e able to become proficient with that, but as it stood, his spells were his best line of defense. So, if they could be built up properly, then he should be better at dealing with any doppelgangers that come his way again. If they encounter doppelgangers again, that is.
Kim seems to be a little annoyed by Jonas calling a meeting as well, though Elin seemed fine with it. Not that Elmo was really surprised. Elin seemed to enjoy these meetings at times. Though, Elmo suspected that it gave her an excuse to delay going to train herself. Especially since Kim still insisted on her learning some skills to fight without any weapons.
However, he couldn't be sure that's what the reason was. It was merely his hunch about it. After all, with their training, usually they were all left too tired to really even do much thinking, let alone discussing things like that.
When they were all finished with their breakfast, Jonas led them to where they had been doing their training, only he had them make their way over to a more deserted area of the training grounds.
Then before Jonas had a chance to say anything, Kim asked, "So, what's this about now? Are we going to vote on if we train more or just try to find that fire dragon?"
Jonas merely shook his head. "We're not voting on anything," Jonas answered. "I just wanted to inform all of you that I'll be leaving today. Any of you are welcome to join me, but my training has reached the point that it would be pointless for me to remain. If all of you want to stay here and train more, then that's your decision. I won't try to persuade you against that."
Kim blinked, clearly surprised at his statement. Elmo knew tha the certainly was, although Elin didn't seem to fully grasp what it was that Jonas' statement meant.
"Why would you be leaving?" she asked. "Aren't we a team?"
Jonas smiled kindly at Elin. "Yes, we are a team, but if I don't leave, then I'm probably going to go crazy. I will accept if all of you want to train more, because we can't say what else might come down the line. Besides, its been nice not having to do anything other than train, eat, and sleep every day. Especially when we don't have to worry about the bill."
"Why wouldn't you have mentioned this before today?" Kim asked.