Chapter 282: How should you explain the concept of marriage to your kid?
Lesta unbuttoned his shirt without much care, and I hugged the pillow in his place because I got too excited. You know, the kind of excitement when we encounter something interesting?
He unbuttoned his shirt just enough for it to show his chest. There, above where his heart should be, was a mark, roughly as big as the brand of contract Natha put on the back of my hand the first time.
"Whoa..."
I stared at the mark in fascination. I thought it would be like a tattoo at first, but it was closer to the mark I had on my palm; the mark of Alveitya. It looked like blood veins, those blue and purple lines we could see in our wrists. But the color was deeper, darker, the lines spreading like blooming flowers.
Upon closer inspection, the mark was actually an archaic rune formation. Different from the magic circles and arrays used nowadays, the archaic rune formation was formed by combining all the runes used in the spell into a singular form. To put it simply, it was like how Chinese characters--Hanzi--formed back on Earth.
Looking at it like this, rather than a tattoo, it looked more like the mark had been a part of his body from the start; like a very elaborate birthmark.
It was beautiful.
"Would you like to touch it?"
"Yeah," I admitted easily. "I want to try channeling the rejuvenation mana through this point."
Lesta nodded. "Go on," he said, and my hand had already moved before he even finished the ’on’. He chuckled at my eagerness, and let me rub the mark slightly.
I did it carefully, afraid that it would still hurt. But he said it was alright, and I realized curiously that there was no scar on his skin, considering he was supposed to get ’stabbed’. Pressing my middle finger slightly on the center of his mark, I channeled the rejuvenating mana to his system.