Chapter 15: What to do
Just as Reiko reached the training grounds, some of the people approached her with nervous looks on their faces, while some of them just sat still and observed her as she walked.
She noticed them coming as she was talking with Rica, but pretended like she didn’t notice them coming. Neither the group approaching her nor the group that observed her knew that she saw them, but just turned a blind eye to them.
"Hey there!" One of them said.
Reiko turned as she flashed a smile towards them.
"What is it that’s happening outside?" They asked with a nervous voice that almost synced with the nervous look on their faces.
Reiko stayed quiet for a moment as the people watched her closely.
"I don’t know yet, but let’s just calm down for a bit and". She said, but was interrupted by the people before she could finish talking.
"...What? You don’t even know what’s going on, but keeping us here?" One of them said with a mix of fury and nervousness in their voice.
"Is she serious?" Another said as Reiko kept looking at them while keeping her cool, as the whole group that was standing in front of her started talking so many bad things about her. Some of them even called her foolish and unfit to lead them as the replacement leader of the village, while some of them said she was just a child who did not know what she was doing.
Reiko kept looking at them while maintaining her smile, but her smile was just a mask to cover up her anger because she was pissed with what the people were talking about when they knew that she was not in the village when it was being attacked. Her body started growing a dim blue light that the people noticed but kept quiet the instant they saw it.
’The light that was being produced by her body was her anger, but in the form of the color of the mana and ana. This was happening because she tried holding her anger in, but even so, her body could not handle the pressure and started to release it in the form of visible mana.’