Chapter 36: Chapter 36 - Stubborn vs Selfish

"Girl, I don't like the face you are making. It seems like I'm being taken advantage of, not the other way around," the Sage grumped.

"Oh, come on, master… But what about the thing we talked about before?" She asked carefully.

"What do you mean?"

"I have a friend at Ashford's dukedom who only you can help…" Violet didn't forget her initial purpose of finding the Sage.

"Yeah, sure… I can do a favour to my pupils," the man said after thinking a bit.

"There is nothing keeping me in this mountain anymore… since someone ate the flower that bloomed on the ice for a thousand years."

"B-but you get a cute apprentice in exchange, so it was still good for something after all…"

"I'm not really happy about that pupil right now…"

"Vio…let?"

The door opened and something heavy dropped to the floor. Cassiel stood between the doorframe, his pale face full of disbelief.