Chapter 291 The Award Ceremony! Part-2.


    ??Royal Garden, Front Gate.


    A luxurious car stopped in front of the gate, and a bodyguard rushed to open the door of the car.


    The first one to get off the car was Link.


    And then others got out of the car one after another.


    Link, Lia, Riya, Liam, Ellie, Fade, and Kira--all seven of them were wearing the elven-style dresses given to them by the staff members.


    Unlike Rio, who has no fashion sense at all, the others came here after getting ready and making proper hairstyles. (Yeah, even Riya has more fashion sense than him.)


    Each one of them had a unique design on their clothes that suited them ording to their personalities.


    Link''s clothes were imprinted with the design of a red dragon, while Lia''s clothes bore the design of a silver lion, and the same was true for the others.


    Not only did team Astra receive dresses that reflected something unique about them, but all of the candidates did as well.


    This is the ultimate respect given by the Elven King to all of the future geniuses.


    All candidates who made it to thispetition are geniuses, no matter if they won or lost, so it was important to respect each one of them.


    While walking on the red carpet, Liam smiled awkwardly and asked Lia in confusion.


    "Uh, don''t you think the atmosphere between them two is quite strange today?"


    While saying that, Liam pointed to Link and Riya. And sure enough, the two of them really were avoiding each other.


    Normally, Link and Riya would be walking together, holding each other''s hands, but today, for some reason, they are refusing to even speak to each other, as if they are upset with each other.


    Lia sighed at Liam''s question and replied with aplicated look on her face.


    "Apparently, Link wanted to punish Riya for noting to see his final match, so he went ahead and ate all of the candies that she had given him for safekeeping, and when she returnedst night..."


    "She was so upset that she stopped talking to him, and he was also upset at her, so ultimately it turned into a situation where both of them are not talking to each other and are avoiding each other..."


    Liam was quite surprised by this; he didn''t expect that even this happy-go-lucky pair of lovebirds could end up fighting one day, and the culprit of this fight was ''candies''.


    Liam couldn''t help but say it in aplicated tone.


    "Uh, it seems the matter of candies is indeed quite serious..."


    Just when the two of them were talking, Fade said in a loud voice,


    "Heh! You guys have absolutely no concept of cooperation! Kira and I never fight! We are the best!"


    Kira nodded her head in agreement with Fade''s statement. Although Fade has a weird personality and talks like a mentally ill person who has an eighth grader syndrome, the two of them never fight at all.


    Hearing Fade''s voice, blood veins appeared on Liam''s face in an instant, and he replied in an irritated tone.


    "Who asked? Can''t you shut up sometimes in a while?"


    Obviously, Fade wasn''t going to back down at all, and he immediately replied in a mocking tone.


    "Hmph! You dumb, rich bastards are just so full of bulsh*t! Just wait! I will one day beat you all and pay back this humiliation-"


    Before Fade could evenplete his sentence, Ellie waved her hand and made him shut up by covering her head with her shadow magic.


    "Go away; we have heard that same sentence more than a thousand times; don''t you have some new dialogues?"


    Link scoffed at Fade and shook his head in disappointment.


    Originally, he used to think that there must be something special about Fade, due to which he always hated him.


    But ever since Link has awakened ''Dao Rhythm'', he seems to have eliminated the clutches of that mysterious power that was holding him down, and now he doesn''t even care what Fade does.


    Anyone else other than Rio can''t even hold a candle against him, so Link has stopped bothering with wasting his time on insignificant things.


    Nowadays, all he does is train, mess around all over the ce with Riya, eat, and sleep.


    "By the way, where is Rio? Is he still here?"


    Although Link can use dragon field in sync with spatial bypass to detect Rio, he doesn''t always keep it deployed, which means he can''t detect Rio if he''s wandering around in his shadow robe.


    That''s why he asked Lia if Rio was with them or not.


    "No, I asked the staff members, and they said that he would arrive a bitter than us... He''s today''s star afterall..."


    "They said they would give him a new hairstyle or something to make him look handsome... But he''s already so handsome; what more does he even need?"


    (Keep in mind that her eyes see him through an automatic beauty filter; he looks a hundred times more handsome from her perspective...)


    Link was quite surprised that Lia said that Rio was handsome; he knew that Rio has no fashion sense and looks very ordinary.


    But he didn''t say those words out loud; otherwise, Lia will likely get frustrated and say that she won''t tolerate insults about Rio.


    Although Link didn''t say it, Liam certainly had no qualms about saying that out loud.


    "Rio and handsome... Those two words don''t seem to get along quite well, hehehaha... uh.. ahem! Cough! Forget I said anything..."


    Liam was about to continueughing, but Lia gave him a deadly stare, so he stoppedughing.


    "Hmph! You guys have no idea; when holding a teacup and gazing at the setting sun on the horizon, Rio looks absolutely stunning!"


    No matter what others say, in her opinion, he''s the most handsome.


    Looks are not everything a person has; even Fade has some good looks, but is he a good person? Is he trustworthy? Does he have the power to rival the strongest person in the younger generation?


    Of course not.


    Personality, trust, and a person''s confidence matter more than their looks.


    If you can trust them with your life without any worries, you can rest assured that you won''t suffer any harm when in the care of that person, and he will take good care of you. Is that person not handsome enough then?


    Well, although Link and Liam were saying that Rio wasn''t handsome, they also respected him a lot because of his capabilities.


    They trust him a lot, but as friends, they are just messing around and joking a bit to pass time.


    Rio defeated each of them in a fair and equal battle, so none of them dares to look down on him.


    All seven of them reached the banquet area, grabbed drinks for themselves, and continued to talk.


    "Well, Rio might becking in terms of looks, but that guy is an absolute powerhouse… When fighting against him, you will always feel that all your moves are being seen through right off the bat…"


    Link clenched his fist a bit and continued.


    "Also… I have a feeling… He never went all out against me; he was certainly holding back a very crucial attack or something all while fighting me…"


    Link has excellent intuition, and his perception has always been quite good. He was able to guess that Rio was definitely not going all out at all.


    He doesn''t know it, but he got that feeling because Rio wasn''t using ''Soul-splitting technique''.


    Rio has yet to master that skill, and he can''t control the damage that attack will do, so he dares not use it on those whom he has recognized as friends.


    He may seem emotionless and carefree, but deep down, he doesn''t want to lose the friendships that he has made with all of them.


    For a loner like Rio, friends are rare, so keeping a firm hold on these rare friendships is very important.


    Riya nced at Link with a slight pout on her cheek.


    "Hmph! Lia, tell that guy that at least Rio''s a trustworthy person; he doesn''t steal candies from poor people like a certain someone, hmph!"


    Riya was furious with Link today after going through all those difficult days in the previous week, only to return and discover that he had devoured her entire stash of candies.


    And nothing was left for her; she was so angry that she didn''t even want to talk to him at all, so she was saying her thoughts to Lia and making sure that Link was hearing them too.


    Link also didn''t back down, though; he nced at Lia and said,


    "Lia, tell her that those who break their promises are bad people; unless she admits her mistake, I am not buying her any more candies!"


    Riya puffed up her cheeks even more and said it angrily.


    "Lia, tell him that I can just go and buy the candies by myself; I don''t need a fatty guy like him to pick them up for me, hmph!"


    Seeing the two of them drag her in their fight, aplicated look appeared on Lia''s face.


    "Er, you two… You should probably make up with each other now; it''s just a matter of saying ''sorry'' no?"


    But Link and Riya were not going to listen to Lia''s words at all.


    "Hmph! The worker bee won''t forgive the big bear who stole all the honey that she worked hard to store in her beehive!"


    Link also said it immediately.


    "The bear was patient, but the worker bee didn''t give him his share of honey as promised before, so he got angry and stole it all!!"


    Riya clenched her teeth and said,


    "That bear is unreasonable! The worker bee had to work so hard to collect the honey from those rare flowers!!"


    Link immediately replied to that with,


    "Hmph! The worker bee didn''t fulfill her promises; obviously, she will have to bear the consequences of it~"


    The two of them red at each other, and Lia could see those imaginary sparks of lightning collide between them.


    At this point, not even Lia knows what these two are talking about.


    ''Ugh… These two are so in sync that I don''t even know what they are arguing about anymore, Where did this honey and beehive evene from…''


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    Author''s Notes.


    Yo! It''s your beloved author here! Link and Riya seem so cute even while arguing; they are using metaphors to describe their situation…


    Question of the day.


    Who do you think should apologize first?


    1. The hungry bear (The bear''s actions were too excessive, he shouldn''t have eaten that much…)


    2. The worker bee (the bee broke her promise, so she was wrong for it…)


    By the way, don''t forget to use those power stones and also leave a review if you like the story. Comment with your opinion about the chapter. Your support is my motivation.