Chapter 329: Twenty-two Use my power (4K5)_2
“Do you think this is fair, Hewinia?”
Arianna looked at Hewinia again.
And Hewinia’s expression remained calm, “You seem to have gone off-topic, Professor Arianna.”
After a brief vent, Arianna gradually calmed down. Looking at Hewinia’s expressionless face, she clicked her tongue lightly, “Fine, I take back what I said about you being cuter now. I still prefer the understanding you, even if it was all a guise. At least back then, you seemed to truly listen to every word I said. Besides, I’ve actually already told you the answer.”
Hewinia did not ask further, only quietly looking at Arianna.
“Alright.” Arianna sighed softly, “It seems that the likable Hewinia won’t be coming back. The you right now, only reminds me of that annoying brat named Ogg. The same clear foolishness is evident in your eyes.”
“I’ve already said before, I am skilled at composition, and composing isn’t something that can be achieved just by hard work; it requires talent, and a very high level of talent at that, to clearly feel the vitality and life in each note. Leon can’t do it, neither can Delaman, but I can, and I can achieve perfection. I can even deduce the recent state and… mood of a Player just by the music they play,” Arianna said, “Although I really don’t want to know what kind of foolish feelings you idiots live with daily, I can indeed do it.”
“As your teacher, I naturally heard your music too.”
“The Golden Seventh Note, indeed, it’s perfect. In this academy, no matter who listened, they’d say the same… perfect, truly too perfect.”
“But only I heard it, only I, detected the unnaturalness amidst that perfection.”
“Although slight, I still picked it up.”
Arianna approached Hewinia once more, Gaze locked into her eyes before gradually moving downwards, to the fair skin of Hewinia’s neck, and further down, as if intending to see through everything beneath her robe.
“I heard it, that sense of being bound,” Arianna said, “Like a fish caught in a net, like a bug in a spider web, like…”
She paused, then softly continued.
“A note trapped within the score.”
Hewinia’s pupils contracted slightly.
She had considered many possibilities, but she had not anticipated this one.
This was completely outside the scope of her comprehension, an unexpected occurrence.
“Of course, just by this, I can’t confirm you as the Score, after all, the Golden Score hasn’t appeared for so many years, and Hewinia herself is indeed a bona fide Golden Rank Seventh Note, although now it seems that the person who took the test back then was indeed her. So, at first, I didn’t consider it, just thought it was my delusion. But from that moment, I began to observe you, started to engage with people around you to figure out what you were really about. As for the result, well…”
“Although you’ve done well, the disguise of the Golden Score is also quite impressive, the fake is ultimately fake, and you can’t become the real Hewinia. I still found some clues, not enough to directly confirm you as the Golden Score, but at least they gave me the courage to confront you… huh?”
Arianna bowed her head and realized that, unknowingly, two black snakes had climbed up her legs, now dangerously flickering their tongues.
When the snakes noticed Arianna’s attention, they sprang up like springs, darting towards Arianna’s neck.
Arianna merely smiled slightly, shook her wrist lightly, and the Magic Wand in her hand emitted a simple note, causing the two snakes to vanish in midair.
Arianna raised her head, looking at Hewinia in front of her with a half-smile.
“What are you doing?”
Hewinia didn’t speak, but pointed the Magic Wand at Arianna, and twisted black snakes shot toward Arianna.
[Third Notes·Black Snake]!
Arianna also raised her Magic Wand, which stirred ripples with a wave, shattering the black snakes.
In the church, Arianna’s laughter almost drowned out the sound of the wind outside.
“Are you trying to use my spells against me!”
Hewinia remained silent, just continuously casting spells at Arianna.
And these spells were effortlessly dissolved by the Magic Barrier Arianna had casually drawn, Hewinia’s spells hitting Arianna’s Magic Barrier like raindrops onto a lake’s surface, causing ripples but no harm.
Arianna advanced towards Hewinia with an effortless grace.
Therefore, Arianna was the last opponent Hewinia wanted to encounter.
After all, more than half of the spells she had at her disposal now were on the parchment rolls Arianna had given her a few days ago.
It could be said that now Arianna understood Hewinia’s existence even more than her direct mentor Leon did.
Just like Arianna herself said, Hewinia couldn’t possibly use her own spells against her.