Fels' mission in find Bell's missing body would have to wait. He found himself in a secret Evilius base near Melen and is now making his way into the commander's office. He waited for the commander to leave the room.

Once he left, Fels began searching through the room carefully not making leaving any suspicion. At the corner of his eye, He noticed a letter already opened.

Fels picked it up and began to read it.

Vladimir, We can't keep sending more of our men for your hunt on the demigod or halfblood what ever you call him. If it we keep this up than he will find you and soon we'll next on his hit-list. So you and Czernobog are on your own.

Best of luck my friend.

Fels was shocked to learned that a halfblood still exist somewhere in this world. From he had learned from Ouranus, demigods were viewed as abominations and should be killed immediately. He began searching further in the desk and he opened a drawer and something that would shock him even further.

"Impossible."

It was a sketch of Bell Cranel along with it is a few files of information with it and a secret project.

Nordheim

Ais was behind a tree silently watching Bell walking through the woods. She needs to make her move carefully before revealing herself to Bell and say how sorry she was.

She followed Bell deeper in the forest until he stopped. But her thought's were interrupted by her own mental voice.

"Why do you insist on doing this," The voice said. "You know damn well, he'll never forgive you after what they did, what you did last year. Also stalking him? yeah that will make friends once again."

She ignored it kept her sights on Bell. This voice she had been hearing started ever since she left Orario. She demanded who the voice actually was, but had no reply.

"Face it Ais," It said. "You'll never find true happiness. Why don't you just got find Eyed Black Dragon so that you may find mother. Oh wait the dragon might kill you before you even get close to her or maybe she is already dead."

After recent words given to her from the past year, She finally understood that it's purpose was to antagonize her mentally. She wanted to argue but other people might find her crazy and needed a therapy.

However the voice is merely an auditory hallucination born from the combination of Ais' stress, guilt, and self-hatred.

Bell suddenly stopped in middle of the woods. Ais was confused at why did he stop.

The voice asked her. "You think he knows that you are watching him?"

"Shut up!"

Bell turned to her direction and shot lightning bolt at her. Ais moved away from the tree as it was on fire. She looked at Bell in shock at how he was able to detect her so easily.

"Called it."

Bell summoned his sword and charged at her. She drew her sword and block his attack. Their swords are locked, but Ais can't see his face underneath his hood. She felt the weight of the world trying to crush her.

"Bell, I didn't come here to fight." She reasoned.

He ignored it and swung his sword at her. Ais blocked it with her sword and with so much force in the swing, the attack pushed her against a tree. She winced at the impact she took.

Bell followed up with another attack, Ais quickly used Arial to increase her speed and dodge the attack. Leaving the tree to be cut in half like a hot knife through butter. In a split second, Bell now covered in electricity was close to her again.

'He's fast!'

Ais' eyes widened in shock at his speed. He unleashed a flurry of attacks. This forces the girl to stay on the defense once again. She was unable to block a few attacks as they hit Ais' wind shield.

She knew she can't stay on defense for long. Because which each attack her Arial spell receives, the weaker it becomes. So she will have to think quickly in order to survive.

Ais sidestep from Bell's sword and quickly attacked him. Bell dodge her sword but the blade manage to hit the side of his hood. She cursed underneath her breath that all she could do is a scratch.

"Tsk." Bell clicked his tongue and delivered a swing at Ais.

The girl couldn't dodged it so she blocked it again and being pushed back once more. Bell quickly followed up a punch to her wind shield. The spell exploded knocking her away. Ais had to plunged her sword to the ground to lessen the momentum.

"Your weak," The voice began. "You can't beat him, he's better than you in every way now. Why don't you just drop sword and be done with it."

Ais gritted her teeth and ignored the voice but was grabbed by the throat and lifted off from her feet. She struggled to breath but she managed to see his red eyes underneath his hood. But those weren't the same eyes she once knew.

Those eyes that were once warm and soft now replaced with a cold glare of a hardened killer. With her breath began to shallow all the words she could muster.

"Bell, I'm-."

"Sorry?" Bell cut her off with a disappointed tone.

Ais didn't try to avoid his gaze. She accepted the fact that she failed him to be a caring and trusted friend. Bell dropped on her knees and she quickly fully gaining her breath.

"Ais, all first class adventurers," He said. "You are the one I admired the most. I hoped that one day I can catch up to you and repay may debt to you for saving me from a Minotaur and from the moment we met, I fell in love with you."

The girl shook her head in shame and over came with guilt. She knew about a saying that goes words can cut deeper than knives. This is her first time she has ever experienced it first hand and the last part was a painful blow to her heart.

But he wasn't finished. "Now I began to realize that your just the type of person who can't afford to be distracted no matter on what terms. You're just preparing yourself to kill a powerful monster that killed parents aren't you?"

Ais didn't say anything to him. What he said is true. She spent her childhood days training in the dungeon to save her mother from the One eyed black dragon. Her father sacrificed his life to save her and her mother sacrificed her freedom for her life.

Now that she realized it, she was just wasting their efforts to live. Ais spoke up while not meeting his eyes.

"So are you going to kill me?"

"You might deserve death." Bell replied in a solemn tone. "But not by my hands or my sword. But that doesn't mean we're friends again."

Bell turned away from her without sparing a glance. Ais looked him with his back turned to her. The sight of his hair and cloak reminded her of her father's last moments before facing the dragon.

Tears began to stream down her face. She could only what her parents might say to her.

"Wow," The voice spoke. "I guess the rabbit can hit hard than you expected."