Chapter 36

JUCEL sat at one of the benches in front of the Rubi Tower, facing the gate of the Krystalline Academy. The moon was hanging above her, illuminating the whole place. She could also smell the scent of the night flowers.

She glanced at the figure walking closer to her. He handed a bottle of water to her which she accepted.

"Thēsk," she muttered. Jucel pop'ed the cap of the bottle and drank the water in it. She looked at the two men tied up under a tree not far from them, completely unconscious. "What shall we do with them?"

She heard another pop from her side. "Turn them over to the Krysts," he clipped before he drank the water until it was empty.

Jucel turned to him. Students from the Krystalline Academy regarded him as a rogue individual. He looked down at those he regarded as weak. His greatest rival, both in popularity and strength, was Lucian Liu.

But as Jucel watched him under the moonlight, he was not what those rumors say about him.

He looke