Back on the first floor of the guild, Alex watched his temporary party members leave before Gracier and he started to search for Leena.
Gracier had been quiet on the way up, Alex knew it was probably due to her stressing out about tomorrow morning, they were about to return to capture her village anyway, the place where she was born and raised until that tragedy happened.
''Bouh!"
Suddenly Leena appeared behind Gracier startling the latter, she almost jumped of fright.
''Eh? Ah! It's big, - it's you, Leena, you scared me.''
Gracier said after taking a deep breath to calm down her beating heart, she has been surprised so much that she almost called Leena Big sister again, however she changed midway through her sentence.
''Fufufu! You were too tense and lost in your thoughts, hence I decided to alleviate your tension by praying pranks on you.'' Leena explained her reason for doing what she had done while stroking Gracier's.
Gracier smiled, it seems that she had been busted by Leena as well. She knew her brother must have noticed her current and was waiting for their return to the Inn to probably talk to her.
She was right, it was indeed Alex's plan.
Talking about Alex he was currently looking at Leena, eyes filled with surprise, one should note that Gracier was just beside him and for Leena to appear and play a prank on her without even him noticing anything, spoke a volume. Alex was curious about her real identity and strength.
Suddenly, an idea came into his head, well it was more like an impulse rather than an idea. So, following this impulse Alex used his new Appraisal version on Leena (Advanced Appraisal).
『[Leena ?????]
Class: ????
Age: ???
Female
Race: Elf ???
「 Rank ???」
Level ???
Experience Value (XP): ???
Magic Power: ???
Magic: ???
Attack: ???
Defense: ???
Agility: ???
Intelligence: ???
Luck: ???
BP: ???
SP: ???
Gift: ???
Skills: ???
Special Abilities: ???
Titles: ???』
Alex smiled bitterly, previously when he tries to Appraise Leena, nothing happened, however now that he tried after upgrading his Appraisal skill, he saw something but let's say, it was at the same time nothing, there was a question mark in front of everything.
Suddenly, Leena who was chatting with Gracier turned her head in Alex direction and asked in an amused tone,
''Did you like what you saw?"
Alex almost jumped when he heard her question, he was too focused on what he saw hence he was lost in thought.
Toward Leena's question, Alex couldn't help but smile embarrassedly, he had never thought that him appraising Leena would result in the latter knowing that he did it.
''I didn't see anything,'' Alex responded not hiding his dejection for not gaining any information.
''Fufufu! It's secret.'' Leena responded before giving Alex a warning.
''You should not use your Appraisal on everyone because some people are sensible toward magic, once you activated your skill Appraisal they will be able to detect it. Powerful people will also know when you try to appraise them.''
''I understand, I'll be careful from now on.'' Alex accepted.
''Good. I'll be borrowing your sister for a while.'' Leena announced this before monitoring Gracier to follow her.
''Come with me little Cier.''
Gracier stared at her brother for a moment before leaving, following Leena upstairs, probably to Leena's room.
Left alone Alex went sat around on one of numerous unoccupied tables and decided to have a chat with Silveria.
'Sil, what Leena said earlier it's true?'
〖Yeah, I forgot to tell you, every time you use your Appraisal skill, you use magic like when you use any other of your skills, however in this case it is different because your Appraisal enable you to sneak peek at some else status, so when you use this skill, the magic needed is strong and people sensible enough may detect it.〗
'I see, so that's she was able to know I used Appraisal on her. Well, I knew she was stronger, however, how strong can she be for my Appraisal not to work?' Alex inquired because he was really curious, he didn't know why he thought that, but, Alex was sure that Silveria knew Leena's real strength.
Silveria heaved a sigh before responding,
〖At least she's Rank 12. So it is normal for you to not be able to get information on her real status.〗
'At least Rank 12 huh! She may also be Rank 13. Normal the status window to show the question mark. If she's this powerful then what does she want with me?' Alex asked himself, pondering about this question.
One should note that there are 15 Ranks in total, Leena being at least Rank 12 means she is one of the strongest in the current world. So, why she came all the way to wait for him here? It doesn't make any sense when you consider it. What could Alex had to offer? Save her? Someone powerful as her? It's impossible.
All of these questions were constantly running through Alex's mind.
〖Maybe there is something only you can do, reason why she wants you. She went all the way to wait for your arrival.〗Silveria offered a hypothesis.
Hearing Silveria's hypothesis, Alex mused over.
'Something only I can do? Like what?'
〖That you will have to figure out yourself or wait for Leena to tell you herself. In the latter case, I doubt she'll be doing this anytime soon〗
'Come on, Sil tell me, I know you know something.' Alex said not giving up.
〖Stop waiting for every answer to be delivered to you. You have a brain, make use of it, if you want to know all the answers to your questions. Sometimes you ought to be patient. What good it will make if you know all the answers to a quiz you supposed to enjoy slowly? It will be boring. The only way to enjoy it, it's to use your brain, wait patiently for the appropriate time, do not jump steps. I know you understood what I'm implying.〗Silveria chided Alex.
Alex could only smile bitterly, somehow her words were not wrong. She had already given him a hint, it's his turn now to try to figure it out.
Shaking his head Alex decided to move on to the other matter he wanted to ask.
'Sil, I noticed something when I appraised Leena.'
〖You are probably talking about what you saw, you saw her race right? First, you should check your status.〗Silveria suggested.
Inwardly nodding his head, Alex proceeds to call out his status.
'Status'
『[Alexander Kael Touch]
Class: Magic Gunman
Age: 17
Male
Race: High Human
「 Rank 4」
Level 40
Experience Value (XP): 60/7800
Magic Power: 2400
Magic: None
Attack: 700
Defense: 650
Agility: 725
Intelligence: 650
Luck: 450
BP: 0
SP: 0
Gift: Two Guns * Semi-sealed*
Skills: [Advanced Appraisal Level 1] [Item box Level 2] [Swift Fingers Max] [Divine Sense Level 4] [Throwing knife Level 5] [Dark Vision Level 2] [Dual Wielding Level 2] [Accel Level 1] [Knife Art Level 4] [Link Level 3] [Intimidation Level 5]
Special Abilities: [Language Comprehension][Danger Sense] [Overdrive]
Titles: [Otherworlder] [The one who can't use Magic] [The one whose fingers are faster than Flash] [Goblin Slayer] [The Reborn]』
'What? Why there is race showing now?' Alex asked surprised.
〖It's simply because your Appraisal's skill got upgraded into an advanced tier, which in turn unlocked something you didn't see. After all, you were missing the key to be able to see it.〗
'So, if my guess is correct Maria, Leonardo, Luna, and Sakuya must have seen what I'm seeing right now since a long time ago?' Alex asked.
〖Not necessarily, maybe they become aware of the new apparition recently after meeting a certain condition because you must meet a certain condition to see more things, for you it was upgrading your Normal Appraisal to Advanced Appraisal. If the condition was the same with everyone you should have seen the race appearing on their Statuses the first time they let you look at it.〗Silveria gave a lengthy explanation to make it more understandable.
Alex asked for water and after drinking he asked.
'I see. Your explanation does make sense. However, what's High Human?'
