After leaving Theo's group, Zara couldn't contain her curiosity anymore as she walked while tilting her head to look at Nella. "Hey, Princess. Is he really your cousin? It's the first time you're glaring at me like that."
The blonde guy raised his right hand and pointed at his lower arm, supporting Zara. "If you took a look at my arm earlier, all my hair rose. It gave me a goosebump."
"You don't even thank me when I'm saving your asses." Nella shook her head in disappointment.
"Huh? What do you mean?" said Zara as she was as confused as the others.
"If you take another look at the rule, you will realize we're forbidden to have any contact with other countries. If there's a fight between two countries, the initiator country will be disqualified. He calmly went through everything, but if you looked at his hand a bit further, you would realize he almost had enough proof to frame us. It's not something that hard to pull a sympathy card while framing a big country like us. Besides, even if we clear our name later, it's too late since we will be under heavy investigation and can't participate in the tournament."
"What do—" Zara suddenly fell silent and looked back, realizing that Theo actually held his Skylink in his hand. In addition to the security camera, it was indeed as she said. "But you blew that small guy away."
"Anyone seen me doing it?" Nella snorted and looked away.
"Kh… Argh, I'm frustrated just by talking to this girl." Zara scratched the back of her head, wanting to beat Nella up, but knew she couldn't do it.
"Anyway, it seems our preparation is not enough. I don't care about this competition, but I still need to get number one. And with my cousin in that team, our winning chance has decreased even further."
"Are you sure about it?" Zara narrowed her eyes and looked at her teammates. "I feel like our team is the best already. We have prepared more than enough to confront our rivals like China, Japan, the United States, or even this country."
"Did I stutter?" Nella's expression became colder.
"No, but you are—"
Nella stopped her and shook her head before closing her eyes for a moment, remembering the talks she had with her father. "Let me ask you a question. Do you think I'm talented?"
"Of course! You are very talented. Your talent is hard to come by. I think only some from the same generation will be your match in the entire world."
"There's one more person." Nella shrugged while sighing. "And as far as talents are concerned, my father said that I wouldn't be able to inherit the house if my cousin demands it. The one with bigger capability needs to bear more responsibility… It's such an ironic idiom."
*Gasp—!* The rest couldn't believe her statement. Nella was already one of a kind, yet, the latter said Theodore Griffith was a far bigger person than her. They simply couldn't believe it.
However, Zara also noticed one thing. "Why is he in that small team and in that small country?"
"Who knows." Nella shrugged.
…
While Zara continued asking about Theo, the latter indeed planned to frame them because he could see they were dangerous. He wanted to use the footage to sabotage the enemy since everything was legal as this competition wasn't a sports competition but a battle competition. And everything is fair in war.
Unfortunately, he couldn't use it and put the Skylink back into his pocket and received stares from all his teammates.
"What is your relationship with that girl? Is she really your cousin?" asked Alea with a weird expression.
"I don't know myself. As far as I remember, I haven't met the girl even once." Theo shook his head, denying the fact that he was her cousin.
"But she seems to know you… And Griffith… Your family name… I don't think I've heard it anywhere." Phyrill crossed his arms and looked down, falling into deep thought.
Laust's focus remained on Theo's pocket watch hidden underneath his clothes. He clearly saw the reaction when another pocket watch with the exact same appearance came close to it, meaning that it was a kind of his identity.
His original task was to claim the map inside the pocket watch, but it seemed the task was harder than he originally thought. Whatever the secret of that pocket watch had, it was surely not something small.
After all, there was no way a family that was able to send two of their younger generations as the representative of the countries was an ordinary family. And it was even more amazing when both of them were from two different nations, meaning that the family's influence had spread internationally.
Ellen seemed to have the same thought as she gently poked his cheek while making a cheeky smile. "Maybe your family is actually rich? You just never found anything about them because they live in another country?"
"I don't know." Theo calmly shrugged his shoulders as if it didn't matter. Theo himself believed that a family who could abandon their own member when he was a child wasn't a good family. Hence, he didn't want to have anything to do with that family even if they turned out to be a big family. "And I am uncomfortable talking about this."
Since Theo had stated it, Alea and Phyrill exchanged looks as they made a small smile and dropped the matter.
"We should stroll around then. It's nice to cool your head." Alea changed the topic.
"Before that, what's the thing that blew you away earlier?" Theo glanced at Phyrill with a serious expression.
"That's…" Phyrill scratched the back of his head and thought hard. Unfortunately, no answer came to his mind as he replied. "I truly have no idea."
But as one would expect from someone who had been playing with Magic Power since young, Ellen noticed something that Phyrill couldn't feel. She said with a hesitant tone. "I am not a hundred percent sure, but I think it was Magic Power. I felt a faint Magic Power fluctuating in the air earlier, so yeah…"
"Ho?" Theo was amused because he also used Magic Power actively, making him curious about that power.
Seeing that the situation would just become serious, Alea decided to grab Theo's hand and dragged him. "Let's not talk about this today. We should relax a bit."
Little did they know, there was one person who had watched them the entire time. It was Radvils.
When he was looking through his window, he noticed that the group stopped and talked to someone they barely knew, making it a bit suspicious.