七星影视

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"Oh, you have a Spirit of Light as well?!" Saphaley reacted quite surprised.

"Yep, now let me see… Tier 4 Light and Life Spell… [Holy Recovery Blessing]!"

Alice quickly channeled the spell with her powers, as I poured insane amounts of Mana.

FLAAASH!

"Uagh! So bright…!"

Saphaley closed his eyes as he received the bath of light.

When it all ended, however, aside from his face having become softer and cleaner looking, nothing else happened.

"Ah… It didn\'t worked either- Huh? I can see… I can see with my gray eye!"

Suddenly, he closed his other eye, as the gray-colored one could finally see!

Wow, so at least we could do as much!

Everyone else reacted with surprise.

"Eh?! It healed?!" Zack asked.

"Really?! Maybe I helped a bit too?" Mist said with excitement.

"You sure put your weight." Celeste petted Mist.

"Did he…?!" Aquarina was just as surprised.

"This is already amazing!" He said happily. "Nobody else has been able to cure my blindness of this eye before… Please let me pay you for it!"

"N-No, wait, the job is not done yet!" I sighed, quickly calming him down. "The job\'s healing the whole scar."

"But this is already amazing! I would be honestly content with just this…" He said.

"But deep down you know it\'s not enough, right?" I asked with a smile.

"…Right." Saphaley calmed down. "But this is already so big…"

"I know but just wait a bit, maybe some days. We\'ll come out with some solution!" I said with a smile.

"R-Right, thanks a lot then!" Saphaley nodded.

After that was done with, Saphaley went back to his position with Elphiette.

"Seems like you guys got things sorted?" Asked Elphiette. "I can see they couldn\'t heal it yet."

"Y-Yeah, but my gray eye was healed, I mean, it still looks gray, but I can see through it as well!" Saphaley said happily.

Elphiette smiled sweetly back at him.

"I see, it seems you\'re really happy about it, good for you, Saphaley." She said with a smile.

"Y-Yeah… But the scar\'s…" He sighed.

"We\'ll get that done! Don\'t worry about a single thing!" I reassured him.

"Yeah, for now just keep that big bag of money warm for us." Celeste smiled greedily.

"R-Right, I am trusting you guys then!"

After saying our farewells, we quickly walked outside the manor. The moment I saw my magic and the leaves heal Saphaley, I gained several insights. I wanted to go get some fresh ingredients from the wilderness to use for alchemy as well, and in the trip, we decided to discuss about it.

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Saphaley sighed in relief, although a bit anxious about if Sylphy would really be able to do it. Nonetheless, healing his blind eye was already a big thing.

Elphiette, the partner he had for years and even more, his childhood friend, looked at him with a bit of worry.

"Saphaley, you\'re really putting your faith in the little Young Lady." Sighed Elphiette, her gorgeous yet stoic face expression emanated an air of both strength and calmness.

"Well, yeah… I mean, how can you not when she looks at you with those eyes?" Sighed Saphaley. "I just… want to trust her. I want… this damn scar gone."

Elphiette knew her friend always had a complex over such a scar. Children bullied him until he finally grew into an adult, and it took him a long time to make friends after that, or to even socialize with more people and become the respected guard he was now.

"Saphaley I…" Elphiette said, quickly interrupting her own words. "I want to tell you that scar or not, you\'ve always been my friend, I never really cared about your scar."

"Really?" Sighed Saphaley. "I often thought I always embarrassed you, sometimes it felt like you were also being bullied by being at the side of someone like me."

"T-That\'s not it!" Elphiette reprimanded him. "I would never feel ashamed to be at your side, idiot…" She suddenly blushed a bit, as she began fidgeting her long blonde hair.

"I know… Sorry." Saphaley sighed. "I just… often thought you just did it out of pity."

"That\'s not it either!" Elphiette grew more and more angered. Elven women had quite the temperament, much like Sylphy\'s mother. "I didn\'t pity you nor I cared about your scar. I knew you way before you even got it, having a scar or not, you never changed for who you really were."

"Elphy…" Saphaley sighed.

"Despite all the bullying, you keep walking forwards, right?" Elphiette asked. "In fact you were always the one that cheered me up when I came out of my house all beaten by my drunk dad… I always relied on you."

"Aw come on, don\'t talk about those things now…" Sighed Saphaley.

"But it\'s true… Seeing you desperately wanting that scar away as if your entire life\'s going to give a turn is… It just makes it feel like you\'re not content with what you have. With the people that respect you despite having one... with me." Elphiette sighed, feeling rather detached.

"I-I never said any of that!" Saphaley sighed. "Why are you seeking a beef now?"

"I… No, sorry…" Elphiette quickly realized she was the one making things worse now. "I… I am sorry, I won\'t talk about it."

Saphaley looked at Elphiette while feeling confused.

He had always been quite the clueless guy.

"You\'re so temperamental sometimes. Come on, cheer up. I\'ll invite the booze tonight." Said Saphaley, quickly forgiving her disrespect like the good friend he is.

Elphiette smiled back as she sighed.

"You\'re really hopeless…" She sighed.

Internally, she was having a rather hard fight to confess her feelings to him.

He was too innocent perhaps, to even get a clue.

"I… I just want to tell you that I will always be there for you… Okay?" Elphiette said while blushing.

"Ahaha, okay, okay! What with this conversation out of the blue? You\'re embarrassing me now…" Saphaley laughed it off.

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