Chapter 37
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"Huh? So you slept and came up here, huh? I'm so sorry then. You have died and you don't even know that. Poor wandering spirit." The girl says with redemption and feeling sad for Faust.
"Huh? No -no I'm not dead, nothing happened to me I just fell asleep and woke up here. I can still feel the pain if I pinch myself so I'm not dreaming nor dead definitely ." Faust says with a hint of tension building up in his voice.
"You feel pain huh?" The girl comes closer to Faust and stares right into his eyes intensely without flicking a bit.
Faust's heartbeat increased at a rapid rate and he feels the girl's face in front of his and his cheeks and ears turn more reddish.
*Bam!!~*
The girl kicks the shin of Faust so hard!.
"Ouchhhhh!!! Ahhhhhh!!!! it hurtsss!!!" Faust holds his shin and hops around on one leg.
*"Wth? I'm supposed to be moving faster and evade every danger on pure animal instinct and yet she landed a hit on me? Am I too distracted with her pretty face? Get back to your senses Faust!!"* Faust slaps himself on the cheek hard to snap back to his senses. He could feel the sharp pain spreading from his slap, but he got no time to notice it and he reaches out to the axe tied on his hips.
"Ehhhh!! I can't feel it, where did it go!!! Did I drop it somewhere oh no!
oh no!" Faust panickingly jumps around searching for his axe which was supposed to be on his hips.
*"Why is he jumping around like a buffoon."* The girl thought to herself and that Faust was the most ridiculous person she has ever met so far.
"I hit your leg, why would your kidney would be gone?" The girl asks as Faust is searching on his hips. She thought of Faust too dumb that he thought he lost his kidney and it popped out and dropped somewhere .
"My axe." Faust turns to face the girl with his sad puppy eyes looking right into hers like a little kid.
"My axe, my axe, my axe, I lost it, help me find it." Faust cries and pleads to her and was all over the girl as he kept moving hyper fast without resting.
"You need to know, you are dead. That's why the things you had when you are alive won't come to this world, like your axe. This is the spirit realm; The spirit world. The dead passes through this world or just wanders around here without knowing where to head to. Let me find some guardians and you will be guided out of here." The girl breaks down everything casually as if she knew every grain in that world.
"Hmmm if what you said is true, I should be naked here without my clothes and just my body." Faust points out innocently accordingly his knowledge.
The girl's cheeks turns red instantly as she looks at Faust from top to bottom "uh- that is... I guess it is... you pervy!" The girl bursts all of a sudden and averts her eyes from Faust as she continues to blush red.
"Please don't accuse me of something I'm not." Faust quickly says while he realizes that the girl is acting the way because of what he said. "I'm Faust by the way, I'm from Mindoro village, nice to meet you." Faust greets the girl with enthusiasm to break the awkward silence.
"Ohhh I'm well my name is Yui Mizumi, nice to meet you. I'm from Aogashima a village in this world." Yui replies while still looking away from Faust, slightly pouting.
"I never heard of those names before, hmmm, such weird names too." Faust says while he thinks deeply in a posture by closing his eyes and his hand on his chin.
"Well your village name is weird as well. I never heard of it, don't tell me you are from Agartha." Yui says and takes a fighting stance quickly putting her guard up.
"What is Agartha? I'm from Mindoro and it's an isla-" As Faust was about to finish his sentence, he heard an arrogant voice piercing through his ears, "There she is, the little bitch who is acting all cocky by threatning us and acting like she owns the place." 5 boys which look like high schoolers interrupts in middle.
"You guys" Yui looks pissed and rushes up forward to confronts the 5 boys.
"Hey!! It is not a good word to call a girl as bitch, learn to respect girls if you are a real warrior." Faust, who couldn't stand the way they disrespected Yui decided to be the hero of the day for her and he choose a pick up line from Gus and Yang's teaching.
Both the group of boys and Yui looks weirdly at Faust with his cheesy line which was like out of movies for them.
"A warrior doesn't exist kid, run from here if you want don't want to go back to your mom crying with bruises. We're going to teach this bitch today." A sturdy boy in the middle with a red band on his arm says with a cocky smile while he takes out a knuckle duster.
"Well said Roney, we're going to fuck her up pretty bad that no one would recognize her face." Another boy in a school uniform adds while he takes out his pocket knife.
Faust jumps in middle suddenly between Yui and the gang of boys. "No matter what this mean girl did to you, it doesn't give us a right to do anything to her face or her. Mind that." Faust says while his eyebrows raised and fists clenched.
"Why are you taking their side and calling me mean? Anyway I don't need your help. You will just get hurt, move out. I can handle myself. Do not treat me like a weak girl." Yui says while she holds her spear upside down and tries to push Faust out of the way with the toe end of her spear, getting ready.
The end of the spear look like it didn't reach Faust *"huh? Did I miss it , are my eyes blurry?"* Yui thinks to herself and focusing on the spear this time she tries to Faust to a side again with her spear and the spear still doesn't hit Faust.
*"He's fast"* Yui thinks to herself as Faust is moving out of the way as the spear comes into his contact with his skin and he dodge's it very smoothly and fastly creating the illusion like the spear didn't reach him and letting Yui doubt her skills.
"Enough teaching us kiddo, don't cry when you got hit hard!! Heh heh heh ." Roney ignorantly chuckles and moves forward to land a punch on Faust with the knucle duster.
Faust could be seen smiling, he didn't make any fighting stance nor any defensive stance yet rooted there.
*"Oh no he is frozen of fear* Yui worriedly assumes as she jumps in forward to save Faust, but she knows it was too late to save Faust from being hit.
"Swoosh!!!~"
A huge punch blow is pounded in the air by Roney, but he is suddenly confused. He was so sure that he landed a lethal blows on Faust, but somehow he missed the punch? Faust is seen smiling mockingly in front of him.
Roney moves forward again to punch Faust, who just moves back smoothly before the punch reaches him. Roney couldn't extend his arm in that last minute hence it seem he missed or he is punching in the air like a goof.
"Enough with trying to scare him technique Roney, show him what your hit really is!" Roney's friend yells towards Ron thinking Roney is just messing with Faust.
*"Dammit Shin, keep quiet, there is something wrong here."* Roney thinks to himself while he starting to get sweaty a little.
*"He's just a kid!"* Roney assures himself and tries everything in his power. Punches, kicks but Faust was still able to dodge the attacks with ease flowing like air."Fuck with me and you will never be pardoned" He avoids the punches like he was dodging a little baby's swings while playing.
"What are those punches? No combos at all. They're just basic level." Faust arrogantly says out loudly provoking him.
"Well they're just bunch of high school kids who are only trained in military arts. What do you expect from them?" Yui says sarcastically.
"Shut up bitch" The guy with the pocket knife comes to the front with the rest of the guys following him.
"I've had enough of you, you're fucked " Roney too closes in on Faust.
Clack~
"Ahhhhhhhhhh! Wtf!!!!!!"
All of a sudden, Roney's elbow is twisted the other way. Faust simply directs the Roney's punch to his right, then grabbed his wrist. He tightens his hold and with one move, breaks his elbow with ease and style. A smile remains on his face the whole time.
Yui was struck with lightning witnessing that, Faust was very warm and friendly until now and he broke the elbow with the same eerie smile. There was no remorse or mercy visible on his face.
Roney screams and cries loudly barely holding on to the ground and as later passes out, he falls on the ground without a noise made as dust could be seen flying around his body.
"How dare you meddle with us, kid!" The rest of the gang comes towards Faust fiercely. Faust thrusts the throat muscles very hard and quickly of one guy with his hand, making him also passing out in just a few seconds. Later he dodges the guy with the pocket knife as he tries to stab. Faust then jumps up in the air and lands down on knee, in the face of the guy with pocket knife and he leaps again kicking him far away.
And then he turns to face the other two guys and for that he places his hands on the ground and twirls around as his legs spread outwards and he hit the two guys with his feet moving fast rapidly in circle and hitting on the nonguarded spots of the guys. That's all it took to take down the 5 high schoolers. They were dead scared and rushes to pick up Roney and dragging the knocked out guys, running away instantly after they realizes that Faust was not to be judged lightly as he knews martial arts.
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"You both will regret this one day." The guys says with gritting teeth's as they are beaten up badly and runs away fastly.
"Wow so strong, he-he made them all run away.* Yui thinks to herself as she was amazed by Faust and this time she blushed even redder as her heart start pound faster-maybe beating for him.
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"Huh? So you slept and came up here, huh? I'm so sorry then. You have died and you don't even know that. Poor wandering spirit." The girl says with redemption and feeling sad for Faust.
"Huh? No -no I'm not dead, nothing happened to me I just fell asleep and woke up here. I can still feel the pain if I pinch myself so I'm not dreaming nor dead definitely ." Faust says with a hint of tension building up in his voice.
"You feel pain huh?" The girl comes closer to Faust and stares right into his eyes intensely without flicking a bit.
Faust's heartbeat increased at a rapid rate and he feels the girl's face in front of his and his cheeks and ears turn more reddish.
*Bam!!~*
The girl kicks the shin of Faust so hard!.
"Ouchhhhh!!! Ahhhhhh!!!! it hurtsss!!!" Faust holds his shin and hops around on one leg.
*"Wth? I'm supposed to be moving faster and evade every danger on pure animal instinct and yet she landed a hit on me? Am I too distracted with her pretty face? Get back to your senses Faust!!"* Faust slaps himself on the cheek hard to snap back to his senses. He could feel the sharp pain spreading from his slap, but he got no time to notice it and he reaches out to the axe tied on his hips.
"Ehhhh!! I can't feel it, where did it go!!! Did I drop it somewhere oh no!
oh no!" Faust panickingly jumps around searching for his axe which was supposed to be on his hips.
*"Why is he jumping around like a buffoon."* The girl thought to herself and that Faust was the most ridiculous person she has ever met so far.
"I hit your leg, why would your kidney would be gone?" The girl asks as Faust is searching on his hips. She thought of Faust too dumb that he thought he lost his kidney and it popped out and dropped somewhere .
"My axe." Faust turns to face the girl with his sad puppy eyes looking right into hers like a little kid.
"My axe, my axe, my axe, I lost it, help me find it." Faust cries and pleads to her and was all over the girl as he kept moving hyper fast without resting.
"You need to know, you are dead. That's why the things you had when you are alive won't come to this world, like your axe. This is the spirit realm; The spirit world. The dead passes through this world or just wanders around here without knowing where to head to. Let me find some guardians and you will be guided out of here." The girl breaks down everything casually as if she knew every grain in that world.
"Hmmm if what you said is true, I should be naked here without my clothes and just my body." Faust points out innocently accordingly his knowledge.
The girl's cheeks turns red instantly as she looks at Faust from top to bottom "uh- that is... I guess it is... you pervy!" The girl bursts all of a sudden and averts her eyes from Faust as she continues to blush red.
"Please don't accuse me of something I'm not." Faust quickly says while he realizes that the girl is acting the way because of what he said. "I'm Faust by the way, I'm from Mindoro village, nice to meet you." Faust greets the girl with enthusiasm to break the awkward silence.
"Ohhh I'm well my name is Yui Mizumi, nice to meet you. I'm from Aogashima a village in this world." Yui replies while still looking away from Faust, slightly pouting.
"I never heard of those names before, hmmm, such weird names too." Faust says while he thinks deeply in a posture by closing his eyes and his hand on his chin.
"Well your village name is weird as well. I never heard of it, don't tell me you are from Agartha." Yui says and takes a fighting stance quickly putting her guard up.
"What is Agartha? I'm from Mindoro and it's an isla-" As Faust was about to finish his sentence, he heard an arrogant voice piercing through his ears, "There she is, the little bitch who is acting all cocky by threatning us and acting like she owns the place." 5 boys which look like high schoolers interrupts in middle.
"You guys" Yui looks pissed and rushes up forward to confronts the 5 boys.
"Hey!! It is not a good word to call a girl as bitch, learn to respect girls if you are a real warrior." Faust, who couldn't stand the way they disrespected Yui decided to be the hero of the day for her and he choose a pick up line from Gus and Yang's teaching.
Both the group of boys and Yui looks weirdly at Faust with his cheesy line which was like out of movies for them.
"A warrior doesn't exist kid, run from here if you want don't want to go back to your mom crying with bruises. We're going to teach this bitch today." A sturdy boy in the middle with a red band on his arm says with a cocky smile while he takes out a knuckle duster.
"Well said Roney, we're going to fuck her up pretty bad that no one would recognize her face." Another boy in a school uniform adds while he takes out his pocket knife.
Faust jumps in middle suddenly between Yui and the gang of boys. "No matter what this mean girl did to you, it doesn't give us a right to do anything to her face or her. Mind that." Faust says while his eyebrows raised and fists clenched.
"Why are you taking their side and calling me mean? Anyway I don't need your help. You will just get hurt, move out. I can handle myself. Do not treat me like a weak girl." Yui says while she holds her spear upside down and tries to push Faust out of the way with the toe end of her spear, getting ready.
The end of the spear look like it didn't reach Faust *"huh? Did I miss it , are my eyes blurry?"* Yui thinks to herself and focusing on the spear this time she tries to Faust to a side again with her spear and the spear still doesn't hit Faust.
*"He's fast"* Yui thinks to herself as Faust is moving out of the way as the spear comes into his contact with his skin and he dodge's it very smoothly and fastly creating the illusion like the spear didn't reach him and letting Yui doubt her skills.
"Enough teaching us kiddo, don't cry when you got hit hard!! Heh heh heh ." Roney ignorantly chuckles and moves forward to land a punch on Faust with the knucle duster.
Faust could be seen smiling, he didn't make any fighting stance nor any defensive stance yet rooted there.
*"Oh no he is frozen of fear* Yui worriedly assumes as she jumps in forward to save Faust, but she knows it was too late to save Faust from being hit.
"Swoosh!!!~"
A huge punch blow is pounded in the air by Roney, but he is suddenly confused. He was so sure that he landed a lethal blows on Faust, but somehow he missed the punch? Faust is seen smiling mockingly in front of him.
Roney moves forward again to punch Faust, who just moves back smoothly before the punch reaches him. Roney couldn't extend his arm in that last minute hence it seem he missed or he is punching in the air like a goof.
"Enough with trying to scare him technique Roney, show him what your hit really is!" Roney's friend yells towards Ron thinking Roney is just messing with Faust.
*"Dammit Shin, keep quiet, there is something wrong here."* Roney thinks to himself while he starting to get sweaty a little.
*"He's just a kid!"* Roney assures himself and tries everything in his power. Punches, kicks but Faust was still able to dodge the attacks with ease flowing like air."Fuck with me and you will never be pardoned" He avoids the punches like he was dodging a little baby's swings while playing.
"What are those punches? No combos at all. They're just basic level." Faust arrogantly says out loudly provoking him.
"Well they're just bunch of high school kids who are only trained in military arts. What do you expect from them?" Yui says sarcastically.
"Shut up bitch" The guy with the pocket knife comes to the front with the rest of the guys following him.
"I've had enough of you, you're fucked " Roney too closes in on Faust.
Clack~
"Ahhhhhhhhhh! Wtf!!!!!!"
All of a sudden, Roney's elbow is twisted the other way. Faust simply directs the Roney's punch to his right, then grabbed his wrist. He tightens his hold and with one move, breaks his elbow with ease and style. A smile remains on his face the whole time.
Yui was struck with lightning witnessing that, Faust was very warm and friendly until now and he broke the elbow with the same eerie smile. There was no remorse or mercy visible on his face.
Roney screams and cries loudly barely holding on to the ground and as later passes out, he falls on the ground without a noise made as dust could be seen flying around his body.
"How dare you meddle with us, kid!" The rest of the gang comes towards Faust fiercely. Faust thrusts the throat muscles very hard and quickly of one guy with his hand, making him also passing out in just a few seconds. Later he dodges the guy with the pocket knife as he tries to stab. Faust then jumps up in the air and lands down on knee, in the face of the guy with pocket knife and he leaps again kicking him far away.
And then he turns to face the other two guys and for that he places his hands on the ground and twirls around as his legs spread outwards and he hit the two guys with his feet moving fast rapidly in circle and hitting on the nonguarded spots of the guys. That's all it took to take down the 5 high schoolers. They were dead scared and rushes to pick up Roney and dragging the knocked out guys, running away instantly after they realizes that Faust was not to be judged lightly as he knews martial arts.
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"You both will regret this one day." The guys says with gritting teeth's as they are beaten up badly and runs away fastly.
"Wow so strong, he-he made them all run away.* Yui thinks to herself as she was amazed by Faust and this time she blushed even redder as her heart start pound faster-maybe beating for him.
"Huh? So you slept and came up here, huh? I'm so sorry then. You have died and you don't even know that. Poor wandering spirit." The girl says with redemption and feeling sad for Faust."Huh? No -no I'm not dead, nothing happened to me I just fell asleep and woke up here. I can still feel the pain if I pinch myself so I'm not dreaming nor dead definitely ." Faust says with a hint of tension building up in his voice."You feel pain huh?" The girl comes closer to Faust and stares right into his eyes intensely without flicking a bit.Faust's heartbeat increased at a rapid rate and he feels the girl's face in front of his and his cheeks and ears turn more reddish.*Bam!!~*The girl kicks the shin of Faust so hard!."Ouchhhhh!!! Ahhhhhh!!!! it hurtsss!!!" Faust holds his shin and hops around on one leg.*"Wth? I'm supposed to be moving faster and evade every danger on pure animal instinct and yet she landed a hit on me? Am I too distracted with her pretty face? Get back to your senses Faust!!"* Faust slaps himself on the cheek hard to snap back to his senses. He could feel the sharp pain spreading from his slap, but he got no time to notice it and he reaches out to the axe tied on his hips."Ehhhh!! I can't feel it, where did it go!!! Did I drop it somewhere oh no!oh no!" Faust panickingly jumps around searching for his axe which was supposed to be on his hips.*"Why is he jumping around like a buffoon."* The girl thought to herself and that Faust was the most ridiculous person she has ever met so far."I hit your leg, why would your kidney would be gone?" The girl asks as Faust is searching on his hips. She thought of Faust too dumb that he thought he lost his kidney and it popped out and dropped somewhere ."My axe." Faust turns to face the girl with his sad puppy eyes looking right into hers like a little kid."My axe, my axe, my axe, I lost it, help me find it." Faust cries and pleads to her and was all over the girl as he kept moving hyper fast without resting."You need to know, you are dead. That's why the things you had when you are alive won't come to this world, like your axe. This is the spirit realm; The spirit world. The dead passes through this world or just wanders around here without knowing where to head to. Let me find some guardians and you will be guided out of here." The girl breaks down everything casually as if she knew every grain in that world."Hmmm if what you said is true, I should be naked here without my clothes and just my body." Faust points out innocently accordingly his knowledge.The girl's cheeks turns red instantly as she looks at Faust from top to bottom "uh- that is... I guess it is... you pervy!" The girl bursts all of a sudden and averts her eyes from Faust as she continues to blush red."Please don't accuse me of something I'm not." Faust quickly says while he realizes that the girl is acting the way because of what he said. "I'm Faust by the way, I'm from Mindoro village, nice to meet you." Faust greets the girl with enthusiasm to break the awkward silence."Ohhh I'm well my name is Yui Mizumi, nice to meet you. I'm from Aogashima a village in this world." Yui replies while still looking away from Faust, slightly pouting."I never heard of those names before, hmmm, such weird names too." Faust says while he thinks deeply in a posture by closing his eyes and his hand on his chin."Well your village name is weird as well. I never heard of it, don't tell me you are from Agartha." Yui says and takes a fighting stance quickly putting her guard up."What is Agartha? I'm from Mindoro and it's an isla-" As Faust was about to finish his sentence, he heard an arrogant voice piercing through his ears, "There she is, the little bitch who is acting all cocky by threatning us and acting like she owns the place." 5 boys which look like high schoolers interrupts in middle."You guys" Yui looks pissed and rushes up forward to confronts the 5 boys."Hey!! It is not a good word to call a girl as bitch, learn to respect girls if you are a real warrior." Faust, who couldn't stand the way they disrespected Yui decided to be the hero of the day for her and he choose a pick up line from Gus and Yang's teaching.Both the group of boys and Yui looks weirdly at Faust with his cheesy line which was like out of movies for them."A warrior doesn't exist kid, run from here if you want don't want to go back to your mom crying with bruises. We're going to teach this bitch today." A sturdy boy in the middle with a red band on his arm says with a cocky smile while he takes out a knuckle duster."Well said Roney, we're going to fuck her up pretty bad that no one would recognize her face." Another boy in a school uniform adds while he takes out his pocket knife.Faust jumps in middle suddenly between Yui and the gang of boys. "No matter what this mean girl did to you, it doesn't give us a right to do anything to her face or her. Mind that." Faust says while his eyebrows raised and fists clenched."Why are you taking their side and calling me mean? Anyway I don't need your help. You will just get hurt, move out. I can handle myself. Do not treat me like a weak girl." Yui says while she holds her spear upside down and tries to push Faust out of the way with the toe end of her spear, getting ready.The end of the spear look like it didn't reach Faust *"huh? Did I miss it , are my eyes blurry?"* Yui thinks to herself and focusing on the spear this time she tries to Faust to a side again with her spear and the spear still doesn't hit Faust.*"He's fast"* Yui thinks to herself as Faust is moving out of the way as the spear comes into his contact with his skin and he dodge's it very smoothly and fastly creating the illusion like the spear didn't reach him and letting Yui doubt her skills."Enough teaching us kiddo, don't cry when you got hit hard!! Heh heh heh ." Roney ignorantly chuckles and moves forward to land a punch on Faust with the knucle duster.Faust could be seen smiling, he didn't make any fighting stance nor any defensive stance yet rooted there.*"Oh no he is frozen of fear* Yui worriedly assumes as she jumps in forward to save Faust, but she knows it was too late to save Faust from being hit."Swoosh!!!~"A huge punch blow is pounded in the air by Roney, but he is suddenly confused. He was so sure that he landed a lethal blows on Faust, but somehow he missed the punch? Faust is seen smiling mockingly in front of him.Roney moves forward again to punch Faust, who just moves back smoothly before the punch reaches him. Roney couldn't extend his arm in that last minute hence it seem he missed or he is punching in the air like a goof."Enough with trying to scare him technique Roney, show him what your hit really is!" Roney's friend yells towards Ron thinking Roney is just messing with Faust.*"Dammit Shin, keep quiet, there is something wrong here."* Roney thinks to himself while he starting to get sweaty a little.*"He's just a kid!"* Roney assures himself and tries everything in his power. Punches, kicks but Faust was still able to dodge the attacks with ease flowing like air."Fuck with me and you will never be pardoned" He avoids the punches like he was dodging a little baby's swings while playing."What are those punches? No combos at all. They're just basic level." Faust arrogantly says out loudly provoking him."Well they're just bunch of high school kids who are only trained in military arts. What do you expect from them?" Yui says sarcastically."Shut up bitch" The guy with the pocket knife comes to the front with the rest of the guys following him."I've had enough of you, you're fucked " Roney too closes in on Faust.Clack~"Ahhhhhhhhhh! Wtf!!!!!!"All of a sudden, Roney's elbow is twisted the other way. Faust simply directs the Roney's punch to his right, then grabbed his wrist. He tightens his hold and with one move, breaks his elbow with ease and style. A smile remains on his face the whole time.Yui was struck with lightning witnessing that, Faust was very warm and friendly until now and he broke the elbow with the same eerie smile. There was no remorse or mercy visible on his face.Roney screams and cries loudly barely holding on to the ground and as later passes out, he falls on the ground without a noise made as dust could be seen flying around his body."How dare you meddle with us, kid!" The rest of the gang comes towards Faust fiercely. Faust thrusts the throat muscles very hard and quickly of one guy with his hand, making him also passing out in just a few seconds. Later he dodges the guy with the pocket knife as he tries to stab. Faust then jumps up in the air and lands down on knee, in the face of the guy with pocket knife and he leaps again kicking him far away.And then he turns to face the other two guys and for that he places his hands on the ground and twirls around as his legs spread outwards and he hit the two guys with his feet moving fast rapidly in circle and hitting on the nonguarded spots of the guys. That's all it took to take down the 5 high schoolers. They were dead scared and rushes to pick up Roney and dragging the knocked out guys, running away instantly after they realizes that Faust was not to be judged lightly as he knews martial arts.Find authorized novels in Webnovelfaster updates, better experiencePlease click www.webnovel.com for visiting. "You both will regret this one day." The guys says with gritting teeth's as they are beaten up badly and runs away fastly."Wow so strong, he-he made them all run away.* Yui thinks to herself as she was amazed by Faust and this time she blushed even redder as her heart start pound faster-maybe beating for him.
