Chaos Cycle: The Eye of Genesis

"I hear you are a healer. I have one of those terrible illnesses that only a particular person could heal. That could very might be you," Shin asked. "Can you heal me?" 

"I hear you have some problem in the head, but didn't consider it this bad," Enna replied wittingly to Shin's cheap pickup line. "Unfortunately, my healing spell cannot cure your head," 

Elior, who was keeping his ears on the two, standing a few metres away, rubbed his forehead. He had not expected Shin to abandon everything so early, and it appeared his good brother was struggling to even look straight at her eyes.

"Shin, pull yourself together," Elior mumbled, knowing Shin had the highest chances with this girl.

After Shin made a scene with him the other day for not doing anything, Elior invested a couple of hours organizing on what to do with Shin. Surely, his horny brother would not stand by if scammed him after all the hard words Shin pulled through. Don't get him wrong, two hours may seem little, but to him, in these two hours, he could earn a couple million easily if he likes.

In that two hours, what Elior did was surf a few blows about dating and take notes. Surely, he knew a thing or two about women, but one can't be sure. Women were, after all, undoubtedly the mysterious creature. Two hours was a bare minimum for him to get something out of the web. He had cross-reference many blogs with a similar topic and only took the common things.

After that, he had to coach Shin for some time, though it appeared whatever he did, failed miserably. 

Then he put his mind to recall who Shin had the most chances with and Enna came to his mind first. In the previous timeline, the two of them had a good friendship, which could have led to something more. Unfortunately, like many others, Enna was not with them for longer.

Other than Shin's potential girlfriend, Enna was also an excellent Healer, the rarest class in the universe. If there were 200 warriors, 20 mages, then there would only be a few handful of healers and that number won't reach 5. Elior already had planned to approach Enna and a few others, but the time was not sound so he delayed till now.

Now, Shin presented himself with just the opportunity that they might be able to kill two birds with one stone. If Shin was able to get a grip on himself, then perhaps the two goals would not be far away.

"Was it that terrible?" Shin asked, finding some sense. Now he was looking mostly on the clear glass table, though occasionally he was peeking at her face. 'Brother, I have failed,' he sighed inwardly. Perhaps it would have been better if he had more time to practice.

"Terrible?" Enna raised her eyebrow. "Don't know, but it sure was cringe. Do you have any more?"

"I do, actually," Shin said hesitantly. "But I am afraid you will throw that green juice at my face after listening to a couple of them."

"Ooh, that makes me even more interested," Enna said with a glitter in her eyes. She brought her palms on the table and looked at him with bright eyes. "Try me."

"I can," Shin said, peeking at the bitter green juice. "But you got to finish that first."

Enna raised an eyebrow. "You sure seemed confident about your terrible pick-up lines," she said and drew out the straw before drinking directly.

With a bitter face on, she closed her eyes and started to gulp down the drink first. Undoubtedly, it was one of the cutest things Shin had seen in his life.

It took her a couple of seconds to finish the bitter juice as she eyed him. She licked the green juice from her lips, not knowing how enchanting she looked. "Done," she said with a curve in her lips. "You got no excuses now."

"Fine," Shin said and tilted his head to look at her. "You know, I am actually a cook," he said and took a slight breath. "I don't know who made you, but when I first saw you, I was sure you were hot and spicy."

"Shin, no more pick up lines related to food," Elior mumbled, taking a mental note to remind Shin what happened last time when he made a pickup line along the line of eating carrots. Though Shin seemed to take a little notice and did not utter anything about eating.

Enna blinked at the weird boy before her. She didn't know what to reply to. "That wasn't throwing juice worthy," Shin said.

"It would have been," Elior muttered from away. "If Shin spoke about that hot and spicy meal."

"What's happening?" A voice called from behind. A feminine and familiar one.

Elior first thought he was hearing things, but turning his head he found a maiden with burning silver hair, approaching him. It was none other than Aanya who had gone to mother world a couple of weeks before. He had thought it would take her close to a month to return, yet she came back even before the completion of the two weeks.

"Aanya," Elior called.

She was wearing as usual an easy dress and jeans, with that familiar smile on her lips that hides many things. She did not appear to be in depression or anything, did her business go well? He was not sure.

"What was happening?" she asked him, taking a stand just next to him.

"Just watching, Shin embarrassed himself," he answered and gestured to where Shin was sitting. "I thought you would take a few more days to come back."

"Well, the business didn't go as well as I had planned," Aanya answered, looking at the two individuals at a table. "So I returned without wasting my precious time." She then looked around to find no one else familiar. "I called Ileana before coming here. That girl sure taking her time."

"She was probably tired after her training."

"You got any more?" Enna asked even after hearing a few trash pickup lines. All of them sure was amusing to her, though she could tell Shin was holding back.

Shin thought, and those lines came to his mind one after one. He didn't know why, but today most of his lines weren't dirty as they used to be. "Other than healing my soul with just a gaze, what do you do for a living?"

"Cringe!" Enna replied. "Another one."

"I didn't know Shin was such a lady-killer," Aanya said from Beside Elior. "Did you teach him all that, Junior?"

Elior shook his head. "I wish I could teach him a thing or two."

"Out of all the food served here, you are the hottest." Shin continued in his job in amusing the girl before him.

"Am I really that hot?" Enna could not help but ask. She sure heard more than a couple of times that she was the hottest thing. "Perhaps I have a fever."

'Girl, you have no idea,'' Shin mumbled inside. With all the things he put through today, he did not have the energy for more and was about to leave.

"Are you leaving?" Enna asked and looked at where Elior and Aanya were standing. "You guys came here for food, right? This table still has space. Call them."

"That didn't seem a bad idea," Shin thought, as he would have less time talking and embarrassing himself. "Brother, oh, Senior Aanya came back."

Elior and Aanya exchanged glances and nodded. They went straight to the table and Elior took a seat beside Shin while Aanya was across from him, beside Enna.

"Brother," Shin muttered in his ears. "How did I do?"

"You have not embarrassed yourself all the way," Elior muttered back. "Though it would have been best if you keep it at the normal talk."

"What are you two mumbling about?" Enna asked after addressing their senior Aanya.

"Nothing," Shin said. "Something about the training."

"So you guys are preparing for the tournament?" she asked, raising her eyebrow at both of them.

"Well, it's me and a few more," Shin answered. "Elior is only torturing us. Even my handsome face suffered through a lot."

"I was only doing it so that you won't get your ass kicked," Elior said, clicking his tongue. He gulped down the juice in one go, like he usually does.

As they were talking, another person from their group appeared with a fast stride. "Aanya," Ileana said quite loudly and strode first towards their table. "How could you do that to me? Why didn't you say anything before you went?"

"Ileana?" Aanya called and stood up. She looked at the girl before her and found Ileana was a little unfamiliar. Seemed like a lot of things had happened within a couple of weeks she was away. "Are you on a special diet or something? Why do you look so thin?"

"It's all because of the demonic training," Shin answered. "Senior, wait until you see Lara.. She sometimes walks like a zombie during school time."