"You sure are a strong one, kid, but don't mistake your mere strength for being the reason behind my restraint."
The parasite spoke, its words clearly directed at Arthur.
Arthur being called a kid felt somewhat out of the box for me at the start, but from the parasite's perspective, who I believed was quite a few centuries old, if not more... it appeared normal to some extent.
Arthur should have been in his forties right now, so he was indeed a kid by the parasite's standards.
Completing its sentence, the parasite walked closer to us, while at the same time, I could feel a sort of physical manifestation of mana surrounding Arthur from all sides.
Arthur... he was getting ready for the fight in ways I couldn't even understand at my current level of power.
Observing the side of Arthur's face while standing behind him, the only thing I could say was that... he was tense.
Arthur was far more tense than I had ever seen him.
