After Mr. A's gathering concluded, Jace exited the villa.
His first thought was to directly teleport to his bungalow, but he decided against doing anything immediate and just walked out normally.
He feared someone might follow him, so he walked cautiously and performed a coin toss divination. The result was negative, meaning Jace wasn't being followed.
Nonetheless, he found himself a dark alley and teleported back to his house.
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The next morning, Jace woke up early with the intention to study, and that was exactly what he did.
In his study, he sat at the desk wearing glasses. On the table before him lay various books, all of which corresponded to standard and ancient languages.
There was an open book in his hands; it was a textbook for the Feysacian language. Jace flipped a page, reading with deep focus.
The glasses he wore were the same ones he had bought when he first transmigrated into this world.
It was his first artifact ever, corresponding to a Sequence 9 Reader.
Jace had initially bought and used it to recall the potion formulas within his head, but as he advanced, his mental attributes grew with him, so he had stopped using them as a necessity.
But he was currently wearing them just for the aesthetic appeal of study time.
Surprisingly, it was actually helpful; since the 'Reader' sequence focused on learning, he could use the glasses for hours without
worrying about side effects, especially since he was a Sequence 6 Beyonder now.
Meanwhile, the languages he was learning were quite diverse.
He currently knew a few languages, like Loenese—which was derived from Hermes—Hermes, Ancient Hermes, and Intiscian.
Jace couldn't help but feel that Intiscian was quite similar to French, not that he actually knew French himself.
And... well, that was about it.
Currently, he was learning Feysacian. Since modern Feysacian and Ancient Feysacian were quite similar, his plan was to start by mastering the modern version first.
There were still other languages left for him to learn, like Feneapotterian and Dutan, as well as other ancient languages like Jotun and Elvish.
Jace sighed. There was a lot of learning to do, but a smile appeared on his face because he had a cheat code.
He stopped reading for a moment, picked up the silver bracelet on the table, and slipped it onto his wrist.
"Knowledge," he said in Ancient Hermes.
This was the language charm he had bought at Mr. A's gathering. It granted the user the ability to speak and understand Feysacian, which included reading it, for a limited time ofcourse.
As he activated the charm, the words and the meaning of the sentences became instantly clear to him.
This way, he would easily learn Feysacian and even Ancient Feysacian within a few days.
"I've gotta buy more of these charms," he muttered softly as he continued reading.
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Afternoon, Natalie and Sarah's apartment.
Natalie sat on the couch, hugging Sarah, who was straddling her thighs and burying her face in Natalie's neck, while her arms were around Natalie's neck.
"I missed you~" Sarah whispered.
A small smile appeared on Natalie's usually stoic face. She had been gone for about a week, so it was a given that Sarah had missed her. Natalie herself had missed her lover, but it wasn't in her character to say such things out loud, so she didn't reply.
But Sarah knew exactly how she felt.
"Will you let me take a bath first?" Natalie said, patting Sarah's back.
Sarah leaned back a little, looking at Natalie with a mischievous glint in her eyes. "Let's take a bath together~"
——
A few hours later, both Natalie and Sarah lay in their bed with only a white sheet covering their bare bodies.
Natalie was asleep already, hugging Sarah from behind with her breasts pressed against Sarah's bare back.
Sarah, meanwhile, was wide awake with a thoughtful expression.
She was thinking about Jace—not in an inappropriate manner, but with a strange suspicion.
The last time they had met was before her girlfriend, Nat, had slept with him. After that, Jace had broken contact with both Natalie and her, and he had even missed his therapy sessions with her.
But this reaction was something she had fully anticipated. It was a... strange thing she had asked Natalie to do, after all. She just hoped that Jace was open-minded enough about it not to end their friendship over the matter.
Thinking about this, her cheeks flushed a slight red color as she remembered the taste of his... essence, which she had tasted from Natalie's... honey pot, Natalie had been really angry with her that time.
Thinking about it almost made Sarah wet, but she was now a Sequence 6 Hypnotist, so she had better control over her emotions. She stopped herself from indulging in those thoughts and focused purely on the suspicious matter at hand.
The suspicious matter being Sarah's new friend, 'Ellen', whom she had met about a month ago. Everything had seemed perfectly alright before she became a Sequence 6, and before she learned about Jace.
Just earlier, after they're nightly affairs—which they had performed in day light— Natalie had told her something very interesting.
Apparently, Natalie had met Jace a few days ago, and as it turned out, he was a Sequence 6 now. That part wasn't surprising, but as for what his new powers actually were, Natalie wasn't entirely sure. She only suspected that it had something to do with Jace taking on other people's forms and identities, including those of women.
Of course, that was only Natalie's speculation, but Sarah couldn't help but connect it directly to 'Ellen'.
The more she thought about it, the more her intuition as a Spectator acted up, causing her suspicions to grow exponentially.
'I'll get to the bottom of this.'
Today was Thursday, and on Saturday, Sarah had plans to meet Ellen at her apartment.
——
"Achoo!" Jace sneezed into a tissue as he continued to read his book.
'Someone must be thinking of me,' he thought absentmindedly, continuing his studies...
Until the door creaked open. Jace looked up from his book only to see a small black cat standing at the entrance.
"Did you get it?" Nyx asked in her childish voice, a clear hint of eagerness in her tone.
Jace smiled warmly. "I got it."
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A/N:- Sorry guys i actually set the timer for the chapter to be released yesterday, but it seems like it didn't work.
So two chapters for today, enjoy 😅.