Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

"Well…" Berry felt hesitant, and William slowly nodded.

"Show him in the usual way," William said, and his few words didn't miss the keen senses of Gran.

Even though he was over excited at this moment, he still was a dark gold spirit master. And for those high grade spirit masters, their senses were the sharpest thing they got in life.

"What do you mean by that?"

"It's a secret," and just as a typical kid, William tucked out his tongue and teased the uncle.

"Damn you! How can anyone exchange a few words with you without losing his temper!! Damn kids!!!"

"Uncle, it's indeed a secret," Berry tried to step in and help William in this, "and he… He did many great things for me. So please, let him keep his own secrets."

"Humph, fine," Gran could only resign to the will of his beloved niece, "show me then, through the normal way all of the spirit world here knows of."

He said the last words while focusing his eyes over William. and the latter didn't let this remark pass by without commenting as usual.

"Like uncle said, with what's known here."

"You…"

"Uncle…" and just before another fight would erupt, Berry said, "here, see for yourself."

She ingested her bronze spiritual power into the orange crystal, making it shine slightly in front of Gran's eyes. And this managed to finally distract him from William.

"You… You…" and when he saw the bronzed coloured spirit power inside the crystal, he started to tremble, not believing his eyes."

"This is all thanks to William," Berry stressed over this point again, "and that's why grandpa asked for him to come. He wanted to see and reward the man who helped me."

"M… Man?!!" for a moment there, all the excitement faded, and his eyes twitched from the corner.

Gran already could smell fire. He knew girls always tend towards those who are kind and generous, all caring and attentive to them. And what William did was something that would be least called a lifetime debt.

"William, by the way, I forgot to ask," and when he felt this nervous as he could already see where this little relation between these two kids would lead to in the future, Berry suddenly shouted as she jumped towards William, grabbed him by the arm and whispered:

"When I woke up, I didn't find any of the papers you left me."

"What?!!!" this time, it was William's turn to get shocked, "how so? I left them for you to keep studying when you woke up."

"This… How? I asked, and all the guards who were there by my side denied seeing any papers. Even my grandpa asked himself!"

Her tone and attitude told William she wasn't lying. And from the side, Gran could hear what she said.

"What? Did someone dare to steal from my clan's precious rose?" his tone changed, but it was nothing compared to what William was feeling right now.

He knew that leaving the papers in her possession was risky, but he thought that no one would risk and try to get these from her.

Or else, just like how Gran reacted here, this would bring forth the wrath of the entire Long clan on whoever dared to do such a crime.

"I will personally look into this," but what William said next made Gran size him up and down. And when William noticed that gaze, he added, "I never tolerate anyone stealing something precious from me, or from my close up friends."

"But…" unlike the wrath these two in front of her felt, Berry felt regret and blamed herself for losing these papers, "they were… They were precious to you and…" she wanted to add more but words choked in her throat and couldn't say anymore.

"Don't worry, I got them all in my head," William mistook her thoughts, and said to reassure her.

But from her perspective, she didn't see these papers as not only the magical solution that saved her life and freed her from such misery… She considered them as the first real gift William gave to her.

And to her, this first gift was priceless! And losing it was a grave crime to her.

"And I promise I'll find whoever did this and properly punish him and whoever helped him!" and in front of her eyes, William said, taking such a heavy vow on himself.

"Good lad," Gran softly muttered in a tone that wasn't heard by any of the kids standing here.

He could feel the determination William placed in the words he just said.

"Leave this issue over to us, kiddo," and just as William's words just landed and left such a deep impression inside those present here, a strong and deep voice came from the direction of the mansion's entry.

"Patriarch!"

"Grandpa!"

William saw an old looking, yet strong and healthy old man coming out from the big gate of the mansion.

And he wasn't alone as he was followed by an entourage of fierce looking strong spirit masters and Berry's father, whose face was slightly darker than usual.

"I'm growing more interested in knowing the current bad state of the academy… Humph! I don't know what that old man is doing out there! Leaving such rodents infest the full place without retaliating… As if this was something funny!" The strong and deep voice of Kong landed, expressing how truly mad he was.

"Venerable senior," if William would call Berry's father and uncle senior, then he'd call this legendary old man venerable senior.

And as he cupped his hands and slightly bowed, the other three on the side who stayed silent for all this time followed suit.

"At least you got some manners for such an ex-porter," Berry's grandpa was the biggest head in the entire clan, so he acted in such carefree way while sizing up and down William.

Although part of his rage was directed towards William, he had to keep his image in front of everyone.