Don't Let Romance Affect Other People

Warren himself was very surprised. This time, casting the magic had gone remarkably smoothly and easily.

Have I gotten stronger again? Hmm, just what you'd expect from a handsome guy like me!

Warren's thoughts appeared without a hint of restraint on the telepathic channel he shared with Eleven. His shamelessness made Eleven see him in a whole new light.

Warren didn't seem to notice. As soon as he connected to the mole's mental channel, he asked, "Mole, mole, can you hear me?" He sounded distinctly smug.

"Mole~ Who's talking?" A lazy voice sounded on their telepathic channel.

Eleven was startled. He hadn't expected them to actually be able to communicate. These giant moles possessed a certain degree of intelligence.

"I'm a resident of Rakao Village. Mole, I hope you can leave Rakao Village," Warren continued calling out over the telepathic channel, without a shred of negotiating skill.

In fact, ever since Warren had discovered he could communicate with the moles, he had wanted to negotiate with them. But his grandfather wouldn't let him, insisting they wait until they had hired a mage who could fight.

"Leave? No, no, I'm not going anywhere. Mole~"

"How can you be like that? This is our village!" Warren was getting a little worked up. After all, he was still just a child who hadn't left his parents. Unlike children such as Eleven and Laxus, who had started doing dangerous work on their own at an early age, his thinking was still rather idiotic.

Eleven stepped forward and patted Warren on the shoulder, signaling him to calm down. He also asked the mole through telepathy, "Can you tell me why? Why do you have to stay here?"

"Mole~ Because the goddess is here! Mole~ The goddess is so pretty. I want to have babies with the goddess, mole~" The mole suddenly grew excited at the subject and seemed to roll around beneath the mud, sending ripples across the surface of the swamp.

Eleven: (꒪⌓꒪)??

Warren, however, seemed to take a sudden interest and hurriedly followed up. "Goddess? A mole goddess? What does your goddess look like?"

"Mole~ The goddess is very beautiful. I still remember the day I first met the goddess..." For some reason, the conversation suddenly turned sleazy.

And so Warren and the mole started talking about romance. Warren kept offering the mole advice, acting like a seasoned veteran of dirty talk...

"Boo-hoo, what a touching story~" By the end, Warren had been moved to tears, though even he didn't know why.

"Mole~ You're such a good person!" Warren seemed to have gained the mole's friendship as well. The mole even surfaced from the mud to chat with him.

Eleven: (ㅍ_ㅍ)

This guy could actually have such a stimulating conversation about sex with a creature this strange?

Eleven couldn't get what they found so touching at all!

Where did that sense of empathy come from?

Weren't they supposed to be enemies?

This guy really was a mole spy who had infiltrated humanity!

Eleven's thoughts weren't transmitted over the telepathic channel, since his Spiritual Power was strong. Warren didn't notice Eleven's utterly dumbfounded expression either and continued chatting enthusiastically with the mole.

"Did all you moles come here to pursue the goddess?" Eleven suddenly asked out of the blue on the telepathic channel.

"Mole~ Those hateful love rivals!" It wasn't clear whether the mole was answering Eleven. He just started getting angry on his own, while Warren tried to calm him down.

(ㅍ_ㅍ): "Oh."

After getting that answer, Eleven no longer had any misgivings. He said "Oh" expressionlessly, then quietly floated into the air and began concentrating his Spiritual Power like crazy.

"Rise!"

At Eleven's words, the enormous body of the mole, who was in the middle of an animated chat with Warren, was suddenly lifted upside down into the air by an irresistible force.

The mole was startled by his sudden flight. "Mole~ What are you doing? Mole~"

His massive body twisted and turned in the air, and his tremendous strength even smashed a nearby house that had already sunk into the swamp. But he still couldn't break free of Eleven's Spiritual Power.

(▼皿▼#)

In the air, Eleven's expression suddenly turned fierce and terrifying. "Don't let romance affect other people, bastard!"

With Eleven's furious roar, the mole's enormous body swung down toward the earth like a giant windmill, shattering a huge boulder and sinking deep into the ground.

"No~~~" A wail unexpectedly came from Warren beside him. "Mr. Mole was a good person!"

"He's a mole, not a person!" Eleven looked at Warren, somewhat speechless, now certain that this guy hadn't come to help him at all.

"But, but..." Warren suddenly burst into tears and kept sobbing. Eleven could actually sense deep sorrow from him. He really had formed a friendship with that mole.

"Sigh~" Eleven covered his forehead, feeling a little guilty. "Stop crying. I didn't kill him. He just passed out."

"Really?"

Warren looked up at Eleven, tears streaming down his face. The sight made Eleven feel a little sick, and he hurriedly looked away. "Really, I'm not lying to you."

"You're lying, you're lying! Why won't you look me in the eye?" Warren continued wiping away his tears.

Eleven turned back helplessly...

"Bleurgh~~"

After finally getting Warren to leave and letting him go take care of Mr. Mole himself, Eleven pulled himself together and flew back over the swamp. His Spiritual Power spread out, scanning the entire swamp.

"There are seven more moles? That goddess sure is charming!" Eleven muttered to himself.

His surging Telekinesis roared out once more, plunging deep into the swamp. As the mud churned, enormous waves rose and smashed several houses. This time, two moles were pulled out at once.

The two moles, pulled from the swamp for no apparent reason, twisted wildly, but it was all in vain. Eleven wasted no words and swung them straight into the hard ground on the bank. Perhaps because he was swinging two at once, he hadn't put enough force into it. The two moles were dazed but could still wriggle. So Eleven grabbed their tails and gave them two vigorous shakes, knocking them completely unconscious.

His Telekinesis reached out once more, and this time Eleven locked onto three targets. Splitting into three, it coiled around the moles, who had already begun to stir in the mud, like three giant pythons. But as soon as Eleven pulled the three moles out of the swamp, he knew this was beyond his limit.

A giant mole was certainly no small creature, about the size of an elephant. Perhaps because of its different body structure, it wasn't as heavy as it looked, but one mole still weighed two tons. Even swinging two of them around with Telekinesis wasn't all that easy for Eleven. He knew he probably couldn't handle three together; he had just wanted to see where his limit was. He could barely lift them, but he definitely couldn't swing them.

From this, he could conclude that his Telekinesis had a maximum load of six tons! That was an astonishing figure. Because of the nature of Spiritual Power, there was no difference in exerting force between lifting a weight and simply attacking. In theory, an attack would also gain a boost from speed, making it even more powerful. Of course, under normal circumstances, he couldn't spend that long building up power. Still, that theoretical force of six tons was even more powerful than the train collision Eleven had dreamed about in his nightmare.

"Looks like Laxus won't need to watch out for trains anymore. He just needs to watch out for me!"

(~￣▽￣)~