"Really?"
"You think it's real or not?" I tossed the question back at her.
Yudai was no longer so sure this time. After thinking it over, she snorted. "If you can help me decipher the immortal patterns, then I'll believe you."
I rolled my eyes at her. "Instructor Yudai, I don't need to decipher immortal patterns for you to prove myself. Besides, first, you haven't helped me with anything, and second, you came running here to humiliate me just now. Although we made peace afterward, it hasn't reached the point where I need to repay you for anything, has it? Don't you know the principle that one should accept no reward without merit?"
"Then just now you said..." Yudai was terribly embarrassed, her face shifting from green to white.
"I said I might help, not that I definitely would. You haven't helped me with anything, so why should I help you?" I waved my hand and turned around to mind my own business.
Yudai was probably dumbfounded too. She had truly never met anyone so impervious to persuasion.
"If you really have the ability to decipher immortal patterns, then once you've done it, just tell me what reward you want! I can afford it!" Yudai said anxiously.
"Heh. Once I decipher the immortal patterns for you, you'll ascend to immortality in a single step. Your Lineage might even benefit and ascend with you. Do I really need to explain the difference between mortals and immortals? Would an immortal family take a liking to anything from the mortal world? Tell me, what could you possibly use to pay such a price?" I asked in return.
My words had blocked off nearly every path of retreat for Yudai. She stood there in a daze, rather depressed. She could neither leave nor bear