Reader Mage-Stubbing August 10! Chapter 108: 108-You’re A Kid. Act Like One

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Merlin kept himself busy as he waited, hopefully and impatiently, for Guildmaster Hyeonki’s call. Thankfully, he was able to occupy himself with two other things, pulling his mind away from reminiscing on what had occurred in the Consortium Guild and the absurdity of it all. One was taking care of Blue and practicing-slash-leveling his Intelligence with the mischievous little dragon. While the second was his private investigations on what exactly the drug which had messed up Nikolai’s mind was, and how he could get it off the streets. He was currently on that front. “I’m going to be honest with you, kid,” said Sunny from the other side of Merlin’s phone. “You should stop.” “Do you think if I stake out the club at night, I’ll be able to see something?” asked Merlin as his fingers drummed quickly on the keyboard of his laptop. He was searching through the net trying to dig up any news on Mages—or, more likely, Enkindled—losing their minds like Nikolai had. It was something he had begun to do for a couple of weeks now, and was yet to find any success. But failure had never stopped him before; now wouldn’t be any different. Sunny sighed audibly. “You’re not listening to me, are you?” “I think I’ll try staking out,” said Merlin. “The net’s pretty useless. At least my VPN’s working; they haven’t traced me yet, so that’s saying something.” “Or they just don’t care about a kid that’s way in over his head,” criticized Sunny. “I’m tired of spending my nights warning you to stop endangering yourself. I’m going to ignore your calls now.” Merlin clicked his tongue. Besides Sunny, he had told no one of what he was doing. Nora would eat him alive for even thinking about it, and the headmaster would obviously not want him sticking his nose in what was supposedly ‘adult’s business’. Professor Jung was even out of the question. Just before the end of his first term at Prestige Academy, Merlin had noticed that Professor Jung not arriving in time to handle Nikolai herself had been eating into her. There was no way she would let another student of hers endanger himself. He also didn’t want to involve Chima and Hakyun. He couldn’t bring himself to, not after considering just how dangerous it could be. As for Janeth, things had become awkward between them ever since their date. Whenever they were around each other, their conversations would be composed of mere pleasantries and silence and throat-clearing. They barely said anything to each other—well, Janeth barely said anything; it wasn’t like Merlin had ever been talkative. Regardless, he hoped that the whole charade would stop soon. Janeth’s distance from him wasn’t making him like her any less; it was just making him even more frustrated, and he already had enough frustrating situations on his plate. All in all, Sunny was the only person Merlin could share his thoughts with. He was rational, smart, and had, well, connections—whoever those were. However, that rationality of Sunny’s was biting Merlin in the ass now. “Come on, Sunny,” Merlin groaned. “I told you what happened. If you had seen it, you wouldn’t be telling me to stop.” Sunny scoffed. “I’m pretty sure I would,” he said. “Look, Merlin, I like you. And I understand you as well. Your friend, technically, became an addict, went beast mode, and almost killed your friends; you saw the ugly side of the world of Mages. I get you, truly. And that is why I haven’t told your sister about what you’re getting yourself involved in. But, let me be honest with you, this is illogical of you. Your whole vigilante-esque sense of justice, I mean. If even your headmaster couldn’t get any information on them, apparently, how exactly do you expect to?” Merlin clenched his jaw. “I’ll think of a way.” “You’ll get yourself killed, you idiot,” Sunny retorted. “You should stop now. That’s why I’ve been engaging your calls, to set you on the right path. But if you insist on going off the rails, I’m gonna let you be. Not like you’re my kid anyway.” Sunny was right.