Harem of the Demon: Gathering Beauties in a Magic World-Chapter 55. Elsa’s Request

Rena dangled her legs in the air while she sat up comfortably on the massage table. She did so until she felt some power of her own return to her legs.

When she was certain that she could hold her own to an extent, Rena put one leg on the ground, supporting herself with her hands placed on the massage table. After a few seconds, she put the second foot down and moved slowly to the side with her hands still on the massage table for support, until she reached the edge of the table.

She was no longer light and unstable at her feet as she felt some minutes back and then she took one step forward. As muscle memory would have it as well as her mind, the image of the pains she endured for the past few months came rushing back and naturally, she put her hand on her back, assuming that the pain was still present even when she wasn’t sure if she was feeling anything.

Rena paused for a moment and darted her eyes around the room. She rubbed her waist in the front and behind and felt nothing.

It was no more there.

"I don’t feel any pain," she muttered under her breath, still surprised by the sudden departure of the discomfort that gnawed at her around her waist region.

She put another foot forward to walk and another after that. She continued like that until she was steady enough to throw her steps forward in an elegant, painless, natural walk just like she used to do.

Rena crouched and was drawn to tears as her eyes watered. She thought it was all over for her but Aaron had given her hope and also kept his promise to her to make her walk normally again.

She sniffled and cleaned her eyes, forever grateful to the man who took her pains away.

She stayed in the room for another couple of minutes before stepping out to depart the clinic.

As Rena stepped out of the massage room and shut the door to leave, she met Elsa’s face and immediately she turned away. Rena cast her gaze elsewhere, her cheeks as red as rose. She recalled the vulgar sounds escaped her lips and not even in gentle tones, but loud, shameless ones.

A period of awkward silence crept up between Elsa and Rena as they looked at each other at intervals. Elsa was sad and disgusted that a woman would let a man she doesn’t know touch her like that whereas Rena was embarrassed for herself for making such loud noises inside the massage room, but if she had another opportunity to be under Aaron’s touch again, she would agree without a doubt.

But right now, she wished the ground would open up and swallow her whole. She was ashamed and immediately increased the pace of her steps, hurrying out of the clinic in seconds.

Elsa walked out of her own office and hurried to Aaron’s.

KNOCK!

KNOCK!

She proceeded to open the door in front of her, only to see her master glancing and flipping through the pages of a book just to keep himself busy.

"Master," she called his attention.

"Yes, Elsa."

Aaron answered her without lifting his head and caring to turn and look in her direction. His eyes were fixed on the page he was reading and after a few seconds, he flipped the page again to the next.

"I have a favour to ask, master," she said.

Aaron said nothing again to her and Elsa moved to have a seat in front of him.

Now she was feeling rather uncomfortable because of the cold shoulders that her master was giving her. Elsa lost every confidence she had to speak, expending the last confidence she had when she walked in and sat down.

Aaron folded the page he was on in two before going ahead to close the book and put it on the table.

"What is it, Elsa?" he asked, paying her more attention like she wanted him to.

Elsa shrunk herself, taking up less space in the room than she usually would. She slightly lowered her eyes and rolled her fingers over each other sheepishly.

"The thing is, master," she said and paused. "I want to ask you... I want to ask you for a favour."

"That’s a first," Aaron quickly replied to her, relaxing to listen to what his apprentice had to say.

"I’m listening."

Elsa finally found the courage to lift her eyes and look into Aaron’s to speak. Perhaps it was because he gave her listening ears this time.

"Master, I would like to learn your massage technique."

There was a brief moment of quietness between the two before Aaron finally spoke.

"You’re being serious, aren’t you?" he asked.

Elsa nodded confidently. "Yes, master."

She moved closer and placed her hands on the table.

"I really want you to teach me. Please!"

Aaron didn’t hesitate to give his answer. "You are not ready yet. You still have a long way to go before you can learn... and not even master my massage techniques."

Elsa’s heart broke but she persisted. "But—"

"You are not ready, Elsa," Aaron said again, making his stand on the matter even more glaring to her.

The apprentice felt sad that he couldn’t grant what she thought was a simple request.

"Sorry, Elsa but if there isn’t any other thing to attend to, I’d like to get back to what I was doing."

Aaron picked the book from the table and turned the page to where he stopped, continuing his reading from there.

Elsa waited for a while and when she saw that Aaron neither looked at her nor said anything else, she got up and walked away, slamming the door behind her.

Aaron raised his head and looked at the door. He shook his head and hissed.

"What is her problem?" he wondered.

While outside, Elsa leaned back on the door and sighed. She clenched her fist and gritted her teeth.

Anger was brewing inside of Elsa and for reasons from things that were beyond her direct control.

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