Black Star

Page 03: No Magic

3rd person's POV

The main hall falls silent when the base shakes accompanied by Yami's curses. When those noises are the closest, the wall is destroyed with a kick and the captain throws Y/n inside the room.

"Captain, what are you doing?" asks Finral walking over the new member. "Are you ok, Y/n-san?"

"Y-yes." the evident blush is a sign that Finral shouldn't be closer to her. "I-I'm sorry."

The others would love to help her back onto her feet, but knowing how shy she is, for now they watch over her before intervening.

"Finral, Noelle, Asta, Magna and Y/n, you brats go to this village and help the chief to free the hostages." the mage breathe out the smoke of his cigarette. "It's a time limit mission, don't fuck anything up. Now go get ready, you have to depart in 10 minutes."

-10 minutes later-

The mages are outside waiting for the new member, but when Magna vocalizes the rookie's absence, a voice makes everybody jump.

"I'm here..." she shyly walks out from behind a tree. The others can't help but to stare at her and how intimidating she is dressed in all black. Tight trousers, tight long sleeved shirt and the cloak of the Black Bull... She's very, very intimidating.

"Since when are you there, Y/n-san?" Finral keeps Magna quiet and talks with a calm and low voice.

"5 minutes... I'm sorry I was so early, I should have come due time."

She is like Asta-kun. She has zero mana. Finral smiles at her and reassures her that she's in time, they were late since she was already waiting.

On that note, the group is teleported to the closest village to go by foot over the other one where they have to fight.

Walking, Asta slows down and approaches Y/n keeping a big distance in between. He whispers and tries to make the girl comfortable around him, and to be sure he can protect her since she walks far behind from the rest of the team.

"Don't worry, Y/n. I'm here to help if you need it." the little guy tries to sound as friendly and reassuring as possible.

"That's very kind of you, Asta. Thank you." the girl bows her head a little with a tiny smile on her lips.

"Mph, what's with that attitude?" Noelle flips her hair and looks at the other girl. "I'm royalty, you know?"
That's when everything takes a turn nobody expected.

Y/n stops walking and stands straight to glare at Noelle. The royal girl isn't the only one under an amazing pressure, her senpais and Asta as well feel the air so much heavier.
Those green eyes that were always looking down or elsewhere, are now glued on Noelle and they are so scary that the men had chills down their spines when they crossed those orbs.

The tension in the air can be cut with a knife and when Noelle talks again, she feels something brush against her cheek and her blood freezes.
When she realizes what happened, she sees Y/n's arm stretched with those cruel eyes.

"Keep your eyes open, your highness." Y/n talks with a very cold and distant voice when she walks pass everybody heading over the village.

When the men go closer to Noelle to ask if she's alright, they see a snake nailed to the tree and they know the specie since it's a very dangerous one.

"Hold up!" the teams run after the girl and now is afraid to even talk to her.

They weren't expecting that change of mood, they weren't expecting to be actually scared by the new member who showed herself so vulnerable and shy.