9 Trust

After leaving Terrea, Perya and the others started their journey on their way to Skyus, after 2 days of traveling they decide to stop for a little training, Perya and Haku decide to do a little fight to keep getting stronger, Asami says he wants to join to training because she wants to strengthen herself so as not to worry anyone and not need to be saved anymore, Haku is a little reluctant but accepts her decision. As training for the day they decide to do an all against all, so everyone prepares and Serena says that she prefers not to join because she doesn't like fights, so the fight starts and she gets well balanced, the fight goes toe-to-toe for some moments however it is quite clear that Perya has a certain advantage as since she had recovered she had gotten stronger, without even realizing it, before she needed her flaming gloves to be able to match the prince, now she is stronger than he doesn't even need to activate them to be able to match him, because of that Asami says the only way to fight her would be to fight together, he says he doesn't need anyone's help and then starts fighting alone again, later of this both he and Asami lost the fight, Perya asks why he didn't fight by her side, he says that a dark elf can't be trusted and that it was likely that she helped steal the earth sphere, Perya says that that was impossible and that she would never do that, he asks how she can have so much trust in someone she doesn't even know, she just says he trusts her and has nothing more to argue about and that he should give her a vote of confidence.

After a while walking, they found a very dense forest with trees so tall that you couldn't even see the sky straight, they enter the forest and start walking but they are worried about not getting lost because it seemed to be very difficult to find one. exit, after a while walking a certain fog begins to take over the forest, a fog so dense that it was impossible to see anything in front of you, and oddly enough it was not possible to feel the presence of anyone inside it so Perya asks no one to separate as it was dangerous to get lost, but after a while the fog starts to dissipate and then Perya realizes that she was alone and the others had disappeared, and to Haku's surprise he was trapped with Asami , Perya says she has heard about this kind of forest once in her parents' library once, she said it was the Forest of Trust, she says the forest feels when mistrust between people and It locks them together so they can resolve their differences and then the forest decides to clear their way and lets them through, but no one had few records of elves who managed to escape it, as Perya and Serena trust each other so they can get through with ease, but Asami and Haku find it difficult to trust each other, especially in his case because he feels very scared about it even after discovering the truth about where they were from.

After several days lost inside the forest, Haku and Asami started fighting each other to see who would find their way out of where they were, but as the forest only opens its way only to those who trust each other, none of them can escape, after months of trying to get out they both agreed to go their separate ways and try to find their way on their own, but as much as they tried to go their separate ways they always ended up bumping into each other sooner or later, and every time they both ended up fighting and always ended up tying and then ended up going their separate ways, but after a year trapped inside the forest, they meet one last time and then decide to fight once and for all to see who should be in charge, and the fight is intense, several hours go by and after fighting fiercely they find themselves exhausted without any energy, after looking at each other they start laughing and then to regain some of their energy they decide to talk to better understand their distrust, Haku says he was always told to distrust the dark elves because they were a symbol of evil, Asami says he can never trust and, no one for his entire life, and she went like that until she found Perya who is the only one she trusts with her own life, and who was a little hard to trust other elves, she says that Perya had a certain personality that made her impossible not to love, he says he kind of feels the same thing and then the forest path opens up and they manage to head towards Perya and Serena, Asami hugs her very tightly and apologizes for being apart for a year, and then they both face each other and stay in doubt because for them it's only been two hours since they parted in the forest, and then when everyone looks back the forest just disappears, then everyone starts laughing, after a while they resume training and instead of being one against all, Asami decides to be a two against one, she agrees and then they start the match, and oddly enough Asami and Haku manage to defeat Perya with flawless teamwork, with both fighting side by side they managed to fight toe-to-toe with Perya, who couldn't read the perfectly coordinated movements of the two, after that everyone rests a bit and goes back to their journey.