I Reincarnated as a Wicked Girl
Chapter 6 Final
I just wait and keep waiting. About two hours until Ren finally approached me in the room. Honestly, I don't know what's going on. Ren locked me in the room, I couldn't even access the exit. I could've sneaked out secretly. But that's not a good thing, is it?
"I'm sorry." said Ren. He apologized for all Lena's treatment. Lena can't possibly apologize to me. So he represented it. He feels guilty for Lena's behavior. But he still can't kill her since the girl is the son of his best friend. He also has a promise to the couple to look after their daughter when they are not around, ever since he acquired the black tea fields. Expelling her was the lightest punishment, but she also could not think of any other options.
"No need.." I said with an awkward smile. It's the first time I've seen Ren with such a sad face. He seems to be really shocked by what happened.
He did not expect that Lena, the little girl he already considered a sister and she protected would do such a thing. Especially against those closest to him and killing innocent people.
Ren blamed himself, too. Lena did it all because of her. He's wrong here, too. That's why he apologized.
"Sorry..." Ren continued to apologize while looking down languidly. "I can't kill him anyway. I'm sorry about that. I also apologize to everyone who died because of him..."
Ren's statement was very unexpected to me! He apologized because he couldn't kill Lena.
"No problem..."
Ren raised his head and looked at Eva fixedly. "Are you going to hate me because I'm too picky?"
"No" I answered seriously. "I know you have your own reasons for doing it. After all, you have been living together for several hundred years. And you're very close. Don't blame yourself."
"Thank you.." Ren replied softly.
Our conversation about Lena stopped here. Then I started telling Ren that I wanted to go back to my mansion today. But Ren prevented it.
"There's something I want to show you. Don't come back yet. You can come back tomorrow" Ren persuaded.
"All right." I nodded in agreement. But I looked at Ren with curious eyes. What does he want to show me? Is that something important?
"I'll see you again tonight. Rest because I'm afraid tonight you can't sleep" she said with a suspicious smile. Before he finally disappeared from before me.
Whatisthis? Why am I not feeling well? I should have refused his invitation to stay longer, right? I don't know why I felt that he was planning something dangerous. Did I just run?
But I abandoned my intention to run. After all it was impolite to run away all of a sudden. At worst anyway, I just had to stay up late again because it was related to his strange research idea.
That's how I thought...
Until night comes. Time passes so fast. Ren came to see me and he took me somewhere.
Ren took me to a pretty weird place. I don't even know where this is because I just followed her to teleport here.
At first we arrived at a forest. The forest at night is very dark and scary. I don't really like the atmosphere of the forest in the elves' territory. They have a different atmosphere than the forest I usually visit. It felt more life threatening because there were so many magical beasts in this place.
We walked through the forest a few steps until we finally found a dark and gloomy cave. The atmosphere of this cave was a hundred and eighty degrees different from Damian's cave. This cave really looks ordinary, dirty and not special at all. Like the caves that we usually find randomly while walking.
I walked behind Ren and stared at his back with a frown. What would this man do in a strange place like this? Is he going to make me a trial again? Cih, really cruel.
I continued to sneer at Ren inwardly, until I entered the cave and froze for a moment. The cave was not as bad as its appearance! When I entered, I could see beautiful crystals on the walls and ceiling of the cave. All of these crystals look familiar. Of course, this is a magic crystal! Items used in exchange for the king of Vien.
"More..."
We continued to enter the cave covered with all the magic crystals. The deeper we go, the more magic crystals are visible. Until we finally saw a lake with a lion statue in the middle. The lion statue was not an ordinary statue but a very clear crystal statue. I was really surprised by this sight. Then even more surprising again the whole lake filled with floating blue crystals.
Ren smiled as he looked at Eva's gawking face. "I know you're very interested in these stones aren't you?" Ren knows that Eva has been very interested in magic crystals ever since the girl wanted her on the exchange. Vien had yet to send out their magic crystal and Ren did not want the smelly elf to give a first impression to Eva. So he took the initiative to do it first.
"Honestly, I have a lot of magic crystals planted in this place. And I'm not interested in using it for anything else, just for my research" Ren replied casually.
After freezing for a while, I looked at Ren sadly. "Why didn't you tell me you didn't need it? I'll barter it with something else." I said softly. The magic crystals obtained from Vien would be useless for Ren. I feel guilty for selling Ren's valuable research in vain.
"I really want to give all those crystals to you. But you don't believe me" Ren shook his head in disappointment. "I accepted the offer anyway because you seemed very enthusiastic when you saw this magic crystal. I'll give you all the crystals. Whether it's the sale of robots or from this cave. Because I have a lot of stock" he said in a slightly arrogant tone.
My face immediately turned sullen upon hearing Ren's slightly arrogant statement. But his statement is true. He has a lot of magic crystals. Now it all made sense why he could make so many strange magic tools with magic crystals as the core.
"I was interested in the beginning. But after seeing that they were so many, I lost my interest all of a sudden" I said annoyedly.
"You're really not interested? Sure?" Ren tried to tease me.
Aghhh! I hit his chest unconsciously. "Do I look greedy like that? Do I look matre?" I muttered in disbelief.
Ren laughed out loud. Eva's reaction was funny. He likes to tease her. He still remembered the first time he had brought her to the tree house and kept the little girl from sleeping. Her annoyed and pouting face was still clearly drawn in Ren's mind. That thing is so funny.
"I'm not gonna take anything. I'll just take my pay" I said firmly. From the beginning my goal was just to decorate Ren's spacious-looking palace and use some crystals for display in my room. But now I had completely lost interest in knowing that the item was not rare at all.
"All right" Ren gave up. He suddenly flew across the lake, heading towards the conspicuous lion statue. He took the red crystal stone that became the lion's eyes. The lion lost one eye.
The stone is a pretty red color and the shape is also very small. Ren returned to his place and forcibly handed the stone to Eva.
"What's this?" I already found the stone in my hand, because Ren forcibly gave it away.
"For you. It's more special than any other stone" Ren said.
I'm not resisting, after all, it's just one stone. I keep it in the dimensional space.
"The stone contains a great amount of magic energy. If you use it on a magic tool. It could work for several tens of years without losing its magic energy" Ren explained.
Uh! In an instant I got an idea to use this crystal stone. I just remembered that I once made a ground golem in the past. Now that my earth magic has stabilized, I will try to make it again. And use this magic stone as the heart of the golem. Wouldn't the golem I made be a giant robot?
Ahaha! I am so smart!
After that, we stayed in the cave to relax. This place is so beautiful. Even more beautiful than the artificial world of the Magic Tower. The view here is not real.
Unknowingly we spent a lot of time sitting down and telling stories about our lives. I told you about my childhood. About how I practiced knowing that I mastered the six elements as well as my little adventure, especially when in the magic domain. Of course there are some secret things I didn't tell you, like that I remember my past life and this world is just a novel. If Ren hears her, he'll think I'm crazy.
Ren also recounted some memorable events for her. Especially his meeting with Lena and Emily. When I heard Emily's story, I was really moved. Almost even crying. She's a pathetic little girl. If I were to go through something like that, I might think of suicide as well because of mental depression.
We spend time like that. Ren's right. I'm not going to sleep tonight. By the time we finished, the sun had risen and I was preparing to return to the kingdom of Well.
"See you at the academy" These were Ren's last words before he sent me with his teleportation circle.