
When Zeno woke up slowly, he realized that he had woken up on a mattress with a wound on his leg wrapped in cloth. It seemed so clear that the blood pierced through the cloth with a deep red color. Zeno watched the window beside him, the atmosphere had darkened as if the sun had sunk some time ago.
“Master, are you awake?” Asked Skarlos curiously, “I'm sorry I didn't come out at that time, however somehow I feel trapped inside your body.”
Zeno opened his eyes wide, hearing Skarlos' words just now, signifying that the poison effect that Turse had fired had disappeared. Zeno then put his usual face back on and realized that Turse was actually lying, which the poison effect did not disappear at sunset, but a few moments after being fired, then the poison edek will disappear. As a consequence, it will pass out until the sun goes down.
“No need to feel guilty Skarlos, it all happened because of the toxic effect that hit me.” Zeno calmed Skarlos.
“I understand mr.”
The moment Zeno tried to wake up, he was confused as to where he was at the moment? For sure he is very grateful the kingdom did not find him when he was a pin.
Zeno directed his gaze toward the slowly opening door, watching the figure of the woman who entered with a plate of food with a glass of water in her hand.
Looking at Zeno who had woken up, the woman sighed by saying, “Finally you woke up too, I was worried that you would not wake up forever later.”
“Who are you, and why can I be here?” Zeno frowned.
The woman chuckled at what Zeno said, then sat down on the chair next to Zeno. “My name is Ania, before my father had found you lying on the side of the road with a pretty severe wound to the leg.”
“I say many thanks. But I admit that you are brave enough to bring home an unknown person, what if the person you brought home turns out to be a bad person?” Zeno looked at Ania seriously.
“It is our duty as fellow human beings to help other human beings. And we believe you're not a bad person. So we dare to take you home.” Ania smiled kindly at Zeno. “From how to wear clothes, it seems like you are not from this continent?”
Zeno noticed the way he wore his clothes. Indeed, from the way she dressed, Zeno was very different from the natives of this continent. The clothes that Zeno wore were thicker and more layered, it did so because it could not stand the cold temperatures on this continent. While the natives of this continent, like Ania who was in front of him, they were quite extreme by wearing thin clothes as if they had no cold. Maybe because they have adapted to this continent.
“My name is Zeno, I come from a continent of five countries, more precisely a country of water. I'm headed here to find my dad.” Zeno.
“Alright Zeno, I understand. May you be quickly reunited with your father. But before, you better eat first, because you have fainted half a day, surely it makes you quite hungry instead.” Ania thrust a spoonful of food into Zeno's mouth.
“Hey-hey, can I eat by myself?” Zeno's face turned red after receiving treatment from Ania.
Ania again chuckled, especially after seeing Zeno's embarrassed face. “Alright, you can eat by yourself.” Said Ania while handing over a plate of food.
Zeno received a plate of food with pleasure, after all he had not eaten for half a day more because of fainting. Moreover, this is free, who does not refuse free food? Even Zeno who was a member of the imperial family, of course, brought a lot of treasure and did not refuse to eat for free.
Zeno nodded, then he continued eating to fill his excessively hungry stomach.
While eating, he thought about Dion's increasingly severe accusations. Fortunately Ania as the person who helped him did not know that he was the one who was in search of the kingdom, even the empire on the allegations that have spread widely. Even Zeno might have felt that this news had reached the empire, let alone that Turse was a right-hand man of the kingdom, as well as an important person in the empire.
Zeno became confused, how to solve this problem as soon as possible? He did not know how else to deal with this problem, he could only fight the fools who ate fake news so that Zeno could protect himself from the punishment that was very troublesome later.
after he ate up his meal, he hugged his feet while looking at the night sky of the continent. Zeno smiled as he watched the colorful Aurora that looked beautiful. At least Zeno seemed to be able to calm down before the royal party, even the empire found itself.
Suddenly an almost old man walked into this room that Zeno was in, his face filled with a bright smile as he looked at Zeno happily, on the sidelines of such expression, the man said, “Did I interrupt your break? I'm sorry if that's true.”
“You seem to be the owner of this house, more precisely father Ania?” Zeno returned the smile of the man.
“It looks like you're familiar with my son. How are you doing?” Said the man while sitting on the chair beside the bed.
“It is an honor to meet you, I really thank you very much for helping me.” Zeno lowered his head, before he continued his words. “At this time I feel good, maybe only my legs are a little sore because of severe injuries.”
“There is no need to say so formally, I am just an ordinary person. You can call me Krum. It's my job to help people.”
Zeno nodded, the words of father and son are not too much different. They like to help people who are in trouble. Zeno was really lucky to meet someone like him.
Krum then let out a long sigh, he stared at the wall of the room very lazily. “Do you hear, lately there is a boy named Zen who is said to be a member of Rungdaf roaming in this kingdom. I was so scared when he made such a big mess.” Her speech.
Zeno gulped violently, fortunately Krum really did not know that he was Zen. Now Zeno must try to be ordinary so that Krum does not suspect, however Zeno does not want the person in front of him to feel fear and regret after helping Zeno.
“You know sir? I thought that Zen was not a member of Rungdaf, and that was just a false accusation. Was it after the news spread, even before the news spread there were casualties caused by Zen? I don't think so.” Zeno gave his opinion.
After Zeno spoke, Krum looked seriously at Zeno with a frown. Then he said, “Is that so, we don't know the true intentions of Zen. Or maybe, you are the Zen.”
Zeno pretended to be surprised as he frowned, putting on as much a face as he could which he knew nothing about. It makes Krum a little believe that the person in front of him is not the Zen sought.
“I'm sorry, I didn't mean to accuse you.” Krum laughed amusedly.
“Alright, you can rest.” The bridge as he left Zeno.