Zeeta and the Wizarding World
Contrition
After landing a crazy damage blow on Jewel that sent her bouncing so far away, Zeeta just fell down with a gasping breath along with Catastrophe Seal who turned back into a ring on her finger. "The rest ... I leave it to you ... Uncle Hugo...."
The Volten Sisters were shocked to hear his words. Their Hugo elder ... was involved...? Why don't they know about this?
Meanwhile, the person called Zeeta, who was still in Grandtopia, unbeknownst to the inhabitants including Reina, he went into one of the trees there as if he had simply penetrated through it. He then went out into the Great Magic Forest from the Chronos tree, after which he entered another tree.
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"Zeeta..," said Klutzie, looking at the owner of the name, "you are truly an elusive girl, but at the same time you are simple...."
"That child..," Inner Azure, "actually she wants to show off her growing madness to me, isn't it, so that I'm convinced she can win against Lucy...?
"His mana use is much better than it was six and a half years ago. Not only did he use mana of nature, he also used his own mana. He continued to do that alternately to balance the power he used while wearing the Runes.
"Obviously he's at a thin point where it's like this if he uses 90 percent of his mana for that one punch. He wants the creature dead or what?
"But .. after all this time I've been with Lucy, Zee.... I'm afraid that runes aren't enough. He was indeed unable to fight Rune, but he had a move to overcome it. I myself do not know what it is, but he was never at all afraid, daunted, or hesitant once he knew you could wear runes....
"She's just. relaxed and happy."
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The bouncing jewel, soaring high in the sky in an unconscious state. His blood-stained body seemed to worsen his appearance. Shortly after, grew a tall root that stood a man on top of it. A straight-necked, purple-eyed black-haired man. He is Hugo.
Hugo slowed Jewel's pental rate with magic. After which, he caught her by carrying her. "The boy made his soul survive, but his body was impossible to save.... I'm guessing he's capable, but I never thought it could be this perfect." Hugo muttered to himself. He then went down with his roots to the ground, creating a semicircular space with no door from him. In it, it was not dark that enveloped, but a blue toska-colored space that seemed endless. Hugo then focused his gaze onto his right hand while trying to pull something from Jewel's body with his five fingers.
Something white-transparent was really drawn into Hugo's grasp, and then he put what he pulled into the ground. Slowly but surely, Jewel materialized with the same shape. He looked at his own body, and once again felt surprised. What the hell is going on? He was completely absentminded about these few dozen minutes.
"I'll see you later, Miss Jewel." Hugo smiled.
Hearing a voice she did not know, but her name was called, made Jewel look at the source of the sound. He was soon wide-eyed which was soon followed by tears.
"I...is that you...my brother Hugo...?"
"Yes, it's me, Hugo, Miss Jewel." Unable to stem his feelings, Hugo also shed his tears.
Jewel immediately approached Hugo to hold him, however....
"Eh...?"
His hand was translucent, passing through Hugo's body.
"I'm sorry if our reunion ends like this, but we have no other choice....
"Sister Jewel, now you're just a disembodied soul. We're in a dimension that prevents the Flakkas from taking you for a few minutes.
"Therefore, I want you to listen to me before we...."
Hugo was unable to finish his sentence well.
Jewel was astonished, but he looked resigned accompanied by a smile that was painted on his lips. "I see.... I don't know what you're talking about, but I know I'm dead, and we don't have time.
"But Hugo, please, at least tell me.
"Why can I go back to this world?"
Hugo seemed to clench his hands tightly. "That's because....
"You've been forced to reincarnate by someone."
"Forced...?"
"Do you remember Maisie the Dryad?" ask Hugo.
"Yes. I remember."
"Since then, thanks to him, I have had his abilities as a Dryad.
"A Dryad was in charge of watching the forest. Forests are the source of life. How Dryad was able to do his job, was to see what happened through the Chronos tree, and then they could take the necessary action on the troubled forests.
"What makes Dryad different from me, I can only see a small part of the vision of the Chronos tree. I can't really act if I don't know what's going on in its entirety.
"With that ability, eighteen years ago, I was given a vision by the Chronos tree that a human being was doing something that I thought was a ritual. The ritual was supposedly performed to summon, coerce, or transform the soul into a desired being.
"For example, the soul of a magical being that has been killed, is transformed into a Hollow, or another being.
"With her Runes, she said she saw the person who forced the two magical creatures into a Hollow and that person controlling them."
"So...," Jewel replied, "have I been in her hands all this time...?"
"I'm not sure. Seems not. Because, as Zeeta said, with your hatred of humans, especially if you are controlled by that person, then he will definitely use your hatred to act more cruelly than you have done."
"Oh, yeah...." Jewel looked at her hand. "I've smeared this hand with a lot of innocent blood...."
Hugo was silent. He was surprised by the tears that suddenly fell again from Jewel.
"Sorry, yes, Hugo. Especially now that I've done something that can't be fixed.... You must be disappointed to have a big brother like me, right...?
"Sorry, yes, Hugo...."
"Don't say that!" snapped Hugo, making Jewel look up. He was surprised to see his sister. He cried like a flowing river.
"I have done cruel things too!
"I also kill!
"I am guilty too!
"Therefore I am now a Dark Elf who is hated, feared, and shunned by many races in this world!
"I did everything to avenge what they did!
"But after I left none of those involved at the time, I realized.... Their deaths won't bring you or Lucy's sister back!
"I should have done something to protect Lucy, but .. but....
"Hiks...!"
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"I'm the one who's useless, brother! Even mom does what we do!
"And....
"When he knew I was alive....
"When I can do something and not just cower in fear...."
Hugo fell down. The ground was moistened by her tears that never stopped. "I...!"
'COLLAPSE!'
Hugo hit the ground with both hands.
"I don't want us all to end up like this!
"Well me, you, and mom, we're all engulfed in hatred! I want ....
"I want to see you smile, without thinking about a single thing in our past, but I can't make it happen and I'm too late!
"I'm the useless one here!"
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"Life is a sacred thing. It can't be seen as black and white, Hugo."
Hugo's wide-eyed. He knows this voice.
"A... A.." - A...." Jewel was also unable to get his words out.
"Your life after that dark time.your laughter, tears, and anger after that time also means you live for me, Lucy, and Jewel.
"Thank God that you're alive, because I, as your mother, am so grateful you're alive!"