Zeeta and the Wizarding World
Terrified
“SIAL!” Olav's voice rang out to the outside of the palace treatment room. “Who exactly is the one who attacked my hand...?!” He looked at the back of his hand wrapped in bandages that were reddened by his blood.
“Ara-ara...” A woman's voice emerged from outside the treatment room.
“This voice...? My sister Corynna?!”
“Ping pong! Exactly right!” a noble girl in a luxurious dress in black and white, ponytail-style hair, as well as holding a hand fan in her right hand appeared before Olav.
“Khh!” Olav bluffs his teeth at his arrival. “Do you want to come here?!”
The evil grin is engraved on the girl named Corynna. “I can tell you who the identity of your actor is, but ... the payment is not cheap, you know, Kakanda..”.
“Cih.... What do you want?!”
“All your slaves.”
“A-what?!”
“Is that old ear deaf? I said, all your slaves!”
Teeth snapping Olav's tightening. “DON'T JOKE!”
The fan held by Corynna, which had previously opened, closed. “Are you sure, Kakanda? Soon the father would die old and the throne would soon be passed on to Rudolph's older brother, as Crown Prince.
“Theoprix's sister, Pyggrez's father, and Sephiroth's older brother?
“Before, you have also agreed with me to do whatever I ask, that you may ascend to the throne, and I have proved it by giving you much support... although everything turned bad because of your own behavior.”
“Cih..!” Olav can't dodge. Everything his younger brother said was a fact.
“Decide, Kakanda. Release those slaves, or info—“
“Go! I can find it myself.”
Corynna opened her hand fan again, then covered half her face with it. “So so. Alright if that's your wish.” He then moved from there, while closing their meeting with his words, “If you survive, you will learn. If not, it will be good for my own benefit. Fight, Kakanda.”
“What...? What does that mean...?!” muttered Olav with his angry face.
“If my brothers and my father find the death of Olav's elder brother, then I can use that murderer to finish them off.
“Ohohohoho...!”
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Tellaura and Hilma who together bring Clarissa managed to return to the residence of the assassin. Hilma's mother, who did not expect Hilma to go so far as to save Tellaura, wanted to nag her son, but she dimmed when she saw Clarissa's condition. He immediately treated Clarissa with her herbs.
After she finished, Hilma, Hilma's mother, and Tellaura sat down together, and talked about what was really going on, also asking Hilma directly why she was so fixated on Tellaura.
“Another thing besides killing..., is it..?” Hilma's mother smiled slightly hearing him. “I told you, you don't have to live the same life as Mom.”
“But,” replied Hilma, “in this way, I so know the world that I see.”
“You know what the risk is when you decide to do this all, ‘kan?”
Tellaura looked at Hilma's suddenly moody face. “I know.”
“Eh..?” Tellaura confusion. “A-can I know what that means..?”.
Hilma's mother smiled. “Nothing, just leave this world forever.”
“I-it means...!” Tellaura gasps. However, he felt something strange. When he was saved by Hilma when he was about to be shot by an arrow by Olav, he saw a pile of corpses and blood running through it. The only person who could do it was Hilma. “But ... those royal guys aren't that great, ‘kan? After all, he could injure that Olav so easily!”
“Injury Olav?” Hilma's mother was captivated by those words. “Haaah~ is my teaching to you too soft, Hilma?”
“A-what do you mean...?” Hilma wondered, “Mother is my best mother, so this is just sala—“
“No. You can't regret what you did, but you have to take responsibility. I, as your parents, also have to take responsibility. For while your sister is safe here, you two come with me.”
Hilma's mother opened the door to the basement located under a pile of firewood. “Since when here is there a door..?” ask Hilma.
“Since before you were born,” replied Hilma's mother briefly. Before entering, he lit a candle on a brass plate first.
They entered the door that connected them to a passageway. The hallway has only one branch, which is a space that must be illuminated with candles located on the walls of space.
The two children saw piles and rows of thick, dusty books and spider webs.
“So many years I have never visited this place, so just understand the place is dirty like this.” Hilma's mother took out a thick book with a black cover and a golden yellow fringe.
“What is this?” ask Hilma.
“Legenda.”
“Legenda?”
“My reason for always preventing you from dealing with the royal families is .. One of them must have had a relationship with one of these creatures. We, who usually only kill humans, can't do anything in front of them.”
“Come Ma'am, this is just a legend, there is no way those nobles—“
“You already know about your father, don't you? That's the guy who told me this. You think, an ex-servant who is now a hit man, could have a lot of money to buy this many books?”
“Lantas... Why did you kill Dad? Don't tell me your reasons for the good of the world again.!” Hilma clenched her hands.
“Indeed for the good of the world.
“Your father is a baron who has unlimited curiosity. He had a dream to reveal the truth of the world.
“The person... Master Ferdinand wanted to know why the palace was shaped like that. Master Ferdinand wanted to know why there were rivers and valleys that, when mapped, resembled enormous footsteps?
“He also wanted to know ... why is there a former human life in the depths of the Forbidden Forest of Tir Na Nog not so far from this kingdom?
“And all these books ... are the result of his knowledge.”
“Then...? Why..?”
Mother Hilma's previously smiling face told all that, immediately turning ferocious. “This is all because of the royal nobility! They didn't like anyone other than them knowing those secrets!
“Mr Ferdinand wants me to take care of all this knowledge, so that later all his efforts can be passed down to the next generation. He believed that this could help to awaken man, that in essence, we are just arrogant, arrogant, and malevolent helpless beings, who can be obliterated at any time by them!
“This knowledge will be useful for humans to survive the threats of those creatures.
“And for the good of the world ... Master Ferdinand wants me to kill him.
“He did not want his life to be snatched away by others who did not even think of his own people..”.
“But... why should the solution kill? Is there no other way but to kill, and to keep killing?!”
“If we could, we wouldn't do this, my dear Hilma. The situation and condition of adults, always more difficult and unfair. Lord Ferdinand's opponent was the royal lord. Impossible.”
“Mother said the one who taught you how to kill and cure is my father, ‘kan? Why ... why don't you two help each other to live together?!”
Tellaura could see how trembling Hilma was now. He lowered his eyes, to cover his cries. That's how he thinks it is.
Hilma's mother stroked the child's head gently. “You will understand how fragile man is when he finally understands what love is.
“Whatever you feel to your mother now, be it hate, anger, not accept, I won't mind. But promise me, Hilma. Even though you'll forget this promise later, but promise me.
“Please promise not to live on a single fulcrum, but live on a multitude of pedestals that can defy you whenever you are about to collapse. That way, you won't end up like your mom or dad.”
Just now Hilma wanted to digest well what the meaning of her mother's words, Hilma's mother immediately faced seriously—which immediately tense the atmosphere. “They have arrived. So fast...!”
“Who? Who's coming?” ask Tellaura.
“Come, hurry back. Your sister is in danger!” Hilma's mother immediately ran quickly up, trailed by Tellaura and Hilma.
“Mother is great. From this distance, he could hear their footsteps.!” inner Hilma.
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When they got to the top, Tellaura immediately stood up to her sister, while Hilma and Hilma's mother went to protect her.
Then, the door opened easily. Without being knocked, without being tampered with, or without being tapped.
A tall man cloaked in a black coat with long black hair dangled until his feet came. Hilma's mother was wide-eyed, her face slowly becoming frightened. Seeing him, of course made Hilma confused.
“I-Mother... what happened..?”.
“Goodnight, Matilda,” greet the man. His red-eye gaze was as if a wolf was hungry for prey that he could pounce on easily.
“Tu... Mr Sephiroth...?!” Hilma's mother trembled.
“See there are two little kids behind you. How fortuitous.
“You know? My sister Olav has been so noisy since yesterday. So noisy, the kingdom became in an uproar because the news about him kidnapping a small child, then the palace suffered an attack that killed dozens of palace guards.
“You know, ‘kan, what do I dislike the most in this world?”
Hilma's mother did not stop trembling. Even his breathing became chaotic. Therefore, he became unable to answer the question of the man named Sephiroth.
“Matilda? Did you hear me? I asked you.”
“A-I know what you don't like most ... Lord Sephiroth.
“I-it is noise and.. people who interfere...”.
Sephiroth grinned, his red eyes as if glowing. “It's true...”