Zeeta and the Wizarding World
A Heart of Steel Not Everyone Has
[Today, when King Eizen and Prince Klutzie were talking in front of Vanadust.]
"That day, I was confronted by my worst nightmare." Speech after speech that his father threw, heard and witnessed carefully by Klutzie. "The sun has just dawned, the birds are beginning to chirp with their melodious humming, as well as the boisterous boisterousness of my people who are eager to start their daily lives, everything was instantly chaotic as the giant wolf growled with its sharp teeth.
"My kingdom that had absolutely no readiness, immediately panicked and scattered like ants whose houses were destroyed. Angry, sad, confused, all the cries of emotion I could hear up out the royal wall.
"We are just a small kingdom whose life is almost always dependent on nature. Our soldiers are only a few and they do not have magic equipment like other kingdoms have. Despite this, they fought back, fought back, and continued to fight.
"Pun with me and Maaya. We use every means we can, both persuasively and coercively. However, as if intentionally covering his ears tightly, Barghest still destroyed the Gala.
"The only question I asked at that time was .. why when he destroyed anything that stood in his way, when my people wanted to be oppressed, he immediately saved him.
"As if .. the purpose of destroying is only our building. My father—The Twenty-Ninth King also thought so."
"Then...." Klutzie stared at the direction where Gala had previously stood firmly. "How did you survive?"
With a thinly-described smile, Eizen replied, "The two of us cannot clean beyond reason as Scarlet had done before to those present at the tea party, so that we could only evacuate everyone to the nearby forest and watch until Barghest finished leveling our kingdom with the ground."
"What about the response of the people afterwards? They must have thrown all their emotions at the king of Barghest and you as nobles, right?"
"We all didn't expect it."
"Eh? What's going on?"
......................
[Fourty-two years ago.]
The morning sky that had illuminated the Earth, was suddenly darkened by something falling in the sky. It does not descend or ascend to Earth, but it is straight towards one point of—Barghest. It also shines scarlet red. The glare from it refracted the light from the sun so that it dimmed the sky, resembling the sky when the eclipse arrived.
"Scarlet...?" mumbling Maaya who looked up, amidst the crowd of Gala people who were worried.
When the scarlet-red longitudinal beam reached its destination, the explosion greeted it, then passed on by scattering of dust, gravel, and the raining remains of the building. Afterwards, screams that sounded very sad and sad, heard those who were taking shelter behind the forest.
"WHYA....?!"
They all watched it. How the much-hated giant wolf, who had been focusing on what he was doing for an hour, suddenly stopped and was shocked to see the screaming figure. He was stuck, as if his activities were no longer important. The silence of everyone there, including children, could filter out what the voice was shouting at.
"Why ... Why are you doing this, Barghest...?
"What have you been talking about with that jerk that made you do something this cruel?! Those who have lost their homes, the memories that are present in their memories of this kingdom, have already been taken away with that hand!
"What is the fact that I love you for who you are, even if you are cursed it is not enough for you to accept yourself?
"Is everything we've been through ... just your nonsense?!"
A moment's growl from Barghest, before his eyes showed that he had made up his mind.
'BWHAK!'
With the back of his left claw, Barghest threw Scarlet deep into the depths of the forest. After that, Barghest howled before finally leaving to stay away from them.
Scarlet becomes a spectacle for the citizens shortly before they finally help along with Maaya and Eizen. They could all see Scarlet's condition at that moment. Scratches of wounds all over her body, sweat and blood washed over her, but the girl still raised her right hand, as if to grab something, saying, "Don't leave my side ... The bar.. ghest...." In the end, Scarlet lost her consciousness. They had no idea if this girl had just defeated a monstrous figure called a Hollow.
Not done there, they all who were behind the forest, changed the direction of their eyes in one place— behind Maaya and Eizen was— which they were trying to help Scarlet.
"Oeveryone, what a beautiful day to show your folly, no, Gala people." L'arc arrived with a smile.
"You...!" Eizen immediately punched the victim who he had long wanted to eat it.
'POW!!!'
The impact of his punch did indeed blow the wind, however....
"A good blow" said L'arc, "but it's useless if it doesn't happen." He said it with his smile that irritated people. He held back the right hand that Eizen used to punch.
"What have you done to Barghest, L'arc?!" ask Eizen.
"What have I done...?
"No-no.
"What have YOU guys done, hmm?"
"What do you want to say?! Enough with your baseless babble and confess that you're the—"
Feeling overwhelmed by L'arc's strength, Eizen forcibly pulled his hand.
"Do you disagree with me, oh Gala people who already know who I am?"
People stared at the hateful man who had just created his own stage.
"For all this time your duty is to obey the scourges of the ancestors—tayatikan promise, obey the oath, trust Yggdrasil.
"But, I know .. if you are deep down, you realize that even today's events must have something to do with Yggdrasil.
"How not, you must be confused .. why are none of you wretched? Why does the wolf that suddenly appeared in the morning want only your building?
"Don't you hear the girl's scream? The person he loves is cursed, such a form, you know who cursed him, right?!"
Excluding the children, the people of Gala put on the face that L'arc expected.
"Impossible...." Eizen did not believe everything he saw.
"Oh, King, why have you been quiet since then while I've been chattering? Didn't you keep 'condemning' my presence in your midst?
"Tell me, you're—"
'TWALLET!!'
No one guessed by the actions Maaya took.
"Shut your mouth, you son of a bitch. Whatever the purpose behind your words is, I don't care. But you made my first friend, Scarlet, cry and her heart was badly hurt.
"I know I lost strongly to you and I definitely wouldn't budge against you. Just know this.
"ME, MAAYAFORD SOUTHERN FLARE XXVII!
"It swore that neither I nor Barghest felt at all harmed by Yggdrasil's curse!
"It's true that we grew up having a hard time with curses that always looked one eye, but it was because of these curses, that made me and him meet powerful people like Scarlet and Ashley!
"I also met this weird guy named Eizen.
"If this curse cannot be made an ally, neither I nor Barghest will appear in front of your nose!
"Now, get out of front of us, I don't care if you want to concoct another plan for us or hope that everything will be as you wish, but keep this in mind, L'arc.
"Although Humans can fall, they can definitely get back up. Same with me, Barghest, or even Scarlet."
"Hehe...." L'arc. "Hehe hahahaha! Whatever my purpose, yes....
"Then, Maaya, I am impressed by your courage, but since you have challenged me, I will definitely return. Listen to me, Eizen? Whatever you're gonna try to do, he's not gonna make it. Whatever my goal is, you won't care, will you?
"Haha. Alright alright. I think playing it's enough up here. You guys heard that, too, right? If that time is really present, I won't stop even if you beg."
Thus, L'arc disappeared from there. Despite raising questions with his final speech, Maaya once again grabbed the stage.
"All right!" the golden-haired girl left her waist and presented her wide smile. "How about we all take shelter in the Southern Flare, have breakfast, clean ourselves, and then talk about the future?"
......................
"Ja .. so I mean Ayahanda.... Mother's disease at that time, because of L'arc...?!" ask Klutzie.
"It can be."
"Could be? Why not be sure?!"
"For he and I have not seen her since. It's possible that your mother's illness was due to her curse, I don't know.
"But, remember Klutzie.
"Your mother's death was not due to illness, but—"
"Yes...." Klutzie clutched his hands together. "I knew. There's no way I'm forgetting it.
"Because of this story all .. I came to know what I wanted to do with my current role."