The person forcefully turned X’s physique round. X smiled, his mouth was crimson with blood.

Watching the grotesque scene, I had a premonition that X was going to vanish, so I known as him out urgently.

“Hey!”

X turned to face me as I known as out. I bought a glance from him that mentioned, “If you wish to say one thing, simply say it.”

I might inform he didn’t need to be in the identical room with this man for one more second, so I shortly requested him.

“Have you learnt Tia Blue?”

X’s expression loosened on the point out of Tia Bluea.

He staggered to his ft and approached me, cautiously reaching out his hand. Rex brushed his hand away as I flinched.

“Oh, I’ve was fairly a comic book sight.”

X stared at his hand in disbelief as Rex swatted it away, after which he set free a puff of laughter. It was his signature gleeful chortle.

He was struck like that, and he nonetheless laughed? I wasn’t certain if it was as a result of he had been hit too arduous, if it was a provocation, or if he had merely regained his true self once more.

“To be humiliated like this by such a child.”

Regardless of the ‘humiliation’ as he known as it, there was no displeasure in X’s gaze as he checked out Rex.

As an alternative, it appeared as if he was gazing at one thing he desired to own. Now I wished to swat his hand away.

After briefly taking a look at Rex like that, X opened his blood-stained lips.

“You’ll discover out quickly.”

In fact, I’ll discover out! What use is it to inform me one thing that I already know? Nonetheless, X disappeared, leaving solely these phrases behind.

The drawing room the place X left was now full of silence. The person exhaled closely.

“So many obstacles…”

He uttered a tiny curse as he mentioned it. He then collapsed again onto the couch.

Then, as if his head have been throbbing, he pressed firmly in opposition to his brow. Rex knocked on the door as he watched him.

“What’s the matter?”

The knight opened the door immediately after ready exterior.

Rex requested softly, “Oh, might you make tea for us?”

Simply because the knight was about to shut the door, saying he would carry it immediately, Rex grabbed the door and requested once more.

“Did you hear something?”

“By no means. And it hasn’t been lengthy because you two entered the room…”

I used to be puzzled by the knight’s phrases. X appeared, Baron Bruno out of the blue collapsed, an unknown man appeared and fought with X, X was defeated, after which he disappeared. How might that be not a very long time?

“Oh, effectively, I’d like 4 cups of tea, please.”

“4 cups……? Is there anybody else right here apart from Baron Bruno?”

This time, the knight checked out us in surprise. Rex smiled.

“Sure, please.”

As Rex and I carried Baron Bruno to the sofa, the knight served tea.

The unidentified man was staring on the ceiling, in distinction to Baron Bruno, who was bowing his head, because the knight was about to go away after setting the tea. He queried.

“You don’t occur to be in any bother, do you?”

“Oh, not proper now.”

We was once, however that’s now not the case.

“Properly, if something occurs, please name me.”

The knight suggested me.

One thing has already occurred, however you weren’t conscious of it exterior. However to reassure the Knights, I nodded kindly.

The knight’s gaze, staring on the unfamiliar man, was full of suspicion.

“By the way in which, that is…….”

“Oh, he’s..”

What am I alleged to say?

“I’m with him.”

I used to be unable to reply to the knight’s query relating to the person. The person then beckoned Baron Bruno and replied that he was with him.

The knight’s eyes remained suspicious, however seeing Rex and me sitting comfortably, he cautiously left, believing the person wasn’t a harmful individual.

The person used a teaspoon to softly stir brown sugar into his tea. I took a second to admire the poised habits earlier than asking with warning.

“By the way in which, who’re you?”

“You understand me.”

No, I do know you? Rex checked out me with a face asking if I actually knew that individual. I simply shrugged my shoulders. I apologize, however I don’t know who he’s. The person ingesting tea mentioned, as if noticing my confused state.

“Properly, for now you’ll be able to name me Y.”

X, and now Y.

Is he actually Y? Rex rolled his eyes and appeared to not get the joke.

I sighed. I pronounced the query as if I have been chewing the letters one after the other.

“Who’re you?”

“Properly, let’s return to the Fort of Conler for now. There’s in all probability excellent news ready.”

‘Properly, there may very well be some unhealthy information as effectively.’

Nonetheless not answering my query, the person stood up and checked out me and Rex with an expression asking why we weren’t getting up.

I don’t know what excellent news and unhealthy information the person is speaking about, however…….

“He hasn’t gotten up but…”

I cautiously raised my finger to the Baron Bruno, who was nonetheless asleep. The person sat again down, showing to understand. What precisely is the excellent news that this man is referring to?

“What’s the excellent news?”

“You heard it earlier.”

The person replied sourly. What did I simply hear? I heard the agonizing scream of X.

I remembered the person grabbing X like a mouse and demanding that him to interrupt the curse, so perhaps the curse was damaged.

“Hmm.”

Simply as I used to be about to ask him about it, Baron Bruno opened his eyes. He regarded across the room for a second as if attempting to verify the place he was, after which he out of the blue stood up, startled.

“What occurred?”

“Oh, X confirmed up.”

“That bastard…”

When he heard that X had appeared, he clenched his tooth as if he had completed greedy the entire scenario.

He in all probability knew X very effectively. I had lots of inquiries to ask, however I supplied him tea first.

***

X was nonetheless in ache. He couldn’t muster sufficient power and barely managed to take refuge in a close-by place.

The person let go of X as quickly as he felt the curse elevate. Maybe he might have actually misplaced his life if he hadn’t lifted the curse.

‘When did he change into so robust?’

The look within the man’s molded eyes was haunting him. Sure, that’s proper. The person at all times appeared like a savior every time Mary wanted him.

He had clearly gained her belief by at all times being there for her. So Mary considered him every time she had a tough time. Figuring out that she was nonetheless excited about him and in search of him should have given him lots of braveness.

It was a easy proven fact that he neglected.

‘I must go and inform him about this.’

His god had been in a reasonably good temper recently. It was as a result of the long-awaited occasion had been way more profitable than anticipated. His energy was additionally progressively rising as increasingly more followers entered the underworld.

All the pieces was becoming collectively properly. Each Duke Bluea and the kid have been doing good, their pursuits aligned like gears.

But when ‘he’ have been to study that he had regained his energy, he would undoubtedly be incensed.

“Nonetheless, he mentioned that if there was an emergency, I might break the curse.”

As a result of the one who had cursed Estin was his brother, his alter ego, this was attainable.

He had the thought that maybe the ’emergency’ his god had in thoughts was that man regaining all of his power.

His God has predicted the worst.

Ultimately, X fell to the bottom exhausted. The intense solar was blinding.

He had exerted himself an excessive amount of to make the barrier. He had no different possibility if he wished to keep away from the Knights of Conler’s eyes and ears.

He was unable to combat him as a result of it took all of his vitality to create a robust barrier.

He wished to.

He may not have totally recovered his power presently. It will be a tiny fraction of the facility he as soon as possessed. Even so, that a lot alone gave him chills.

X wiped his face dry.

He at all times loved it when obstacles appeared whereas working. It was thrilling, even. If every thing was simply resolved, it wouldn’t be attention-grabbing.

However this…impediment was completely different. Arsene had regained a few of his energy.

Truthfully, it was an extremely tiring scenario. His mouth tasted bitter and bitter.