Royal Secret Commissioner
Chapter 2
Coincidental Savoir Part 2
Sometime the same night the traveler lay there, in an abandoned temple. A voice from the shadows asked.
"You called?"
The traveler answered.
"Tomorrow we will begin. There's no need to wait any longer."
"I understand."
"Also, let everyone know not to do anything until I say so."
"I understand." And with that the voice from the shadows disappeared into the night.
The traveler mused and fell asleep.
"I can't wait for tomorrow. I wonder what her face will look like."
As the sun rose up in the sky the door to the abandoned temple flew open revealing the small girl, Luca, eyes filled with tears.
"Traveler! Traveler!"
The traveler stirred up and was awoken from her sleep.
"What is it? What's wrong?"
"My… my… my mom is getting executed today! Please help her!"
"Is that true?!" The traveler said with an shocked expression.
"Yes! They said that they were going to execute her this afternoon!" The child started sobbing uncontrollably.
"What should I do?! Why isn't anyone from the Council of Garderobe here yet?! Where's a Pillar whe you need one?!"
The traveler smiled.
"Don't giveup until the end. Your mother is alive. Even if the Council of Garderobedoesn't exist or doesn't send anyone here as long as you don't giveup there's still hope. Let's go save your mom."
"HUH?!"
"Huh what? I said 'lets go save your mom'."
The child smiled a sad smile.
"Thanks traveler but that's impossible to do with just us."
"Why?"
"The governor is a magician. She uses all kinds of strong spells."
The traveler smiled once again and winked.
"Don't worry we just need the courage to try and we'll be able to do it!"
The child stared at the traveler but after awhile spoke.
"Yeah! I guess you're right let's go!"
The voice of a guy from the shadows appeared before Kruger again.
"So is the rumor about the Council of Garderobe true?"
"Yes we checked everyone out and the rumor about the appearance in the north was false as well. Actually the very existence of the Council of Garderobe is very unlikely too."
"We know."
Kruger stared wide eyed at the owner of the voice.
"What?!"
"We've know from the beginning. That's why we're holding the execution today."
"You made me do all that work for nothing?!"
"It was the governor's idea. To let the people have hope then show them that the Council of Garderobe doesn't exist, the greater the hope the bigger the disappointment."
"Ah! Great idea!"
"Now go and prepare for the governor and the execution."
"Yeah!"
With that Kruger left and did as she was told.
"Make way! The governor is here! Stand back!" The guards said pushing everyone away from the carriage.
The people whispered among themselves.
"The governor is back! What are we going to do?"
Finally The traveler thought.
"Let's go to the execution."
At the execution the crowd of people gathered around the stage. The owner of the voice that talked to Kruger started his speech.
"Everyone we are here today to witness the execution of a woman who refused to pay the taxes even though the government is in great need for it due to the fact that we are trying to help the citizens with the money."
The said woman was pulled in by chains by guards. At the sight of her mother Luca could no longer stand it and ran toward the woman.
"MOM!" As the kid tried desperately to fight back, it was no use, but then, from the crowd the traveler made her way though and toward the stage.
"Who are you?!" The guards questioned and threw Luca to the ground.
The traveler helped Luca up and spoke to her.
"Didn't I tell you not to give up until the end? You've tried hard, I am impressed."
Once again the other citizens whispered among each other.
"Who is she?"
"What is she doing?"
"Wait look at her. Maybe she is…"
The whispering stopped as the voice of Kruger rang throughout the area.
"Ah! There you are!"
The traveler turned back to see the sight of Kruger kneeling below her.
"Forgive my rudeness the other day. I was surprised when you gave me your family heirloom. Here it is I shall return it to you."
Luca spoke everyone's thoughts.
"What is Kruger doing?"
Ignoring the kid Kruger continued.
"When I saw the design on it I thought I was it somewhere before but I didn't realize that it was our palace symbol. Welcome back from your journey governor."
Shocked and trembling Luca dared to speak.
"What?! What does that mean?! It can't be true right?! You're not the governor, right?!"
The one that was addressed to turned around to reveal an evil smile that sent shivers though everyone's bodies.
"I told you didn't I to not give up until the end? This way you can die totally hopeless." With that said the governor's clothes erupted into black flames and what was left was the governor's true form. A demon-like form with cat-red eyes, claws instead of nails, and in the place of hair there were thousands of snakes wiggling and moving as if they all had a mind of their own.
"Sorry kid, I'm not a member of that Council of Garderobeor a Pillar. I am the magician you spoke of, the governor of this city. In order to giveyou the hope you desired and despair when you discover the truth, I set everything up. Look at everyone now, the looks on their faces and the desperateness in their eyes are priceless! This is how you rule people. Continue with the execution!"
With that said the guard did as the governor commanded. The executioner raised the blade up high and brought the blade down.
"MOM!!"
However the blade came to a halt because of Kruger's laughing.
"Ha ha ha! She can't even speak now because of all that has happened to her. Do you still have hope now?"
Luca was furious and spited on Kruger's face but instead of hitting her Kruger just wiped off the spit and resumed talking.
"Oi oi calm down I was just asking to see if a human that's about to die is stupid enough to believe in miracles."
Sadly Luca admitted.
"No there's no such hope in the world. Everything is alike, hope, courage; all of it is a lie."
"That's good. Because everything that's about to happened is just a coincidence, don't think anything like this is going to happen again." As Kruger said this the executioner took it was his cue and brought the blade down.
BANG!
"Huh?" Luca said absolutely shocked and confused.
The blade was once again stopped by Kruger but this time the blade was in pieces because of the bullet that Kruger fired from her silver gun with a design of a blue wolf on it.
"After a few years of working as a member of the Council of Garderobe I figured out that to catch the corrupted governments at work I would have to be more cunning then them, so here I am."
The governor laughed.
"So what? Suppose that you really are a member of the Council of Garderobe, what can or will you do?"
"Hummmm… I wonder what I should do. I mean there's an ugly governor who stooped so low to the point of making a contract with a demon for power right in front of me. Oh! I know! Kill her!" Kruger ended with a smirk.
That angered that governor.
"Kill her!"
The governor commanded and all of the guards rushed to do so but was stopped by a wall of pure white ice.
"Oi oi don't you think that's kinda rude? I mean I am a member of the Council of Garderobe and I am a Pillar."
"What?!" The governor said obviously shocked.
"Impossible! There's no way! Who are you?!" The governor demanded.
"What? Are you deaf? I said I'm a member of the Council of Garderobe and I'm a Pillar. Oh! You mean my title! Sorry I forgot! I am the Silver Ice Crystal Pillar, Kuga Natsuki. Pleased to met you, oh great governor of this town."
Natsuki said the last part with obvious sarcasm.
"The… the.. THE Kuga Natsuki?! THAT Pillar?! The one that was said to have destroyed a whole army single handedly?!" One of the guards said.
Natsuki scratched her head blushing a little.
"Well I guess you've heard but rumors aren't exactly always filled with truth, right?"
By that time the governor was enraged.
"How dare you make a fool out of me!?" The governor said and used her powers she gained from her contract with a lesser demon to attack Natsuki.
"Duran." Was all Natsuki had to say and a huge silver and blue metallic wolf appeared out of nowhere and flung the governor right into the ground.
The governor got up and said in a voice that was apparently trying to anger the Pillar.
"So that's the infamous child Duran. I'm surprised it's that small. I mean I thought the rumor about how strong a Pillar felt for their most important person fueled the strength of their Child. Oh! I guess the rumor about how you lost your most important person was true then and that she died…" The governor was cut off by Duran.
"Duran annihilate." Natsuki said and that was the last thing that the governor ever heard.
