Roxis brought all of them into a room after taking some of the files from his stack room. It was a weird room to all of them, considering the huge cauldron in the end of the room, along with some dirt and explosion trace showed on the wall. But overall, the room was in good order and clean.
Not bad at all, Roxis.
The Mana of Life first commented before any of them had idea what this room was for. Roxis turned to see the teddy bear on Pamela's hand, adjusting the spectacle again. To avoid any shock and unwanted situation to occur, they took a short brief with Roxis, Enna, Et and Nikki so they could catch up beforehand.
"What this place is for, Roxis?" Anna took a look on the files Roxis put on the table, but that's was too much for her to understand.
"This is my workshop…though I have to say, it's barely been use for purpose." Roxis crossed his arm. "As you must have known, I was doing some research on alchemy in past few years, but with the lack of knowledge and information on hand, I and the group of historian ended up empty-handed. I tried to do it myself…however, the result was miserable."
…Not that miserable at all, Roxis. At least this place looks exactly like an atelier. Aeon said a hint of happiness in her voice. She flew out from Pamela's hug and floated around at the workshop. It's just like what I have seen back then.
"Is that so? But it's useless just to have the place looks like atelier." Roxis replied without showing out how he truly felt about it. "The most important is the skills and the knowledge."
…Well, that's true. The knowledge and skills are important to an alchemist. Unfortunately, we don't have those here.
"Eh? But didn't you say they sealed the recipes and the knowledge somewhere in this nation?" Et blurted out. Looks like she hadn't paid real attention to what the mana briefed them earlier.
"…Stupid sister, she did say she don't know where those things were sealed." Enna corrected for her, grumbling along.
Though it was located in the same direction with Ulrika's village, but according to Ulrika, she didn't saw any place like that in her village. So the possibility reduced. And, most importantly, they didn't think things would ever be so coincidence.
"What this huge cauldron for?" Jess asked when she examining the place.
"This cauldron is necessary in the process." He walked near to the cauldron. Everyone followed behind him. "When create an item, the ingredients are put into this cauldron to get them mix and cook. In the process, we take out the unwanted composition or add anything we desire to in it, though the effect is still unknown. Sometimes it will lead to miserable result…like what the room shows you."
Roxis, that's brilliant! You almost get all of them right. But…it's not easy to create an item through alchemy process. Though I hadn't really involved in any alchemy process, but it's was fun just to watch aside. Like a big sister, Aeon floated bear to Roxis and patted his head using her teddy bear's hand. Pamela squeaked on how cute the scene was.
Flipping the files on hand while listening to the explanation of Roxis, Roze had a feeling he heard it somewhere before. Someone did the same explanation to him…but all those, even the voice was fainted. Only one thing he knew was, that that's a man who explained to him.
...can you remember? The next step is putting the Clean Water inside. Wait patiently until the thing dry up, and then the Heal Jar is done.
…sound pretty simple? That's just the beginning. When you know how the ingredients react to each other, by controlling the elements, you will get different result. If you use this on the food, the food will taste differently.
…that's the fun when you're doing alchemy.
"…and then the Heal Jar is done…"
"Hey Jerktown, are you alright?" Beaming down, Ulrika asked with one brow raised. "You're talking to yourself the whole time."
Roze blinked for a moment before truly getting the meaning from her. So he was spacing out, and muttering something out of his realization.
"…N-No, it's nothing." Flustered a bit as he quickly covered up, Roze put down the files. He wasn't reading the content in the file at all.
"…Pardon, did I just hear you spoke of Heal Jar?" With a seriously face, Roxis asked, adding another tense into his voice.
"No, did I?" Roze didn't remember what he had said.
As if unsatisfied with his answer, Roxis' eyes showed another hint of suspicious. He still had his eyes locked on Roze, slowly he leaning against the wall behind, like he was getting a comfortable position to read him, anything from Roze.
He did hear the word 'Heal Jar' from him.
But he didn't seem to remember what he had said the next moment.
Roxis narrowed his eyes. He's not lying, at least that showed on his face. But I'm not mistaken it as well.
"So, we're lack of information and knowledge." Anna concluded. It's obviously from the beginning. "Roxis, is there any research you have done with the history of Al-Revis?"
"…The only clue we got was Al-Revis was an alchemy nation, in basic, and no information showed anything about mana." It might displease the Mana of Life, but he had to tell the truth. "No record how the nation was destroyed, as what from Aeon." Honestly, when he got the information about alchemy, he already threw away other matter behind his head.
Hmph, human…
"It's understandable, I think." A soft and gentle voice broke in. A female voice.
All of them jerked up. In instinct, the fighters unsheathed their weapons respectively.
"You're…" Upon recognized whose voice belonged to, Ulrika stepped out from behind.
"It's been a long time, Ulrika." The raven haired woman smiled, nodding to the baron beside Ulrika. There's another white creature clung on her right arm. "And young baron Rozeluxe."
"Tetri! So you're really Tetri!" Ulrika ran up to her and gave her a hug.
Smiling warmly at the welcoming, Tetri looked to the ghost and the bear on her hand.
"It's has been a very long time to both of you, how are you doing?"
…Yeah, it HAS been such a long time.
"Eh? What your name again? Did I see you somewhere before?" Tilting her head, Pamela shifted her gaze between Aeon and Tetri.
Pamela, our contract was made because of her. She saved you.
"Oh my! I completely forget about it!"
It's not like Tetri expected Pamela would remember her, she simply shrugged it off. "Now, will you all put down your weapons?"
Anna raised her brows, unsure whether or not obliged as told.
"…Roze, you know her?"
"…Sort of." He still pissed with her, to push something to him before even agreeing. But somehow, a part of him told that he would never meet Ulrika without her. He only managed to restrain his anger due to this reason. "She might know something we want to know, consider she knows Aeon and Pamela."
It's absolutely hit every one of them as they lowered their weapons, though still with the suspicious faces. In fact, like what Roze said, this woman knew Pamela and Aeon, and she saved Pamela when she was almost dying. So that's mean…
"You're not human, I assume?" Roxis asked for everyone.
Tetri chuckled. "…Can we talk in a more comfortable place?"
"Nice tea you got here. Roxis…right?" Enjoying the tea on hand, Tetri commented. "Thank you."
On the same table, there were Ulrika, Roze, Anna, Jess and Pamela sitting with Tetri. Nikki, Enna, and Et on the sofa in Roxis's private room. Roxis and Yun stood aside at the corner of the room.
"…Now, may you tell me how you got into my mansion?" Narrowing his eyes, Roxis still doubted the woman. It alerted him of his mansion's guarding status in the state that on one informed him before she was appearing if front of them.
Putting down the cup onto the table, instead of answering the spectacled noble, Tetri looked to the white creature on her arm. "Go if you want, Uryu."
"U-Uh? Y-Yes…" The white creature Uryu nodded shyly. He floated to Ulrika and buried himself into her chest once he got there.
"U-Uryu!?" Taken aback by the creature's action, Ulrika carefully held him so it wouldn't to fall down.
"He seems to like you so much, Ulrika." Settling with Uryu by leaving him to Ulrika, Tetri shifted her gaze back to group. "I can come whenever I want." She smiled at Roxis . "So, back to the topic. You may ask questions in case you have any." Her smile faded as she sat straight. "As for your question earlier, yes, I'm not human. I'm the same as Aeon, Mana of Wood. Uryu is Soul Mana."
"…Wasn't mana no more existed in this world?" Anna asked.
"It's true that mana is no more existed in this world. However, there's still another place…a hometown in your words we're living. We called it Mana Sanctuary." Her expression softened a bit. "Mana Sanctuary is connected to this world through a gate somewhere in this world…of course you'll let me keep it as secret right? We mana were born from there and they're free to enter this world as they like. You might say it's unfair but this is how we're able to keep ourselves alive until now."
"…Aeon, do you know about this Mana Sanctuary?" Pamela whispered softly to Aeon in her embrace.
…No.
Everyone took a glance at Aeon before Tetri continuing. Tetri simply gave her a smile to reassure her.
"Though mana were born in Mana Sanctuary, but for those who born in this world after staying here, the newborn mana were completely lost the knowledge of Mana Sanctuary. And because they're considered as the resident in this world, they're not allowed to step into Mana Sanctuary. So it's understandable why Aeon knows nothing about Mana Sanctuary."
Why? Why you guys didn't do anything when we're getting killed !? If…if you guys tried to stop the human, we might have a chance to survive…I might know what happened that time! Aeon yelled out of her lungs.
"…It's too late by the time we realized what the people were doing. Mana Sanctuary did do their best in trying to prevent the worst from happening. Because of that, one of our highest class mana was scarified. I found you not long after the explosion occurred. Due to the fact I couldn't bring you back to Mana Sanctuary, I made a decision to bind you with a dying soul."
…That's Pamela.
"Yes. In fact, those who were dragged into the explosion were all dead. She was the only one that witnessed the whole things." Pamela's body clearly shook after hearing that. Her face wrapped with shock and disbelief. "Unfortunately, the explosion seemed to cause her memories to fade."
Pamela dropped her head without the way to say anything. It's true her memories were unclear, despite how hard she tried to recall. Sometimes, she would see images flashed through her mind. But before she understood them, the images were gone, leaving her only empty-minded.
Never once she thought she was involved in that explosion. Aeon never told her. I-I was the one to witness the whole things…? What did I saw…?
As she tried to recall, an image of the blonde man they fought before came in mind. The blonde was smiling at her—not the pleasant smile—rather it was a disgusted smile, as if he was foreseen the end of her life.
"Urgh…!" The image faded, leaving her stingy head.
"Pamela!" Anna quickly checked on her.
"Question here, Miss Tetri." Jess raised up her hand. "Back to the Mana Sanctuary…can you tell us more about it?"
"Mana Sanctuary is simply like this world, which is ruled by kings. There were Dark Mana and Light Mana, the top among us. Mana of Light and Mana of Dark were under these two, consider as the highest class mana as well…Soul Mana was below, sort like that, once before."
"…Once before?" Roze questioned back. He didn't miss the part Tetri intentionally left.
"Light Mana was captured under the order of Dark Mana in suspicious of involving into the explosion. He might plan to destroy human." Taking another sip of the tea, Tetri let out a sigh as if it's a terrible memory of her to recall. "However, the worst to all of us now was, the Light Mana was escaped."
A brief moment of silence settled down in the room. Ignoring the awkward, Tetri still leisurely drank the tea on hand.
"WHAT!?"
"Oh oh, this will be fun!"
"That's stupid…"
"Stop being playful, you stupid sister! Do you know how serious thing will be!?"
Their voice raised in every corner of the room. Some were exclaiming, some were complaining, and some were maintained their cool in this.
"Now I get it." Roze rubbed the bridge of his nose. "So the one we fought was the Light Mana, your King."
Smiling bitterly, Tetri dropped her shoulder. "Yeah, that's him."
"Then do something on him!" Anna slammed on the table furiously. So he was the one that caused everything, including the king's death!
"We're still searching for him. He's pretty careful after the last capture, and someone…is helping him."
"Do you mean that 'Vayne'?" Ulrika asked, still holding Uryu in her embrace. "Speaking of which, didn't you witness the whole things of the explosion?"
Chuckling, Tetri refilled her cup with another amount of hot tea. "As I said, Pamela was the one witnessed all the things. I was there too, but I didn't involve until the last minute. I didn't know what happened to Al-Revis before the explosion. One of our mana knew something…but she's dead." When speaking this, Tetri's eyes covered with a shade of darkness and shot Ulrika a glance. "And the Vayne you spoke about…is it the Mana of Wishes?"
"Mana of…Wishes…?"
"The Mana of Wishes was the cause of the explosion."
"It's almost time we should make our next move, right?" 'Vayne' asked the blonde man, Light Mana.
"It's your next move, or mine?" He threw the question back to him. "Whatever, I don't care. No matter how the thing goes, you'll have to do what you agreed with me."
'Vayne' cursed under his breathe, showing the disgusting on face. "…I'll fulfill your wish, as I'm the Mana of Wishes."
Watching the Mana of Wishes left the room, Light Mana raised a smile.
"…You still not yet understand, 'Vayne'." He shook his head. "You're but an empty vessel. You're not the true Mana of Wishes…"
He stood up from the seat, walked to the side to take a cup of water. He had a feeling; soon he would finally achieve what he hoping in these thousand years. If the Mana of Wishes couldn't fulfill his wish, then he would do it himself.
Ulrika and Roze's faces came in mind as he recalling the fight with them.
Never mind…if I can't get that woman as mine, I'll destroy her. I won't let others to get her…not that guy again!
"…Many years ago, mana and human lived peacefully in this land until one day, the rule of human and mana was broke. A baby of human and mana was born. When the baby was born, he extracted all the energy and life from his mother, causing an instant death to the mother. It made a fear in among the mana, and this alerted the Light Mana."
Tetri continued to explain.
"He tried to prevent this from happening, but due to the fact he couldn't bring them back to their supposed hometown, desperate slowly consumed him. Everyday he would get the news of mana died because of giving birth to the child. At the end, anger drove him to crazy. He went to his world and killed all the mana-human children. I think that's when he built the hatred toward human."
I…I never know about this…Even Aeon lost in words.
"You're still a newborn, and it's a long times before the explosion happened." Letting out a sigh, Tetri felt terribly tired on explaining everything. "Before the explosion happened, I heard that the king was preparing some experiment…mind you here, Light Mana had something to do with the experiment."
I saw him when we're locked up inside the crystal…! So that's him…he killed us…? Aeon gasped, realizing what she saw was something terrible. Their king killed them? She could felt Pamela hugged her tighter than she used to be. For a moment, she was glad Pamela was with her in the moment like this.
"Wait, you said Mana of Wishes was the cause of everything…what do you mean?" Anna chased up, throwing the question back to her.
"Like I said, the Mana of Wishes caused the explosion." Tetri looked at her. "Mana of Wishes went berserk. Like every newborn child, his emotion was unstable, most likely that's what caused him lost control."
"Then…what is the relation between Vayne and Mana of Wishes…?" Anna muttered another question. She wouldn't want to believe Vayne was the Mana of Wishes she spoke about. No…that's impossible…! "No way! Vayne…he's grown up with all of us! How suppose he has something to do with that Mana of Wishes!?"
"That's right! We're can prove that!" Nikki stood by Anna together with Jess.
"What? What? Vayne is thousand years zombie!?" Et exclaimed behind, though no one ignored her, it still caused Enna threw her glare. Among all of them, Enna was the only responded to her crazy words.
"Shut up stupid sister…!"
"Wait…they are another Vayne we fought with…right?" Ulrika said, still hugging Uryu in her arm.
"Now you talk about it…" Roze put one of his fingers under his chin, lowering his head into pondering. So there were two Vayne in total? But how could that be? "Will that Vayne is the Mana of Wishes? Maybe he and Vayne just…look the same on their appearance?"
Tetri raised a smile, reopened her eyes after resting for a while. "I understand how you feel. Indeed there are two Vayne, but unfortunately, the Vayne that you fought with is not the true Mana of Wishes. I saw the Mana of Wishes with my two eyes thousand years ago, and he's the same with the boy named Vayne, in fact."
"Vayne is our friend! We grew up with him!" Slamming the table, Anna slowly lost her cool. Ulrika and Pamela jumped up by her rude action. Normally Anna wouldn't do anything like this.
No good…Roze thought, attempting to stop her. However, Tetri was faster than him.
"…It's a little complicated with Mana of Wishes." Tetri let out a sigh, trying to find a way to explain so everyone could understand, as well as not to hurt the Mana of Life in the same time. However, she was not given any choice. Truth was cruel. It would hurt someone if she had to retell what happened in the past. "First of all, Mana of Wishes is Artificial Mana, which it means he was created by the combination of mana energy."
…!
A silence gasp escaped out to the air, revealing a shock and violent truth behind Tetri's words. To think and combined the information they gathered so far, there's only one possibility it would lead.
"…Don't tell me…?" Ulrika covered her mouth. It appeared her voice was shaky.
Anna dropped down on the chair behind. Jess and Nikki threw each other a glance; both found fear inside their eyes. Roxis and Yun remained unmoved, while Et was covering her sister's mouth trying to stop something from his sister, but—
"Do you mean Vayne was created by the killed mana?" She probably was brainless, Roze had to think so. But Et was right in this, and thanks to her, she revealed the truth that no one dare to speak out.
Tetri nodded silently.
"…So, what happened after that?" Gulping, Roze asked.
"Like his name, Mana of Wishes can grant any wish, despite how heartless and violent the wish will be. And the mana…of course he can grant his own wish too." Tetri didn't think the Mana of Wishes caused the explosion in purpose. Like she said, he went berserk. When she was there, everything was too late to stop, and it just happened. "I didn't know what happened to him after that, and the reason he was revived again. But this might be the reason Light Mana escaped from Mana Sanctuary."
When Tetri was explaining, Pamela back down to the corner of the room. Almost half of her face buried inside the teddy bear.
"…What should I do Aeon…?"
…I don't know. About Vayne, I suggest you tell them the truth.
"How suppose I tell them…? Even I don't know if Vayne is…"
I wonder if Tetri knows about this…
"Pamela, what's wrong?" Roxis noticed her unusual. Pamela jerked up, looking terribly shocked.
"No…It's because…!" Stammer was what Pamela got herself into. "I…I…actually…um…"
"…What is it Pamela?" Jess walked near to her having checked on her.
Suddenly, a loud knock on the door distracted the discussion. Pamela secretly glad the timing was just prefect. It drew everyone's attention over from her, so she was safe to tell the truth. She was not yet prepared to tell this to them, especially Anna!
"What happened?" Furrowing his brows, Roxis glared at his rude servant who rushed into the room.
"I-I'm sorry Lord Roxis, but…t-this is serious!" Panting hardly, Roxis could tell something bad was happening. He nodded, letting his servant to continue. "The rumor spread among citizen, that Vayne-sama is not King Bernard's son!"
"Tell me! Who spread this out!?" Lily sat on the throne of her late father, as a representative of royal family since her mother was not available.
The nobles looked to each other, unable to answer this question. Unknown that either the nobles were muted or they're trying to hide something from her, Lily couldn't stand the silence anymore.
She was angry, very very angry. She hated the one that tried to hurt her family after her father gone. She hated the nobles hurt her dear brother in the hardest time. Now even a rumor! How much they wanted to hurt Vayne, hurt them!? Were they deserved this? Was her brother deserved this?
"Now, I said tell me! Don't make me repeat!" Pointing at one of the nobles, Lily tried her best not to let the anger overwhelmed her. "You're not mute, aren't you? Say something already!"
"Err…p-princess, I really had no idea who did this…"
"Yeah princess…we all know how this will affect the nation…"
Pushing from the throne, Lily jerked up. She had enough of this…enough!
"I don't care. Listen here; I'll never forgive those who try to point their fingers on my brother. We all know how this will lead our nation to. Bring the culprit to me, and stop the rumor at once! Understood!?" Though Lily realized it was impossible to stop the rumor when it had spread out to the citizen. This was no small matter, and she couldn't stop by covered others' mouth.
But…but I want to protect him…I wish I can do something for him! Remembering the face she saw in the celebration night, Lily heart's skipped a beat. Why he showed that face? She never saw him like that before…helpless…like he was hiding something from her. Like he was being a different person.
Vayne, the brother she knew was someone dumb but kind in the same time. He was silly but caring. He always smiled, to her, to the servants, to the soldiers and to his every patient.
"Y-Yes princess!"
Watching the nobles left the chamber, Lily sat back on the throne. Snuggling, she began to let out her frustrated. All the anger and hatred turned into tears, melting on her black golden skirt.
"Lily…"
Lily immediately jumped up hearing the voice. Having no time to wipe off the tears, she saw Vayne, her brother behind the curtain. Again, tears broke out, feeling powerless on her capable.
"…I'm sorry brother…!"
Shaking his head, Vayne approached and embraced her.
"This is not your fault…I'm the cause of everything."
"No! Don't think that! I'll stop the rumor!" Not wanting to show her powerless, Lily wiped off the remaining tears on face and pushed herself from Vayne. "Just you wait; I'll make them shut up. I don't care if you're my brother or not. We always together! We'll always be together. You're my brother; no one can break this relationship of us!"
Vayne let out a smile. This was properly the first smile after the celebration night.
"Thank you Lily…you're big girl now." Still filling his voice with bitter, Vayne rubbed Lily's head like he used to do when they're children.
"Ignore them. You have me and mother." Opening her arm, now was her the one embraced him.
"Yeah…thanks you."
"I really don't know anything about this!" Pamela exclaimed, shielding with Aeon in front of her.
"How much do you know about Vayne?" Anna forced again. Though physical attack was not effective on the ghost, the ghost however, having a feeling she would exactly die if the captain decided to pull out her katana.
"L-Like I told you Anna! I really had no idea since when Bernard had a son!" Pamela quickly hid behind Yun when she found Anna stepped back a little.
"Why are you hiding behind me?"
"It will not hurt you right?" Swelling her cheek, she shot Yun a glare, and then shifted back to Anna again. "I did know when Lily was born, but I didn't know anything about Vayne until Bernard introduced Vayne to me. Bernard simply told me Vayne was his son the first time we met. Vayne was only…a little boy that time."
"You didn't ask?" Now it swelled the curiosity. Normally Pamela would ask until she got the answer. Roze crossed his arm, waiting fro her answer.
"…Of course I did. But Bernard told he wanted to give me a surprise so…"
"You believed him, that's it?" Enna teased, grimacing.
"You're mean Enna!"
"…There's a high possibility Vayne is not king's son. I thought thing will calm down after sometimes." Roxis adjusted his spectacle again. Looks like this turned out to be his behavior.
Roze remained silence. Flay already informed him about this, so he was calmer than anyone here.
"Of course he's not the son of the king. He's Mana of Wishes after all." Tetri stood up from the seat, hand rose calling Uryu back to her. It seemed the Soul Mana was unwilling, but at the end, he went back to her too.
It suddenly empty without Uryu on her hand, Ulrika furrowed her brows. "So what should we do?"
"Hey, we need to check on Vayne right?" Nikki said.
"Yeah…I'm worried about him." Jess also commented on her current feeling.
"Then, what about the murderer?" Having the ghost left his back, Yun voiced out his question. They're here to find the culprit, and they're almost there. If they headed back to Land of Renaissance, they might not have the chance to prove Roze again.
Silence filled the room as everyone pondered; only Et spoke something dumb to her brother.
"That's not something difficult. Light Mana must be there as well, and perhaps along with another Vayne." Everyone moved their attention to the raven haired woman behind. Tetri simply tilted her head and smiled.
"Yeah this is it! We can check on Vayne, and capture the murderer at the same time!"
"It's so fun! I want to go too!"
"I know you'll say something like this…" Sighing, Enna face palmed, totally having no idea what to do with his sister. "But well, I'll come too. I'll never hear the end of it if stupid sister disappear."
"Anna, you'll come too, right?" Jess stretched out her hand to Anna, who was still looked dazed and dumb.
Anna looked up to her friends, suddenly having no idea what else to say. Looking at everyone's faces as if they were supporting her, she finally stood up from her seat and getting herself out from the dazed state.
I…I can't remain like this forever. I want to help Vayne…and this is the time he needs us the most…so snap out of it Anna!
"…Yes, of course I'll come." She walked to them. "We need to go back. Only we can stop them if Light Mana and another Vayne are trying to do something. We need to inform Flay about this too."
"Yeah, that's the spirit Anna!"
"You alright with this, Roze?" Yun asked as he approached Roze.
Roze merely shrugged. "I guess. I can always wait. If Light Mana and another Vayne are there too, things will turn out easy for us."
"If you say so…"
"…Hey Jerktown, we'll be alright…right?" Out of the blue, Ulrika asked Roze timidly.
Roze turned back to see the blonde, surprisingly found the blonde was looking rather worried as if something else in her mind.
"Of course."
Tackling her amber colored shirt, Ulrika looked up to Roze for a moment about to say something, but then she forced it back to her throat again. Noticing the unusual of the blonde, Roze raised one of his brows, thinking what's got into her.
"…We almost reach the core of everything, is it?" Again, she raised a smile, like the worries was just an illusion. "Never mind, we'll make it through the end, right?"
There were many things they hadn't find out the truth behind. Ulrika had a feeling they're almost there, to the core of everything. She didn't know whether this would lead them to the good or bad ending, but of course she hoped everything would turn out better.
However, a part of her told her that not everything would be perfect without someone getting hurt in the end. They all knew how strong Light Mana and another Vayne were after that fight.
But she would like to think that everything would work out at the end, and nobody would get hurt. At least she hoped so.
"Please, Mana of Wishes! I beg you…please stop this at once!"
She shouted, trying her best to reach her hand to the crying boy in front of her. However, the strong pressure pushed her away as if the boy was rejecting her.
"Please, stop that! You're a Mana of Wishes right!? Then hear my wish, and snap out of it, you little bastard!" She stamped her feet, exclaiming even louder with a furious mixed in her tone. She cursed her king for dragging her into this. If not because of the one her loved, she would never do this!
"I…I just want to protect him! I want to protect him, only for him!"
Laughing filled the air as the two boys in front lost control. Another boy yelled something to the one kneeling on the ground while covering his ears. Laughing and yelling voices mixed in the air, like a crazy and sadness symphony echoed, along with tears flying around. She thought she must be crazy seeing this with her two eyes.
And then, to her surprise, a familiar voice called her from behind. The voice she missed so much, but not in the time like this.
She did ask Tetri to get all of them out! So why…!?
"No…Roze, don't get near! Run…RUN!"
Since Tetri agreed to come along, Roxis prepared a room for her for a night before they departed. Knocking the room, Roxis was a little embarrassed to visit a female room at late night. But he told himself, that Tetri was not human. She was a mana so it didn't matter.
Opening the door, the one greeted him was the white creature Uryu, not Tetri herself.
"What bring you here, young noble?"
"…There's one thing I need to ask you." Coughing the embarrassment, Roxis only stood at the side of the door. "It's about the alchemy knowledge."
"You mean those sealed files and documents?" Tetri raised a light smile. "Of course I know where they are…they located in the village Ulrika came from, only a little further behind in the deep of the mountain."
"So…is there possible for us to retreat it?"
"Of course…but I wish our secret remain the same…you know what I mean?" Rubbing Uryu's hair with her fingers, Tetri said. "Alchemy indeed is useful for life, but that is what leaded the tragedy happened, when it had been used in wrong method. I don't want that to happen again."
"Likewise." Roxis nodded, crossing his arms. "What's done is done. I only interested in the knowledge of alchemy."
"Fine. I'll help you in retreating the things back…after we settle the problem in front."
"Alright."
"…I hope nothing will get in our way."
She muttered. Uryu slightly raised his head to her. Smiling, Tetri again rubbed his head, assuring him everything would be alright.
A/N: Hello, how are you guys doing? Okay, it's a little confusing in this chapter…even I get confusing when I write it. It's extremely difficult for me what to put and what should not.
To make things clear, I'll list down the routine of things happened.
-The born of baby of human and mana, which was the cause of everything.
-Light Mana killed all the human-mana children.
-The king of Al-Revis prepared some experiment, and reason was still unknown. All the mana in Al-Revis was captured for the use of the experiment. Light Mana seemed involved in this.
-The Mana of Wishes born. Explosion occurred. Al-Revis destroyed. One of the mana scarified.
-Aeon made a contract with Pamela. The existence of mana erased, people sealed the knowledge of alchemy and the history of Al-Revis.
-Creation of Land of Renaissance.
…Sort like this. I hope this will help to make the plot clear. Then, see you guys next time.