Chapter 28: Ken's POV

"We are running out of time" Ulrike suddenly says, she has gotten herself together and she's looking at her divination sphere.

"How much longer?" he asks leaning closer to me.

"Three days at the most"

"This is not good, we need to move, now!" I say already making my way to the door, but Shinou stops me midway.

"What?" I ask annoyed but calm down when I see the worry on Shinou's eyes.

"We cannot go there with nothing in our favor. If we go there now, what will we do?" I know, I fucking know he's right, but what does he want me to do? I can't just stand here anymore. I take a few deep breath and walk back, next to the boxes, and sit down.

"Okay then, what exactly do we know about this?" I ask, trying to come up with a plan, although there's not really much we can do as things are right now.

"The young man now sleeping next to Yuuri is not my descendant, he carries the eyes of the Mirage tribe" Shinou answers me. We are just voicing the facts, which we are all aware of by now, but it's about all we can do.

"Is it not too much to assume he is, in fact, the heir of the mirage tribe?" Ulrike has a point there, but I'm sure that body belongs to Wolfram, while the soul in it doesn't.

"However impossible it may seem, the hissing voice we heard obviously belongs to a member of the tribe" Shinou says while sitting next to me. "And she referred to the boy as her son"

"This doesn't make any sense" I hold my head between my hands, my headache coming back like a hammer striking my head.

There's a moment of silence, the three of us trying to think of a way this could be possible, maybe we are thinking too much? Can we really be sure that person is not Wolfram?

"Can it had been just a simple dream?" I finally ask, but there's no answer, I didn't need any anyway. I know things are just not that simple in life, as much as I would like it.

But then, a question that seemed to be answered by itself all along, makes its way into my head as not such a simple thing anymore. We know Wolfram's body holds someone else's soul at the moment, so we, well at least me, have been assuming Wolfram's soul had to be somewhere else. But what if it's not. We saw Wolfram appear on the dream, so what if...

"What if Wolfram's soul is still on his body too?" I ask and suddenly all eyes are on me.

"If that is the case all we would need to do is remove the foreign soul, if my descendant is still somewhere inside of the body, it would not die because of removing the Mirage soul" it sounds a little redundant but he has a point.

"But if that is true, then why hasn't Lord Bielefeld done something about it? He has a strong soul with powerful majutsu" Ulrike says while calling her divination sphere once again.

"It can very well be a curse. Neither us nor the healers saw any because we were all looking for a different kind of power" I answer "No magic is capable of creating a soul and it is very hard to actually evict a soul from a body, but if we are guessing right and the soul of the actual heir of the Mirage tribe has just been put over the existing soul, it can be possible, very likely actually, with the amount of power they should have" I am quite pleased with this deduction, it seems we are finally getting close to something clear.

"You are as able as always my Sage, however there is something you are overlooking" Clearly I am, if not, I would know what to do by now, I don't say that to Shinou though.

"If this is a curse placed by a member of the Mirage tribe, probably the current ruler, judging by what we know so far, there must be a condition, a way of counteract its effect" he says and the wheels in my brain finally start to move like they should.

"If we try to remove the soul by force and fail, we may broke the curse's seal and might never be able to get Wolfram back" I say and at the same time Ulrike gasps while looking at her sphere

"What is it Ulrike?" Shinou and I ask at the same time.

"Is Lord von Bielefeld's light... just a while ago it still had a few days of time, but now..."

She needn't say no more. I ask her to go get me a horse and as soon as her childish form leaves the room Shinou takes his miniature form and jumps in my hand, ready to ride along with me, or actually on me.

"What is your plan? We cannot do anything with what we know" he says as I walk outside to find the horse.

"Don't worry, I think I know what the condition is"

As we gallop at full speed in direction of Blood Pledge Castle I pray to the gods we get there in time.

Shibuya... please don't do anything stupid before I get there...

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Okay so this is not what I had planned this chapter to be about, but I have decided it was impossible to finish the story in just two chapters so don't worry, this is not the beginning of the end, 'cause that would be just depressing, being that this chapter was quite boring in comparison to the rest.