( Present Tiline. )
After ti in the Eliopolis Park, the Richter-Grimshaws returned to their ho, happily ending their free ti with joy as Duncan hoped.
[ Bathroom ]
" It cos again... " Duncan sees his hand shifting into his primary form hand, he tries to hold it while eating the pill given by the Black rchant.
" How long I have to wait for the New System, Black rchant said he will tell soon when he perfected it. " Duncan wonders as he painfully maintains his current human form.
Blind to the state he's in, without the direction of the System like he had before, Duncan could only guess in which percentage he could prevent his real form from leaking.
" 75%, no..., 72... "
" I rember this kind of leak is around that, dammit! " Duncan eats more of the pill, as his 'human form' restores painfully.
" Dammit... "
" I can't reveal it in front of Irina, the kids... "
" Even Hector, he will definitely kill ... " Duncan says it with fear, he patiently waits for Black rchant for the System Pills in order for him to know his state in a more detailed way.
Duncan the kneels to the ground, after seeing his reflection slowly becoming into his real form.
" Would I have to reveal it? " Duncan asks himself as he drenched himself in sweats.
" If that's so... "
" Then, what will the dia say, to , to Irina, to Adria... "
" Not to ntion Donovan, even they still ostracized him for being the 'Child From the Dungeon' despite his achievents. " Duncan pants.
" If they were to know that his 'adoptive father' is... "
" No, no no no no... " Duncan says as he brace himself to look at his reflections again, imdiately seeing his reflections normal again into his 'Duncan' reflection.
" As far as I know, my race can maintain their disguise for so long... "
" But for how many, Black rchant never validates it. "
" For he only told that my race is so secretive, he rarely ets them, even in their disguises, during his travels. "
" Darn it... "
" I better try to learn so magic for now... "
" Perhaps ask so dics about the Magic that could make one maintain a disguise for longer ti, in case the pills doesn't work anymore. " Duncan sighs, he closes his eyes, begin to imagining the cruel fate that will happen to his family if he is ever revealed.
Duncan sees his family ostracized, both his nuclear family as well as the whole Richter House. He fears the other house will use him like they did with Donovan, an excuse, to topple down the Richter House from the face of the Royal Politics, to take away the Richter's Royal Status because of him.
" Damn those other Royal Houses... "
" They really love to stab their rivals in the back, didn't they? " Duncan asks himself as he also recount his tis as 'Tenebrae'.
" Reminds of the Nyx Nocterra, guess they're not the ones to be blad for this, despite them always put in the first place in terms of 'treachery'. "
" Hope this won't happen, I won't let the other houses get a single mont of leak... " Duncan swears to himself as clenched his fist.
" For my family... " Duncan swears it in the bathroom, while he retreats from the mirror and went to the closet to release so trash from his body.
While Duncan is in the bathroom, unknown to him, Irina in the bed secretly hears him using one of her Ground Magic Abilities 'Earthcolocation', basically she can hear anything present using the ground.
" * Sob * " Irina hears it all and goes into tears, she hugs Adria who is sleeping beside her, she hug her as hard as she can as she pats her.
" Everything will be alright, sweetie. "
" Mom and dad will never let it all happen to you and your brother, we promise... " Irina sobs, wiping her tears as she hears Duncan's footsteps coming out from the bathroom.
* Duncan cos in and enters the bed. *
" *sigh* " Duncan sees the sleeping Irina, hugging the little Adria, for he then hugs them both.
"( I should've take Donovan here, after all... )" Duncan looks at Adria for a while.
"( I still rember my deal with Hector, right after Adria was born... )"
"( In order for Donovan to stay, he... )" Duncan recounts it, he hugs Adria and pats her hair.
"( Grow, daughter... )"
"( Grow and help your brother in the future... )"
"( Our family's future are in your hands now... )" Duncan tells in his mind, as he then follow the two sleeping in the bed.
...
( At the sa ti. )
< Location: Crystal Glowcave Dungeon >
< Dungeon Type: Epic >
" Betzalel, Draven, Donovan... " Rakish calls Draven (Donovan) with all of the nas she knew.
" Please call either by Betzalel or Draven, Raksha... " Draven tells Raksha that, reminding her.
" Oh, I'm... I'm... "
" Sorry. " Draven interrupts her, Raksha is still trying to pronounce using the human language so Draven helps her by teaching her how per his experience as a human.
Draven lets her sit with him, both seeing the moonlight in the Dungeon, both witnessing it in great comfort by it's light.
" The Night Skies are great, isn't it, Betzalel? " Raksha asks Draven.
" Indeed. " Draven says.
" I often rembered this during my ti as 'Betzalel' in the 'Double Dungeon' I was born into, though... " Draven says to Raksha.
" Back then, I and existing Black Shadows live peacefully before eting father. "
" He mistook for a lost child, not knowing I was actually the ruler of the Dungeon, teehee. " Draven chuckles.
" Well, why else the Black Shadows chant your na? " Raksha asks as she rembers her ti in the Double Dungeon too when she visit it with Ragitor.
" Yeah, makes wonder more who I really was, if they are loyal to like that. " Donovan sighs as he thinks while seeing the Moon.
" I feel like I love seeing the Moon, Raksha. " Draven tells.
" I don't know why, but my theory that in my 'past live'... " Draven believes, this is the theory he believed of who he was in recent tis.
" I love to see the moon, as if I had a connection or so sort. "
" Do you perhaps learn 'Moon-based Magic' or so sort? " Raksha asks.
" No, no... "
" Instead of liking, I rember feeling hatred over the moon. "
" I don't know why, but there's a , telling this. "
" That is where your goddess lives when she was still on earth..., **** "
" Are you sure she's there?, I rember the voices as it was said during one's tears.
" Back then ... she was... "
" I rember that was the last of it, a conversation of two people talking about the Moon for whatever reason. "
" They talked as if they had hatred for it, for the goddess, I presu. "
" A goddess that ruled the moon, such things exist, though? " Draven asks.
" In the Age of Ragnarok, perhaps. " Raksha replied which made Draven nod.
" Perhaps..., that's the only theory I could add to my hypothesis. " Draven says as he looks at the moon.
" Speaking of seeing the Moonlight... "
" I rember seeing this with a friend too... " Draven suddenly says.
" Really? " Raksha asks.
" Yeah, a girl friend of mine I've never t again. "
" I've t her during my free tis in the Dungeon, I believe it was pre my Second Year in the Richter-Grimshaw family. "
" What was her na again? hmm... "
" I forgot... "
" But I believe this is before I t Tania and recruit her. "
" Seriously, I rember the girl love seeing the sight of the night, seeing the sight of the stars. "
" Oh yes, I rember. "
" She believed herself to be long-lost related to the Calibur Family... "
" Perhaps I should ask Carlos and Carol if I had ti... " Draven says as he and Raksha spent the ti together witnessing the Moonlight.
"( But what is her na, I can't ask them if I can't rember the na for the two Caliburs to search... )"
" Urgh. " Donovan tries to flashback, scouring his mind, trying to rember what happened during the months before her Second Year birthday in the Richter House.
( A year ago, Months before Donovan's Second Year. )
...
< Entering Dungeon >
< Dungeon: Nightcave Dungeon (Rare) >
< Required Level 31-35 >
< Na: Donovan (Betzalel) Richter-Grimshaw >
< Level: 32 >
" What happened here? " Donovan asks as he sees corpses of Monsters, he sees them all killed by a robed person.
He sees the robed person, killing the Monsters with her magic, a dazzling light magic as the girl defeats them while her glowing blonde golden hair cos out, dazzling Donovan's eyes as he sees her.
" Ah! " the girl sees Donovan as both kids et each other in the Dungeon.
...
[ Extra end. ]
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The last scene is the start for the Second Spin-Off Volu, the story is before the Second Volu " Donovan's Second Year ".
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