And as it was only I, who could read it, it ant that whatever I read out loud from it would be the truth and the maid couldn’t deny it.
The original mission was nothing more than asking to find the truth of the matter from Sheva. An odd order, considering it’s not what I am good at and there are much better people out there who can do this in my place.
So why at this mont?
Obviously, they wished to keep away from all the fun. As for why they didn’t wish to touch this woman? I don’t know, she was a kind one, but none among my bosses were kind to begin with.
So this was an odd situation from my front. But nonetheless, gotta do what they requested. "She is stronger than she appears, you better bind her before she cos back." Giving her such a suggestion. I left.
I need to inform him, Henry needs to know so things for now. If possible, I wish he would co with on his own.
Though, the mont I knocked on his door, a voice ca from the other side. "Who is at this hour?’ When opening the door, they were surprised to see a dwarf like standing. "Is Henry ho?"
I asked, but they looked at for a bit, before shaking their heads. "Whatever it is, it’s not a good ti. Go ho boy."
I tried for a bit more, but they denied my advances, planning to send back. But was I the kind to listen to their words? No.
But it was also not sensible to go against their wishes, as it would be too suspicious. "Please I am the classmate he visited this afternoon and a few days ago. I know how he is and I might have a way to help him."
"So you are the boy? Henry never ntioned who he was visiting." The parents were worried sick these days. The last ti their boy went out with a friend, sothing bad happened to him. And now another friend asked for sothing similar. No, it would be more appropriate to say that his visit timing was bad.
Which made them think that the past might repeat itself. But considering the words of mine, they started to consider, before shaking their heads. "I will inform him of it, for now, you should go ho." There was a stark difference in tone at the mont.
For one, their tone was not as cold as it was I who had finally made their son open up and go out. But none of that mattered in the face of the night. They can’t put their son at risk or relive that trauma.
So in the end, I was sent away. But not before I looked out the window. ’Our boy is awake.’
Giving him one look, I left the scene and then waited on the corner. Waited for him to co to . And after an hour of waiting, he did find standing on the corner. "What is it?" He asked . But all I could do was make a pitiful face.
"I wanted to co clean, Henry," I said, making him a bit worried over my tone. "What do you an?"
"Well, Rashid was not wrong in a way. I joined your school for a purpose." At such words, his eyes turned wild. "You.. you are like him?"
"No... no. I work for the Yethel intelligence, more like they forced to take this job in return for giving us refuge in your country"
At the ntion of Yethel’s intelligence, it would seem he was ready to run at this mont. But under my pleading gaze, he cald down and asked . "Am I in trouble?"
"No, although they don’t tell anything, they don’t seem to put you in their eyes, you are nothing more than an unlucky bystander on their side, or so it’s what I have gleaned after looking for so answers."
"You... you are really not lying, are you?"
"At this point, it doesn’t make much sense. I had hoped for a normal life after coming here from Pulgasiri, but I guess life just doesn’t wish for to live a calm life."
Then I spoke of my story to him, how I was found by my teacher in a gutter after my father was killed wrongfully by a rich second generation in Bothal. How my teacher beca a kind of foster father and went on a rampage in the city causing countless casualties in the process.
And how my Foster father beca what he is now after transferring his bloodline to .
"Wait... you guys are the reason why Pulgasari was shut down for a month?"
"I didn’t do much, I was more of a bystander than a mortal one. How could I do much anyways?"
"All of it was done by my teacher, he got his revenge in a way. But you have already seen what beca of him. But at least he did one good thing before turning into a vegetable, he had connections with the spy network of Yethel in Bothal and he had already bargained for a new life after all was over."
"But of course the people he made the contract with lied. In their own words, they would only give a new life to my teacher, who has none left. As for , I have to work for them in order to earn it, like my Father did."
"It’s why you ca here, you ca here to keep a watch on Rashid?"
"Yes, but I am not good at it you see, if not for you, I wouldn’t have gotten so close to him. Which let earn so rit and I was able to learn why he was here."
"So that night when you ca to us."
"I learned what my superiors intended to do with Rashid, so I ca to stop him... I didn’t want him to die. But I also didn’t expect him to drag you into all of this. Well, you already know what happened after it."
"And if you are wondering why I fought that woman among you guys. She didn’t even know , I am just one of the many that were keeping an eye on him, an insignificant part of this whole network."
As I spoke more and more, so things started to make sense for Henry.
He was at first relieved to learn that nothing would happen to his family, but then he found out that even when relieved, the strain his mind has experienced hasn’t disappeared. No, all of this experience and the words I spoke probably made him more paranoid at this point.
He asked why I kept going to school after it had ended.
He asked why I kept sending him letters.
He asked why he even bothered with them to begin with. I could have lived a normal life after all this was over. But all I could say to him was: "You guys were my first friends... well at least you were."
"Why tell this, why now?"
"Just wanted to tell you so you can go back to your normal life. Forget about all of this."
"??" My tone was not right, a dumb boy like him could feel that I had been hiding sothing from him.
aning that the last month hadn’t been that wasteful for him as many others. "You, are you leaving?"
"Well... Well yeah, as this mission is over... they sen.. send another one."
I struggled at this part, almost embarrassed unlike earlier, making him think that I had been hiding sothing from him. "You are...’
"Henry, this is your chance. I told you all of this so that you don’t remain curious and drag yourself back into this. It’s rare to get out of this life after you get into it. Not everyone is as lucky as you." I said with so envy. "Just forget all of this, you have parents who care for you, a girl who loves you. Don’t make it all go to waste."
"..."
Speaking these words, it was ti for to leave.
"Live a good life, brother." Were my last words to him, who had turned mute from all the details I fed him.
So of them true, so of them false, there is no way for him to know which is which. And words pulling at his heart strings.
’Oh Blue Rose, I wonder if you are watching ? Do you feel angered by my actions? Or is that what you expected? Well, ti will tell.’
*****
It was about morning when she woke up and unlike what she had expected, she was still in a cozy house with the little girl sleeping not too far from her.
Which was bizarre, considering she had expected to either be in a torture room or killed at this point. But none of the likes actually happened. Instead, not too far from her, she could hear so heavy snores in the next room, which was none other than the boy she had known about for a while.
’He still snores like before.’ Nothing much has changed for the dwarf, but everything has changed for her. "He seems tired." She thought before walking deeper into the house and slowly exploring it.
"??" And then there he was, barely sleeping on a bed with his eyes opened while looking at the ceiling. "Max, are you still there?" She asked, but got nothing in response. He was more dead than alive at this point. The ti when he could speak so words to the crow was long gone, in a month his state had turned for the worst.
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