When I made it out, I imdiately ran in the direction that the ball arrow was pointing.
And as I followed the ball, it suddenly stopped at a dead-end alley. And when I arrived, the arrow suddenly pointed at the ground.
(What does this an? Is this tool broken?)
But no matter how many tis I turned the tool, it always pointed down.
"Looks like this tool is broken, huh?"
Feeling tired from not finding any results after running around, I sat down on the ground.
(If Yukiko saw , she would be angry that I was getting dirty again.)
But I couldn't give up, so I used mana to transfer as much as possible to the tool and I didn't realize that I was transferring mana to my other hand touching the ground as well.
*Open*
"Eh-"
Then suddenly there was the sound of a door opening, and I imdiately fell down.
"Waahh..."
I then fell and hit the stairs and went down with a crash.
"Ouch... It hurts... Wait, where is this?"
I then glanced around in confusion, I was currently in a mysterious room.
As I looked around, I realized that this place was a residence especially since there were many people here but it was strangely quiet.
"But it seems like this is the right place, the arrows are also starting to react again."
Then as I walked, I followed the arrow and aid at a door.
"Another door?"
*Door opens"
Then I suddenly heard the sound of a door opening, from the direction was where I had previously entered.
"Wow, what's going on, why is the front room suddenly so dirty?"
"Has Mr. Ravendor gone ho?"
"No, Mr. Ravendor is still not ho."
"Why are you sure?"
"Mr. Ravendor won't co ho with dust. He is very clean!"
"Yes yes, you seem to have caught Johan's older brother."
"Noisy. But the other mbers are also a bit difficult, so the other possibility is..."
"An intruder..."
My heart skipped a beat when the voice ntioned an intruder.
Then suddenly the voice went silent.
(Damn, I need to find a place to hide!)
I frantically looked around but there was no place to hide except the door in front of .
(What can I do!)
So I entered the door and was surprised.
(Where is this?)
As soon as I opened the door, I was suddenly in a strange place.
A place that had a very different atmosphere and weather from the Wolfled region.
When I was confused, the arrow moved again.
(Since it was already done, I had to finish this.)
So I followed the direction of the arrow again, which led to a place.
The place the arrow pointed to was an old building guarded by a large guard.
As I tried to get closer, an explosion sounded from inside and the guards looked surprised and went inside.
(Is this a chance?)
Slightly scared, I tried to enter but suddenly the arrow started spinning and moving in the opposite direction.
And suddenly a group of people ca out, people in all black clothes and a master with a crescent-shaped smile.
(What is the Umbra Vitae organization?)
Umbra Vitae, an organization famous for appearing in every slum of every territory in this Kingdom.
And they are known as the guardians of the slums and revolutionized the slums into safe areas and even recently the slums have started to beco areas worth visiting with various new tours.
With such fa it's impossible for not to know that. And if their appearance here ans that Umbra Vitae is doing sothing in that place.
(Is that a den of criminals? And Zend went in there! You finally got caught, Zend!)
As I smiled, suddenly the direction of the arrows moved too. So I quickly went to follow that direction.
After a few minutes, I finally arrived at a place. I furtively approached and looked over the balcony.
But all I found was a creepy Umbra Vitae mber with a face I couldn't recognize and the children behind the mysterious person.
(What?)
I stared at the arrow in confusion, as I shook it, it kept aiming at them.
While I was confused, there was a sudden sound of battle taking place.
I imdiately saw, there was a fight between that creepy Umbra Vitae mber and a Knight that I seed to recognize.
That person's na should be Lukeus, I slightly forgot his surna.
As I watched their fight, I saw that the swords the mysterious Umbra Vitae mber was using were dual red and blue swords.
And the red sword that that person was wearing was very similar to the sword that Zend was wearing.
(No no no no, there's no way that person is Zend. Besides, Zend is not a dual elent user.)
As I convinced myself, the two people started talking to each other. But since they were quite far away, I had to focus my hearing to hear them.
As I tried to listen to their conversation, I heard sothing terrible from Lukeus' mouth.
(That guy... A bastard...)
Then suddenly without realizing it the fight was over in an instant and the mysterious Umbra Vitae mber crushed that person's head.
After that the person went to the children who were hiding and hugged them. And suddenly the children started crying and that person hugged them as if understanding their feelings.
Seeing that, I was sure that it couldn't be Zend so I left to return to the previous door.
(I had to go back quickly, even though it was annoying but I lost track of Zend.)
So I entered the door, strangely enough it was quite deserted. So I made it out and returned to Wolfled territory safely.
As I was trying to return, suddenly the arrow started moving again and the door opened revealing the previous monstrous Umbra Vitae mber.
And suddenly an old man appeared in front of the Umbra Vitae mber.
Then suddenly the Umbra Vitae mber fell and the person's mask fell off revealing the face of a person I never thought about at all.
(Zend)
People who should not be mbers of Umbra Vitae are mbers of Umbra Vitae itself.
(No way...)
As I was puzzled by that fact, Zend suddenly started coughing up blood.
(Blood?)
If I rember correctly, Zend had also coughed up blood before. I thought I was just hallucinating at the ti but it seems not.
The old man asked Zend with concern.
"Are you alright, sir?"
Then the Zend I knew should have answered with arrogance and pride but right now, there wasn't even a hint of arrogance in his actions and right now Zend even felt very weak like a person who was resigned to his own life.
An expression that I never imagined would appear from a cruel person like him.
"No, I'm fine."
"But you just vomited blood."
"It's fine, that's normal."
(Ordinary?)
Hearing those words, my heart was beating very fast.
"Common?"
"Yes, actually I have a history of illness."
At that mont, all the pieces I had always questioned were finally answered. The flower that Zend had given the first ti, and the vomiting blood that Zend had hidden back then.
"Disease?"
"Yes, a mysterious disease where my body becos very weak and my life becos very short."
I was speechless at Zend's words, who seed to have accepted his situation as calm.
"Poor you."
"It's okay, I've accepted that fate. Although I have a short ti, I want to spend this ti well."
"Is that why you beca a hero of darkness?"
(What?)
My thoughts imdiately stopped at that mont, the reality that I wanted to avoid still materialized.
After that I couldn't help but listen to Zend and the old man's words speechlessly.
"That's so."
"Then why did you hide your identity? Wouldn't it be better to reveal your identity?"
"No, because I want to create a hero that will continue to live long even if I die, by passing down this mask, the hero of darkness will always live."
"Is that why you're doing this?"
"Yes, that's my biggest reason. But the truth is I just don't want others to know what I did."
"Why? Is it a bad right to get caught?"
"Well, I have a mission to do. Besides, I have to make my fiancé hate .
(!!!)
At the mont Zend said that, I could only be surprised. Was Zend trying to make hate him all this ti?
"Fiancé? Do you have a fiancee?"
"Yes, a beautiful but troubleso fiancée."
"Then why do you want to make your fiancée hate you?"
"Didn't I tell you that I have a short lifespan. I just don't want to give that girl bad mories. I want her to be happy."
(....)
"I see..."
"Well, I should get going. Are you really okay."
"Yes, I'm fine. You can go, no need to worry about ."
After that I could only remain silent and returned to the Wolfled residence with my head bowed.
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