Detective Zen

Saving Meilan

After hearing the confession of the grandfather, he, zen detectives are starting to understand now that there is something strange about the book and indeed such a book should be destroyed early so as not to take another human being as prey, but now is not the right time to destroy it because he still has to return the grandfather's daughter named Meilan, also returning the fire lord Lu Shi Cheng to the place where he came from earlier.

"If that's the case, then we should destroy this cursed book, but right now we have to find your daughter first and only way to bring your daughter back, I may have to enter that other world through the portal inside this book, and I will have to return the fire lord Lu Shi Cheng back." Detective Zen began to express his thoughts at that time.

"I've tried it, you have to go back to the time you first entered the book and you're going to meet my daughter and you're going to have to take her with you, he lost his memory and he felt instead that he was a real mountain spirit in the ancient world, even though he was Meilan my only beloved daughter, he said, you have to wake him up and he can go back to this world, detective Zen" said the grandfather to detective Zen with a very serious look.

Detective Zen increasingly understood what the grandfather meant and he knew clearly that indeed he could also return from the strange world as long as he was still aware of his own identity.

"I understand grandfather, I'm just asking you to keep this book open so that the portal won't be closed either, I'll go inside with the king of fire, do you understand what I mean?" Said detective Zen asking for approval from the grandfather who immediately got a nod of the head from him.

After the mysterious grandfather agrees to an agreement between the two of them, the Zen detective asks that the fire king release him because he is on his side at this time and has the same purpose as what what he meant.

"Fire king please let go of this grandfather, he is not a bad person and he is not our enemy, he will help us to complete this mysterious and strange mission." Detective Zen told him.

"No.. What if he cheats us again just like before or like the keeper at the bookstore?" said fire lord Lu Shi Cheng rejecting him at that moment.

"As if fire lord Lu Shi Cheng I can vouch for him, I will take full responsibility if until he does so to us." retorted detective Zen assured the fire lord back then.

Although initially it was very difficult to convince him but the fire king Lu Shi Cheng finally agreed to the grandfather's current wishes so that he immediately released the bond from the grandfather's body immediately when the that also.

The three of them went straight into the hut where the grandfather lived and the cursed book began to be placed in the middle of the high table that was in front of them at that time, the grandfather began to give a presumption to detective Zen as well as the fire king to be prepared that he would immediately open a page in the book, exactly where the first incident of detective Zen entered into the ancient world.

"Are you both ready?" Said the grandfather.

"Yes we're ready, open it now." Reply to the Zen detective who was nodded by the fire king Lu Shi Cheng also at that time.

The grandfather nodded obediently and he slowly started to open the pages in the book with one hand until the pages where the war had happened were visible to all of us and for a while it was not anything happened back then so they thought that their thinking had been wrong in thinking the workings of the cursed book.

"Huh..what is this, there is no way this book is damaged is not it? Grandpa are you really sure this is the right book?" Detective Zen's words began to stare intently at the grandfather.

But the face of the grandfather also looks shocked and he was also confused because he was very sure that the book was the original book and indeed the book he had obtained before.

"The detective Zen this guy like me couldn't possibly dare to deceive you or lie to yourself I don't know what happened to this book." Reply to the grandfather with his face that appears just as confused.

The fire lord and detective were almost frustrated at that time until when detective Zen tried to ascertain the authenticity of the book by touching the book he began to feel something strange where when his hand touched the book his book began to give off a very bright and dazzling light.

Fortunately he was still able to realize about it that at that time the gate of his portal might be open so that detective Zen quickly grabbed the hand of the fire king quickly and they were both instantly sucked into the book in an instant.

"Aadrkkkk...." Shouted the fire king and the Zen detective who had so quickly disappeared.

The grandfather was wide in shock and he immediately held the book that kept shaking and was about to close again he kept holding the book with both hands and he really hoped that the Zen detective could find it soon his daughter is in the strange world behind the cursed book, for they do not enter into books but into different worlds and times like returning to the past with such a long distance of time but passing through the strange portals that exist in the book.

So that the arrangement would be very difficult for the two of them at that time, detective Zen begins to feel the same events as what he felt and what he went through since he first fell into a world he did not recognize back then, he again fell on the warlord of the holy kingdom on his lap right in the middle of a horse in the middle of the war, exactly with the events he had felt before.

"Aaaahhh.Bruk, my goodness I'm back now, I landed at the same time and circumstance as before, he said, and if I'm not mistaken I should now rebel like a madman and run to the king of fire, that way I will meet Meilan at the residence of the fire king or maybe he is already there now but I am not aware of his existence before? Aahhh yes I must immediately break away from this person." Inner detective Zen back then.

He just immediately shouted and revolted exactly the same as what he did the first time, he had to fall back from the horse or rather accidentally drop himself until running to the side of the fire king, he said, he fell again before him and began to be carried by the king of fire to his kingdom at that time until they were already in the room of the fire king at that time.

And detective Zen begins to ask him if he is conscious and knows himself or not.

"King of fire..do you remember everything? Do you know me? Why are you acting so weird and you don't recognize me? Are you acting the way you're supposed to?" Detective Zen asked the fire lord who stood looking intently at him at that moment.

But unfortunately the fire king could not remember all the events that he went through before so he continued to urge detective Zen exactly the same as what he had done before.

"Who are you, and why did you suddenly appear in the war and then talk as if you recognized me?" Said the fire lord to detective Zen back then.

Detective Zen instantly widened his eyes wide he also furrowed both of his eyebrows sharply, because he felt inexhaustible because only he could remember everything when switching from another world to this strange world, while the next scene where he would hit the bookless wall in the fire king's room until he dropped the book was already close to happening, yet he could not even find Meilan's whereabouts at all, in addition to this the fire king did not even remember anything.

So detective Zen can only rely on himself before it's too late.

Detective Zen continues to try to remind the fire king of who he is and some moments he has been through with the fire king before, even the detective Zen himself began to hold the body of the fire lord until when he tried to remind the fire king Meilan appeared in the corner of the room and he smiled at him he continued to act as if he was truly a holy mountain spirit as a messenger of gods there when he was a person from another world who suddenly entered this world and changed a small part of the story in it that's because of his appearance.

"Fire king please realize, you recognize I am actually a Zen detective I am not the princess of the sacred kingdom, you have to remember I used to piggyback you on a fast horse that you always hated but I always forced you to ride it, I was the first one to dare cut his long hair, I also let go of the crown of greatness in your head, I even once robbed your heirloom sword, you must remember me, you must remember it's the king of fire, it's me.Please be aware for me!" Detective Zen's words tried to keep reminding him at that time.

Until suddenly the fire king felt pain in his head and he immediately retreated away while holding his head and continued to grimace in pain.

Although at that time Zen detective was very worried about the fire king but he had to ignore it because at this time he had to catch Meilan first so that he could bring Meilan back to his world and make him aware of her fall before.

"Aaaarrkkkk..my head.aahh," said the fire lord grimaced in pain and continued to retreat away from detective Zen at the time.

Especially when he saw detective Zen's face, because in his shadow he began to remember moments of himself with a Zen detective even randomly and he continued to repeat the shadow in his own mind so that it made his head hurt at that time.

Detective Zen couldn't keep holding onto her because he saw Meilan was about to disappear again by then, and he had to arrest her before it was too late again.

"Aaaahh.... I'm sorry fire lord Lu Shi Cheng, I have to put Meilan first now." Detective Zen said as he immediately ran and called Meilan's name as the mountain so that he could stay there.

"Mountain wait! holy and wise mountain spirit there messenger of the gods, I beg you to give me a true and righteous blessing, please touch my hand, and please remember who you were before, just before you turned into a mountain spirit like this in a world you never really knew," detective Zen told Meilan at the time and he reached out his hand to invite Meilan to grab his hand.

Detective Zen continued to hope that Meilan would accept his hand at that time, with eyes so full of hope, detective Zen continued to not stop talking to remind Meilan who he really is.

"You're not a mountain spirit, but you're a human being, just like me, you have a name and your name is Meilan, you even want to apply for a job with me, you're Meilan, the personal assistant of a recently accepted Zen detective working with him, but you're trapped into a strange world in a portal that can erase someone's memory of his true identity, you have to try hard to remember who you were before you became a mountain spirit, you're not in the chosen gods you're just stuck in a world you shouldn't be living in," detective Zen continued to speak at the time.

Until Meilan began to think and it seemed like he started to remember little by little the things he had done in the world before he entered into this strange world and suddenly became a mountain spirit there.

Meilan started to accept a helping hand from detective Zen back then, he continued to frown both of his forehead until he managed to receive a helping hand from detective Zen and detective Zen could not waste any more time he just pulled Meilan firmly into his arms at that time until Meilan was no longer floating in the air and she was no longer as radiant as before.

He fell into the arms of the Zen detective and already completely remembered who he really was back then.

"Aahhh...you.you're Zen detective, why are we here?" Meilan asked who had just regained consciousness back then.

"I'll explain it later but now we have to find the book first, with me carefully Meilan don't ever take your hand from me do you understand?" Zen's detective said to Meilan at the time.

Although Meilan herself did not understand and she was still confused by what had actually happened to her back then, but she could only nod and obey what the Zen detective had said back then.

Until the time Zen detective was busy looking for the mysterious book, the, the fire lord had already risen and he started to pull the hand of the Zen detective who was trying to find the book among the bookshelves around there.

"Where is the book, I must quickly find it, grandfather would have been unable to hold the book there," zen's grumbling detective continued to try to find the book alone because Meilan did not know anything at that time.

Until suddenly the king of fire pulled the hand of detective Zen and pushed detective Zen to the wall until it made Meilan had slipped from the grip of detective Zen at that time, but quickly Meilan fortunately again held the hands of detective Zen again at that time.

"Aahhh, brukk" Zen detective's voice hit the bookshelf there.

"Meilan don't let go of my hand no matter what you hear!" Shouted detective Zen who was under the pressure of the fire king who continued to urge him and brought himself closer to the detective Zen at that time.

Meilan quickly regained the hands of detective Zen despite her fear and was almost about to call the fire king back then, but luckily detective Zen stopped Meilan in time.

"Don't Meilan he's not evil!" Zen's detective's words made Meilan undo his intention and he slowly lowered his hand.

"But the Zen detective he urged you that way?" meilan's reply at that time worried detective Zen.

"No. Don't do anything and let this be my business with her" detective Zen replied firmly to her.

While the fire lord continued to approach detective Zen until the distance between them was so close and the fire king Lu Shi Cheng suddenly raised his hand next to him carrying the mysterious book.

"Is this what you're looking for?" Said the fire lord Lu Shi Cheng to the Zen detective back then.

Detective Zen was wide-eyed and he was very happy that the book was in the hands of the fire king, he immediately asked the fire king to give the book to him but the fire king did not give it easily, he continues to suspect and suspect detective Zen as an intruder in his kingdom just like the accusation the fire king gave when detective Zen first met him.

"Aahh .. Thank goodness the book is in your hands, give me the book the king of fire, I must return soon and you will also live your normal life again as usual," detective Zen told him at the time.

"No. I will not give this book to a random person like you, no one can open this book whoever it is, even though I opened it first, who you really are, are you an intruder, are you an intruder, which kingdom has sent such an ingenious intruder like you?" The fire king's words made detective Zen completely inexhaustible with him back then.

"Ashh ..... Fire lord Lu Shi Cheng, is it that easy for you to forget me huh? It's me Zen detective did you completely forget, I'm a Zen detective I'm the one who gave you instant noodles and I'm the one who always helped you, too, you remember the jade in your hand you don't have it anymore because you sold it to give me money." Zen detective said to him again at that moment.

Until the fire lord Lu Shi Cheng began to wrinkle his eyebrows while staring at his hand and he began to examine it himself until he began to find a remark from a real Zen detective where the jade bracelet was hers was truly not in her hands anymore, and she was perplexed to the point of recalling the strange incident inside her head back then.

Though the memory is a memory where he was with a real-world detective Zen when he sold the jade and a series of other events that he had experienced while with detective Zen.

Until he began to accidentally drop the book in his hand on the floor because of shock considering the incident including remembering about the detective Zen at that time, until the book falls in an open position and the light begins to radiate but quickly the fire king approaches detective Zen and he kisses his lips without warning at that time while saying a sentence that makes a detective Zen hesitated because he was almost sucked into the portal of the book.

"Much.I remember you, I like you detective Zen." The words of the fire lord after briefly kissing the lips of detective Zen and detective Zen did not have time to pull the fire king with him at that time, he was immediately sucked into the portal inside the book which was so blinding to his eyes that he failed to pull the fire king with himself at that time and only brought Meilan alone at that time.

"Arrtkkkkkk.." cried Meilan at that moment who was shocked his body was suddenly dragged by the Zen detective who clasped his hands tightly, while he began to enter with a flash on the portal.

"King fire...... Lu Shi Cheng.." shouted the last Zen detective back then with tears falling on his eye cuff in a single blink back then.