Fate Breakers

Memories

They decided to rest for a while in the Grassland while waiting for Miki to wake up.

"I know a Saint who might be able to help us save Miki." Seira broke the silence.

"Then?" Riel's reply was brief.

"I'll go see him. Can you keep Miki for a while?"

"I'm not very familiar with children. But I'll work on it." Answer Riel.

"Then I'm leaving now. Please help!" Seira turned into a Golden Eagle and flew away leaving the two of them.

 

Seira's been flying for 20 minutes. He had already passed through many small villages, forests and swamps. Now he could see a castle standing firmly in the distance. That's where a Saint Seira meant.

"The spirit that is trapped in the mortal world, does he belong to an Undead? But he has no body. Ahh, I really don't understand anything like that." Mumbled Seira.

Seira landed in the castle which is located on a hill that is quite high. The walls of the castle are mossy, but still look very sturdy. Seira walked inside with his human form, he seems to have been very familiar with the ins and outs of the Castle until finally he arrived in front of a large door filled with ancient letter carvings.

"Zobutes! It's me, Seira." Seira shouted the name of the Saint that he mentioned to Riel a while ago.

"Pronounce the password." Reply to someone with a voice that is quite hoarse from behind the door.

"Holyness is a gift" replied Seira.

The man did not answer.

"Deliremia, a shta nje dhurata" continued Seira.

Still no answer. But, the big door that was in front of Seira started to tremble and slowly opened. An old man with long, gray hair greeted Seira with a warm smile from an old friend.

"Look!" Zobute stretched out his arms, offering a hug to Seira.

"Hello, Old Man." Seira approached Shen and hugged him.

"What's wrong? It's been a long time since you've been here." Zobute let go of his embrace and looked at Seira in surprise.

"The spirit of heaven, I met a child spirit who came from Aramas. He did not realize that he was dead, even he thought the tragedy of Aramas had just happened tonight. Can you help me return her soul to the afterlife?" Asked Seira with a hopeful look.

"It's going to be very long. You still have time to talk to me a little, don't you?" Zobute turned around and prepared to leave the place.

"Yes" replied Seira briefly.

"Then follow me" Zobute stepped out and walked into a room followed by Seira behind him.

The room was very large and filled with books scattered everywhere. Zobute pulled out a book that was on a large shelf in front of him. Then, the large bookshelf trembled and began to spin, opening up a path Seira had never seen in the course of her knowing Zobute.

"I've never seen this place." Said Seira as she went down the stairs in the secret passageway.

"of course. This place I'm just using to find knowledge that I don't know yet." Zobute answered while lighting a candle that lined the hallway with his magic.

"A magician number 2 in the world even still has something unknown?" Ask Seira.

"I wouldn't be number two if I knew all the knowledge, and please distinguish the Witch from the Saint." Zobute Protest.

"What is the difference between a witch and a saint?" Seira patted Zobute on the shoulder.

"The magician studied magic at all costs, whereas the Saint only studied the holy magic allowed by the gods." Zobute explains to Seira while opening a door to her secret room.

"All right, we're there." Zobute let Seira in first.

The room looked very simple compared to the previous room. There was only a dusty bookshelf, two chairs and a small table in front of him.

"Eh?" Seira looked confused looking at the narrow room.

"What's wrong?" Zobute asked as he ruffled the row of books on the shelf.

"The previous room had many books from all corners of the world" Seira said as she pointed towards the hallway leading to the main room.

"I've read and remembered all the books there." Answer Zobute who is still engrossed with his bookshelf.

Seira reflex gulped when she heard her old friend's reply. He really did not expect that there was someone who could memorize the thousands of books arranged in that huge shelf.

"I was curious. If you know a lot of things, why don't you use magic that keeps you young? That's what most people want, right? An eternity." Seira raised next to her eyebrows.

"I'm older than you, Seira." Answer Zobute who finally found the book he was looking for.

"In the calculation of the age of man?" Ask Seira.

"No, in the calculation of the Elf's age. You think I'm just an old man in his 70s?" Answer Zobute.

"Emm. like that." Reply to Seira while scratching the back of her head.

"My life is now 218 years old. Is this old enough for a human, huh?" Zobute smiled braggedly.

Again Seira was silent to Zobute's answer that he did not expect. Zobute laughed satisfiedly at Seira's expression, then he sat down and began to read her book.

"Sit down, it took me about five minutes to finish." Zobute said without turning his eyes away from the sheet of paper on his lap.

"Li-five minutes? For a book that thick? You really made me want to faint, Zobute." Seira shook her head in an inexhaustible manner.

"Hahaha then I'll let you read one of the books in this room. But, I'm not responsible for the risk." Zobute is really focused on his book.

"All right." Reply Seira while starting to browse the contents of the bookshelf in the secret room.

Almost all books on the shelf have the same thickness, about 5 cm. Most of the books on the shelf were untitled, only the sheets wrapped in covers had strange symbols.

Seira glanced at a book thinner than any other, grabbed the book and fell silent for a moment when she saw a picture of a scantily dressed woman with an indecent pose on the cover.

"Zobute, what is this?" Seira asked without turning her eyes away from the book.

"That's a book from the future. Precisely from the 21st century, they called it Adult Magazine. Do you like it?" Reply Zobute who is almost finished reading the book on his lap.

"The future? Why would people in the future do something like this?" Seira asked as she turned the pages of her adult magazine.

"They're paid. By showing his ideal body shape, it will attract the attention of the opposite sex and the more the opposite sex likes him the more he will get paid." Answer Zobute while closing the book.

"Snubrate." Seira put the magazine back in its place and sat down next to Zobute.

"The spirit must realize his dream while he is still alive. For example, he wants to move home to another city, then he must move to the city so that his soul can be calm." Zobute rubbed his white beard.

"But he had no body, his house was burned down. Do you know how Aramas ended?" Seira Protest.

"I know, but everybody's got to have their favorite thing, right?" Reply Zobute calmly.

"Favorite thing?" Seira scrunched his forehead.

"Yes. It has memories of its owner, and those memories are what can deliver the Spirit to the afterlife." Answer Zobute.

"So I have to find her favorite thing and then make her dream come true?" Ask Seira to make sure.

"Fright." Answer Zobute.

"Hmm, I get it." Seira nodded her head then stood up from her chair.

"You want to go straight away?" Ask Zobute moody.

"You're finally in love again after all this time, huh?" Zobute smiled wryly.

"N-no! N-not so, stupid!" Seira's face flushed.

"Hahaha you're not talented if you lie about how you feel." Zobute patted Seira on the shoulder.

"Thankfully he's insensitive." Reply Seira.

"One moment must be delivered, just as long as you throw away your gang." Zobute laughed.

Seira puffed her cheeks in annoyance. He said goodbye to Zobute and rushed back to Riel's place.

 

Meanwhile, Riel and Miki were actually engrossed in chatting with the Shappire Warriors who were tied by Seira on a boulder.

"As far as you know, I don't like my position right now. Son of a Haram King, huh?" Riel.

"Then why did you kill innocent people?" Ask The Blonde Girl.

"Wait a minute. Do you know of any movement trying to overthrow my father's throne?" Reply Riel.

"Reason! Where there might be such a move, everyone must accept His Majesty Legnasio's decision." Answer the Blonde Girl.

Riel sighed and pulled out a black scarf belonging to one of Simon's subordinates.

"You know this scarf? They used this when they surrounded me in the woods. They tried to kill me, what's wrong if I tried to protect myself? After all, I killed him with my own dagger, they used the royal dagger just to have me die at the hands of the law." Riel explained to the girl.

The girl was silent, she felt like she had seen the same scarf in her house.

"I'm not lying at all, you know. If you want to believe please believe, you don't believe me I don't care. I just want to see someone in Datraoch, nothing more." Riel.

"Airayle?" The girl asked that made Riel speechless.

"You know him?" Riel asked in amazement.

"I should have asked why you didn't know me." Reply The girl is upset.

"Eh?" Riel tilted her head.

"Eri?" Guess Riel.

"Basic!" Eri turned his face.

"Hey hey wait a minute. You really Eri?" Ask Riel to make sure.

"You can only remember Aira. You like it, huh?" Eri Ketus.

"I love her." Answer Riel.

Seira who had just heard Riel's words that hurt her heart so much, he tried to hold her back and walked over to Riel.

"You found a way?" Riel asked as Seira was already standing beside her.

"Yeah." Answer Seira coldly.

"Why are you friends with an Elf? Do you want to betray your own people?" Ask Eri.

"What's wrong with being friends with an Elf? After all, Seira wasn't evil in the least. She was so nice, she even saved me a few times, I owe her a lot, if I hadn't met her, I wouldn't know if I could set foot here right now." Riel Protest.

"Remain, the Elves have wiped out half our nation first. We as humans should not let an Elf live quietly!" Eri doesn't want to lose.

"Whatever! I will continue to be with him, if you dare to hurt him, I will not hesitate to fight all mankind alone." Answer Riel grimly.

The pain in Seira's heart just disappeared, he was happy to hear the words of Riel who considered it very valuable.

"Let's get out of here." Riel got up from her seat and walked away leaving Erii and the other Soldiers on the stone.

Eri looked at Seira with a cynical look. Seira replied with a smile and left them.

"Where are we going, brother?" Asked Miki who was just listening to Riel's conversation from earlier.

"Your design." Answer Seira.

"Eh? But there's a lot of Undead hanging around." Miki looked worried.

"Sister is very strong, really. He could've beaten them all." Seira replied while brandishing her fist.

"If I grow up, I want to beat the Undead." Miki replied excitedly.

"Is that your dream?" Seira looked at Miki curiously.

"Yes! I'd love to hunt the Undead." Miki replied excitedly.

"Then we will help you." Said Riel while showing her wide smile.

"Thank you, Brother Riel, Brother Seira." Miki returned Riel's smile.

 

It had been 10 minutes they had walked in that meadow. Now they can see a ruin from the rest of the buildings of Aramas Village that has mossed.

Miki hid behind Seira, which he saw at this time was his village covered in a burning fire.

"I'm scared." Miki said trembling.

"Then you wait in a safe place and let us kill the Undead, how?" Riel tried to calm Miki down.

"Can?" Asked Miki with a heavy heart.

"May, your safety is very important. But please tell me what your favorite thing is." Answer Seira.

"Things?" Thought frowning his forehead.

"Yes, the thing you like the most, the thing you think is the most valuable." Answer Seira.

"Hmm, father's necklace. That necklace was precious to me, but I lost it while escaping from the Undead attack." Miki replied gloomily.

"How's the character?" This time Riel asked.

"Hmm, somehow I kind of forgot the shape, all I remember is the Lycan-fangs"

"Lycans? You mean werewolf?" Riel cut Miki's explanation.

"It's that kind of thing." Answer Miki.

"Alright, I already understand the outline." Seira.

The ruins of Aramas were already clearly visible before them. Miki did not dare to look at it at all because in his eyes there was a burning fire above the houses of the villagers. His memory is still trapped in the events of that night, the night he lost his life.

"You just wait here, we'll be right back, okay?" Said Seira with a confident smile.

"alright. Take good care of yourself!"

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