The Butterfly Trap

Side story 2

In the room that looked simple, Zurich looked at the girl lying on the bed, something strange was emerging from her chest, as if the feeling was warning her of the presence of the girl, and she was, despite having charming long black hair and attractive white skin, the clothes worn by the girl are very simple but do not cover her pretty face.

The girl opened her eyes while twitching her neck, Zurich did not understand why she was acting strangely upon waking up from her sleep, she noticed the girl who was still confused looking at the surroundings, she was looking at her, his eyeballs are green zambrut adds to the beauty of his face.

" You're sober?" he tried to be as relaxed as possible but apparently did not succeed even he seemed cold and unfriendly.

The girl turned to him and asked, "Who?"

The strange feeling re-emerged when he heard the girl's voice that made him feel uncomfortable lingering alone, he stepped over to the girl who was just staring at him without the sound, "Follow me!"

The girl just stared at him while still sitting on the bed, Zurich who felt that his words were not heard was irritated plus the strange feeling that gnawed at his chest from the first time he saw the girl made him utter words that he should not have said.

" What are you waiting for?! do you want to be thrown in jail on charges of illegal medical practice? not bad either!" he said while coming out then in his heart he regretted his words.

He heard the girl yell "What?"

Then he chased after her breathlessly, Zurich actually thought that the girl was very worried about chasing after her with her short legs but she covered her smile with a cold face.

Arriving at Alfred's room, the girl deftly examined him, she seemed accustomed to meeting patients like alfred, occasionally she asked questions that were answered kindly by Claude who had just entered, she was seen to be familiar with, and confidently explain Alfred's situation.

" Garaga Q needs Linus leaves and wrought flowers for the antidote, if we can get the two plants, Sir Red's life can be saved" he said with a serious face.

" Linus Leaf? isn't that a plant that only exists on the Tar-Tar hill, near the Baloki river?" asked Zurich who was amazed by the girl's knowledge, not many people knew about the plants that only live in the monster territory, the girl nodded.

Zurich weighed the risks that would be passed if he sent one of the members and he believed it would take a long time if he sent them, finally he decided to go alone to the Tar-Tar Hill.

Reaching the Tar-Tar hill was easy for Zurich as he could advance without any protection, taking only half a day for him to reach the horror-looking hill, the dense fog that enveloped the place gave an increasingly gripping atmosphere.

Zurich continued on his way on standby as he did not know when the monsters would attack him and where the attack would come from, he sharpened all his senses and a huge shadow emerged from behind the trees, Zurich stood by and watched the black shadow closely.

" How dare a fly set foot into the territory of the lord of the Sloths", the voice growled ever closer towards him.

It appeared that a white rabbit was running towards him followed by a strong leg blow, there was a vibration felt on the ground as the creature walked.

" Trolls?" whispered.

" Hoya hoya, who is this that I found? not only a fly but there are other flies that are more disgusting, haha-" said the creature.

He looked at Zurich with the corner of his eyes, giving a strong and condescending intimacy with an arrogant smile that adorned his wide face, its enormous size and five-meter height made Zurich take a few steps back to take a swing.

" Hoho hoho, Mr. Sloth, I will offer you this delicious meal" he shouted as he lifted the large wooden gun he had used and smashed towards Zurich but he avoided it deftly.

" Nimble is also you're human, haha" he still laughed creepily, creepily, then back raining Zurich with his weapons even his big legs come along to step to death but he with a small laugh avoid the lunge of the monster.

He leaped up the branch of the tree trunk and swung his sword at the arm of the Troll, but his hard skin was incapable of being harmed by a sword normally.

" haha are you kidding man? how can you fight me with that ugly scrap metal, even a mosquito bite is more pronounced than that" he sneered.

" You're putting me too low on a goddamn creature" Zurich shouted back to jump away a few steps, then he focused the power on his sword, his sword covered by a blazing blue-colored flame.

" Heh a blue-flame awener, cih".

He threw his weapon back at Zurich but nimbly dodged it and jumped up the weapon and slashed his arm with his fire sword, his arm fell to the ground leaving a splash of dark purple blood on the ground, the creature screamed in pain and then fiercely attacked Zurich again.

" Dead dead dead you lowly creature, I will defend your entrails to the lord of the Sloth lord of this region", he shouted furiously as he swung his legs to tread on Zurich.

Zurich nimbly dodged and attacked, one leg of the creature until it broke off, not only that, but, all the bodies of the creature were wounded by the sword of fire that rained down on him, and Zurich quickly jumped into the creature's hand towards his shoulder and slashed the creature's neck with a single slash, blood was sticking out of the blood vessels around his neck, soaking up Zurich's entire body.

He jumped away from the creature that had fallen to the ground, the sound of falling objects and loud vibrations were clearly heard in his ears, he looked around, he looked, no more signs of another monster would appear there was only a white rabbit hiding behind a tree.

Zurich stepped away from the carcass of the Troll but he was stopped by a white rabbit who had been hiding, he stopped his steps.

" Do you want to be killed too?" he said as he pulled the sword from his waist, the rabbit approached and bit his robe down and pulled it towards the monster he had defeated earlier.

" You want me to follow you?"

The rabbit jumped as if he understood what Zurich was saying, and followed the rabbit to the blood-soaked carcass of the troll, the rabbit jumped around the creature's carcass and then he looked at Zurich and raised one leg.

Zurich approached him and the rabbit jumped into a pool of blood and then showed something to him, there appeared a blackish-blue stone, he took the stone.

" Do you want me to bring this?"

The rabbit answered him while lifting one leg.

He sat under a tree to rest, it was dark, he picked up some branches and lit a fire to burn the fish he got by the river near the slope.

" Why did you follow me here?" he asked the rabbit but the creature was silent, there was no signal like he did this afternoon.

" Have I gone crazy talking to an animal like this?" he said while laughing.

The night turned morning Zurich continued its journey, searching the hillside for the leaf the poison girl had asked for.

" The linus leaf, where I can get it" he murmured, looking around, the rabbit, hearing the murmur of the zurich, pulled back his robe, Zurich turned to him and the rabbit led Zurich to the top of the hill of Tar-Tar, then he stopped at the edge of the abyss and pointed at the abyss with his feet.

" You mean the leaves are down there?"

The rabbit caught one leg, then Zurich looked at the edge of the cliff shown by the rabbit, on the cliff there were some plants with finger-shaped leaves.

" How can you know that plants that only live on steep cliffs like this? plus the growing area in the monster territory", murmured Zurich was not exhausted with the girl he met, then he immediately came down to take the leaf.

Zurich took the leaves with a considerable quantity and did not forget he took some shoots that he would plant in his residence, he said, after he finished he climbed again to the top of the hill and rushed to return to the residence of Duke Abelard but he was confronted by a herd of Chimera.

" It can't be that easy" he said with a smile and prepared to attack the herd of Chimera which there were about twenty.

The creature besieged Zurich from all directions, the white rabbit that had been nearby was gone somewhere, they stormed Zurich together but with one swing Zurich could fend off the attack of the herd.

Zurich and the herd fought long enough, he felt that there was something wrong with the Chimera herd, although he had killed them several times but none of them without getting hurt or even dying, he felt that if he still could not defeat the creature then it was possible that he would be in a berserk condition.

Finally he took a breath and focused his strength on his sword and his sword was covered with black flames, he swung his sword at every Chimera that attacked him, Black flames were flames that would not die until what he burned was reduced to ashes, that was the only way he thought of getting out of that endless battle.

One by one the creatures were burned leaving two tails left but it seemed like one of them was aware of Zurich's black flames, they roared for a long time and left behind his burning flock and Zurich, who had been trembling because of his depleted stamina.

He rested for several hours, his chest had started to hurt which indicates that he was already in a state of berserk stage one.

" I have to go back and rest" he said looking for the leaves he had wrapped earlier but did not find them.

He sighed, does this mean that I should take the leaf again, he thought as he sat under the shady trunk of the tree, the sun had almost set, meaning that he had spent two days on the hill, he lifted his already heavy body and walked towards the ravine where he had taken the linus leaf.

There was something unusual about his berserk condition, as if every hour passed adding to his condition to be more severe, he decided to go back under the big tree earlier and decided to rest longer.

Early in the morning, the white rabbit that had disappeared back while dragging the package of linus leaves that Zurich had picked, he looked at the creature in wonder.

" Where have you been? why is the parcel in your hand?"

The rabbit jumped up and circled near the parcel he was carrying, Zurich frowning.

" Do you want to say that you're keeping him from being taken by the Chimera herd?"

He lifted one leg.

Zurich laughed loudly, not thinking that he would meet the strange rabbit, and then he moved towards the hillside, the white rabbit continued to follow him, and he went on, finally after arriving at the foot of the hill he immediately used a teleportation scroll to the residence of Duke Abelard, not forgetting he brought a white rabbit that seemed to want to follow him.

Arriving at Duke Abelard's residence he meets Claude and the girl his team calls Butterfly, he immediately handed the parcel to Claude and asked him to give the buds of linus leaves to the gardener of the residence.

Claude went to bring some plant buds leaving Zurich and the girl named Butterfly, he gave the leaves he had picked to the girl in front of him.

" Adorable, are you going to get him a pet?" the girl asked with twinkling eyes at the rabbit in Zurich's right hand.

' Shall I give him this rabbit? I think he really likes this guy, he thought.

He was still staring at Zurich's eyes to wait for an answer, a sweet smile still adorning his face.

" No, it's a food reserve".

The girl was petrified for a while ago with a sour face leaving little smiling Zurich to see the reaction of the girl who had almost disappeared at the end of the corridor.

A few hours later Zurich had cleared up and was about to go meet with his team members to discuss their next move due to a delay in the mission due to Alfred's circumstances, as he passed the kitchen he saw Butterfly was busy fanning the stove, the sweat rolling on his thin showed that the girl had been struggling for hours in the kitchen.

" How much more time do you need?" he said from the door and caught the surprised reaction of the girl.

" It's still in the process, I can't carelessly give the antidote because the side effects of linus leaves are quite dangerous" he replied still busy with his herbal medicine.

Zurich approached her, looking into the shell above the small clay compr, the girl seemed troubled by his presence, she glanced at him several times, it seemed that he was reluctant to speak to Zurich but he finally asked her to leave.

" I get nervous when someone notices me at work" he told Zurich, who made him look at the girl for a long time, but eventually he decided to go and interfere again with the girl's activities.