The Butterfly Trap

The Part 36

" What are you guys?" many wonder.

" This is what?" ask the Prophet to me.

' I guess they found out because their faces were shocked, uh it was back!' my thinking.

" I don't know either, he said it could protect me while he wasn't around! why indeed?"

" Hmmm I don't know why I feel this thing is so precious, it even seems more valuable than your necklace, have you asked Madam Miranda?"

" I haven't seen him since I returned to Capital, I plan to visit him later"

They both muttered, and the Prophet put the scales back into the cloth bag and returned them to me, then he made an absurd statement.

" I think he likes you Si"

" who? The owner of this bag?"

The Prophet nodded as well as Stella, I frowned, where perhaps Zeju liked me, I believe she helped me because she felt she had to repay my kindness to him, I just shook my head in response to the words of my two best friends and switched the conversation to another one.

After a long chat with me and the Prophet, we separated on the road because I was about to visit Miranda, on the way I saw Zeju walking alone, I stopped the horse carriage and approached him.

" Mister Chyou" I shouted to him.

He stopped then looked back and put on an astonished face.

" Why do you call me that?" ask her to me after I get near her.

" Yes the time I called you Zeju, what if some of Zurich's subordinates heard it?"

" Hmmm what are you doing here?"

" I just went back to see Stella and was about to visit Miranda, is your business with her done?"

" He's not in the Guild" he said with a breath, his face still worried about something.

" really? too bad!" I said with a disappointed tone.

I looked closely at Zeju, there were many things that occurred to me when I saw his face, whether he was a friend or an enemy I did not know, but for sure since he saved me he's been an important person in my life, I don't know if there was any meaning to him when he saved me but I can clearly see his sincerity when he treated me.

We decided to return to Zurich's residence, where along the way Zeju just kept silent it seemed that he was thinking about something complicated, visible from the frown of his forehead that appeared as he looked deep into the sky.

" Are you okay?" ask her.

He nodded, it was an attitude he almost never showed me, Zeju who I knew was the man who would talk sarcastically to me or ignore me, but he never showed a worried face despite this condition when he was in the form of a rabbit.

He stopped, I stopped and he looked at me for a long time.

" I'm going away for a while, I think with my situation now I can go back to doing what I want to do, I'm really grateful that you've helped me heal" he said in a low tone.

" Are you going back to the demon territory?"

" No, there's more to it than that, I'll definitely come back to you but as long as I'm gone you'll have to stay away from any threat that's threatening your life, okay?" he held both my shoulders and looked straight into my eyes.

" What does that mean?" ask me wonder.

He looked around and then looked back into my eyes.

" The information I'm about to tell you is the most important thing, so we can talk about it here, let's follow me!"

He stepped ahead of me I just followed him from behind, in my head I wonder what really happened and why Zeju looks so serious once, we got near the park away from the crowd, there was a bench, he led me to sit down.

" What exactly is going on?" ask her when she is sitting facing me.

He was silent for a moment then took a deep breath.

" As long as I'm here, I've been investigating the movements of the humanoid monsters, at first I thought I was just paranoid but yesterday's attack convinced me of one thing, those monsters had the same goal as ten years ago".

" Ten years ago? if ten years ago what does that have to do with the incident that happened to my family?"

He looked at me with a sad face.

" This is exactly what I was about to talk to Miranda, ten years ago I got a message from Noah that he suspected of improper activity in Capital, at that time he also said that a book had been stolen from the castle of the Elf king, and the book in question was a book that discussed the ancient Oden kingdom and the Naccobus worm"

" Anything now makes sense, I wonder why the last few years have come up with this case about garaga Q when this poison is so rarely known, and the thief is a humanoid monster?"

" Your grandfather assumed so, though, that's why he set up a facility to make an antidote for the poison just in case they attacked Dakota with such a deadly biological weapon but it turns out that the spies knew about it and it finally happened to your family, I still don't have any proof whether they're disguised as one of the nobles of this kingdom or they're working together to bring down your family, but what is certain is that yesterday's attack reinforced my assumption that one of the nobles in this kingdom was involved with a humanoid monster!".

" Hasn't their goal already been achieved when my family on earth was scorched? then why is he still killing Emperor Muller and Grand Duke Dagaras?"

" At first I felt that was their goal, but after I had been working on the case for nearly ten years, I came to the conclusion that this was not their real goal".

" What is their real purpose?"

" Their goal is to capture Zhu Yan Mgcnagal, your grandmother who is the embodiment of the lotus spirit who possesses incredible healing and purification abilities, and who is the ultimate spirit, they did not know that Noah and Zhu Yan had been bound by eternal marking, so he got rid of Noah first who was the strongest man in the Dakota kingdom!"

" Why did he want to catch my grandmother?"

" I told you that your grandmother had extraordinary healing and purification abilities, just like you, a single drop of her blood could cure any disease in the body, imagine if you consumed her heart, she said, all the curses and whatever it is will disappear from your growth even your body will return young and primed, I think Hommucullus needs it, considering that when the war in the monster world occurred, he was already severely injured".

I was aghast, my head ached from the amount of information coming into my head all at once, all this time I wondered why my grandmother and mother had never visited me after the Mcgnagal family murders, sometimes I blame my mother for not caring about me and just focusing on her mission.

Until Miranda finally said that my mother had died on the mission before she could meet me, at first I just thought he was irresponsible for leaving me for nothing but hearing Zeju's explanation I understood one thing.