Chapter 120: Decision
Varlen saw both siblings had finished eating, he smiled a strange smile, but hard to see and voice calm:
"Done? Delicious, right?"
Hiwcel nodded and smiled before his father a very innocent smile.
"Also okay, not too bad. But what kind of meat is this, father?"
Hiwcel still kept that smile, gaze slightly changed and sharper.
"You want to know?"
Nara's voice was excitedly very cute:
"Tell us, making me too curious."
Varlen reached his hand under the table and pressed a wooden button, he signaled with his gaze to the right of the two siblings, both with curious eyes looked over.
Clack... clack…
Sound like that of a system, at the end of the table, the table surface was suddenly pulled down. This thing was usually used in parties when bringing out the final and delicious, most important dishes.
Both siblings suddenly froze and stood still when seeing something slowly being pushed up, an image extremely familiar to them.
Pupils dilated, two eyes opened wide in shock, not normal shock but extremely shocked. The whole body trembled violently because of fear and disgust.
Varlen still naturally kept the smile, voice normal as if introducing:
"The meat you just ate is exactly from here, how do you see it?"
That was a woman's head placed on a plate, fresh red blood stained into puddles in the plate. The head still kept its expression, an expression of fear as the two eyes did not close and still opened wide as if looking at something. The woman's head's red hair mixed together with blood and was tangled around.
The atmosphere was as if compressed to the point of difficulty breathing, both siblings tremblingly breathed every breath weakly and struggled to take breath. The whole body shook, fear, disgust, shock,... their emotions at this time mixed together as if the body didn't know how to react, only freezing to the point of being stunned, eyes looking toward the head.
Varlen narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at his two children, eyes looking forward to seeing the next reaction in an interested way through expressions.
Hiwcel suddenly had a feeling like something was pushing up from below inside him. Varlen's words still echoed in his head, he knew what the thing he just ate was.
-"The meat you just ate is exactly from here, how do you see it?"
Sound of heavy panting more intense from both siblings, bodies went limp. Sound echoing in Hiwcel's head as if trying to remind and confirm:
-"I-It's... mother... it's mother... it's... mother..."
"Bleh" The chair retreated. Hiwcel and Nara as if reaching the limit of endurance together vomited at the same time. The slimy mess on the ground was exactly what they ate. Hiwcel with vision gradually blurring was looking at the slimy mess he just vomited, chaotic emotions making him not believe it was real.
Nara slowly raised her head in fear. Looking at the one whom from now on she thought was a demon, he was wearing a faint smile naturally and as if watching a play. She collapsed and fainted when the body somehow was so weak, right after that Hiwcel also immediately fainted.
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Returning…
Nara was standing covering her face crying, trying not to scream out, her body trembling in every surge along the chaotic emotional flow.
Hiwcel did not cry, but he bit his lip to the point of bleeding. Gripping his hand weakly.
The whole group at this time were standing silent, they also only had one single expression which was shock, also couldn't do anything else.
Hiwcel continued telling in a trembling way:
"Afterward we were locked in a boundary. He constantly said to us that mother had betrayed him as if brainwashing us. We didn't believe, luckily the butler in the house toward us was quite close had released us and we escaped."
Restrained tears from earlier until now also reached the time to fall.
"Initially I also wanted revenge. But my mother once said as long as living it's okay, as long as not dead then there will be happiness. My mother always wanted us to live, no matter what happens as long as living then she still would smile if she died."
The final words Hiwcel spoke trembled more strongly and were harder to hear:
"So... so... we decided to discard everything and want to live normally."
Hiwcel finished speaking, the whole room fell into silence. The group's gaze dropped as if understanding for Hiwcel, truly accepting was very hard. But the two siblings being able to accept was too strong, not everyone could accept that easily like them. Especially more so as this world a loophole can lead to death by someone taking revenge, yet they discarded it.
Kazuka truly did not know what to say, he hesitated seeing what to say for this situation that's suitable but it didn't come out. The story was too shocking, and the fact they accepted was even more shocking. The only thing he saw was admiring them for having decided so.
"So where will the two of you go?"
Hiwcel as if not hearing Kazuka's question and continued:
"I know if I am evidence it will be useful. But I ask permission to be selfish."
Looking at this situation, truly it was easy to empathize. No one moved, no one came to comfort both. The space was as if silent only with the "sniffling" sound of Nara crying.
Kazuka turned around, his eyes as if flashing something, he said softly:
"Go outside to discuss."
Passing to room number five, the whole group entered. Kazuka spoke:
"What do you guys think? What should we do?"
Airi sighed, crossing her arms before her chest.
"Surely what they told is real. But what should we do with them? If they go then this city will be messy like a tangle of silk, war is inevitable."
Elyssia nodded.
"Right. You guys give opinions and gather them."
All six people were silent full of pensive thought, all as if using all the strength of the brain trying to think.
Aoto closed his eyes, the white space inside was no longer but was a vast space and more luxurious than even the royal palace. Actually it was also just imagination caused by other Aotos to make this place less empty.
A large and long table, white tables and chairs with various colored stones and gold extremely luxurious. All sat on the luxurious chairs and looked in one direction.
Aoto was standing and spoke loudly:
"Surely you guys heard it too. Now try thinking see if there is any good opinion or not?"
Calm crossed arms before chest, expression still calm as usual.
"This decision is important, according to me should keep them. Because there will be real people dying."
The other Aotos were noisy together, all wanted to keep the two siblings Hiwcel and Nara to have information and reverse the situation to save the city and everyone in the city from death.
But Cunning in that noisiness. He snapped his fingers with a "snap", a large bell above the head appeared and "gong", the large sound making the Aotos have to cover their ears in piercing pain.
Hot-tempered got angry and roared: "You guy, what are you doing?"
Cunning didn't bother to respond, naturally said:
"You guys think it's easy? Listen, if keeping them then so what?"
"We also don't have power or any important thing to be able to bring out evidence? Talk to Selena? No, certainly cannot."
"Firstly, this journey is us going to adventure. What the hell are you guys participating for? We inherently should not participate, you guys understand? If you capture them, or simply keep them, exactly you are locking their freedom."
"You guys heard them speak already? Now they need to go, live normally and to make up for that shock, you guys understand?"
"Secondly, we inherently don't admit to being bad or good, we just go and go, like birds flying. So saving or not is not important, if participating and meeting danger then this journey is not only I am affected, but everyone as well."
Finished speaking, Cunning was silent making the space become silent. No one said a word, they all saw Cunning's words were correct.
Calm nodded and spoke up:
"Truly we are not good people either. Within capability then help, but if there is a risk of affecting the whole group then should discard."
At this time, Aoto sat with fingers interlaced propped on the table, even he was persuaded by Cunning and nodded.
Cunning smirked looking at everyone thinking. He simply enjoyed the feeling of persuading everyone.
Aoto stood up and spoke loudly, eyes as if deciding:
"Then I will talk with everyone, decide so."
The whole group at this time was still silently thinking. Aoto suddenly opened his eyes and spoke softly, as if it was important and it was all he had:
"Everyone..."
The whole group turned over to look at Aoto. Aoto took a very deep breath and said:
"We decided to go everywhere, right?"
Ayaka was wanting to speak, but Aoto reached out a hand signaling silence.
"We decided to go everywhere, you guys, I, all like that. We when at the castle also said once that we would go everywhere and not care anymore."
All five people as if realized the thing Aoto wanted to say, they wanted to speak to intervene but remembered earlier Aoto stopped Ayaka from speaking and looking into Aoto's eyes made them silently listen.
"We are here needing money to go further, didn't expect to get entangled in this matter. We also are not good people, if able to save then we will save within capability."
"But if this matter affects this journey do you guys think it's worth it? All six of us deciding together, is the thing all six want. We don't admit to being good people, nor admit being bad."
"So I think we should not dip our hands in. Let this matter be, or if wanting to help those two. Takeshi's Earth element will bring them out successfully without anything happening. As for what the dark side of this event is, we don't have enough capability."
Speaking for a while in a long-winded way, but all understood the point Aoto wanted to say here. All five people were silent, not saying a word. As if waiting for someone to speak first before daring to speak.