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34.84% A Psychic's Scarlet Dream / Chapter 65: Chapter 34: Trust (Part 2)

Chapter 65: Chapter 34: Trust (Part 2)

Ozyllus: "He did say that's how the tomb keeps going, didn't he?"

Abyss: "Yeah, he did. What about it?"

Abyss wonders why Ozyllus suddenly brought up that topic.

Ozyllus: "I wonder why he did that."

Abyss: "Why wouldn't he?"

Ozyllus: "There was no reason to actually tell Kais and Sona how the island keeps its supply of psychic energy ongoing."

Ozyllus seriously wonders about that question because he really doesn't know why the dragon did that.

Ozyllus: "Now that Sona knows that, she can use her spirits to turn it around and suck the energy out of the tomb. If that happens …"

He suddenly stops talking.

Abyss: "If that happens?"

Abyss asks with curiosity as Ozyllus wonders about it for a while and then looks him in the eye as he answers.

Ozyllus: "There's just no way around it. If that happens, he'll die."

Abyss: "The dragon would die if that happens?"

Abyss asks in shock.

Ozyllus: "Yeah, that's what I just said."

Abyss comes to understand why Ozyllus had become curious about that question all of a sudden.

Ozyllus: "Kais immediately started explaining the strategy to them so I didn't get the chance to question it because I didn't want to get distracted. But now that I truly think about it, there's just no way this wasn't a foolish decision on his part."

Abyss: "Foolish, maybe. Not pointless though."

Ozyllus narrows his eyes not understanding what Abyss means. On the other hand, Abyss comes to understand what was truly going on.

So the fact that both of them can do something that will end up killing the other is supposed to be the way they trust the other. Abyss smiles while coming to understand that.

Abyss: "Sona has probably sent out spirits to reverse things."

Ozyllus: "That's the point …"

Abyss: "But also told them to not do anything."

Ozyllus: "Huh? What does that mean?"

Abyss: "If the spirits are to feel that their connection to their owner, Sona, has broken, they are to pull it off."

Ozyllus: "What?"

Abyss: "If the dragon uses his chance to kill her, she has prepared a plan to kill him in return."

Ozyllus is left speechless.

Abyss: "You are thinking how foolish they are, aren't you?"

Ozyllus: "Of course I am. What kind of idiotic way of trusting each other is that?"

Abyss: "The dragon is going to die in a few days and so doesn't necessarily fear death because of how inevitable it is. But he also doesn't want to die right now because he wants to bring you down before he dies."

Ozyllus doesn't interrupt.

Abyss: "On the other hand, Sona has been ready to die in taking her revenge so if this surefire way of killing him presents itself to her, she will gladly agree to die herself."

Ozyllus: "What mockery of survival instinct is that?"

Abyss: "It is precisely the survival instinct that matters here, Ozyllus. The fact that the two of them would go so far as to completely mock survival instinct is the proof of how strong their resolve is. Even if what they have done is foolish, it is admirable in a sense."

Abyss' voice becomes louder as he goes on. Ozyllus, on the other hand, asks in a softer voice,

Ozyllus: "Admirable, you say?"

Abyss: "Yes, it's admirable; because neither you nor I will ever have that strong a resolve."

Ozyllus: "Tch!"

Ozyllus turns to the light. He is frustrated because everything Abyss has said is true. He is frustrated that they are indeed more resolute than him. And he's frustrated because …

Abyss: "How does it feel to know the tragedy you caused that should have broken the two of them ended up bringing about this result?"

Abyss asks with a smile already knowing the answer.

Abyss: "I wonder how things will go from here."

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Barry: "What's going on here? Why are you telling us all this like it's no big deal? I am sure you have never told this to anyone before."

Dragon: "Well, I have told this to two people before."

Irritated by the dragon's mocking smile, Barry glances at Ro and,

Barry: "I am asking this using telepathy so he can't hear, but why did you bring this topic up? Is there a connection between this and what he previously mentioned? Just think up your answer and I will know."

Barry asks him with telepathy.

Ro: "I thought from the way he said those words that he is working with someone. And the thought crossed my mind that his appearance could give us a hint as to whom."

Barry: "So you thought the reason for this appearance could give us a hint on who he is working with. And what you meant by that is to think of who will think up a strategy like that?"

Ro: "Yeah, that was my thought process. Does anyone come to mind?"

Dragon: "What's wrong? Why go silent all of sudden?"

He asks with a mockingly innocent smile.

Ro: "Will you shut up for a second?"

Dragon: "Oh? Don't want me disturbing your telepathy?"

The two shrink back as they hear those words.

Ro: "You …"

Barry: "One man does come to mind."

Barry says, not telepathically, but from his mouth cutting off their conversation. The dragon and Ro look at him in surprise.

Barry: "Damn you!"

He says with a low voice before gripping his hand in sheer anger.

Barry: "Damn you, Ozyllus!"

Hearing Barry utter the name of the man who came to his mind when thinking of a strategy like 'stealing psychic energy from other psychics', Ro is left speechless as the dragon smiles – this time, a genuinely happy smile.

Silence befalls the three. What breaks that silence is the voice of the woman whose aura full of spiritual energy would give her away.

Sona: "You may or may not have realized this already,"

She says as she steps out of the trees and comes into their sight.

Sona: "But you have been surrounded."

Ro and Barry look at her with different expressions. Ro is the first to react.

Ro: "What are you …?"

But he doesn't get the time to do anything. And that's because vines of the numerous trees around him bind him and constrict his movements while a vine is also put at his neck as if it's a knife to threaten him.

Ro: "Do you …"

Sona: "Don't bother thinking you'll be fine since you are ghost and any of that nonsense."

Ro falls silent after having his thoughts read.

Sona: "Those vines are imbued with spiritual energy and they have what it takes to disperse energy. If they cut you, the link from your head and body will be cut. Permanently"

Ro: "Don't joke around …"

Sona: "It's not a joke. You do remember Ethan Kales mentioning of a way to turn ghosts into spirits, right? This is it."

Ro tries to retort but falls silent when he sees the resigned expression on Barry's face telling him that she is telling the truth.

Barry: "How did you avoid my aura reading?"

Sona turns to Barry to answer his question with a mild smile on her face. Barry, on the other hand, only has cautiousness written all over his face.

Sona: "I didn't avoid it."

Barry: "What?"

Barry looks at her in surprise and suspicion while the dragon chuckles.

Dragon: "When you both saw me, I told you to look at my foot. For that one moment, both of your eyes were off me. I hit the tree with my head at that point. Even if, by chance, you had seen me though, I could have made that look natural."

Ro: "Don't … screw with us."

Dragon: "I am not. That was the signal for a bird of this forest to go to her."

Sona: "And when that bird came to me, I was teleported here. After which I had to guide the spirit constricting you right now to you and use the right opportunity to bind you."

Ro: "Tch!"

Barry: "So you are telling me the spirit was already in the ground?"

Sona: "Yes. It is in the form of a mole so it can go underground. Since your aura reading doesn't cover that area, it was the perfect place for it to be."

Ro: "You are telling me a mole is doing this."

He says as he looks at the vines constricting him.

Sona: "Different spirits can have different abilities, you know."

Sona answers while looking at him with a little bit of sympathy.

Barry: "Don't you think your plan was a little too flawed?"

Sona and the dragon both turn to Barry with a questioning gaze.

Barry: "If I had used aura reading once again, I could have easily detected you."

Sona: "Well, we needed to trust each other for this. I trusted that the dragon would be capable of distracting you and he trusted that I will be able to guide the spirit perfectly."

Dragon: "And it worked."

The dragon added to emphasize.

Barry: "It was still a foolish plan, you know."

???: "That it was."

A voice comes right from the middle of the four.

???: "But someone once told me that you can never be too smart, so turn your opponent into a fool to win the battle."

The voice of the mastermind rings clearly as a knife appears on Barry's throat out of nowhere. And just in progression, a hand begins to appear and then the rest of the body.

Kais: "Remember those words, and the day you said them to me."

He says while having a knife at Barry's throat.

Kais: "It was that day 12 years ago."

It was no surprise to Barry that he is also working together with Sona and the dragon. The moment Sona mentioned 'teleport', it had become clear. So he didn't look at Kais with surprise or shock. He only looked at Kais with pity.

Kais: "What's that expression for?"

Barry: "What's this knife for?"

Kais: "It's to make sure you answer …"

Barry narrows his eyes.

Kais: "When I ask you to tell me – everything about this war."

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Chapter 66: Chapter 35: Mask (Part 1)

On a train to an unknown place, Sona was sitting while looking bored. A middle-aged woman sitting next to her looked at her as she sighed.

Sona: "What?"

She gets annoyed by the sighing and asks.

Woman: "Nothing, you just look like you are bored."

Sona: "That's cuz I am."

The woman sighed again.

Woman: "Look, I know you don't want to go but this is important."

Sona: "If you say so."

Sona's expression doesn't change at all. Seeing that, the woman sighed again.

Woman: "I give up."

She said as she turned her attention from Sona to a magazine. Sona, seeing that, had no reaction. Why would she? After all, this kind of conversation was normal for her. That's how she and her mother had always been.

She stares out the window as she thinks of the days about to come.

"It's going to be a pain," she thinks.

Until the day before, the place her family would go for the vacations had not been told to her, so she was fairly excited for it. But after hearing where it is, all her excitement died down.

"Of all the places in the world, it had to her hometown," she complained to herself in her mind knowing that saying anything out loud will only lead to arguments with her mother that she will need to concede in at the end.

The eight-year-old girl looked out the window of the train with a bored expression. She could see the rocky landscapes of her mother's hometown coming into sight.

"Great, now I have to deal with all the idiotic rambling," she thought only to end up depressing herself more.

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Sona's grandmother: "Wow, look at how big you have gotten."

Sona looked at her grandmother with a bored expression and sighed. Her grandmother though, much to her annoyance, didn't mind at all and continued cuddling the girl.

Sona's mother: "Will you cheer up, girl?"

Sona: "Why should I cheer up?"

She immediately replied. Both of them had gotten used to those exchanges and knew nothing good would ever come out of them. And then,

Villager: "Hey, have you heard? They found the body of a man on the mountains."

A villager passing by said so to her grandmother.

Sona's grandmother: "Hey, don't say stuff like that in front of the child."

Villager: "Oh, uh, s-sorry! Didn't see you there, Sona."

"Then go get your eyes checked," she said in her mind.

Villager: "But anyway, come with me for a second."

Her grandmother nodded and left after giving Sona some more unappreciated cuddling.

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After about an hour of arriving, Sona had gone to a room that she always used whenever they would visit their grandparent's house and unpacked her bags.

As she looked outside the window, she saw the town with muddy roads and old houses where the breeze kept blowing from time-to-time.

Sona: "The place isn't half-bad to be honest. If only the people were not so dumb, this would actually be a welcome vacation."

She said as she stared at the setting sun. She raised her right hand in a way that her palm was facing upwards.

Sona: "Vessel of mercy, bless the world with your light."

She said as a bright flash of light occurred in her hand. Following that, a spirit in the form of a sparrow appeared.

Sona: "So a sparrow again, huh?"

She says while looking at the spirit.

Sona: "Guess there's a connection there I don't know about."

Every time Sona had summoned a spirit when in this village, it had always appeared in the form of a bird. There could be a geographical or climatic factor that causes it, but she didn't know what it was.

The spirit looked at her with a curious gaze. Seeing that, the girl smiled.

Sona: "Don't worry, just talking to myself."

She said to the spirit with that smile. Sona had never been the type to try to get things done by lying. She hated putting up masks and she hated acting like she cared when she didn't. So when she smiled seeing the spirit, it knew that she genuinely means everything she said. This is why, the next moment caused the spirit to panic.

CRASH!

A loud noise came and the spirit started panicking.

Sona: "What was that noise? And what's up with you?"

She knew the answer to both questions would most likely be the same.

Sona: "Do you know what that noise meant?"

The spirit nodded while continuing to panic.

Sona: "What is it?"

Instead of an answer, what Sona got was a message to run. She felt it in her head as if that's what the spirit was trying to tell her.

Sona: "Why … do I need to run?"

She asked not knowing the urgency of the situation. The spirit however continued to ask her to run without giving a proper answer.

???: "It's fortunate that you didn't listen to it right away."

A voice came from behind. But just as Sona turned around to see where the voice came from, she saw a mask hanging in the air moving as if it's worn by someone.

Sona: "W-what!?"

Mask: "Don't be so surprised. All I want is to help you."

She tried to step back only to find she was already on the farthest part of the room.

Mask: "Be careful now, we don't want you falling down from the window, do we?"

Sona: "W-who are you!?"

Mask: "Getting to business already? Well, I guess time is of essence here."

She could see the spirit she had summoned being afraid of the mask and backing away.

Sona: "W-wait!"

As Sona extended a hand to stop the spirit from falling off the window, it disappeared. The spirit went back to where it was summoned from.

Sona turned to the mask in shock and horror. The mask, however, continued as if nothing had happened.

Mask: "Okay then, let me explain what's going on here."

Sona, left with no choice, listened to the mask.

Mask: "Your village, right now, is under attack by a dragon."

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Dragon: "What is it that makes you people so feisty?"

The dragon said as he looked at the tiny creatures known as humans.

Dragon: "I really can't understand you."

He said as he looked at those humans trying to kill him; trying their utmost and using whatever means they have to try to hurt him.

Dragon: "Do you really think you can defeat me?"

Shouts of 'MONSTER' could be heard as they threw objects of all kinds at him. Mindless shouting could be heard as they tried to cut his skin with any sharp object they could get their hands on.

Dragon: "It's pathetic."

He said.

Dragon: "And I don't mean to disrespect you."

He said as the cries of the tiny creatures at his foot continued on without listening to him.

Dragon: "Neither do I mean to praise you."

He said as the village burned and its residents panicked.

Dragon: "I just think that you are-"

He said as the chaos continued to spread and the creatures that were the reason for it ignored it completely.

Dragon: "Utterly pathetic."

He said as his voice got drowned by the cries of the villagers.

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Sona: "D-dragon?"

There were a million questions in her head at that moment. Who is this mask? Who is the dragon?

Mask: "That's right."

What made that noise? Why was her spirit panicking? What's going on outside?

Mask: "But don't worry about it too much."

Where is her mother? Where is her grandmother? Where are the rest of the villagers?

Mask: "All you need to get out of this situation safely is to do as I say."

How did the mask suddenly appear there? Is someone controlling it?

Mask: "Are you listening?"

Is this a dream? Is it reality? Or a mix of both?

Mask: "Haaaa! I guess you aren't."

A sighing voice comes at her. His words kept flowing in and out of her ears as the questions in her mind blared at her with full force.

Mask: "No matter."

Regardless, neither was there any anxiety nor fear in the mask's voice.

Mask: "You will do as I say soon enough anyway."

All there was in his voice was calmness.

Mask: "After all,"

He said.

Mask: "It's not like you have any choice in the matter."

He said as the girl covered her ears.

Mask: "Your destiny was decided since the day you were born."

He said as she put her head in her lap.

Mask: "And no one can ever escape their destiny."

He said as she tried to call her spirits.

Mask: "Your life never really belonged to you after all."

He said as she failed at calling her spirits.

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