Chapter 21: Jacob x Raphael (1)

Jacob walked into his room that the maids had reserved for him and lay wearily on the bed and reflected:

'The main characters are in a place they were not meant to be, Especially Astrid.... She watched as the hero cut out his own tongue and did nothing to stop it, this is something Astrid would never do, and she shouldn't be in the elven realm, only Raphael was supposed to be here. It is likely that my intervention caused a butterfly effect that resulted in this, but did they really have to come here? Now I'm going to have to accelerate my plan, before that fucking sword recognizes Raphael as its owner.'

Jacob sighed tiredly, but got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower and put his plan into practice.

Inside a dark space, a girl was seen lying down as she slept in a heavy sleep, until suddenly, her body began to emit a huge white glow that engulfed all the darkness. Little by little, she opened her eyes and spoke:

"Finally... The Chosen One has arrived."

While taking a shower, Jacob felt a mysterious and silent presence entering his room and he calmly turned the shower temperature up to maximum so that it would generate steam and consequently the bathroom would fill with smoke.

After doing so, he stepped out from under the shower and walked to behind the door and closed his eyes so that he could follow the intruder's movements. As he closed his eyes, his vision darkened and at the same time he heard a strong "badump" heartbeat.

Suddenly, a blue light inside his mind, began to project his entire room like a map and projected the intruder's movements in real time and marked him with a reddish color. Knowing the exact location of the intruder, Jacob opened his eyes and punched the door with all his strength, his goal was to hit the intruder right in the head and kill him.

The intruder that was in front of the bathroom door was caught by surprise but managed to dodge the punch just barely, but Jacob didn't give him time and advanced forward breaking the door and soon after kicking the intruder in the stomach that threw him against the wall.

Jacob was prepared to kill the person who had broken into his room, but when he saw who the person was who had broken into his room, he suddenly stopped and spoke:

"What are you doing here?"

The intruder's face was revealed and showed the face of a beautiful girl that Jacob had met earlier, she has white hair and blue eyes that make her stand out among the other girls. Grace placed her hand on her stomach where she had been hit and responded as she groaned in pain:

"I am not your enemy! I was just wanting to talk to you."

"Talk? Then why did you break into my room instead of knocking on the door?"

"Cough-cough, I asked the queen for permission to come to your room and talk to you, but when I got to your room, I heard that you were taking a bath and I didn't want to disturb you..."

'What? Who does she think she is to give others permission to come to my room? Has she never heard a word called privacy?' Jacob thought angrily about lagertha's attitudes and replied Grace:

"Really? Then why did you come to the bathroom door instead of waiting by sitting down?"

"It's just that I was curious..." After answering, Grace's face flushed and she bowed her head in shame at the sight of Jacob's naked body, but he didn't care about that and answered coldly:

"Get out and wait outside, when I change I will open the door."

Jacob didn't even trust Rodric, so imagine trusting a girl he met a few minutes ago.

With no choices, Grace stood up and kept her gaze on the floor so she wouldn't see Jacob naked and walked toward the door and out.

After she left, Jacob sighed and scratched his head irritated with himself, he felt guilty for thinking that everyone was his enemy, but he also knew that this could save his life.

Just like the fear that protects a human being from possible dangers of everyday life.

He looked at the mess he had made but didn't care, because he was going to flee the elven kingdom tonight, after stealing the sindar sword. But inside, Jacob didn't want to do that, he knew he would feel remorse for betraying a person who swore to protect him, but since he didn't have long to live and several jobs to do, Jacob just decided to move on and pay the bill for his actions at the end of the journey...

He walked to the closet where the maids had separated clothes for him to wear and as he opened the closet, he found a stylish black suit and a feeling of nostalgia surfaced, why seeing that suit, brought back memories about his old world.

"That's nice..." A smile of satisfaction was seen on his face and he began to get dressed for the event that was to take place in a few hours.

2 hours later...

"Hm... It looks good on me, but this tie always gives me a headache..." Jacob looked at himself in a mirror while trying to fix his tie, but after several attempts, he got irritated and gave up.

"Damn, why is it so hard to knot a tie?!"

He sighed in defeat and realized that the tie had gone completely crooked, but since he was irritated and lazy, Jacob decided to leave it as it was and said:

"If anyone comes to talk about my crooked tie, I'll just tell them to go to hell and that's it!"

Satisfied, he walked towards the door and opened it and said:

"Come in." But to his surprise, he found no one in front of the door and poked his head out so he could see down the hallway and found Grace sitting up as she slept leaning against the wall.

"Hey, wake up."

Jacob was talking to Grace to wake up, but she didn't respond and he smiled and tried something he had read in the novel and walked over to her and said in her ear:

"Astrid is coming."

Suddenly, Grace stood up intinstively and opened her eyes and screamed:

"I'm awake!"

"Pffff, is it serious that you woke up because of that? You must be traumatized from training, pffff." Jacob was starting to laugh and Grace looked around and noticed that Astrid was not there and asked:

"Where is Miss Astrid?"

"Haha, Astrid? I have no idea who that is."

"What? But I heard..." Suddenly, Jacob grabbed her by the wrist and brought her into the room and closed the door quietly and gave a cold look as he felt the presence of someone familiar.

Grace who was caught off guard, was embarrassed to see that she was so close to Jacob and tried to say something, but Jacob put his index finger to her mouth, gesturing that she not make a sound.

'Something's wrong... Even if I don't know her very well, I know there's something wrong with you, Astrid.' Jacob looks at Astrid through the walls because of his new instincts and reflected again:

'You were performing perfectly until you started taking actions that you of normally wouldn't take.... You shouldn't be here... You shouldn't have come to the elven kingdom with the heroes... You shouldn't have stood by and watched while that hero was ripping out his own tongue... There is something wrong with you, something that is probably causing these drastic changes in history. I need to find out what's going on before it's too late...'

Suddenly, Astrid stopped in front of Jacob's door and spoke:

"Get out."