Capítulo 63: The Name Is Curna
I saw Red-Hairs standing near wall of the church.
Though he doesn't seem to notice since there were bushes and tree between us.
Woods covered back of the church with about 20 metres high wall parting both ends.
I made my way to Red-Hairs as he raised his head upon sensing the presence.
"Took you long enough. I was sick of waiting here." And those were the words he greeted me with.
Giving a quick glance at his waist, I returned few words of gratitude to him.
"For how long?"
"About 15 minutes now. Shouldn't you be early since you're the one to plan whole thing!"
He was carrying a sword with him.
𝘏𝘦𝘩, 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘶𝘮𝘣 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙.
"Nonsense. Even if you've been waiting here for hours or maybe days, I won't mind at all."
"HUAH?!" On my words, Red-Hairs was now irritated.
Truth to be told, I did arrive just a few minutes ahead of decided meeting.
"What? I am on time or early, just so you know. Isn't it up to you when to arrive considering punctuality, on time?"
"You!" Red-Hairs took a step forward but I stopped him by raising a hand.
"How about we do other day. We a job to do." I said as I scanned the surrounding.
"Tch... So, what is this so-called important job we have this late?" He asked, a bit displeased.
"You'll understand eventually..." I said as I touched wall of the church, examining.
"I just wanna break your head,"
"Sure, go-ahead that is, if you possibly can..." I replied to his growing impatience as I took step towards woods.
Indeed, his frustration was obvious considering the fact that I have kept him in suspense for a while now. But it was necessary...
"I believe this tree might be a better place." I said as I looked up at tree.
"For what? Heh, don't tell me you're making yourself home here. Hah, are going to make a tree house here... Great thing for a pygmy such as you!"
I ignored his cheap provocation. It was undeniable that Red-Hairs is on his edge to loose his cool. If I tried to mess with him or provoke him, this idiot will surely lash out end up ruining everything. So the best course of action may be to ignore.
Still, people does get frustrated when ignored so I must do something about it too.
"What I mean to say is this place is best for us to hide."
"I am not here to play games with you! Just tell me our motive to show up here already!" Red-Hairs was starting to loose his cool.
"How about you tell me what information you were able to get out from that Baldy." I said as I climbed up on the tree.
As if frustration build up until now vanished as Red-Hairs' face adopted a sourness.
He climbed up as he sat on a branch beside me. Cursing a whole different thing now.
"I was in the middle of torturing that bastard but... King intervened..."
𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥?
"Why?" I inquired.
"Apparently, that Baldy and I have some clashes before... The fact that bastard is close to many Kshatriyas' with high political influence helped him. His majesty even gave me an earful about how I must not use my power to fullfill my graduge..."
𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘸...
"So, didn't manage to get any information out in the end, huh..." I said with a bit mocking tone.
To which Red-Hairs smirked.
"Hoh, you think so?"
"Huh?"
"It was unfortunate that I wasn't able to torture that bastard of my heart's content but... He did spill some beans." He said as he enjoyed my surprise.
"So, what is it? Tell me," I urged Red-Hairs.
"HAH! Like the hell I would! It is not something to be told to an outsider like you... It is the matter I must look into deeply and all in secret."
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘮𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥.
"So you're not going to tell me is what you mean."
"Correct. I'll investigate this by myself. I can't take risk of leaking any sort of information, doesn't matter how big or small it is, by involving someone."
𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺.
"Such a disgrace..." I sighed, showing my disappointment.
"Moreover... You haven't tell me why we are here! Say it or I'm leaving!"
"That, hmmm... He might be here anytime,"
"Huh...?"
I pointed at the location Red-Hairs was standing at the time I arrived, that is, Church's wall.
We both saw a person approaching thr wall. They had their whole body, face too, covered with black cloth so obviously we couldn't actually tell who they were.
"He—!?" Red-Hairs was about to act but I stopped him from doing so by holding his shoulder, as I put a finger on my lips, directing him to stay quiet.
"Shhh... Let's wait here for a bit and observe."
Red-Hairs tried to oppose for a split second but eventually got his head on right place.
"You know him?" Whispering, he asked.
"Not in particular, no."
To which Red-Hairs starred me for a moment before dropping another question.
"You knew, that someone is going to come?"
"Yep, more or less. To be honest, it was just a whim,"
"What?! You're making no sense."
"How about you maintain silence for sometime and try to annalise what is in front of us?"
Taking my advice, Red-Hairs observed.
"...Still, what could possibly lead a person to visit church this late in such shady manner?"
"You said it. Shady person surely do something shady. Real question is why the church?"
"That's what I said. But I can't take this any longer. It's better if I go there and make them blab about their motives." He said as he hit his fist on other palm.
The person ahead us scanned the area in careful manner as they looked at huge wall of church.
"It seems, they are thinking of climbing it."
"As if they could," Red-Hairs said, doubting.
"Any person who could possibly climb that wall couldn't be a normal. Do you really think they could climb the wall as such with no equipments or support."
He was right.
That person doesn't seem to have any ropes or equipment, or something. Neither I could spot anyone else here to aid them.
"Can you climb that wall, Red-Hairs?" I asked.
"I can— And I am Neulon!"
"Shhh... We might get caught if you suddenly raise your voice like that."
"It's all your fault—!?"
At that moment, the person in disguise turn to face in our direction as they said,
"I know that you're there for a while now... How about you show yourself? That'd be rather moralistic act on your part too..." They said. We were busted.
This person know words, now even I feel guilty, or rather disgraceful, for hiding myself.
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴. 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵, 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧.
"See, I told you stupid. Now he caught us," I shifted blame on Red-Hairs.
"W-What?! So what are we gonna do next?" He asked.
"Stay here. Show yourself when called." I ordered Red-Hairs as I jumped of the tree and revealed myself.
"W-Wait—!" Red-Hairs tried to stop me but then put his hands on mouth stopping himself to make any further voice.
As I got down, I raised my hands showing non-hostility towards him.
"I am surprised that you spotted me." I said politely.
"...You!" Surprised, he starred just starred at me.
Not only he was just starring, he was observing me too. I can assume such from his focused gaze.
"We met again," I said as I approached him.
"I am the one who is surprised... I thought you were done for. How did you even manage to survive?" He asked.
"Heh, not that I couldn't. If anything else, it's thanks to you." I replied.
"Really, I didn't do much."
"That's what at least you think? In my eyes, you saved us all." I give him a slight bow as a display of gratefulness.
Indeed, he was the very young man who take care of Baldy and, the one who saved not only me, but Lucia and Reena too during demons' invade at temple.
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸? 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸...
With that, I finally manage to decrease distance between us as I stood in front of him.
He realising this, didn't flustered at all rather his gaze become more strong.
...𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘯.
"So, all ask you this. Why are you here?" He interrogated.
"I could ask the same, couldn't I?"
"I see... Then you wouldn't answer like this, huh." Young lad closed his eyes, focusing.
Out of nowhere a bow appeared in his left hand as he raised at me.
"Hoh, you're full of surprises... But, what about an arrow? You're not going to launch thin air at me are you, or, you going to use that bow as a material to to hit me?" I make fun of him, but paid no mind to it.
"Don't worry about such thing," He said as he slowly pulled the string of bow.
As a tension started to build in string a arrow to appeared following path of string.
Now, arrow was aimed right for my head.
"So, you going to hit with that?" I asked.
"I don't have any grudge against you but if you forced me, then I may."
𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴...
Not to mention the fact that he was able to sense our presence even after hiding ourselves so skillfully. I even deployed a a barrier in 3 metre radius to prevent any sound considering that Red-Hairs was always noisy.
"Now tell me, why are you here?" I inquired.
"My answer is same as before, I could ask you the same thing."
"You—!" He was surprised by the fact that I still dared to return such words, given the situation. But I continued,
"I gave you the answer, couldn't you understand your very statement?"
At my words, young lad slightly lower his bow as he thought before tensing up again.
"You get it, right? As you have realised up until now, I am here. Doing my job. Is there anything wrong with it?"
"...No, not at all." He then lowered his weapon.
"I see, I should have understand this much after observing you... Not all are people are corrupt. There are always people like you out there how put their duties before themself." He said.
To which I silently sighed in relief.
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱. 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵.
"Forgive me for my rudeness." He lowered his head, apologizing.
"You don't have to do that, after all misunderstanding happens. Besides, we haven't introduced ourselves yet. I am the one who is known as Allan, pleasure." I extended my hand as he took it with a firm handshake.
"The name is Curna. Nice meeting you, Allan." Curna returned the politeness with a polite smile.
With that, most of my meaning for coming here was served. Now all that was left, was to investigate.
. . . . .
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