Capítulo 39: Chapter 39
On the city's outskirts, 200 km away from the crowded places, in the skirt of a mountain, Noah stood in front of an old Japanese-style house similar to the Onsen. He found this place after two hours of circling the hill. Noah used The GPS for directions, but he could not locate the site. It was all bushes and trees. He even passed through a waterfall! He was pondering going back and returning with a local person again when suddenly he sensed a fluctuation in the air and stumbled on his feet. When he raised his head, in front of him, he saw an old statue of an animal. Noah walked along these sculptures in different sizes to a wide flat area. There were sporadic houses lined up with more significant buildings. Noah looked again at the paper Kaveh had given him. According to the address, the place with seven seemed to be the one. Noah's mouth twitched, examining the building with the correct number. The walls were short; he could see the inside of the home. Little girls were feeding fish in the pond. Some girls were picking plums. It was so peaceful you wouldn't think it was in the middle of nowhere. He took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
What happened next made Noah question the meaning of life. He found himself seated on the tatami mat, and beside him were beautiful girls in Yukata offering him exclusive beverages and desserts. ' Am I in heaven?' Noah liked the company of beautiful and attentive women from his childhood. His gentle mother from his original world was the definition of that. She had always had a special place in his heart. Due to that, he admired and respected women more. Even when his childhood friend betrayed him for his brother, his opinion of women didn't change. Noah thought Although he preferred men, it wasn't unbearable to be here in the centre of these women like this.
' Wait, I prefer men? Why did I assume that?' Noah was confused for a second, but he didn't dwell much on it. In his previous life, he didn't have any lovers. So he wasn't against it if a man could melt his frozen heart.
Noah was engrossed in his world. He didn't notice when a woman entered the room in silence. " Sir, What brings you here?"
A pleasant and soft voice brought Noah from his thought.
He raised his eyes to face a woman with an elegant demeanour across from him. This woman was around 50 years old with smooth black hair tidied up the top of her head while breathtaking ornaments decorated it. Her eyes were like two bottomless abysses that suck your soul in. Noah had heard about this kind of eyes before. He felt a little uncomfortable. In the book he had read, These kinds were categorised as ensnared eyes. They would trap you thoroughly that you don't want to take your eyes off them.
The woman was the current head of the clan of foxes, Annya Rubahan. She waited for the boy's response patiently. Nevertheless, the boy was absentminded, starting at her intensively. She was content with the result she achieved by using her eyes. She concluded that she could subdue this person with ease. She asked again. " Dear sir??"
Noah's eyes gained clarity like breaking free from a spell. He remembered his purpose for visiting and handed out the letter to the woman.
Noah was unsure what was in there, yet his back went cold seeing the change in the woman's face.
All of a sudden, everyone left the room except for the woman. Noah rose his vigilance. He was puzzled about what Kaveh had written in the letter that would stimulate the woman.
" Are you the person who wrote this?"
The woman said with suppressed anger.
Noah shook his head as a no. " I am just a messenger. I have no idea what it is."
" You know that person?"
"Why do you want to know it?" Noah replied, guarded.
" He sent you to a tiger den with this hot potato, but you still want to protect him?" the woman said, shaking the letter.
" He would never do that!" Noah was confident Kaveh valued Edwin too much to manipulate and put in danger the people that his brother cared about.
In his opinion, Kaveh's behaviour was not an ordinary 14 years old boy who woke up from a coma. He was too alert and emotional. At first, he suspected that Kaveh had experienced some trauma in his family home from his parents or someone related to them. But arriving in the middle of nowhere, he revised his thought process. With him being a transmigrator, other possibilities were not farfetched. He was convinced by coming here that Kaveh sent this letter for a purpose. And these people probably would be valuable to Edwin.
The woman was studying the young man seated across her. With her acquisition, the boy never showed a hint of doubt toward the writer. She tested him first to see if the boy knew about the letter's content and, secondly, to ensure he was in close contact with the writer. These calculated actions were not on a whim. Her tribe was different from others. They were decent from the nine-tail fox famous in Myth. All of them had a charming and alluring appearance. Many men, even women, fell in love with them, but most of them could not withstand the persistence of suitors. Over time, they would lose their minds and lock these women somewhere away from others, putting them under psychological shadows towards love. Her clan's people changed tactics and never deeply associated themselves with others. Most of the time, they would have a nightstand or shallow relationship with men to have kids.
Their lifestyle became messy. The elders were frightened by the consequences of the action of this younger generation. They established new roles related to this issue. They had forbidden women to form a relationship with strangers. They selected powerful families for an arranged marriage. The fox tribe people were experts in the entertainment industry. They could infiltrate most high classes, banquets and clubs to gather information for those families. In exchange, they would offer their most prize stud to them for some time. It sounds good in the paper, but their clan had not the ability to put pressure on those families.
Moreover, The abnormality of not conceiving boys was an open secret between them. However, it resulted in their constant exposure to belittling and contempt from those men and their relatives.
Soon those clans betrayed the fox clan for their own benefit. Either they didn't send their people or sold their whereabouts to their enemies. Hence, they moved from the capital and erased their traces. This event was from 200 years ago. They had sought help from a powerful mage to put a barrier to their territory. If the boy had been a passerby, he could never have found this place. It was because on the back of the letter was a drawing circle that defused the barriers, and the boy could enter their territory.
When the boy appeared, they were caught off-guard by it. Annya swiftly handled her panicked people by instructing a series of orders. Those beautiful women around the boy were expert fighters she put for precaution.
As she checked the impact of her power on the boy, she knew he was not a threat. So while reading the letter, she dismissed them.
The content of it was about the disappearance of some of their kind. Twenty years ago, it started with one went missing. After that, it occurred again several times. Most of them were troublesome women that wanted to explore the world. So the elders didn't put much importance on them. Most believed that they had found a better place for themselves across the globe. The elders were not so generous as to let those women abandon the clan quickly. Unknown to them, they inject them with a substance that erases their memories. Even if their enemies captured them, they could not leak any helpful information about the clan. She also had no idea about it until she became the head.
The letter mentioned the danger that they never considered. That included a report about an organisation that had used them for some incubation for other races; it stated that if they got a perfect result, they would hunt them seriously. The possibility was very high.
The woman guessed that the person who wrote the letter was from their tribe. Nobody would know both their place and their breaking barrier. But what puzzled her was if such a person had gone missing and had not received the memory loss drug.
Either way, she should meet the other person soon. They have to move from this area to somewhere else. She wasn't naive enough to believe just some remarks in the letter. However, with this boy here, they weren't safe.
Right now, everyone is gathering their belonging and evacuating this place. Annya merely bought time for them to stall this boy. After giving them the signal, she would accompany the boy to meet this mysterious informer.
Kaveh didn't know that with his interference, the fate of the fox clan would be entirely developed to another direction from the past.
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