BLAZE II
04. THE MADAME RICH RESIDENCE

"So you are ..," Chen's words soared that I was very curious.

"I'm nobody, don't guess," as I was.

For my own safety, I better keep it a secret about the incident that hit my subconscious earlier. The sounds echoing like ghosts in the opera gave me goosebumps earlier. It seems like I was really struck by the original owner of the cristal earlier.

"Not to think about it, let's go back to headquarters" Shiro said as he wiped the blood on the edge of his lips.

Chen clenched his teeth in looking at Shiro. "Then, who cleared this area? Jean will definitely scold me."

"You are always looking for trouble until you are punished by Jean" Shiro said as he walked towards the valley exit. Oh, yeah, I just realized we were in the valley. "Let's go."

Contact me and Chen ran after Shiro. We walked along with a slight wound, except myself.

TLING'S!

The notification from my phone read, I didn't think his life would be much longer.

Inbox || [Unknown Number] :You're cool, The spirit of living a new life.

I'll tap the sender of this message. I shouldn't have asked Mom for a cell phone if it would eventually lead to this kind of fate. Really sucks.

"Yuzu Rain, get up. avenge you."

That strange sound again. The sound that sounded so mystical and cursed. It was so deep as if someone wanted to wake me up by something when it touched the Cristal Jear. I'll investigate this myself.

"What are you holding?" said Chen who was staring at my phone.

"Oh, it's a cell phone." I thrust the shitty phone at Chen. "You trying to use it?"

Chen took my phone and I pressed the power switch, but there was no response. It's weird, the battery was still full and I could use it.

"Is this a black mirror? Cool." Chen looked at his face from the reflection of the phone screen. He gave me my phone back and I tried to turn it on.

Successfully live. I think this phone will live only in the hands of its owner, which is me. It must be that rogue operator who hacked my phone.

The journey took a long time until my legs almost cramped. Can't they use horses or transport?

A dark, moist cave we entered. Eww, would they be serious if the hideout headquarters were here?

Shiro began to cast his magic and a circular light began to envelop the base of the cave. A portal opened and they immediately stepped in without thinking of me who was a little surprised by this new thing. I ventured in hesitation to enter the portal.

A light enveloped, the room that looked very large and defined this is the reception place containing the sofa, table and other furniture.

"Hallo, who are you carrying? quite charming," welcome a man of very high clown stature plus wearing a navy-colored robe. Her appearance is quite strange.

"Keep away, he's not your pawn," Chen ordered in an annoyed tone.

"It's so arrogant of you," the clown plucked.

"Give me madame Rich!" shiro shouted as some residents appeared with a unique appearance.

A middle-aged woman dressed as a sheepherder was present and occupied the main sofa. We just stood like statues staring at him without a blink and I just followed their attitude.

"I'm asking you to bring in Cristal Jear, and who's this cute girl." Madame Rich looked at me like a mother who was very happy to see her son.

"Not only Cristal, I also brought the owner," Shiro replied.

The entire room frowned as if trying to digest the sentence.

"She is the missing Coral candidate and Aella's descendant. He has returned" Chen said. Who is Aella? The president of this city?

As soon as the shrieking sound of a broken toa almost made my ears hurt, I widened my gaze around and saw that those people did not feel the same way about me.

"Rain, Conscious. Arise my revenge."

That voice again.

Everyone gasped when they found out I was the owner of the item they stole. Is this becoming a bad thing? Ah, nevermind. I just need to stay silent alias not wrinkled so as not to cause trouble.

"Good, we got an ace to roll those bastards!" madame Rich shouted that made everyone smile.

The scoundrel? Are they doing a coup? Or war between regions? Possibly rebellion? Too many questions on my mind.

"Welcome little girl. Did you come to us to help those rotten governments?" madame Rich asked me who knew nothing about what she was talking about.

"Eh ..," I glanced to the right and to the left. "What are you guys really talking about?"

Everyone was shocked looking at me, even Chen and Shiro patted their foreheads simultaneously. What am I saying wrong? I'm just trying to be honest because being honest is the best.

"What are you doing that he doesn't know what we mean?" chirp one of the people in the row sitting Madame Rich with the appearance of a petite little girl and pink hair. "Hei Shiro's. Did you hit him in the head until he was like that?"

"If I do that, I'm dead first." Shiro rolled his eyeballs an unhappy sign as the question was thrown. "I found him and he's just a passerby not knowing the direction of the rampage and slamming things."

"It's a black mirror, cool!" sahut Chen while nudging me in coding showing a cell phone.

"Where do you know what Shiro said?" I whispered to Chen while stroking my phone out of my skirt pocket.

"Shiro told me without your knowledge." Chen was no less whispered in my response.

Everyone was stunned in staring at my phone, just like Chen before.

"Where are you from?" ask the clown.

"You can guess I'm not from this world. Even I can't use magic and martial arts like you," I said as I scratched the non-itchy back of the head.

"You must be from the west!" the girl next to Madame Rich.

"Not really," I said, imagining the west was Europe. Does my face look blaster? I guess not.

"I don't think an important person like you can be this weird," the clown sneered. The words he spoke were like insults.

I counted the people present totaling nine. I, Shiro, Chen, the clown, the little girl, Madame Rich, two men standing on the back of the couch and one woman standing next to the clown. They look like retired circus performers.

All of a sudden, their faces evoked memories that I didn't expect to have.

A field so vast and arid. The cries of defeat from men are as solemn as they have shrieked into my ears. I looked at my hand so covered in dust and blood that it was so disgusting that it made my mouth wide open.

I turned my head and saw the faces I had seen before were slumped in quite the same state as me.

"Stop, no! "

"Whoever, please ..."

"Please."

In a split second, an unpleasant sound appeared in my brain.

"This is what the future would look like if you didn't start a revenge for me."

I looked in all directions and became confused. Who is he, and what does he mean by revenge?

My daydream was solved by a shout from Madame Rich that was so proud.

"Yeah, just keep that human. We will guide him in order to win the election of the successor candidates to the kingdom later," said Madame Rich with an aura of leadership.

Madame Rich left us and some people came back to her busy life.

"Hey, I'm Jean.. Are you not interested in meeting me?" greet a man with a stout stature and handsome pretentious.

"No! don't do that! " At once Jean's face appeared with so many incisions and blood was slumped in holding my legs with her hands.

"I'm Yuzu, nice to meet you," I replied awkwardly and I realized my style of speech had become stuttering.

It's a pretty horrible sight. I have to find out what really happened.

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