Jade & Latte
Actors
River opened his eyes. The back of his head still hurts from the blunt force. He tried to move his body, but could not. His body cannot move. His body was tied to a wooden chair. His arms and legs were tied using the same rope.
His eyes, which were getting used to the minimal lighting, turned in all directions. It appears he was in a former laboratory room. Clear glass bottles still lined up neatly on the table. Besides, there are still bottles filled with liquid whose color still looks dark.
River did not show a high sense of panic. He tried to calm down while reading the situation now. He remembers what he did the last time before he was tied up. His memory is still vague, but clearly, he remembers once about the painting in the middle room along with his jormugand logo.
The sound of footsteps came from the darkness of space. His steps were slow and full of dominance. A shadowy figure began to appear from a corner of space that was not too noticed by the river before. A dim light began to catch the stepping figure. A middle-aged man whose face was already recognized by River, was smiling towards him.
Mr Robert?" he gasped with a face that looked familiar.
His eyes widened, revealing a considerable shock.
"Hows it? Was my acting really good yesterday? You two are surprised, right?" Mr. Robert smiled satisfied with a face full of pride.
"Acting? So what you did before was just a show? Butwhy? What for!" River still did not believe in the truth that came out directly from the man's lips.
“Hahahahhahahaha”, Mr Robert laughed meaningfully, as if he had been waiting that River would ask his point, “for what? Of course, all this for the sake of Mr. Geld” he continued.
River replied with a questioning look. Without saying a word, he waited for the continuation of Robert's next sentence.
“the glory days of Mr. Geld will be back soon”, Robert continued his explanation, “just just give your soul to the monster, then all is done and Mr. Geld will definitely be happy, the plan goes smoothly”
“So you mean, the fiend extermination request was all a lie? And that's all just to trap us into your trap? So you mean?” River bowed his head, he felt guilty, in his first mission to join Latte's agency, was just a fraud.
“Truely...all requests sent to you that is just one of the fishing hooks so that illegal agencies like you are interested in taking missions from us. And sure enough, you guys are hooked, right? For a small agency like you guys the gift that master geld offered would be very tempting.” Robert's gaze widened, his pupils dilated, his mouth widened in excitement.
With a bound state, River tried to concentrate so that the mana in his body could flow. He tries to cast magic to untie her. Pronounce one of the magic in a slow voice.
“Alinea #11 Rafales De Vent” River stunned, the spell he cast did not react to anything. There was not a single bit of magic coming out of his body. Was he wrong to cast his spell? Or is something wrong when he tries to drain the mana?
“Why? You can't cast your magic?” said Mr. Robert with an annoying look on the face “Of course you will not be able to use your magic power this room has installed a magic antidote in every corner. All the magic in the grimoire will no longer be useful in this room, Mr. Geld has designed everything and you're done”
Magic antidote. Also known as the Magic Diffuser, a device commonly used in prisons to hold back witches who abuse their power. Tools that are approximately the size of an adult's hand should not be owned by careless people. Not only because the price is quite expensive, to have the tool people or organizations need official permission from the central organization.
When looking at the painting in the front room, River saw the jormugandr emblem. The emblem of the organization of the dark magicians, if indeed the family of Geld has connections with the underworld then it is no wonder he can have such a large number of tools.
“A minute your friend will enter into the same trap as you here, then after that the black monster in the storage warehouse will eat your friend's soul until it is not left. He will not be able to fight and can only resign when his soul is eaten by fiend” Robert explained all the plans of Mr. Geld
“after that, the agreement of Mr. Geld and the higher-ups will be completed. Mr. Geld will regain his success hahahahhaa” Mr. Robert continued his sentence.
“Treaty of the higher-ups? Didn't she? so in short, you sold your humanity at the expense of many people just for sheer glory?” River tried to dig deep into the information again.
“Shut up!! What do you know about Mr Geld? He was a protective figure to us, the loyal servants of the Andersdotter family. Forever, from the past until now will not change always defend Mr. Geld and follow all his plans, for the sake of Mr. Geld, for the sake of Brave Children”
Smoke began to emerge from the walls of the room. Mr. Robert who knew it was a sign that he should have left the room gave a closing sentence. “Hahaha it is time for me to leave, soon your soul will be devoured by the fiend. So, see you in hell” he said.
Mr. Robert left the room. Smoke began to unite to form a large creature with a bull's head complete with sharp horns. Slowly the smoke began to make his body, then his hands until finally created a complete body.
The Fiend was large. His height exceeded the height of the room, his entire body was purplish black. With such a large body, he had to stand with a slightly bent posture because it blocked the ceiling of the room. Both of his arms were no less big. He held a mace made of stones mixed with human skulls.
“ROAAAARRRRR” The creature shouted. With eyes as bright red as ruby. The Fiend stepped towards River Sambli dragging his hammer to the floor. River looked at the fiend with an ordinary gaze. He has faced Adolescente-type fiend repeatedly. But different, at the moment his body was being bound, he could not even cast his grimoire magic.
“ROAAAARRRR” Fiend was lifting his right arm to prepare to give a blow to the body of River who had resigned.
“Well, now I have to how?”