Meet And Fall in Love
162 - Hidden Places.

Raisa along with others also the residents flocked to the residence of Mr. Philip who is suspected of being a suspect for the destruction of the bamboo forest.

During the trip, Raisa asked the residents to remain calm so that all processes run smoothly without having to cause unnecessary commotion.

On the way too, Raisa sends a message with voice transmission magic to Ian.

"Dear, all of us with the citizens will come to the residence of Mr. Philip. The mastermind of the forest destruction" Raisa's message

"Yes, Raisa! I also found the man who ran away earlier in a big house and met his master who he was

call it the Great Lord. Maybe the person you met and the so-called Great Lord was Mr. Philip you were referring to" Ian replied

"Understand! Stay there and keep watch," Raisa replied before finally severing the voice transmission magic she had started.

"We have arrived! This is Master Philip's residence!"

"We must call Mr. Philip out of his house!"

"Mr Philip, get out of you right now!"

The figure of the old man with the person who had previously escaped from the crowd of citizens out of the large residence.

"What's this storm!?"

"Well, I've had a lot of guests, apparently! What is it that you all came to my residence? Yes, although my residence is large, but it may not be enough to accommodate and entertain you all inside ...."

"No need to talk anymore! Quickly admit your disastrous mistake for all of us!"

"What mistakes do you mean? I don't get it! All this time I just stayed home ...."

"Don't talk nonsense anymore! That's her! He must be your man! He just ran away from the crowd after the evidence was in plain sight! The escape of your man indicates you are guilty!"

"I told you, the evidence was engineered! The evidence is fake! Don't believe them!"

"Proof what do you mean? What mistake have I made? I don't know anything!"

"Don't pretend anymore! Your man must have told you after he escaped earlier! Take responsibility for the forest damage you've done! The spirit of the forest itself has told us all the evidence! You must be punished! You all must be punished!"

"It looks like you're the ones talking nonsense here right now. I don't know if there's any forest damage or anything! If there is any evidence, show me the proof!"

"I'm sorry, GODDESS! I can't go outside or show you that evidence anymore right now. This place is too far from the woods, I'm really weak and powerless right now." The forest spirit spoke from inside Raisa.

"I understand. It's okay, you just rest inside me." The inner Raisa that is conveyed to the protective Spirit that is within her.

When things start to go wrong, Ian appears out of nowhere at the residence.

"The necessary evidence is definitely around here! When I found the person who had escaped earlier, he and Master Philip were talking about a hidden place that no one would find! That's where the evidence is! As long as we can find the hidden place," said Ian

"What other hidden place do you mean? I really don't understand! Who else is this young man? He's part of your cabal?"

"It's nasty! Someone heard my conversation with the Great Lord!"

"The place is well hidden! They will definitely not be able to find him! Must be!"

"I understand now! Thank you, Ian! You've been a great help" said Raisa

"You can find that hidden place, Raisa?" ask Devan

Raisa nodded small.

"I'll try it! Everyone, please give me some space" Raisa said

"all, please stay away a little!" shouted Morgan

Everyone moved away to give Raisa more space~

Raisa knelt on the ground and one of her hands touched the ground.

Raisa's eyes closed and focused using her magic~

After that, Raisa stood up again.

"I found a suspicious place around here" Raisa said

"Where is that?" ask Chilla

Raisa used her magic to pull out a pair of wings behind her back.

"All of you, follow me" said Raisa

With her magic wings, Raisa flew slowly so that the others could freely follow her on foot.

Raisa stopped and landed in front of a simple building in the residence.

Soon the crowd arrived at the same place as Raisa.

"Is that hidden place in there?"

The face of Mr. Philip's men began to tighten again, but Mr. Philip instead looked very calm.

"What place do you suspect is this place? Then, you guys just check inside!"

"In that case, we will dismantle your foul deeds and sentence you after this!"

"Please go in and check all the corners inside!"

Some people went in for a search, but after that they went outside again with a grim face.

"There's nothing suspicious inside. It's just an ordinary warehouse."

"After I thought this place was too simple to be used as a hiding place."

"Maybe you've been wrong, Raisa?" ask Aqila

Raisa was quiet quietly.

"I thought it would be like this! There are no foul deeds I do and no hidden places like you say!"

"Is it possible that Raisa misjudged the place or that Ian misheard both of them? But, my gut feeling is that Raisa and Ian are both right" Rumi said

"You fools! Where there are hidden places or hideouts that no one guards! In my house there is no such place!"

"Yes too!"

"Have we wrongly accused people?"

Everyone looked at Raisa and Ian in turn.

While Mr. Philip showed a triumphant expression after many people did not get evidence in his residence.

"I'm sure I heard them talking about it! And I'm sure Raisa's guess must be right! Maybe you guys lack detail when searching, let me check inside! Maybe there's a corner or something that can take us to that hidden place" Ian said

Ian was about to enter the building used as the warehouse, but Raisa held him.

"You're right, Ian! There's nothing wrong with what you say, but you need to calm down. There are no guards or people standing guard here. Because the hidden place is not in this warehouse, but right under this warehouse .. aka being underground," said Raisa

"What kind of empty muzzle is that!?!"

"Then, we should look for something that can take us underground! It might be inside this warehouse!"

Master Philip and his subordinates both tensed up and began to display their uneasiness now!

"No need to search anymore! I can take all of us directly to that hidden place underground" Raisa said

"How is it?" ask Chilla

"everything, please stay away," cried Raisa

Everyone else stayed away from Raisa.

Raisa also moved her hand and stomped her feet.

Right then, the ground opened up and a staircase appeared descending underground.

Raisa has paved her way to a hidden place underground~

"Come, in! Be careful of the many people standing guard down there" Raisa said

Raisa was about to enter first, but Rumi held her back.

"Let us, the men who went there first." Rumi

Rumi, Morgan, Devan and Ian. They first enter the others enter in turns.

Surely there are many people standing guard there. And the men who had entered earlier had handled the guard there until they all fell down!

"There really is a hidden place down here!"

"I thought Raisa's words must be true" Rumi said

"I realized something. There were some guards who were magicians, I found out when we fought them earlier" Devan said

"They're hiding everything in this place very neatly" Morgan said

Inside there are many valuable medicinal plants, tree trunks, vegetables, fresh fruits, and many hunted animals from the forest in brackets there.

All must be the result of what they snatched from the forest!

"Look, here! I caught two people trying to escape!" exclaim Chilla who appeared while clutching the back of the collar of Mr Philip and his men!

"Try explaining all this! You can't avoid it anymore, Mr. Philip," said Aqila

Sir Philip and his men could only bow.

"All of you here will be tried and sentenced" Raisa said

"Ian, I still need your help! Others, please find the remaining people who are in this residence! Because everything will be put on trial and investigated further if there is a possibility of involvement in forest destruction" Raisa continued

"Okay, I get it!" devan said

"We're going to search the entire residence" Morgan said

"Some of us will come!"

Devan and Morgan and Rumi along with some residents went to check all over the place in the residence of Mr. Philip to find if there are people who are still there.

All the guards who were underground as well as Mr.Philip and his men had been tied up and held in a corner of the underground.

"What do you need any more help with, Raisa?" ask Ian

"Come, but if the problem is big like this, maybe my father will immediately deploy his troops to come here. We just have to wait, ", said Ian

"Then, can you ask your help to contact your father?" ask Raisa

"Why am I? He said you'd do it!" ian's Protest

"After some thought I was too lazy to explain all the complicated situations here. I asked for your help, yes, Ian .. " said Raisa

"I guess, it's not as easy as you just ask me, but asking for my help directly to contact Daun Village" Ian said

"Come on, I beg ... I'll help share magic power with you," please Raisa

"It's not a matter of insufficient magic power! All right, I'll do it .. " Ian's resignation after seeing Raisa's face.

"Yeah! You're the best!" girang Raisa's

Ian sat in a meditative position and tried to cast a long-range voice transmission magic with the help of Raisa who transferred her magic power to Ian, while both closed their eyes.

Ian tracked down the whereabouts of his father, Mr. Aiden, to explain the problems and situation in the Bamboo Village and asked for help to deploy troops to immediately bring in and detain the perpetrators.

Ian opened his eyes after he finished communicating with his father, as did Raisa.

"My father said, it can't be now because it's starting at night. He promised to come tomorrow morning" Ian said

"I see, yes .. then, tonight we have to be on guard here" Raisa said

"If you know this, you should be calling Dad tomorrow" said Ian

"At least we've tried and there's been clarity. Good job, Ian! Thank you very much" said Raisa

"Yes. Same," replied Ian

Right then, Raisa's body felt strange! From inside his body to outside the puff of smoke that turned into a figure of darkness from the forest protector spirit~

"O spirit, why did you just go outside? What's up?" ask Raisa

The Spirit did not answer and left as he pleased.

"Master, I'm sorry! It is the spirit of the forest protector that compels the want to go outside ...."

"It's okay, Helio. I'll take care of this."

Raisa pursues where the guardian spirit is going. The spirit was still in the hidden place that was under the ground. It's just that the spirit is looking for something.

"Actually, what are you looking for? O, the spirit of the forest protector .. "the wonder of Raisa

"What's up, Raisa?" ask Aqila

"Why did the dark spirit of the forest appear again?" ask Chilla

"That spirit looks like it's looking for something?" confused Ian asked.

Until finally, the forest-protective spirit stopped in front of a medium-sized iron cage. The spirit showed anxiety as well as relief after looking into the iron cage.

Raisa also approached him and also looked into the iron cage~

"This is ... a pair of panda cubs! They were the children of the forest-protecting spirit when the spirit was alive! The mother is dead and turned into a spirit, but her two children are still alive" Raisa said

"But, the condition of these two panda cubs is very concerning! There were a lot of injuries on both bodies" Ian said

"Those who hunt these two panda cubs only know how to catch, but do not know how to care for and recover wounds. It's called torture" Chilla said

The figure of the forest guardian spirit returned furious and became so concentrated! Raisa tries to calm him down.

"Relax, protective spirit! Your two sons are alive! He can continue to protect the bamboo forest just like you did in life ." Raisa said.

"How will these two children be able to protect the forest if their condition is scarred like this?!! These are the cruel humans! I'll take them all out!!"

"We will heal your two sons! And as I promised, we will do the greening in the interior of the forest that has been destroyed! The forest will return to green and there will be two of your sons protecting the forest! Wouldn't your hope of re-creating a peaceful forest life be realized? Leave it to us! We will keep our promise" Raisa said

The anger of the forest protector spirit finally subsided and regained calm~

"I will entrust the fate of forest life and the lives of my two children to you, GODDESS! Now I can relax!~~"

The forest-protective spirit disappeared and slowly disappeared.

"The spirit does not return to your body. Where'd she go, Raisa?" ask Chilla

"He's completely calm, sir. Maybe he went back to his nesting place in the interior of the bamboo forest!"

"I get it, Helio!"

"Okay, I don't know for sure either. But, it's possible that he returned to his resting place somewhere in the interior of the forest because now he can calm down completely after entrusting the survival of the forest to us," Raisa replied to Chilla's question.

"Now I need the help of you two to heal these two wounded panda cubs, Aqila, Ian. And it might as well cure the whole animal that was hunted and captured here! Because they will be released back into the forest as soon as possible," Raisa continued.

"All right .. " resigned Ian

"Yes, I will help you, Raisa," said Aqila

Because aside from her from the team's amggota being confined to the Bamboo Village, only Aqila and Ian could use medical magic, Raisa also asked the two for help to heal the injured hunted animals.

For over an hour, Raisa, Aqila, and Ian treated the two panda cubs together. For other animals, all three do individually treat one animal.

"Most hunted animals are small and cute animals. They must have thought these animals were easy to tame and nurture. If it is like this, the animal population in the bamboo forest will really become extinct" said Chilla

"You're right, Chilla! Conditions like this are very concerning "jata Aqila

"They did a massive hunt like this nobody knew, it turned out that they also hired a sorcerer to do it. It's all planned" Ian said

"Hmm~ Aqila, Ian, if you're both tired, take a break. I'll continue to heal the other animals" Raisa said

"It's okay, Raisa. We'll help you through to the end" Aqila said

"Yes. We're not tired yet" Ian said

At that time, Devan, Morgan, Rumi, and some residents returned with five people found in the residence who had been tied up.

"We only found five of these people after searching all the places in this residence" Morgan said

"Yes. Just tie it up and keep an eye on all of them" Aqila said

"Let go! We are innocent! We didn't do anything and didn't know anything! This is not fair!"

"We are seeking justice! Everyone who was underground here earlier said the same thing, but you will all be checked by the authorities tomorrow! So, prepare yourself because you will not be able to hide anything! So, stay calm and don't make a fuss" Raisa said

"They'll be held here temporarily and we'll take care of them. For some villagers, can you stand guard around this residence as well at some important points in the village? This is to search and find if there are other suspicious people who have not been arrested. If, any other suspicious person please arrest and report or bring it here immediately! This is for those who want to and it could be if you don't mind.

For others, you can go home to each other. And one more thing, you do not have to worry anymore because now the spirits and monsters will not attack the village again, but you still have to maintain the peace and sustainability of forest life as well. Then, tomorrow we still have to do something, so please help him for all of you" Raisa continued.

"Okay, we got it!"

"We'll all share our duties!"

"You don't worry! You have come to help our village, it is fitting that we also participate for the safety and peace of our village."

"Yes, we are so grateful! Because thanks to your arrival and assistance, our village has calmed down again and there is no more harm!"

"Yes!"

"Thank you very much!"

"No need to be confused. It is also our job to help. Because it was you who sent a request for help to Daun Village and called us" Raisa said

After that, everyone was busy on their own errands.

Raisa and friends stand guard around the underground hideout to ensure the safety of those detained as well as hunted goods.

Meanwhile, some residents have agreed to stand guard at several important points of Philip's residence and around the village to search and find possible suspicious people or other perpetrators.

It was getting darker because it was the atmosphere of the night.

Raisa is sitting quietly somewhere. Rumi walked over and sat down beside her.

"It's night, why aren't you sleeping? Even though all day you continue to use your magic power, when the day ends you even still exert your strength to heal the animals that have been hunted. Aren't you tired?" rumi asked.

"A little tired, but I can't sleep yet" answered Raisa

"Is it because of the underground atmosphere here?" ask Rumi

"Come," Raisa briefly replied.

"Do you think something's bothering you?" ask Rumi again.

"I was just thinking. Is my decision to ask the citizens to stand guard in some places is not excessive? They did not protest or raise objections, but I became unpleasant and thoughtful" said Raisa

"Your decision is correct. You should be happy because they want to help" Rumi said

"I was relieved when they wanted to help without any rejection, but my heart felt guilty instead" Raisa said

"You're not wrong, it's just your feelings. Everyone here is nice and willing to work together. We all benefit, so there is no need to worry about such a thing" Rumi said

"Yes, maybe you're right. Maybe I was the one who thought too much about it" Raisa said

"Maybe you're feeling over-excited from fatigue after thinking about and doing all these things today. So, take a break and let go of all your worries. Then, sleep, then when you wake up tomorrow you will be excited again" said Rumi

"All right, I'll sleep now" said Raisa

"Yes, you can calm down because there are still many other people standing guard around you" Rumi said

Raisa closed her eyes and began to fall asleep.

"Raisa, are you asleep?" ask Morgan

Rumi nodded slowly.

"Raisa is too worried because this is her first experience leading as a team leader, even though she has tried hard and everything is going smoothly because of it" said Devan

"Devan, right! I agree that Raisa can lead the team well, only that she still lacks confidence" Ian said

"Yes, but I always believed in Raisa .

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