Burning Soul

“What has happened has happened, there’s no way of reverting that!

He must accept the bitter truth and move on!” Dimitri replied in a bitter tone.

Catherine looked at him and stated his situation, she told them that he had asked her about what happened when he was possessed.

“But why did you..” Aeneas was about to say something but Jura stopped him, “He was going to face in anyways, earlier the better!”

“He’s not looking all good though, he looked depressed!” Catherine stated in a low tone, “He,

I don’t think he’s going to take it all so good for the time being.” She sighed

The air got heavy,

“That bitch,

We must get Vivian back to safety as soon as possible!” Aeneas clenched his fist,

“And what about the stones?

You sure haven’t forgotten the main purpose of your journey or have you?” Dimitri reminded him,

The silence that followed was awful. No one had a clue how much time they had and from the looks of it, someone else was looking for these stones.

Lamius, they surely hadn’t forgotten his intrusion from the last dungeon.

“I have a solution to that!” Jura broke the silence,

“What solution? Nya!” Aeneas narrowed his eyes as he glared at her,

“Don’t give me that look, it’s all your fault for acting like that!” She then let out a sigh before continuing,

“How about we split into two teams for a while and do two things at a time?”

Her response was uncalled for, besides right now they were lacking manpower and she was asking about going on separate adventures!

“Oye! Old…..nya!

Do you know what you meanya! We already lack people nya!

Who is going the other way nya?” The curse was really hurting his speech now which didn’t stop others from having a smile on their face,

“Simple!

While I go with you, let Milot, Theo and this girl with that weird spirit…”

“It’s Catherine and Sylph isn’t a weird spirit!

Gosh..” Catherine interrupted her and complained with a pout.

“Umm,

Yeah, Catherine. Whoa, what a long name, I’ll just call you Cathy!” Jura flicked a lock of hair that was sliding on her face again and again.

“Oye! Don’t go naming people nya!” Everyone could feel his pain as he spoke in a broken voice, from the looks of him, it looked he’d break into tears anytime.

“But,

Aren’t they both in the dumps now!

Will it be a good idea for to us go just like that, and to a dungeon? What if that hammer guy appeared again? Or let’s say something big happened?

What are we going to do on our own?

Also, is there any dungeon nearby in the first place!” Catherine had a lot of questions, she took a seat while petting Sylph on her lap.

“Oh, Lamius may be trouble but he ain’t that stupid to walk in here just like that!

He knows who rules this place.” Aeneas showed a smirk

“Yeah, he hosts not one but two sigils.

If he steps in the territory we’ll know immediately.” Dimitri assured.

He had absolute control over the territory but this time it was compromised, his assurance was doubtful to Catherine and she looked at him with narrow eyes,

“Ersa is an exception Cathy!

That woman is a bad omen and those things don’t come with warnings!

Besides she can skillfully hide anyone’s strength!” Aeneas picked her doubt right away.

“What if they are working together, until yesterday we didn’t know if Arlo was working with her and she had this many things planned beforehand!” She let out her concern

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“He isn’t that fallen Cathy, he may be our enemy but I believe in him!

He won’t be siding with her, rather he’d stand in her way!” Aeneas spoke hie thought, he put his faith in him.

“If you are saying so, we have no reason to not believe and I hope we don’t cross our paths with scary stuff!” Cathy let out a sigh after that, “I just hope they both get their courage together, I don’t want to see them like that!”

“Don’t worry dear, they’ll do fine!” Dimitri gave her a push.

"We have to let them know of the plan too!" Catherine said so and then continued, "I'll try my luck with Theodore, he might get it better, I just hope his injuries aren't that grave!"

Jura stood up with a proud expression, "Of course he won't feel pain, healed it myself after all! He won't be getting his arm back but he won't be out of strength at least!

But are you sure you can persuade him, he sounded too dull to even listen?"

"Yeah, But I'll hide the fact that Vivian is taken or he'll be disturbed too much!" Her point was indeed valid, he'd either get even depressed or would insist on joining Aeneas and his party which was more dangerous

"That seems just fine! I'd make Milot up for the task too." Dimitri nodded in agreement.

They all stood for a moment.

Aeneas let out a sigh, "It's too much to ask from them, isn't it?

I kinda feel bad for them!" No one could deny that.

"They have to grow up, it's a lot faster than what they can keep up with but that's what their destiny is" Dimitri sighed as he glanced out of the window.

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