I Don’t Want This Bad Ending

*Splashed!

Cabel and Chrisfold was shocked as they become soaking wet, they can only slowly looked at the person who casted the spell who has an indifference written all over her face.

They slowly looked at the direction where they felt the mana lingering in the air and found out that it was the silent lady that was with them.

Alisha started to talk with her cold face and indifferent voice. She was starting to get annoyed at the men that were with her.

"We have things to do and yet here you are attacking each other's throat while Evelyn was there facing Prince Adley alone. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Evelyn will be the only one who can pick who she wants to be with!"

It was the longest phrase that Alisha has spoken. Then, Cabel answered.

"You think I didn't know that?! However, how am I supposed to trust both of you when it seems that you are hiding something from Evelyn! If the both of you already know the location of the Duchess soul then how come you never said a thing to Evelyn? Do you think that makes sense?!"

Chrisfold and Alisha knew that Cabel have a point and was speechless for a moment.

Suddenly, Cabel heard a sigh from his right side and found out that it was Chrisfold scratching his head and was breathing a deep sigh.

Chrisfold looked at the silver hair that was trickling down with water and he sighs again when he sees the look in his eyes. 

It was a doubtful stare with a scrutinizing look, it can see through his eyes that he was a person that was suspicious and can't fully trust someone.

Chrisfold didn't have a choice but to tell him about Evelyn's contract with a spirit.

'This would end if we can make him trust us. Evelyn would understand why we needed to tell him this secret, It would be a problem if we had a conflict when we are on a mission.' Chrisfold said to Alisha in his mind.

They telepathically talk about what is needed to be done for Cabel to trust them. He was crucial for them to take the sealed soul of the Duchess.

"What? Aren't you going to say something?!" Cabel asked as he was getting impatient.

With a deep sigh Chrisfold begin to talked as he face him,

"There are some things that we must keep a secret but if you really wanted proof that we are loyal to Evelyn then… we will show you."

Chrisfold pulls the sleeve of his clothes and he mumbles a spell. Cabel couldn't hear what he was saying.

"What are you trying to pull here?"

Cabel was confused as to why Chrisfold was showing his shoulder. Suddenly, a mark that almost covered the whole shoulder and arm of Chrisfold was glowing like a dust of gold before it died and stayed in his skin.

Perplexed at what was happening, Cabel could only watch Chrisfold as he finished his mumblings of incomprehensible words.

"What is that?" Cabel can't help but ask.

"It is a mark that symbolizes the contract of a spirit to his master. Every spirit has a unique form and size of mark depends on the affinity of the spirit and its rank…"

Cabel analyzed the symbols that were inked in Chrisfold's skin.  There was some ancient text mixed in some of the symbols that he sees in his arm. However, it still didn't sink in to him about what Chrisfold just said.

"Wait…"

Chrisfold and Alisha waited for him to realize it himself.

Cabel has a scowl in his face as he deeply thinks about what Chrisfold told him. Then it clicked to him.

"Do you mean to say that you are a spirit?"

Chrisfold just shrugged his shoulders and turned around like what he just said isn't a big deal. Then he started to walk to the path that leads to the op[posite side of where they are.

Alisha also followed Chrisfold and glanced once in a while to Cabel who was still in deep thoughts.

'Is he alright?' Alisha talks to Chrisfold through their minds.

Chrisfold glanced back as he stopped for a while to see what Cabel was doing as he stood there in the dark lit room.

'He needed time to think, I guess? What we said is not something that is common in this era. For them, we are just myths and legends, he must have been shocked to know that there's a spirit close to him.'

'Do you really think it's just because of that?' Alisha asked as she saw a glint on the red eyes of Cabel.

'Let him be for a while…' 

Chrisfold just said as they arrived at the large door that looks like a two floors high inside the dungeon.

"It's been awhile since I saw this door again." He said.

"What did you say?"

Chrisfold turn his head, he knew that Cabel has been following them with silent steps and was keeping distance.

'He must have thought that he needed to observe us.'

He smiled at the thought.

"It's just like what you think… We are contracted spirits of Evelyn."

Cabel looked at Alisha and asked

"Since when?"

"..."

"Are you really a spirit? If you have a human form then… you're a higher….spirit?"

The shock in his eyes was evident as he stared at the back of Chrisfold. Alisha just nodded her head to give confirmation.

While, Chrisfold didn't answer his question and walked to the door that was big and tall as a two storey house and put his mana to the cold iron door.

Thud Thud Thud!!!

The door opened while Cabel has still have a shocked on his mind.

'Since when did Evelyn become a contractor of higher spirits?' Cabel thought and Chrisfold cut in his messed mind and gained his attention.

"Just so you know, we don't have any thoughts of harming Evelyn. Now, do you get why we are loyal to Eve?"

Cabel squint his eyes, he was still have doubts and he needed to check again if what Chrisfold and Alisha just said are true.

"Are the two of you just the spirits that contracted Eve?" He asked and Chrisfold and Alisha just ignored him.

It gives him the idea that it's not just the two of them... 

"So, there's more contracted spirits that are beside Evelyn…."

'Smart…' Chrisfold thought.

"Now that we cleared some understanding, we need "you" to get there and unsealed the soul of the Duchess."

Cabel became flustered. Then he just realized that the door was slightly opened but Chrisfold or even Alisha didn't bother to come or check the inside of the room.

""What do you mean about "you"? Isn't it better if we go together? I'm sure you're more familiar with the inside structure of the dungeon than me…'

"No, we can't go in…"

"What do you mean you can't go in? We already have gone far enough… Don't tell me you're scared?"

There was something odd that Cabel realized. Chrisfold used his mana to open the door of the dungeon.

'How does his mana can open this large door? What was the connection of Chrisfold and the other contracted spirits of Evelyn that it seems they knew what they needed to do?'

Cabel begins to have some thoughts about the reason why Chrisfold and Alisha seem to keep this a secret to Evelyn.

'They must have something to do with the sealing… does they really have a connection to this?'

But first, Cabel thought that he needed to act fast now that he had the gist of the relationship of Chirsifold and Alisha to Evelyn. And now that he knew that Evelyn wouldn't be betrayed by them he felt relieved.

"You have some explanation that you needed to do, Protector of the west gate of St. Prisch."

"I already abandoned that title… very well, I'll tell you what you need to do."

"After I get back and we rescue Evelyn, we need some deep and long talk."

Chrisfold and Alisha felt shivers as Cabel talked so low with a dangerous glint in his eyes.

'He's not joking… right?'

Chrisfold could only smile warily at Cabel. Then they begin to explain what Cabel needed to do.

***

Evelyn didn't know what to do as she faced a crisis that she didn't anticipate as she began to accept to wait for the final day of the plan to take action but now she was sitting in the parlor room facing someone that she never anticipated to be here.

She was justsitting in her prison-like room when one of the maids that Prince Adley designated for her to personally clean the room came with a dress.

It was so unexpected that Evelyn began to think if it was the day that Prince Adley said about marriage.

'Does he really think that marriage would be a solution to get the Duke to turn to his day?'

Evelyn began to think if Prince Adley was an idiot that would just think of a solution that nothing would come out of it.

"What's this for?"

Evelyn asked as she thought it's better to make them still think that she was still that lady that is naïve and don't know what was going on in her surroundings.

"Change into this."

Evelyn looked at the maid that put the dress in the bed and belatedly just told her to put it into herself and walked out the door with the guards following her.

"What the hell?"

Evelyn could only stare at the empty room and the dress.

"Did they really expect me to change into this?"

She got the dress and inspected it. It was a simple flowy white dress, a little frill in the sleeves and a bow in the waist.

It was a simple design and was not like the typical dress that has a corset that can suffocate someone.

"But why do I feel that this dress is has meaning? What is going on? What are they planning?"