Tale Of The Half-Blood Wizard

She talked about something related with someone's memory. All audience was looking at her attentively. A simple scheme was presented describing someone's memory at that time, from 2007 to 2020, and divided into three smaller parts. It was between 2007-2010 used as a base, memory between 2010 and 2015 was known as beginning, and period of 2015-2020 was called final. A small part from 2014 to 2016 was marked red because it was gone. 

At first I did not really understand, but following the listening, when Miss Anty wrote down 'Antonie's memory', I remembered my friend who was still staying in the cage, his name Antonie too. Now, I understand that the scheme was probably to learn the memory of that man. It looked to me that she wanted to take information from one lost memory part, from  2014 to 2015.

Miss Anty started explaining that Antonie with all the therapies given to him,led to a discovery that the man's memories was gone or faded between 2007 and 2020, and one piece of memory that was really gone was between 2014 and 2016.

"I am really confused how to help that man to bring back his memory about that incident," Said Miss Anty. She sounded desperate, "We have tried something by taking him to places he has ever been within those years, and asked his closest people what he did in those years, but it was all zero. The memory of that spell has really gone," 

I was still listening to her, even when she started opening her book again, "There is one part from the whole pieces that have gone, it was during year of 2014-2016," she said as she circled that part, "There is one memory in this year we cannot read, cannot be brought up with so many kinds of ways and so little information about about his activities in that year. It really troubled our work," She said. 

I did not know much about things they were discussing because Azalea did not tell me anything at all, she just asked me to follow her and sit in this room with them. 

Upon listening to all they spoke out here, I thought that recollection of 'Antonie' was very important so that all wizards were feeling the responsibility to bring it back. And now I was sure that Antonie they were talking about was the man in that cage. 

Antonie ever told me that he was then was not the reality and when he was back he would change to be very dangerous. Although I did not really understand what he was talking about and how dangerous he would be in the real him. 

That man had something all of them wanted. Meanwhile he did not really remember his own memory. Perhaps he did delete it so that no one could use it, or his memory really disappeared in a sudden as he changed into another body. 

Miss Anty kept narrating different kinds methods they did to bring that memory back, one of them was through hypnotism. In fact, in the world of human, I ever heard that hypnotism was used to heal mental problems and other treatment for certain diseases. 

"Tha," I just looked up, looking at the man who called me slowly, "You come with me after this," Yoru said. 

I who was in really feeling bored just nodded to agree with, then I looked at Azalea, and saw her was discussing things with Miss Anty. I did not know what I had to do while I did not really understand what they were discussing. I then put my head on the table and the next second my eyelids slowly closed. 

…

I felt someone tapped my shoulder so that I was awoken due to the shock. Yoru looked upset, so as Azalea who was standing behind him. I could not avoid feeling embarrassed due to caught red handed sleeping in that meeting. 

"Sorry," I said softly due to feeling so much guilty and embarrassed. 

Yoru did not seem to hear my apology and he still looked at me in annoyance, "Tha, follow us after this," He said.

I nodded, and then followed Azalea and Yoru left the room. They were taking me to the training room. I kept quiet because I did not know why they took me here. 

"Tha, I want to ask you some questions and please answer me honestly," Azalea opened the talk and her gaze was intimidating, "What did you see from the prisoner next to you when I locked you? And what things did you talk about so far you were in that prison?" 

'Oh, that it is, my guess is correct. Antonie they are talking about is the man in that cage next to me,' I said to myself, "Only talking about Falak. He told me not to sleep when the light was up, and about our hobbies, we have many similarities. That is all," I replied. 

Azalea did not seem to believe me. I knew it from the way she looked at me with her investigating stare, "Is that all?" She wanted to confirm it. 

"Yes, we did not talk much," I tried to convince her, "He asked me to sleep a lot because we had to stay awake and quiet when we could see light from the dome of that prison building, during at time Falak would come and eat us," I explained to her. She was quiet but her gaze was not intimidating anymore. I knew she believed what I told her. 

I wondered why Antonie memory was so important. I encouraged myself to ask Azalea, "Is he the owner of immortality spell? And the lost memory is the one where the spell should be? Did I make the right guesses?" all these questions had troubled me since I was in the meeting room. 

"More or less," She replied, "We want him recall his recollection of that spell," 

"If that spell is so dangerous and can disturb the balance, isn't it much better if it is gone with his memory?" I cut Azalea words, "I, on the contrary would confront you, why do you want that spell and did it at all cost to get it back? In my opinion, you just need to kill Antonie and everything will be done. Sometimes negligence saves us, doesn't it?" I looked at them one by one, "And now I am getting suspicious, what exactly your purposes in trying to get that spell out of Antonie's memory? What are you going to do with that immortality spell?" I asked to investigate it. 

"Tha, killing him is not as easy as we think it will be, not like when I wanted to kill my enemies" Azalea defended, "He is too tricky and has so many ways to get rid of our ways to kill him. That is why lock him in the place where he will not be able to escape," 

And that confused me. Antonie seemed fine to me, he was a little Mr. Know all and bossy. He was just a teenage boy of his high time of his puberty, and a bit noisy. Even when I tried to remember again, there were some words that confused me about the body he was in at the moment, it was not his. And also when he came back to the real him, he would be a danger? What kind danger would that be?

"I think he is a bit noisy," I said, "But to be honest, I don't see him dangerous at all," I looked at both persons in front of me with unsure look. 

No one answered my bewilderment. But slowly Azalea walked slowly toward me, I was nervous to see her observant eyes, "Is there any other thing besides those unimportant things?"

Either nervous and confused what to say, I finally said what 

Either nervous or confused what to say, I finally told her what Antonie said to me, "He said I had good eyes and about Zarina who was able to get away from being locked," I tried hard to remember what that man told me, "That is all as far as I remember," I tried to make them believe me by staring at their eyes in turn. It was so obvious they did not know what else to do to bring back that lost memory, "Err..will not that be dangerous to bring his memory back? Why don't you meet Zarina and ask her that spell or whatever it may be called?" it was the easiest solution crossing to my mind, but I felt strange when Azalea laughed after listening to my suggestions. 

"Zarina does not know this, Tha. The only person who can do and withdraw that spell is Antonie himself," Yoru said. 

"She is a cheater, what she does is putting jin or satan into a corpse and take away someone's life for something she asks to participate in that agreement. That woman is really crazy," Azalea mocked that woman named Zarina. 

Although Azalea was my boss, I still could not trust her fully.. There was something in me rejects with all she said and I needed to prove it myself.