CHARLOTTE: The Injured White Peacock
Fly Free

Without further ado, Varl finally orders Manu to fly to the place where the map around the hill refers to. The map shows the place where the portal leads to the palace.

Regardless of whether it was true or not, for now Varl only believed in the brown paper sheets drawn by the nameless hill map and the point where the portal was located that he had obtained from the guild.

“Everything ready?” aba-aba Varl before takeoff.

“Yo!”

“Siaaaappp.”

Ellena, Yuya, and Ruby's hands were raised upwards, excited. Everything is ready on Manu's back except Ruby because the little girl already has her own wings and is ready to fly without Manu's help.

“Yosh! Manu, vola!” command Varl which means ‘terbang’ as one of his orders to Manu to take off immediately.

Manu also spread his beautiful wings. White fur looks shiny exposed to sunlight. Before completely leaving the runway, Manu neighs first. He flew, pierced the wind and reached the soft clouds. So did Ruby. He who has red wings is no less beautiful. His wings stretched out, taking him flying towards freedom.

Ellena's eyes were wide with beauty. He saw birds racing towards something. In fact, the Everfalls house down there looks small. The blinding light of the sun greeted Ellena and her new team.

Slowly, Ellena closed her eyes and felt the gentle greeting of the wind as if she had received Ellena here. The white clouds also seemed to say hello. Ellena wanted to hold it, but the clouds were not cotton that could be touched.

“Beautiful,” shrieked Ellena, amazed.

Varl just grinned. He was used to this view so not surprised and impressed ‘kampung’ like Ellena. Yes, understand it because only this first time Ellena flew, even using a white winged horse that is actually more suitable to be ridden by a handsome prince.

“Ellie, do you enjoy it?” ask Yuya for a moment. He had become familiar with Ellena and followed the call Ruby had made to the short-haired girl. “Everfalls is beautiful, isn't it?”

Ellena nodded. “Yes, this is like a dream come true.” Ellena's netra glows brighter. He was truly amazed at the creation of God who had made this world like heaven.

Green plants adorn the land, birds fly freely in the sky, and hills rise and glorify Him. Ellena enjoyed this beautiful view.

However, Varl suddenly destroyed the beauty that existed. “It looks beautiful, but if a country is not led by a chosen leader, then the country will be forgotten!” Varl's words made the atmosphere tense. “Everyone keeps hoping for the Queen, but the Queen herself forgets and discards her citizens!”

Highlight Varl's sharp netra, there stored deep hatred. His heart seemed to be wrung if he remembered how the whole community always did many things in vain to persuade Charlotte back.

“What Varl hates Queen Charlotte?” elena asked in her heart. Because, from the beginning the man always seemed to feel annoyed if the name Charlotte mentioned.

Manu and Ruby continued to flap their wings, but now both stopped as something big was passing by, even covering the sunlight this afternoon. Ellena's two eyes suddenly opened when something big came along.

“P-pari?!” Ellena's mouth shook. “Heh, it's stingrays, isn't it?!” Ellena turned her head towards Ruby, asking for an answer. He really did not believe what he saw.

The skin has two colors. The top is sea blue, while the bottom is pale white. Ellena was unceasingly looking at the super-large rays. In fact, his eyes did not even blink. If the rays fell to the ground, indeed Ellena and her companions would be crushed, not even a trace of them would be seen again.

How horrible!

“It was Manta The Batoidea. He is the great pari symbol of the water kingdom in the land of Holland. It seems, the arrival of Manta here has a certain purpose because Manta rarely come out of the water. The last time she came out of her habitat was a thousand years ago,” explains Ruby at length.

Glug.

Ellena gulped her saliva. A stingray of that size could come out of the water and fly above the clouds, how could it?

“Maybe according to your logic, it's impossible. But, this is Wolestria, a world that holds many impossible things you think.” Ruby seemed to know what was on Ellena's mind so she said so.

True, Ellena could not immediately believe in anything beyond her logic. What a fantastic fantasy world!

Suddenly, Varl got the information from telepathy. “Stop doing that, Ciel! Who do you think he is? Stop the waste!” Varl looks up on a pitam.

While Ellena and Yuya are confused themselves because Varl suddenly gets angry despite his basically nature like that, patience is as thin as a tissue.

“What does he do?” asked Ellena not understand.

“She's on telepathy, Ellie.” Yuya already knew the reason why Varl had suddenly boarded the apoplexy. However, he does not know with whom Varl telepathically conducts because telepathy can only be done by people who are already connected with the blood of unity. That is, both parties exchanged blood and dripped it over the sign of Blessing so that they would connect with each other.

After Varl finished telepathy with someone who knew who it was, his hands clenched tightly. His teeth tightened, looks of annoyance was falling on him. Ellena wanted to ask what was going on, but presumably Varl was reluctant to tell her.

“By being just a stingray, but why did he also do it for the sake of someone who had already left him?!” it was Varl who made Ellena and Yuya confused.

“Are you okay, Varl?” ask Ellena later. He could not bear to see Varl just muttering to himself without sharing the story because all this time if there was anything, Ellena always told it to Miko, and vice versa because no one could really fight alone. Although telling others is not the main way, but at least the heart will be relieved because there are ears who are still willing to listen.

However, Varl remained silent. In fact, he paid no heed to Ellena's anxiety over him. “Manu, vola!” command Varl again, no matter what. His mind became muddled, his heart was grieving, but he was reluctant to share it with others.

They finally flew back to the place that became the main point of the map. Then, a voice surprised them.

In the middle of the forest, there was a scream of someone in pain and the roar of a lion that echoed until it was heard all over the forest. It sounds a little challenging, but the roar of the lion is like delivering a message that he is also threatened.

“Whoever, please help meuuu!” scream someone in the dark depths of the forest and not far from the main hill.

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