Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 62: Aswad 9 of 15 “The sad ones from past” (Part 03)
Odo briefly closed his eyes, then brought his lips closer to the ear of the girl who filled him and whispered, “If you want to talk to me, follow the procedure. You who are a leader understand such things, ‘kan?”
“Because I am a leader, such a procedure I passed,” replied the girl without hesitation.
Hearing such a thing, Odo sighed and stopped borrowing the girl's shoulders to stand up. The young man stood alone even with only his right foot as part of his body was still paralyzed. He leaned over to pick up the gloves on the street, then put them back on.
Facing towards the girl, with a basic gaze he asked, “You, what do you want to come here?”
The girl put her right hand to the front of the chest, stared with blank eyes and replied, “The reason I came to a place like this is for you, is for you, bringing the Black Element to the empire was a top priority for my arrival.”
Odo momentarily silent, covering both ears with the palm of the hand and trying to speed up the recovery of cells in the body assisted with Auto Senses. Sighing again and gazing lazily at the very long black haired girl, Odo lowered both his hands from his ears and asked again, “After taking me, what do you want to do?”
Stretching his right hand towards Odo, with a flat expression the slave girl replied, “Make you my husband.”
The words left Lisia, Arca, Aprilo and the others shocked. Even Fai Fengying and her people did not expect the girl to say such a thing. The other slave girl approached her mouth to the ears of the High Officer of the empire, then in a soft voice whispered, “We have already finished this, Mr. Fai. If it continues, your Majesty could kill everyone here to bring him to the empire.”
“I also feel like it.” Fai immediately walked up to the girl's long black hair, held her shoulder from behind and said, “We'll finish first, it'll be free if she doesn't want to come with us.”
The girl clad in thin red Hanfu turned her head, gave a sharp look and said, “Don't bother us, Fai. You want me to kill me again?” The words made Fai Fengying flinch, immediately raising her hand from the girl and stepping back with cold sweat began to pour out.
Looking back at Odo, the very long black haired girl asked, “Will you come with me?”
Odo Luke did not reply immediately, just staring flat at the girl in front of him. He understood exactly who the creature before him was, whether it was the original title he held or what kind of entity the girl was. Tired of all the problems that came as if there was no end since yesterday, Odo gave a long sigh.
“Are you still a virgin?” asked Odo with uncaring eyes.
The girl slightly tilted her head, then in astonishment asked, “Why are you asking such a thing?”
“That's one of my standards, I don't want used goods,” replied Odo. The way he talks is really as if he only views women as property, goods to wear and nothing more.
With great clarity the girl understood — The young man before her was not at all joking or lying about it, just asking it as well as asking the seller if it was used or still new. Putting up a sneering smile, in a small laugh the girl replied, “Fu~fu~ No need to worry, I have not slept with another man. Unlike you who have ever been—”
“If lover?” ask Odo before the girl finishes her words.
At first glance the girl showed an annoyed face, slightly erasing the flat expression that was dominant to her. Adding a sharp look, the girl with very long black hair pointed towards Odo and replied, “My first and last love is the First Emperor.”
Odo fell silent and thought about why the girl called the First Emperor while pointing at him. Realizing that what the girl meant was ‘Sometu’ residing in her Soul Realm, Odo put on an astonished expression and again asked, “If it is not wrong that the First Emperor was not female? I remember she was supposed to be a girl.”
“There is indeed a problem with it?”
Odo was immediately stunned and his forehead twitched, briefly turning his gaze with a sigh of fret. “She's lesbian anyway,” the young man's thoughts of black hair while shaking his head. Looking back at the girl, Odo replied, “No problem, that's your right. I have no reason to ban such a thing.”
“Back to the original question, do you want to be my husband?”
A similar question asked for the second time really bothered Odo, let alone being expressed in a public place and right in front of people he knew. Placing his right palm over the girl's crown, Odo rubbed his head and said, “I refuse your offer. Try to follow the procedure before you want to talk to me about such a thing, you're a ruler, ‘kan?”
The words slightly reminded the girl of her past, made her eyes slightly teary and felt a nostalgia in her mind. Raising his face and looking at Odo, he without protest replied, “Alright, next time I will do.”
“You didn't give up, huh?” Odo lifted his hand from the girl's head, put on a grim expression and said, “I've rejected you, you see. Is my sentence unclear?”
“What if you refuse? You are in front of me, at the same time and in a place where I can reach, what is the reason I give up now?”
The words, manner of sight and determination that were in the eyes of the girl looked so firm. Although Odo faintly felt the aura and aroma of staring at the pile of corpses from when standing before the girl, but that pure feeling was the only thing that made him look like a living being. Recalling a very similar thing to that sort of thing, Odo involuntarily muttered, “Lord of Life and Death, Special Code with double digits.”
“I haven't heard of such a thing in a long time.” While smiling lightly the girl walked past Odo, then standing next to him she briefly said, “I guess only she calls this Curse is just an array of information like that.”
Fai Fengying hurriedly chased after the girl, as well as the slaves and the officer's bodyguards. Once again Aprilo, Arca, and the others are confused by their relationship which feels very strange.
“Wait a minute!” call Lisia stop the people from that empire.
Fai Fengying immediately turned her head, then with a hurried expression asked, “What's up, Miss Lisia?”
“Can you guys come with me to the office? I want to reassure you of your purpose in coming to this city. As a Substitute Mayor, I'm entitled to know the details.”
Fai Fengying could not ignore the request, but the man also seemed to want to immediately chase one of his slaves. The girl with very long black hair stopped her steps, turned back and looked towards the High Officer and said, “No problem, Fai. Just follow the girl's request, myself and Yue Ying will go to the inn first.”
“I want you to come too!” lyia said firmly. Of all the people of the empire, he felt that the girl was the one who had to be interrogated the most after what he had done.
“Man, don't you love your life?” The long black haired girl looked at Lisia with her red eyes, as if she was shining in the darkness like a predator under the night sky. The other slave immediately raised the girl's unraveling hair to the street and rolled it, then brought her mouth to her ear and whispered, “Your Majesty, I beg you not to make a fuss. This place is not Magetsu, if your identity is exposed it could-can war will widen to Felixia this ...”
“Whatever I care about. The Empire was formed by him, therefore everything must be used to realize his will.” The black haired girl opened her palm towards Lisia. A strange, red ribbon-like aura began to radiate from within his clothing sleeves, coiling a spiral around the fringes of his right hand.
“Matila—!”
“Hei ...” Odo immediately stood in front of Lisia.
The mouth of the black-haired slave girl was tightly shut, staring at the astonished Odo who was standing in front of Lisia and blocking her. The young man with black hair extended his hand towards the girl in a thin cloth, then with a flat gaze said, “You don't want to be my enemy, do you? Put your hands down, you must have heard the proverb in which the earth is stepped where the sky is held, ‘kan?”
Odo glanced towards Lisia, then flatly asked, “Where?”
The red-haired woman was still trembling to get intimidation from the black-haired girl. Slightly lowering her face, Lisia replied, “Barak, to the barracks only.”
“Alright! Come to the barracks and resolve this misunderstanding, I really do not want to find trouble in this city,”, Fai Fengying said as he walked towards the slaves with the three guards.
Lisia held tightly onto the young man's clothes from behind, clearly feeling the red hair girl's right hand so trembling in fear. Sticking his forehead to Odo's back, he anxiously asked, “You'll also come along, ‘kan?”
“Sorry, I no need other.” As Lisia stopped holding tightly onto her shirt and took one step back, Odo turned to face towards the red-haired woman and patted her head twice. “Now you're the leader of this city, ‘right? Finish this your own way. If you are afraid, just ask for help Uncle Iitla or someone you trust in the barracks,” said the young man while smiling lightly.
Lisia nodded her head doubtfully, then raised her face and said, “Alright, I will try.” Breathing out and trying not to tremble, the girl walked towards the High Officer of the empire. As she raised her voice Lisia said, “Please come with me for a moment! We're going to the barracks!”
The black-haired girl who remained to open her right palm towards Odo was only speechless, staring curiously at the young man in black hair. Lowering her hand and closing her eyes at a glance, the girl with the slave chain necklace around her neck asked, “Why are you pretending like that? You should not be a nice person or like to live in this kind of place, ‘kan?”
“Indeed since when did I become a good person?”
The reply left the two girls eyes wide open, putting on a loose smile and sniffing lightly. Turning around and stepping away from the place, in a loose voice he said, “True too! I am the same .... Basic hypocrite.”
Together with the other slave and the three escorting martialists, they went to follow Lisia through the main road leading towards the barracks. Before following them Fai Fengying stared at Odo, bowing her body in gratitude and looking so relieved. Without saying anything, the High Officer immediately turned around and followed them to go through the re-examination.
“Padalahan have polite men so, but his nature is even like a boy,” muttered Odo while breathing tired.
As he turned around and was about to step away, Arca and the people from the trade union stared at him with gazes asking for an explanation. Odo did not tell them anything to answer their curiosity, the young man with black hair just scratched the back of his head and said, “You can go to the store first, please, I'll be there around 11. There's a place I need to visit tonight.”
Arca looked flat at the son of the Luke family, really waiting for him to explain what really happened earlier and why a High Officer from a neighboring country could look for him. But as if he did not care about the curiosity, Odo instead walked towards Arca and patted her on the shoulder while saying, “You did not forget to order the ingredients for tomorrow, ‘kan? If you forget it means the store is closed on the second day, loh.”
“Seriously, Odo? You even ask a sure thing like that?” said Arca while glancing flatly at Odo. At first glance, resentment rippled in the mind, feeling did not get the trust of the young man who himself scored high.
While stepping back, Odo briefly put on a grim face and said, “I don't know either. Don't assume I know everything, what I said just followed their flow...”
“A—! You were just bragging in front of him? You told me to believe that?!”
Without answering Arca's question, the young man in black hair walked into the crowd and disappeared into the darkness of the night. Neither Arca nor Aprilo, none of them could imagine what kind of relationship the black-haired youth had with one of the Generals from the empire earlier.
Gritting his teeth in annoyance, Arca stepped out and walked towards the business district. “Come, gentlemen! We finish our business first,”, he said with a little mangkel.
“Is this okay, Mr Arca?” aprilo said as he walked following the son of the Rein family, along with his colleagues.
“Tak what! He seemed to want to take care of that kind of thing alone until the end. If he were to beg for help on such a matter, I wouldn't help him!”
In the traffic of many people near the fountain, Odo stopped his steps and felt a little relieved that Arca did not urge him to explain such a matter. With a grim face the only son of the family Luke stepped foot, feeling tired and saturated because of continuous problems.
Upon reaching the main crossroads leading to the port, Odo passed Nanra and Canna who were about to return home. Before they parted at the intersection because their living quarters were different, the two women immediately stared at the grim-faced, black-haired young man.
“What are you up, Odo? How grim is that?” canna said as she walked closer. The white hair lady tied the single braid observed up close, felt a little astonished and again asked, “There is another problem?”
“Ya, there you go.” Odo at a glance looked away, sighed tired and complained, “Entah why ..., it feels like a problem really likes to come to me.”
Nanra came closer, looking at the young man with a sleepy facial expression. While nodding limply, the girl asked, “Indeed ... problem ... what else did you get this time?”
Odo and Canna were a little worried about the girl. Staring at each other with anxious expressions, Odo immediately offered, “Do I need to drive him home? All in one direction, I have need around the port.”
“Yah~ Whereas I want to be escorted home with Odo,” joked the Second Level Expert Witch. Go back up and go, then wave his right hand and laugh and say, “Then Odo just take him home, at Atelier I also need something else. There are still a lot of tasks that I give you, anyway. By the way, I have also seen the Magic Reactor in the basement of the store and it does not seem too difficult for its maintenance.”
“Ayahanda?” The heavily sleepy Nanra faintly heard the remark. Staring at Odo, the silvery-white haired girl asked, “Does Kak Canna have adoptive parents? He's also an orphan, ‘kan?”
Odo did not answer, only putting on a faint smile to ignore the question. Standing in front of Nanra, the young man in black hair knelt down and offered, “Let's go up my back, I'll carry it to the orphanage.”
“Eeeh~ I'm still strong way, kok.”
Nanra turned her slightly blurry gaze. The girl's consciousness seemed to be hovering, her body staggering and could collapse easily if nudged a little. Even so, he was too embarrassed to be carried by the young man who had a place in his heart.
“Tak forced themselves, just stand up so.”
“Eng, okay. But that doesn't mean I want to be fat, you know. You forced ...”
The girl immediately limp and collapsed onto Odo's back, closing her eyes and fast asleep. Odo Luke just put on a light smile, then carried the girl and immediately stood up. After a light sigh, he started walking towards the Incara orphanage to drive her home.
“Looks like he did force himself, yes ..”
While stepping foot, a glimpse of Odo's eyes turned dark. He looked back and thought about the question the slave girl had asked at the end. Odo understood very well that he was not a good man himself, but merely a hypocrite and a great liar.
“Tch!” Ringing his tongue once, the look of his eyes looked increasingly irritated. “Not. I made him push himself, using the guilt of having stabbed me that time.,” his rebuttal to his own words.