Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 62: Aswad 9 of 15 “The sad ones from past” (Part 08)
“Ka-Karungnya .... Please, Mr .... Her bag .... It contains memories of my mother.”
Hearing what the little girl said in her pouch, Odo glimpsed flatly and walked over to pick up the sack. He bent down, touched the sack and inserted it into the storage dimension.
“It's safe, you don't have to worry,” he said as he stood back up. Without saying anything more, the young man stepped foot and was about to leave the city.
“Tu-Wait a minute, Mr Odo! We need you to make the report!” call one of the guards.
Odo's footsteps came to a halt, turned his head in annoyance and replied, “Just explain to Iitla or Lisia later when they come to your office. Also tell me I want to talk to you about something, get them to trade to my shop later in the afternoon after closing.” The two guards were silent, no longer protesting and absolutely unable to refute the words of their Lord son.
The young man in black hair left the town hall carrying the snow leopard-type Demi-human girl. He did not head to the business district to take her back to the Ordoxi Nigrum store, but instead returned to the road to the port to take the little girl to the Inkara orphanage.
While walking down the street with minimal lighting, Odo looked at the girl he was carrying and asked, “Who are you? Where does your family live?”
“A-I .... My name is Mirin Kirsi, Mr .... I have no place to live, but I used to sleep in front of the government office when it closed,” he replied with a soft sura.
Vaguely Odo realized, understood the condition of the little girl around 7 years old. But want to make sure, the young man again asked, “If your parents, where do they live?”
“I .... No longer have a family. I don't know who my father is ... My mother was very sick last winter, and then she died last month. Ka-Karung is my mother's only legacy. W-Did the Master take him? It contains the memories of my mother ...”
The girl's eyes were already unable to see well due to suffocation, reaching out her trembling little hand and looking around for her sack of cloth. His face grew paler, his breathing was breathless and blood was flowing from his life.
Odo's footsteps came to a halt, recalling last year's winter as he helped the Demi-human family now working for him. Feeling that there was more need for help this time, regret invaded his mind and at a glance made a sad expression appear on his face.
“Master is okay ..?” said the little girl as she touched Odo's face with her cold little hands.
The young man looked back at the little girl, put on a stiff smile and took a deep breath. With a soft voice enduring his sadness, the young man in black hair said, “Sleep soundly, Mirin Kirsi.” Aitisal Almaelumat is active, instantly making the little girl sleepy and quickly fall asleep.
Returning to his feet, the young man walked quickly to the Inkara orphanage. Not ten minutes, he arrived in front of the orphanage fence and immediately jumped it easily. He walked quickly in the courtyard, quickly knocking on the door many times with his elbow.
“Mbak Siska! Please wake up for a moment! Ma'am! Wake up! Open door! Quickly open the door!” yelled Odo loudly. He kept knocking on the door and calling out in a loud voice.
Not until five minutes, a reply from inside sounded, “Iya! Wait a minute!”
The sound of the key being played rang out and the door of the orphanage was opened by Siska from inside. Seeing the young man carrying the girl full of bruises, the two eyes of the blonde woman who had looked sleepy immediately opened wide and panicked.
“A-What happened? Who's the kid? Why dia—?”
“Let me enter first, I want to give him medicine.”
Odo went straight into the orphanage, and borrowed one of the rooms to lay Mirin down. Siska immediately closed the door again, then rushed to the kitchen to pick up a cloth to compress the little girl and borrow clothes from the closet for her.
Nesta wakes up because the bedroom was used to care for the girl, and Nanra also wakes up because she hears a noise. Seeing the child Odo brought, the two of them were anxious because he was a Demi-human. After Odo passed the Potion to Mirin Kirsi, Siska wiped the little girl's body and changed her shabby clothes.
After all the things they did for the girl, Odo explains what really happened to the little girl at the town hall. He told her background about what happened to the girl's late mother who was an****** and died earlier in the year after suffering from fever since last year's winter.
Hearing this, Siska shed tears and asked Odo to let her stay in the orphanage to be treated. For that reason he brought Mirin Kirsi to the orphanage, Odo quickly agreed and entrusted her to Siska.
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In Odo's head, the voice of the Dragon Princess was heard, “Leave to kill them all, why do you have to go against your own will? From the point of view of a Great Dragon, such lowly creatures deserve to die.”
Odo frowned and turned his eyes to the side, feeling that Seliari was just muddying the mood. Taking a deep breath and exhaling it all at once, the young man in black hair replied, “I would be just like them if I did something like that. I'm not the stupidest person who feels the truest, who plays violence with the power I have.”
“What are you talking about? Not that you obviously used violence, Odo.”
The young man fell silent, recalling what he had done to the people who had upset him a while ago and indeed himself resolved all of that with violence. For the time that Odo lost arguing with Seliari, quickly silent and did not express an argument.
Down the road to the quiet business district in the early hours of the morning, the young man looked around again and gathered information for the terms of activating Perception Speculation. Unlike a few hours ago, the road he passed was completely deserted and because everyone was already asleep.
The light in each building goes out, the homeless are seen making alleys, stalls, and carts their beds. Feeling sorry for the people sleeping in the sky, the young man put his hand to his chest and gritted his teeth tightly.
“And you always say you don't care about them and claim not a good person, but you are basically a good person yes, Odo ..”.
Hearing what Seliari said inside her head, the young man in black hair did not reply and immediately took a breath to calm down. Just like what the Dragon Princess said, Odo Luke is basically a feeling man who easily feels compassion for others. But at the same time, the sense of pity is just selfishness that is quickly lost to other emotions.
“I think, the choice taken now is indeed very appropriate. Even though you have a relationship with that Ancient Demon King, your nature is very different to him ..”
Seliari's words brought Odo's footsteps to a halt, put on a dislike expression and said, “Speak continues as if you understand everything. Do you know what you are about the man who was willing to be labeled as a criminal until the end of his life?” The young man again stepped foot, regardless of what answer would come out of Seliari.
When he arrived in front of the Ordoxi Nigrum store, the Dragon Princess just replied with a rebuttal, “Evilance is a crime, right? Whatever the pretext and reason behind it, it hasn't changed. Why do you want so much to defend a creature like him? Is it because he called you Ayahanda?”
Odo put on an annoyed face, quickly walked next to the store and as he was about to climb the stairs he said, “As far as you are, you little lizard..
“Odo!!”
The young man's frown furrowed as he heard a loud voice echoing within his head. “Apaan? Don't shout everything,” complained Odo.
“Not that, from the inside .... On the first floor of the store there is a strange air.”
Hearing what Seliari said, Odo began to realize the unnatural existence. Odo recalled the slave girl he had met at the town hall at night. In the young man's head, a conclusion from the calculation immediately appeared and gave him a clear answer.
“Seriously? This time I did not go to sleep again ..”
The young man's intention to sleep on the third floor was dashed, he immediately turned around and walked towards the entrance of the first floor. Holding the handle and it turns out that the door is not locked, the estimate that Odo can be sure and make him more upset with all the problems that exist.
The young man opened the shop door, looked inside and immediately put on a flat expression when he saw the people who were there. On the shop floor lay Lisia, Arca, Aprilo and her personal Butler, then the two merchants from the Lorian guild. Seeing them not breathing and actually being a soulless corpse, a glimpse of panic made Odo's flat face turn wrathful.
He quickly looked at the three people sitting on one of the tables inside the store. They were seen waiting for his arrival several hours ago. The three people were wearing imperial clothing, people who were no strangers to Odo himself. Two slaves he had met at the town hall along with a High Officer who took them.
Smiling faintly with her red lips, an extremely long black hair slave girl woke up from her seat. Accompanied by the other slave girl who brought her long unravelled hair, she stretched out her hands forward and relievedly said, “Finally you came, my future husband .... I thought they were lying about you coming to this place.”
Odo did not reply to these words, he understood very well that the girl was not playing around about wanting to bring her to the empire. Seeing the anxious expression of the black-haired man named Fai Fengying who was a Top Officer from the empire, Odo immediately understood that the identity of the slave girl who spoke was indeed of a higher status than him.
Staring flat at the black slave girl's very long hair, Odo confirmed, “What ... You're the Second Emperor? Eternal Girl, Cai Zi Shou ... Mao Naraka.”
“Wah~ wah~” The girl holds a chain necklace on her neck, then using her power she kills the necklace with just a touch. The age of the iron necklace was immediately whipped, weathered and crushed into ash grains to the chain.