Zephyr is eating the steak in the hotel very gracefully with a noble smile on his face but his face turn into frown when he sees the little girl in front of him
' she really eats a lot '
after seeing three plates she eat and zephyr still couldn't finish his first plate ,he face palmed his face and after putting sound barrier and in a cold voice he ask
" hey ....can you tell me your name and age now ?"
after listening his voice and looking in his abyss like eyes she gulped and lowering her head in an inaudible voice she speak
" rain , m-my name is rain and my age is 12 "
due to Zephyr good hearing , he can easily listen her inaudible voice and thought
' she is wearing a mask that covered her face but i can see her physical features like she have white hair and red eyes. her age is definitely 12 but ...she is using an alias'
but after looking her at carefully , he got shocked but let his face remain impassive and thought
' she is definitely a mana user but for her age her control of the mana is really impressive ,look like i found another tool so lets dig more information about her ' .
so zephyr continued
" i see "
but with a poker face he continued
"i heard before that your father is ill "
she nodded her with a lifeless expression on her face
after cleaning his mouth with a tissue paper and closing his eyes he continued
"i can buy the meal and medicine for your father "
then Zephyr got the chills on his back and after opening his eyes he look towards the little girl who has a bright smile on her face
' ugh , don't give me that angelic face '
but with a smirk on his face he continued
" if you can tell me your real real name "
after listening Zephyr emotionless answer , she lower her head and biting her lips she speaks
" two"
not understanding the word ,zephyr ask
" what ?"
after biting her lips she speak in one breath
" i will tell you my real name if you buy me two time meals"
after listening her answer , an amused smile appeared on his face
' wow , this little girl is making to deal with me , Noice'
Zephyr continued
" okk , i will buy you two time meals and medicine , so tell me your real name "
even though she doesn't know that the person in front of her telling the truth or not . she Knew that her father doesn't have enough time
' i will trust this big brother for now '
so clenching her fist she continued
" my name is Elena Evans "
after hearing her answer zephyr got shocked and his inside is in turmoil but let his face remain impassive but he continued and thought
' how is this possible , she is the rune magician and a villain who appeared in the middle end of the book and she is a calamity rank villain even leo and his teammates was in stalemate against her and she was alone when fighting against them but still she met her demise in the hand of leo '
after looking at her one a thought pass through his mind
' should i kill her or not ?'
after looking at her again seeing her trembling and naïve expression
' but she is different from rose who has murderous glare and already contracted with villain society and she is still far cry from her future version who has always indifferent expression on face like me '
after using his skill ' scholars memory ' he found everything about her and remembers the last line when her indifferent expression crumbled in front of leo
'if you have met me before him , i should have live different life '
and then a sudden thought appears in his mind
' maybe the reason she became like this because of her fathers death and the person who she is talking about '
and looking toward Elena , zephyr speaks
" okk , my name is Zero and
he stops and look toward elena
tilting her head she couldn't help but ask
" and ?"
with a smile on his face he continued
" take me to your father "
her eyes open wide and moving her head sideways
" no, no . i-i can't take you at my home "
after hearing her refusal Zephyr throw a bait
" i can treat your father probably "
a hope appear in her eyes
" really ? are you a Light element user "
zephyr has a complicated expression in his mind because she is the one who hate light element user to the core and that's the reason she joined villain society but he still replied truthfully
" no ,I am not a light element user and i can't say for sure but if i have to treat your father i have to check on him first "
understanding the situation after a while she nodded her head
" ok "
after they quickly finished there food , zephyr pay the bill and pack the two meals and followed elena after that
Zephyr was going her home for two reasons first to check whether this little girl will become his ally or enemy and his senses is telling him that her father problem is somehow related to the incident that shakes the power balance between hero and villain society in the future
so he followed her but after some time Elena stopped , seeing her Zephyr foot halted too
she moved around and ask him to come forward
Zephyr moves toward her and then she pointed toward a certain House
" that is my house but some people are watching over my house"
he sees the house which looks too much old from the outside . there are no people guarding outside but he sense three people who are watching stealthily over the house
' I can kill them now but.... i have only one sword now because before i gain my memories of my past life ,my main weapon is only one sword so it's difficult to kill them now and i don't want to create more disturbance'
so he looked toward elena and ask with a stoic expression
" so there must be a secret way , right ?"
zephyr already understand that there must be a way where she came out from and somebody is helping her because she can't know that there are people who are stealthily watching her house
after hearing Zephyr answer she smiled and nodded her head
" you are right ,big brother"
hearing her answer he frowned and said in a serious voice
" Don't call me big brother "
because the only person who called him brother was his little brother and it's weird to listen from others mouth
she nodded after seeing Zephyr serious expression and couldn't help but ask
" so , what should i call you ? "
after thinking and remembering his past life in which when he visit orphanage kids often and what that kids calls him
" sir , call me sir for now "
she nodded and she straighten her back and with a smile
" okk , sir "
after saying thay she moves toward the narrow lane which is darker and too much older than the outside .
Zephyr followed her but after remembering her face a moment ago he couldn't help but think
' ugh , did i make a mistake back then? '
because her face is different from the kids back in the orphanage he visited in his past life
but he followed her without making any expression on his face , it's rather to say he always have a stoic face .
and then they stopped at a certain house after looking around when they see that nobody is around they both entered the house and with a secret foor they enters a tunnel and entered another house
when they enters , he sees a pale man with white hair and His limbs were still shaking while his entire body was in pain because of his internal organs that were twisting.
after seeing the condition of her father she ran toward her father and after grabbing her fathers hand she started crying
listening the crying of her daughter her father opened his eyes which is of blue color and look toward her daughter , he took another hand and started patting over her head and with a smile he speaks
" don't worry my daughter , i am alive now "
after hearing his father weak voice she started crying more and her father started patting her head more to stop her crying
but Zephyr has a different thoughts and had a complicated expression inwardly because he knew this symptoms
he calmly moves toward the bed and started to look toward his body
and then Elena speaks
" *sob*father he is a doctor who can probably treat you "*sob*
the father looks toward the man with suspicious eyes , he thinks that maybe his naive daughter bring a fraud man who manipulate his daughter to bring him here.
well he is half right , Zephyr gave him a deal to bring him along that he will treat her father and gave her food of two times
but Zephyr speaks after touching his hands
" it's been two years right "
after hearing his answer his eye open wide and his eyeball shook
but Zephyr continued with no expression on his face
" that dark power enters your body , right "
dark powers they are the power used by villain society and demons . when dark powers enters into the body who doesn't make contract with the demons , they act as a poison .
' and looking his condition and his rank . he have a fight with a high rank demon or high rank contractor because dark powers has no effect on the person who has higher rank than him/her'
' it's a miracle that this person is alive even after two years because time for the person who doesn't treat the dark powers in his body is one years'
' he is one heck of a monster '.
with his eyes closed he replied
" yes you are right"
but before he could continued , zephyr voice turned cold and he looked back
" i have given you enough time , so why don't you came outside now "
suddenly then a figure around 40 years old blue hair and orange eyes come outside with his hands on his back and with a chilly smile
but before he could speak Zephyr cut him in cold voice
" what about other person? "
his facial expression remain indifferent but his eyes shook but that didn't go unnoticed by Zephyr but with a smile he speaks
" he is a shy guy and don't like to come outside"
at that time that old man understands that the person in front of him is neither a spy nor have ill intention towards him but he didn't let his guard down because he knew that the person may be of E rank but he has experience of a high ranker
and Zephyr had a clear explanation who the other person is
' he must be assassin and his guard '
but Zephyr already has his guard up when he gain his memories in this world and he already can escape from here if the fight starts but he know that the person is front of him doesn't want to fight.
but Zephyr ask a different question this time
" why don't you treat him in his first year by the light element user? "
the only way to treat the person who has dark power remnant in his body is to treat the person with light element user
the person in front of Zephyr replied in a calm tone
" it's because we don't have enough money "
Zephyr know that he is lying and Zephyr looked towards the little girl who stopped crying and her eyes show hatred .
' is this the reason she has the hatred towards light element user but.... why did she join the villain society then ,.... i have to get more information here?'
he looks toward the little girl and speak
" is this the reason you are asking me that i am a light element user or not ? "
without looking toward Zephyr , she bit her lip and speak everything she knew
" yes sir , because i have listen the talk between uncle and father that only light element user can treat them but ...
and then she look toward his father and continued
" we don't have enough money to hire them and when i ask the light element user they try hit me or seen me with crazy eyes...,.... but this is my first time i heard that it's because of the dark power "
she clenched her teeth and pure hatred can be seen in her eyes and she continued
"that's why i try to start steal the black card "
when the person behind Zephyr hear the word ' steal' he runs toward her and with a careful and angry eyes he ask.
" did you say the word steal and why did you do that? "
she replied in a shout
" because i want to treat my father "
Zephyr ignore the talk between and start to concentrate on other things she said
' i see , so this is her reason for her hatred towards light element user because they harrass her and leave her father to die and she didn't know about the reason for her father to die '
' and about the reason she joined .she speak of certain person in the future with leo , i have to find about that so called 'him'.
and he smiled inwardly and thought
' look like i found another tool for this game '
he grabbed the chair and sit down on it and cutting there conversation he speaks in a emotionless voice
" why don't you stop your measly argument and
pointing toward the elena father he continued
" let's make the deal first "