Chapter Ninety-Nine:
Somewhere deep into the woods…
"You finally came back." he said as I arrived from the very location we already settled once my memories begins to come back.
"Indeed. And now I am here to stop the awakening of my brother."
"But all your memories have not been completely restored, how can you keep him from waking up? Especially now that Bela is there just waiting for the right opportunity to poison again your brother's mind."
"Don't worry about him. I already had done something for him that can hold him for a while until my memories will fully come back." I answered. "For now, I need to know who my brother is. Because every time I die, his appearance is also erased from the memory of everyone, including me. So, I really needed to know who he was before anyone else got ahead of me."
"Isn't it you were able to secretly get the Azaba Jar?"
"Yes, I already did."
"Then, all you have to do is use it to know who your brother was."
I take a deep breath before I answered. "Indeed. And he is the next one I will go to."
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"It's been so long since I saw you, my Goddess." He greeted and bowed.
"I'm no longer a Goddess." I said as I walk closer to him. "And I am glad you still remember me, Wafi." I added and greet him with a smile. "It's been so long and there are lots of changes in this Earth."
"Indeed. But what still does not change is your destiny. The curse that ends the entire creations is still there waiting for his awake."
"I know. But this is really my destiny. That even my father took my life back after my own brother murdered me. He also came back because no matter what happens we're twins and the thread that connects the two of us will remain forever. And the only one who can cut that thread is the one who gave birth to the two of us. Our mother." But for some unknown reason, after we were born by our mother. Our mother fell into a deep sleep and never woke up again. Though she continues to live but never wakes up and that gave me the thought that the curse might have been there at our birth.
But because of our father's love for his children, he still treated all of us equally and my brother as well. That even as he grew up, he was already seen to have a strange behavior that is not present in our siblings not even to mine. That our father saw and witnessed the reason why he was no longer given his own realm to rule and was left alone with our father in his own realm. So that he could still change his behavior and manners but our father made a mistake and this is what happened.
That even though we died again and I was given a chance to reincarnate again as a human in the clan of Witches and Warlocks he also lived and killed a God again so that he could only do what he wanted. To rule over the whole creations. Only to be destroy by himself.
"Then, what are you going to do now?" Wafi asked me that breaks my deep thought.
"The artifact. Have you given it to him?"
"Yes, I did. But why do I have to give Kanik the Azaba Jar?" he curiously asked. "For as far as I know the only blood that can open the Azaba Jar is from the very direct descendant of God of Spells and Magic. Am I right?"
"Yes, you were right."
"Then, why him?"
"It is because…"
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Manu Kingdom
Reinhardt's Residence
I stared for a long time at what Wafi gave me as a gift when I turned at my three hundred years old. The jar is beautiful and obviously from an ancient workmanship but that doesn't detract from its inherent beauty. And every time I stare at it, it makes my mood calm.
Especially now that I really need it because of the annoyance I feel because Medea can't summon 'The Joker' for some unknown reason. It was as if he was like a bubble that suddenly disappeared when it pops out that cause Medea to no longer trace him anywhere. That I am so annoyed now that I need to know the truth more but what can I do but to wait. And I have been waiting so long, from the time the house exploded until our King finally announced that he would step down as King next year and that my brother would succeed him, still no information to where 'The Joker' is.
That makes me tired of waiting any longer. I quickly stand up and immediately called out Maury.
"Yes, Sir Kanik?"
"Where is Wafi?"
"He came out earlier."
"Did he say where he was going?"
"No, he didn't."
Where would he go without even saying where he goes? I silently asked myself. "Let's go to Medea's house first and I'll ask her to find Wafi." I immediately decided and went out of my study room where I suddenly bump to my brother.
"Where are you going?" he curiously asked.
"To Medea." I simply answered.
"At this hour?" he answered in question and look at the wall clock. "It is already pass ten in the evening. You might disturb her rest at this hour, Kanik?"
"I know. But I have something to ask her to do."
"And what is it? Is that so important that you will choose to bother someone at this time around? Maybe you can just do it by tomorrow, remember she's still a Lady that needs to take a rest just like the other Ladies do. Understand?"
It was a long time before I could answer his reasoning and he's right. It's no good if I go and disturb her in this hour, so I decided. "Fine. Tomorrow I'll go." I agreed.
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