Chapter 124 - The First Clue

Terran couldn't continue and tell what he wanted.

His voice failed to come out of his mouth.

And this was all because of the eyes that were staring at him. The pupils were completely red and except for the outer white portion, it seemed like red torchlight was being flashed with a golden ring in the middle.

It was quite frightening even for a dragon who had killed a celestial once!

*gulp*

'What the heck is-'

The eyes of a predator that doesn't leave anything. Shin's eyes resembled those eyes.

It was probably the first time the dragon had experienced such as thing, surprisingly it gave him chills.

'Why does it feel like I have seen these eyes somewhere…?', the dragon asked himself.

It was sunny again and the bright glow dimmed only to vanish soon.

After that Shin had his normal black eyes.

"So I shouldn't be kind?", Shin asked this in the end.

"I will try not to show kindness…"

"At least, not to foes…"

"Not that I ever showed to begin with."

With this, it marked the end of their chatter.

Terran could still feel the chills just by recalling the red bloodthirst eyes.

Shin then didn't say anything and sat in the same place while trying to think the way Aella could have thought.

And while he was doing that, Terran asked, "So what will you do?"

"How will you find her?"

Since Terran was no outsider, at least not now, Shin thought about letting him know.

"I have to find clues related to her…", Shin murmured.

"Uh, do you think she was intelligent enough to leave clues or hints behind?", Terran asked.

"Yes, she definitely was…", he said.

"Hmm…", the dragon couldn't accept it readily but after seeing Shin show such confidence, he concluded that he was right.

"Then, why don't you try and think like her master?"

"Since you were so close to her for a long time, you might be knowing her thinking and habits.", Terran suggested.

Shin was thinking the exact thing.

"Yes, I am trying to do that.", Shin nodded his head.

"Well, if I were to think like her, then I would have run with all my might to someone who could help…"

"And if I'm not wrong, I was the only one she could rely on at the moment so she should have headed towards me.", he concluded.

Would she have really done that?

Terran asked Shin the same thing.

"Are you sure that she would have done that?"

Shin failed to understand the intent behind his question.

"Why wouldn't she?", Shin asked,

"Sigh…"

"Master, I guess you already know the answer to that question.", Terran nodded his head and said this as if he too knew the answer.

"What?"

"Yes master, first of all, are you really sure that you were thinking from her point of view and not your own?", now Terran posed an interesting question.

"Huh?", that was confusing even for Shin.

'Wait…'

'Terran does have a point…'

'Wasn't I just trying to justify that the right thing that she could have done was running towards me?'

Shin realized that he indeed was just saying the things that he himself had imagined and wanted to happen.

'If it would have been Aella then…'

'Then what would have she done?', Shin asked himself by closing his eyes and concentrating.

He wanted to completely immerse himself and think like Aella, only that way would he be able to know what exactly had happened.

When he tried to put himself in her place for real, he found out how wrong he was.

No one would want their family to be put in danger.

Aella definitely considered Shin as her family so for sure she wouldn't want the humans – the beings whom she had seen for the first time – to approach Shin.

Even if she believed that he was strong, her heart wouldn't just agree in running towards Shin.

'She must have definitely gone the opposite way…', Shin concluded.

And yes, he was completely right this time.

How did he know for sure that he was right?

A notification popped up that confirmed him about this after all.

'Ding'

[ You have found 1 clue – Running in the opposite direction ]

"Yes!", Shin raised his voice after seeing the notification.

Terran had no idea about the system so for a second he thought that Shin was weird because he shouted out of nowhere.

It was as if he was sure that he would find her for sure if he were to go along that path.

"Terran, I think I found a clue about where Aella could be!", he exclaimed.

"Really master!?", Terran suddenly had a smile on his face.

It was a piece of good news so why wouldn't they be happy?

"Come, we must leave right now!", Shin didn't want to waste any time.

He rushed to find her, of course, he didn't use the skill Dash or Wind Run.

In fact, he didn't even run at his full speed which could be maintained even without the skills.

The reason was simple – Terran was way too slow for him to display his top speed.

Unlike wolves, whose specialty is number and speed, Terran had quite a low speed when compared to his defense.

Of course, his level was lower than Shin so it was understandable.

Whatever, both of them started to move now and within a few minutes, they had passed through half of the forest.

They didn't enter the deeper parts at the moment because it was wiser to avoid beasts rather than directly running into them.

Though, there were a few beasts that were being killed as they ran into Shin while he was rushing.

'I need to go back to the den…', he thought.

Only after reaching the den would he be able to walk in the direction which he had confirmed earlier.

"…"

'Wait for me Aella, I will be there soon…'

"…"

To be continued…