Chapter 235 - Something Important

"I don't make sense now, do I? I just have this bad feeling nagging at me, but I can't explain what exactly, how or why. I just knew it's connected to Czernobog."

Kazehaya Gin couldn't understand what he was talking about either. It was just that there's a nagging feeling deep within him that's making him restless.

Homura Ryuu, on the other hand, studied him seriously. "No, you don't make any sense – at least for now," he said making the other flinch.

"I knew it. Just ignore me," the wind caster said as he scratched the back of his head.

However, despite trying to look comical, and relax, the tensed energy surrounding Gin didn't change. It continued to be listless, and so Ryuu cleared his throat.

"If it were a normal human telling me that, then I will completely ignore it. But since it's you…"

Ryuu went silent again for a while as he looked thoughtful. He shifted on his seat as he propped his chin with his hand.

"I will be more careful then," the Koutaishidenka said afterwards.

Among the demigods, those who had exceptionally good instincts were mostly wind casters. This was also one reason why Kazehaya Gin was a very shrewd businessman. If he said he's feeling uneasy about something, then it should be taken seriously, most especially regarding the Black God.

"Well, thanks, I guess?" Gin looked dumbfounded that Ryuu chose to believe him when he couldn't give him a proper explanation.

In the years they had been together, this had never happened before. The formidable CEO of Homura International had always been able to explain things well.

"There's no need to thank me,"Ryuu said as he straightened on his seat.

Because Kazehaya Gin had been a bit worried about the Black God, he couldn't help but become thoughtful about it as well.

"Is there any record of the Black God or any of his spawns appearing here on Earth before?" he asked.

In the five centuries the Homura House and the Kazehaya House existed on Earth, he couldn't remember any instance in their history of that ever happening. This generation was the only extraordinary one with the appearance of the Returner to Ancestry Kresnik, the birth of the cursed child, Gin, the appearance of a shadow lurker, the change in the frequency of elementals crossing the portal, and now, the appearance of both Alencica and Czernobog.

"Not that I know of," Gin answered as he shook his head.

However, now that they thought about it, with all the characters appearing and unusual things happening one after another, they couldn't help but agree silently that something huge was bound to happen soon.

"Geez, why do I have this feeling like Armageddon's coming?" Gin tried to joke about the coming of the end of the world, but only he laughed, and it didn't even last long as he realized that his words came out as some kind of an omen.

"Please forget I said that," the wind caster added as a chill ran down his spine and he shuddered.

"Damn – I really need to remember,"Ryuu cursed as he slammed a hand on the table in frustration.

There were many things that were never mentioned in history and some facts that were written there were even deliberately distorted to fend off curious people – like the legend of Kronos' artifact. The latter was a lie made to cover the truth behind Stribog's portal. For them to be able to find out the real crux of the matter, they had to go over everything and pray to the heavens that Kresnik would recover his memories.

Ryuu leaned back on his seat, his slender fingers tapping the table as he tried to analyze things. Gin, on the other hand, walked over and sat on the chair in front of the table as he too continued to think about the situation.

"I really wonder why the Black God suddenly appeared," Gin mused out loud.

Even if Ryuu already said he would finish the other deity when he saw him – or rather her next, he still couldn't help but wonder why he was there in the first place.  Then, he remembered something.

"Oh! By the way, I already called the old Kazehaya House. I will be going to the old seer's family's place tomorrow," Gin informed Ryuu.

While he waited for Aello to settle next to Mavara near the portal, he had given his old residence a call to ask about the seer's whereabouts.

"She's still living then? Can she still talk?"

The old lady would be in her late nineties now. Most people that old were already senile. However, they seemed to be lucky.

"Yes, she still can," Gin reported with a smile. "I was surprised to hear that but I managed to talk to her on the phone as well. She said she's been waiting for us to contact her for a while."

The last part made Ryuu look at the other in question. "What do you mean?"

Gin shrugged. "I mean what it meant – literally. She seems to have prophesized us looking for her, and wondered why we took so long."

Oh? Interesting.

Ryuu raised a brow. "Did she say anything else?"

If the woman spoke like that then she must have some idea about what was going on.

"No," Gin answered with a sigh, then paused as if he remembered something very important suddenly. "But she did say something about the catastrophe – oh shit!"

The wind caster stood up, his eyes wide. "It's what I was trying to remember earlier – damn it!"

"You idiot! Why are you only saying this now?"

Ryuu was perplexed. If this came from the seer, herself then this was beyond instinct. This was a plausible future event.

"What? I was going to but I got distracted by you, looking all serious as you stared at your phone," Gin countered his excuse.

He was truly going to report to the Koutaishidenka earlier but stopped because he was on the phone and he looked serious. However, that was not all the reason for his restlessness earlier.

"But that's not what was making me edgy, alright?" Gin scratched his head again as he looked serious. "There's something else – something at the level of thinking that I was born to specifically tell you something…"