Chapter 67 Think What You Want

Lucas knew he would have a difficult time convincing others about his motives but he decided to give it a try anyway.

"You're not going to believe this," Lucas spoke in a low voice and stared down at the ground. "I want to help you. I know what you are."

The four looked at him with their heads tilted back and sighed, letting out an even lower tone than Lucas.

"I can see through your disguise. You're just a big piece of wood!" Lucas smiled, "but I can also tell that I'm trying to find my way to him again, and if you're not going to help me then I will use force!" He gently shook his head.

"Are you going to attack me? Do you know how much damage you could do?" Lucas seemed worried.

The system spoke no words, it just kept quiet and allowed Lucas to talk.

Lucas thought of the blade that was placed behind his back, 'I don't even know how to wield it yet,' he gritted his teeth.

He didn't want to fight with the system and he was sure he would lose control over himself seeing the system do something dodgy right now, 'I need to calm down.'

"There a whole lot of people here, it's best if we all head inside," Lya interrupted Lucas shouting.

There were still no words coming from the system, 'maybe it disappeared automatically? No...' Lucas disagreed with his own statement immediately, 'there's no way that petty system would go away this easily.'

He slid his sword a little bit back, and looking at his teammate's shocked faces, he decided to agree with Lya.

They slowly begin to walk towards the entrance of her castle. This castle was named after her grandmother and so she inherited her name as well, "it was once built just for the plot but ever since we escaped the system's brainwashing, we were able to live normal lives here."

Lya was explaining the history of this town to Lucas since there was no need to do it with Haya and the rest, all three of them knew the history very well.

As she spoke, Lucas quickened his pace as the clouds began to gather up in the sky. Up to now, the sky had been postcard-perfect, but it was changing.

The beautiful cocktail-blue shade was beginning to darken into gravel-grey. Large pillows of clouds were forming, blotting out the old-gold colour of the sun, "we should really hurry up before it starts pouring." Lucas spoke following them from behind.

He heard every single word that Lya was talking, but if this place had no more relation to the ending, Lucas was not interested to know.

"About Kali, will we leave her there?" He asked Lya.

"The dragon is already being taken care of, nothing to worry about," she moved her hands in the air and had an expression on her face as if everything was normal to her.

"If you say so..." Lucas murmured.

He knew that Haya and the rest cared about Kali, especially since she helped everyone escape from being buried in snow, 'they wouldn't abandon her,' he thought as he put his hands inside his pockets.

While touching something small, he realised that the pill to summon Izek's presence was still there, 'how close, eh?' He forced a smile of disbelief, 'he almost got me...' Lucas was remembering the moment in the snow.

"So this is the place where I fought a troll once, my grandma didn't like it but I still won. After that, she beat my ass really well." Lya was talking loudly about her memories.

She pointed at the brown door next to another entrance somewhere, "we might look poor but that's only a disguise," she leaned to open it.

With one push, she was able to open this massive gate, 'women here are incredibly strong,' he gulped as his eyes widened.

Her kick was pretty strong when she knocked him down, but now he was seeing something different again, 'Kali would like her,' Lucas smirked as he entered through the gates.

A man with pink hair and a long beard walked up to them and stopped when he saw Haya holding his sack inside his hands, "well, well, well... What do we have here?" He said in a deep voice as he looked at them.

He took a step forward and smiled with his sharp teeth as he looked at the dark bag. His smile was so cold that it made Xina shiver in fear. The man glanced down at Haya's feet as he looked around.

It seemed that he wanted to say something and then he gave a deep sigh before he spoke once more. "I'm going to kill you for what your father did." He said it coldly.

The boy who was inside the bag all this time appeared before him in sparkles, as if some magic was used to summon him.

The boy suddenly felt a strange feeling come over his body. He suddenly felt weak as he couldn't move anymore. He could only stare at the man with wide eyes.

His heart pounded against his chest as he tried to make himself stand on his own two skinny legs again but couldn't even lift them.

Sudden crystal tears started to fall from the boy's face as he fell into Haya's arms, "I don't know what is happening here but you will not be threatening a child in front of me!" Lucas interrupted their interaction.

'What was even going on here?' Lucas's eyes narrowed as he looked at this strange man.

Surprisingly, no one was even saying anything to him, 'is he the owner of this place?' Lucas thought as he bent his knee to comfort the crying child.

"You shouldn't sympathise with him too much, he will only bring trouble." This pink-haired man spoke to Lucas.

Lucas sighed, "I don't know you nor what was going on here, but I will now allow you to bully a child," Lucas pushed his hand backwards to reach for the blade that was hidden behind his cloak.

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Small warning, the next scene will have spicy scenes.