Chapter 408 134 - Meeting by the crystal lake (part 4)

Chapter 408 134 - Meeting by the crystal lake (part 4)　　The black-haired boy and the gray-haired girl were sitting back at the pier at a respectable distance from each other.

"By the way, Raseriat and Rethaq are both dead. Same with Evorietto."

"..."

Zoemi turned to Aspakeony and said in a casual tone, so casual in fact that the necromancer originally didn't realize the meaning of his words.

"...eh...?"

Only after full five seconds did she flinch and stared at him with wide-open eyes.

"Hold on...! Did you just say that...?!"

She gasped in disbelief closing the distance between them once more, but this time didn't try to grab onto the recovering black-haired boy.

"You know the thing with Xeonith, right? Well, I was there, and so was Raseriat. Only one of us end up surviving the encounter."

Zoemi shrugged his shoulders again and started counting on his fingers.

"Hold on! You aren't going to tell me that you actually killed a member of the Ghosts of Bellcephora! No way! Raaseriat might not have been offense-oriented but she was still a sage! Do you even know how many of my puppets got torn to pieces because of those wings and feathers of her darkness blade?!"

Aspakeony scoffed angrily with a frown sounding all sulky as if she thought that Zoemi was being unnecessarily mean to her.

"You mean those ones? Wings, please."

"(Yaay~!)"

The black-haired boy raised his brows looking up close at the pouting face of the gray-haired necromancer and tilted his head to the side before calling out t his sentinels that got to work with an enthusiastic cheer.

*WHOOOSH*

"!!!!"

With only a fraction of a second of delay, a pair of jet black wings spread out from Zoemi's waist, making Aspakeony flinch and lean back to get the full sight of them into her view.

It wasn't just the wings either, the murky-black feathers were dancing in the air all around the boy and the necromancer, completely unaffected by the multicolored light coming from the lake.

"...how...?"

Aspakeony gasped, looking between the feathers, the wings, and the black-haired boy's face in complete and utter confusion and disbelief.

"Well, ice. As you said, she wasn't offense-oriented, so it only took taking her attention just long enough for the ice mana block her mana, and then, shing~"

"(SHING~!)"

*SHING*

"...EEEHHH...?!"

Zoemi tilted his head to the side and explained lightheartedly, making a silly sound while waving his hand – which one of his sentinels read as a command and actually conjured a massive ice blade on his arm, causing the gray-haired necromancer to almost fell back from shock.

One look at the blood-chilling blade was almost enough to make her believe the boy's words.

Almost.

"But...! The Ghosts are connected! They can separate their minds from their bodies! Killing them shouldn't be possible as long as they sent out their consciousness to one another!"

Aspakeony pointed out in an almost accusatory voice.

"Well, she didn't make it, because it was definitely confirmed that she is dead."

Zoemi declared without getting troubled.

|Alright, thank you for this, now please get rid of the blade.|

"(Alright!)"

*haaaaa*

The boy added in his mind and the overly eager sentinel complied immediately, making the ice spell disappear into the thin air with a soft sound of a person breathing out in relief.

Actually, the other sentinel also released the spell it was casting for their master, so the murky-black wings and feathers disappeared too.

"Who confirmed it...?"

Aspakrony asked, raising her brow with suspicion.

"One of the Ghosts, maybe even more of them, who knows?"

Zoemi said dismissively, about to tell her about Rethaq.

"What?! Which Ghosts talked to you without trying to do anything?!"

...but Aspakeony was still all about the first case.

"Elsby. She is quite friendly, all things considered."

"...oh..."

Zoemi explained and the gray-haired necromancer who was about to start arguing ended up only opening her mouth before closing them and nodding with a small gasp.

"(Oh! That's good! I am going to tell her that you don't see her as a threat anymore~!)"

|WHA...?! YOU?! WHY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING IN?!|

Completely out of nowhere, the sentinel keeping an eye on the Ghosts of Bellcephora connected with Zoemi and declared all happily and disconnected immediately afterward, without the slightest intention of staying to hear Zoemi's furious roar.

"Is something wrong...?"

Seeing the black-haired boy suddenly straighten his back and turn the other way, Aspakeony asked in a worried voice and moved closer to check up on the oddly acting boy.

"Sorry. It's nothing. Just an... rowdy kid doing whatever he wants..."

"...?"

Zoemi shook his head and waved his hand dismissively, but that only made Aspakeony tilt her head in even more confusion.

"The next one was Rethaq. In her case, she showed up together with Kiroterell at the tournament for Ehmi's hand. The two of them were actually occupying the body of one of the judges. Quite creepy if you ask me."

The black-haired boy revealed.

"...Kiorterell wasn't amongst the three you said was dead, how in the world did anyone manage to kill Rethaq without getting a reaction from him? The two of them were always together, even before they joined the Ghosts of Bellcephora."

Aspakeony pointed out immediately, making the boy hesitated.

"I killed her and the time reversed for some reason, but when it did, Rethaq was already dead and Kiroterell went away to search for her."

"..."

|...oh...?|

Since the necromancer didn't want to talk about the past when he first mentioned the subject, Zoemi decided to say only the most important part without speaking about the vision of the events from three hundred years ago, but interestingly enough the information about time travel made Aspakeony close her mouth and look away like a child that really wanted to ignore the uncomfortable subject.

"As for Evorietto, I was told that he was erased by the same person who messed me up during the semi-final duel of the tournament. A man called William – someone apparently from a place called Heavenly Star nation. He was using a weird technique that wasn't magic. He called it laws. The one that destroyed Eviorietto – and freed you and all the people Evorietto abducted – was called the law of Aquarius."

Zoemi breathed out and moved along with his countdown of dead Ghosts.

"...?"

This seemed to work as the gray-haired girl turned back and faced him with a confused expression.

"And what are all of those supposed to be...?"

She asked, tilting her head and blinking repeatably.