31 Care

"There, your injuries are all healed.", the projection of the old man said.

After the array finished up healing the three kids, the sitting Allen leaned backwards after he became unconscious, but Kate caught him in time and carefully lied him down.

A large hole could be seen on Allen's clothes, however, the wound was all gone; there weren't even any scars left on it.

On the other hand, Drake remained out cold.

"Hold on, don't move yet.", the old man added.

Kate didn't move out of her original position and sat down. Each of the stone coins floated in front of the three, making the girl curious.

Beams of light then came out of the coins and hit the forehead of each of the trio. Kate touched her forehead to check if there was something wrong.

"You three now own and can control those coins.", the old man said.

"Thank you!", Kate immediately replied. The arrays that the coins formed were extremely powerful, even the dragon earlier couldn't break through its shield cage, and it only took a thin beam of light from the Death Ray array to kill the beast!

"Don't mention it, just take it as a gift.", the old man let out a magnanimous smile.

After a pause, he reminded, "Your bodies are still too weak to handle the strength of those arrays, so it is best not to use the coins until you three grow up."

"We won't.", Kate nodded.

"Then go and find the treasure you seek of. I'm sure the dragon wouldn't be that cheap when it comes to hoarding riches.", the old man said. The dragons were innately greedy even before the titans went extinct, just after the latter were all gone that they exploded out.

"There should be a lot of items that this particular dragon collected for the past years of its life. Search for some secret mechanism or button on the walls.", the old man added.

"Okay.", Kate went to work and searched for the mechanism, though it would probably take a but long because the cave was just too wide.

After which, the old man looked at Allen and inwardly sighed.

Finally, the projection faded away.

...

Almost an hour later, Drake woke up and sat down. He then saw Allen sleeping beside him, and noticed the large hole on his clothes.

Drake then held his head with one hand and tried to remember what happened, "Cave... golem... darkness... dragon!"

As soon as he blurted out the last word, he looked around him, and saw Kate from afar touching a wall.

"Kate!", Drake called out.

Kate heard Drake's call, the former immediately approached the latter and asked if there was anything wrong on his body.

"Nothing, but where's the dragon?", Drake asked.

"It's dead.", Kate said.

"How did it die?"

After which, Kate explained everything what happened from the appearance of the array to the dragon's disintegration, but skipped the part where Allen fought it.

"Oh... then why is there a big hole on Allen's clothes?", Drake asked.

Kate hesitated at first, but in the end she also recalled everything that she witnessed.

Drake gaped on the sight on what he just heard about, he even asked Kate if she was hallucinating at that time or not, however, what he got for asking that question was a kick towards his legs.

Lastly, she also told about the time that the array healed the three of them.

As Kate finished her story, Drake looked at the sleeping Allen and expressed his thanks.

"Help me find the secret mechanism on the walls.", Kate said.

Drake didn't need anymore explaination and just nodded in response. After which, he and Kate splitted up.

***

The familiar ceiling, the familiar walls, and even the familiar softness of the bed. Those what Allen saw and felt as he woke up in his bedroom.

"Wait, I was in the dragon's lair!" Realizing where he was, Allen sat up and massaged his head in distress.

"I'm back?", Allen clutched his shirt as he gazed around his bedroom.

-bam-

"Eeek...!", Allen shrieked in surprise as he looked towards the door.

"Big brother! Get up and let's eat breakfast!", William shouted towards Allen. The latter only looked at the former for a long time and didn't respond.

"What are you looking at? Let's go eat breakfast!", William pulled Allen's hands to make him stand up.

Allen snapped out of his stupor and said, "You go on first, I'll just catch up."

"Alright.", William ran out of the room and went downstairs.

"What just happened?", Allen grasped his head.

"Maybe, I should care about it later."

...

Allen walked downstairs and went straight to the kitchen then saw William eating porrage.

He then felt that he was holding something on right hand. He looked down and saw a knife.

'Why, am I holding a knife?', Allen thought.

Suddenly, his body moved on its own accord, it was out of his control!

Allen felt that he knew where this was going and tried to resist.

'No... NO...! NO! STOP!' Allen shouted in panic, however, he could only scream within his inner thoughts. During those thoughts, Allen's body has already stopped in front of William.

"Oh? Big brother, what's the matter?", William asked then looked down at the knife that he was holding.

Everything that happened next wasn't needed to be explained.

Finally, Allen got control of his body, however, his knees immediately fell to the ground and hugged his little brother.

Blood was splattered everywhere in the kitchen. It looked like a bloody slaughter which could make one feel a chill on their back.

"Damn it, why?! Why?!", Allen shouted as blood also sticked on his clothes. He could still hear the wails of his little brother through his ears.

Suddenly, he heard the laughs of the devils echoing through his ears.

For him, this nightmare was worse than him getting killed in his dreams by the man.

***

Allen panted heavily as his eyes opened wide in an instant. Sweat trickled down from every part of his body.

"Whew, you're awake! You were shouting like a lady!", Drake gazed at the lying Allen while he cracked up a joke.

"Another nightmare?", Kate asked. She and Drake knew that Allen has been getting nightmares ever since he killed that man. Every night when they start sleeping in the camp, or even back at Lord Levine's villa, they could hear the boy's screams during his sleep.

And even though the man was only attacking Allen in his sleep, it was in his dreams and not in reality, that's why the holy power that Lord Levine inserted in the kid's body didn't act.

Allen didn't say anything and just closed his eyes to relax. Drake and Kate didn't do anything and waited for Allen to open his eyes again.

When Allen opened them again, he didn't say anything and just sat up, Drake and Kate also didn't ask anything, as the issue was probably a bit personal for Allen.

"What are the two of you doing now?", Allen asked.

"Trying to find a trigger, the treasure might be in a hidden compartment somewhere in this chamber.", Kate replied.

"But we already carefully searched for the mechanism on all the possible locations on the walls, but there we got nothing.", Drake added.

"Well then, the mechanism might either be on the floor or on the ceiling.", Allen quickly said.

"Why didn't we think of that!?", Drake facepalmed.

"Actually we did, it's just you were too lazy to continue.", Kate rolled her eyes..

"Come on, let's go search for it on the floor first.", as Allen placed down his hand on the floor to support his body to stand up, the ground where his hand was on sunk a bit, after which, a clicking sound could be heard.

The nearest wall to them slowly opened up, and revealed a lot of treasures! Valuable minerals, gems, weapons, pearls, etc.

"What luck you have.", Drake and Kate both made thumbs up towards Allen.

Allen: "..."

"Take out the extra bags from the satchels.", Kate said.

Drake and Allen took out the extra bags, they were also some sort of spatial treasures like the satchels, but its storage capacity was a bit shorter than the satchels.

Their capacity might be shorter than the satchels, but it was actually humongous!

After taking all the treasures in, they placed back the bags inside the satchels and exited through the tunnel where they entered earlier on.

Drake and Kate saw Allen's dejected mood, the former suddenly said, "Don't worry, we won't tell anyone what you just did."

Allen nodded in response and thought, 'Looks like it's not a secret anymore.'

"Why... did you block the dragon's tail earlier? You almost died by your stunt!", Kate suddenly brought up the topic. They didn't know about the matter about the stone coins at that time, so they could've really died.

"You're the one who will die if I didn't.", Allen replied. Kate was startled by Allen's reply that her eyes widened a little.

"I'm concerned for the both of you.", Allen added..

"Aww, you are so sweet!" Drake chuckled and he hit Allen's back, "Never knew you can talk that way!"

"Ow, stop it!" Allen stopped Drake from hitting him and just chuckled too, "Yeah, I didn't know too."