Lulu

In the virtual forest, the trees and boulders that were destroyed in the result of their training were gradually being restored by a laser that came down from the tall ceiling.

Even flames were being put out and holes were refilled with the dirt by itself.

"No...Sister did not see anything, but I felt like someone was calling for me too."

Lili was holding onto her younger sister who was full of snots and tears as she told her older sibling about the frightening experience.

"Really? Sister also heard her voice?"

Lili pondered for a little bit and replied with a nod.

"Don't worry... Nothing is going to happen to you..."

Lili hid the fact that she couldn't even tell if the voice belonged to a male or female because it sounded too faint for her.

'I can't scare her any further...Should I ask the commander?'

The moment she saw her little sister covered in tears dashing toward her almost stopped her heart and now, she wanted nothing more than being with her little sister.

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On the edge of a cliff of a beautiful gorge that stretched out a thousand miles with a blue river, Lulu and Nodus were having a little picnic while taking a short break after walking through the forest on foot.

Lulu just wanted to spend some times with the young man, and when she saw all those beautiful flowers along the path in the forest, she told herself that she might as well gather them along the way to decorate the store and the house of Kana.

"Isn't it beautiful big brother?"

Nodus was chewing on a thin piece of bread that had a sweet bean paste in between as he merely stared at the young girl.

Lulu sighed and knew that the young man noticed something.

"I can't help but to be worry for my parents... But I am more worried about the diviner..."

When she was dragged along cluelessly by her parents, they encountered a random old lady who told them that their future would be full of hardship until one fateful night.

The parents didn't bother listening to the old lady as they were in a rush to find someplace to hide in a small village close to the northern land and during one night, the young girl caught the old grandma running away from something.

Lulu woke up her parents before running out of the poor tavern by herself and saw a group of villagers who held onto torches surrounding the old lady.

The old lady was laying flat on the ground and coughed a spitful of black blood before slowly turning her head toward Lulu.

"Tell the star that the shroud will be lifted..."

Nodus gave a weird look at the young girl with one of his eyebrows as she continued.

"She passed away after saying those words and the weirdest thing was that no one else saw her talking or opening her eyes... And after a few months later, I keep dreaming a tall wall of mist that was surrounded by the ocean slowly getting thinner."

The young girl remained quiet for a while and told him about the frightening terror she would wake up with as soon the mist dissipated completely.

Nodus wrapped his arms around the young girl who was trembling after her stories and calmed her down.

"I can resolve it if you trust me."

Lulu wiped her tears away and nodded as she stared at his golden eyes.

"Why did you tell me only now?"

Nodus was curious as he inquired the young girl after letting her go and returning to his original spot before.

"It was getting worst... and...-"

Nodus took another sandwich and almost choked on his food after hearing her last words.

"Because I think you are the star..."

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After the short trip with Lulu, Nodus saw countless of people holding onto the data map along the way to the city and deemed his early phase plan a success.

'Soon...I can start my deployments.'

"Right, big brother, could you also show me the functions on this device later?"

The young girl suddenly remembered that the young man told her that she also had a map similar to the one in the store on her little tablet.

The young man nodded and now that everything was done, he just had to pass by Ita village to check up on it one more time before making his way to the kingdom, or so that what he thought until he saw the truth about the old lady's words.