20. The ringmaster

After returing back home both of them breathed a sigh of relief they. "Ast why did you came out in the open now and that too in front of so many people. Now our family will definitely know about you" asked Anya as she was concerned about what was going to follow.

"Don't worry i have had prepared some contingency plans, but one thing is very clear there is a ringmaster involved in all this" Ast replied.

"What's that?" inquired Anya. " someone who is plotting something against us, too many things are moving in ways that would naturally not be possible and there is a high possibility that the ringmaster is someone within the family.." Ast said while thinking through many things in his head.

" Why do you think so? " asked Anya.

" The info on me should be very hard to get, but the people from Klaus family knew about me or i should say they knew about the me from the past. Someone was using them to test the waters. But there should be something that triggered this masterminds attention towards us. We do have some loose ends on our side for example the 15 bandit group that I killed there were some influential figures among them. There was also the case of two missing ancient fruits from the cave" Ast replied and then he suddenly looked seriously towards Anya and handed her another storage ring (they had total 4 storage ring) "Anya whoever it is, they now know about us and might use us as each others weakness. In this past year i have also been studying some alchemy, info on poisons and various other things. This ring has many life saving things and a note explaining there use. Get yourself familiar. And in the evening come to my room I will explain to you my contingency plan but I don't think we will have to use that soon, but still you should know it as well".