I don’t like this, Ch.15

Half of the summer break has passed by, and I still haven't made any progress. I searched far and wide in the estate for anything, and I couldn't find any clue about the whereabouts of the book. Hah.. how could I continue on like this? I sat at the counter in the kitchen, pondering on where I should go next, feeling hopeless, I let out a deep sighed.

"Oh Irene, you're looking a bit down? Is something wrong, dear?" Holly asked.

"It's nothing ma'am, it's just.. I was just thinking.." I turned my body to face Holly. "Why was Miss Kannavis room located so far apart from the other places of the manor?" I just thought up of something at the moment to distract her, but that leaded to something unexpected.

Holly looked a bit hesitant before answering the question -"Oh? About that.. it's used to be a detached palace actually, we just rebuilt it in to connect to the manor. It was the study's room of the late duchess.. goddess,rest her soul. Now it is her lady Kannavis's room."

Oh?.. it was actually in front of me the whole time, wasn't it?

From then on, I started to approach Kannavis more, in hope to gain her favors or maybe even her trust. Kannavis seemed to enjoy cookies these days, If I used sweets, will she give in?.. oh she actually does!

I never looked forward to seeing miss Kannavis before. These day I'm just standing around in the corner waiting for her, so I can let her try the cookies I made. Sometimes I would tease her up a bit, she would make all kinds of fascinating expressions.. heh it is fun seeing her like that.. but I feel like I'm forgetting something..

"Oh Irene, I hadn't seen you in awhile." Galium said excitedly.

"Oh greeting sir Galium, you've returned from the capital. I'm glad to see you back safe and sound." I said.

"Ah yes.. I'm glad to see you too, I've missed..you." Galium muttered to himself, scratching the back of his head in nervousness.

"Mmm? What was that?" I asked.

"It-it's nothing.. if you're not busy, why not take a walk with me in the garden? I have something.. I wanted to discuss with you." Galium asked.

"Ah is that so?..let us go then." As we walked to the garden, I turned my gazed to look at her window. Hmm it's dark, the day's fallen only a moment ago .. has she already gone to bed?

"Irene?" Galium said.

I snapped back to my senses. "Ah- yes?" We were under the patio of the garden, it was dark already, the moon hasn't rise that high to illuminate the lands yet, but as my eyes adjusted to the dark, I saw Galium face was becoming sort of red.

"Irene.. there's something I must tell you." Before Galium could finish, I saw a sillouhette quickly jumped out of Kannavis room and ran in to the woods. Wait did someone break in to her room!?

".. I've apologized but I forgot I have something I had to do, I'm going back first, good night sir Galium." I excused myself out.

"Ah wait-.." Galium looked a bit disappointed, but I was in a hurried to check on her.

I knocked, no one answered. I opened the door, and there was no one in the room. I've searched around a bit under the bed, inside the closet, behind her sofa, I couldn't find her. I noticed something, on this tall marble cabinet, behind the sofa, there's a picture of a lady with a braided blue hair, her eyes were golden like, displayed on top of the cabinet- her appearance was of similar to Kannavis. Behind the picture frame, was a wooden box that was sealed shut, this is oddly suspicious, but I'll come back to this later.

Right now I need to find her, I went to checked the balcony and there's a rope made of clothes hanging out. What? Did she jump out? She must have been the one I saw earlier!

Without a second thought, I ran in to the woods as fast as I can. Then I saw her, what is she doing? I followed her along secretly at first, but soon she found out. Even if she didn't find me, I still need to get out, she was going to go in the wrong direction!

I started to inquire of the reason she came here, and she said she wanted to find a ghost? When did she become this gullible? I feel like she's been out of place lately, so I followed along to make sure she's safe. Coming to these woods again reminds me of my grandma. Even though she passed in Requiem's Town, her last request was to be buried here, next to grandpa, he was a soilder who died in the last war, but after many visits here, I still couldn't find his grave.

"We're here." I said. We've arrived at the Conium's cemetery. I have to visit grandma grave. It's been awhile so it might have become a bit dusty. I talked with her for a moment, it was hard to be the only one there talking, but Kannavis joined in. It made me really happy, usually it would just be me there.. for the first time I wasn't alone in that place, it felt like I was introducing a friend to my family. My heart was content at the moment.. and Kannavis's words were getting a bit cliche, so I gotta tease her up a bit. She got angry and walked away… heh this is really entertaining..

A moment passed by, Kannavis was out of my sight.

"Let's go find her-" Suddenly, chills ran down my spine.

"W-what what's this intense aura..?" I was getting nervous, something terrifying has appeared here. This thick mana.. oh no.. that's from Lady Kannavis direction!

I thought I was too late as I gotten close and able to see the sight in front of me. W-what.. that's a wyvern..

"My Lady!!" I yelled out to her, but she doesn't seem to know that a wyvern is above her head! Crap!.. I didn't bring my wand with me either!.. this is gonna put a strain on my body.

I started to gather the mana around from the area, and concentrated in to my mana core, circulating it through my body and in to my hands, forming a ball of energy flowing through the air…

"Mmp ugh!.This is hard to control, but it will do." I grunted. Casting a spell without a conduit to focus your intentions is dangerous and are not recommended for any mage to perform so. If you are unable to recite the texts properly, the spell might breakout mid casting and can caused damage to your mana core. This is a desperate measure, I have to do it.

*Bang!*

This stunned the wyvern for a moment, and Kannavis seemed to regain her senses back. We ran for our dear life. When we got to the manor, the beast was already there. I had to help the other people get inside safely, leaving her side.…huuu..That's the last person.. everything was in ruined, but wait.. where's Kannavis?

*Booomm!*

! The ground was shaken. Was there an explosion? I heard a scream coming from the garden. Kannavis? I rushed out with my wand in my hand.

I saw a young maid, trembling on her knees on the ground.. dusts were everywhere.

Cough cough..As the fog cleared up, the sight that behold in front of me made my stomach dropped to the ground. Kannavis was under the mercy of that beast, blood were gushing out of her mouth and she was barely moving. The image strikes deeply to my core.

At that moment, something snapped. Angers that I didn't know piled up somewhere was rushing through my body, I was boiling with hatred, my body was so hot I thought I was gonna burst in to flame. The only thing that was running through my mind was- "I'm going to kill you."

My body started to tense up, mana was gathering to me unconsciously as I don't have to focus at all. I started blasting the beast. It screeched in pain, Galium came in and inflicted even more damage to it. It tried to run but Galium stopped it in place. I started to chant my most powerful spell

"Oh heavens greatness, bless thy heart with hope.. and bless thy soul with strength..set these beings ablaze and shattered thy enemy with-"

The wyvern was rushing to me, but Galium slashed its tail and it screamed in pain again.

"Bind." I said. Then glowing red chains with spikes like thorn, burse out of the ground and wrapped around the wyvern body.

I extend my wand to the beast, raising it up then swooshed down in a quick motion.

"Piercing Heavens." A thunderous roar fell from the sky, and a giant blue sword came with it, piercing the wyvern's head, ending its life immediately.

The first thing that comes to mind afterwards was to hurriedly be by her side. I held her motionless body in my arms, no… this can't be happening..

Galium came and witnessed her state- "N-no..Kanna.... HOLLY!! Bring the potion!!" He yelled at the top of his lungs, and ran around frantically trying to find if anyone was caught up in the battle, calling for healers and everything. He stealed a glance to look at Kannavis every seconds, making sure she was still breathing until Holly arrived with the potion.

After she took the potion, her condition seemed to gradually recovered. Thank goodness..it felt like a weight has been lifted off my chest.. I spent the night sitting on the edge of her bed, when I think back to that event, seeing her in that state.. I felt weak.. like I wasn't strong enough.. No one has ever made me feel this way before, it was bothering me that someone like her make me felt like I was shattered in to a million pieces.

"You're really messing me up, my lady…" Tears started to fall down as I muttered to her unconscious body.