Cursed Puppets

*July 3, Year 772*

*Afternoon*

Something seem to snap inside John as he looked at the barrier that shielded the door. He worked hard to find the key to this place.

And when he finally found it, You tell him that there's a barrier shielding the vault?!

Someone must be playing tricks on him right? As he thought of this, a strange smile appeared on his face.

If reporters of Earth saw this scene, the next news headline will be: ' A 6-year-old is caught smiling weirdly, is this the failure of the parents? Or the degeneration of human morality?'

"Hehehehe... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" From a low-pitch-creepy laugh to full-blown loud laughter.

"Damn old man, can't you just stay in hell obediently?! Why do you always make it hard for me?!!"

"You must have left this for him right?! That Adapted idiot that you loved more than me! Your own Flesh and Blood!" He roared with deep anger in his voice.

"But Fine! If I can't have it then no one can!" He said as he stretched out his hand to command his puppets to attack.

The puppets then started to condense beams of magic energy in their mouths as they aimed for the barrier in front.

When the magic beams in their mouth were concentrated to the limit and were about to fire, they suddenly went and dissipated the beams.

He then turned to look at Sebastian who was on the side that was holding a recording Lacrima.

"Is this enough, Sebastian?"

Sebastian set aside the recording lacrima with a satisfied expression as he said.

"It's enough payment to crack this barrier, If you want me to do more of this stuff in the future then be prepared for more skits."

It turned out that John and Sebastian made a deal that John needed to do a skit for Sebastian for him to open this barrier.

As an antique from thousands of years ago, not many things can attract Sebastian to do anything at all.

But there's one thing that never gets old, laughing at other's embarrassing or cringe-worthy moments, especially one that is close to you.

For example, when the girlfriend of your son is visiting and you showed her videos of embarrassing moments done by your son regardless of his protest.

'Hehehehe, I would definitely show this to Cana when both of you are older.' Sebastian thought with a smile on his face.

Their feelings for each other are as clear as a lamp at night to an old antique like Sebastian.

"Hey Sebastian, snap out of your thoughts and crack this barrier quickly lest someone discover the library."

Sebastian was snapped out of his thoughts as he looked at John unkindly.

'Just you wait to grow up, let's see if you can still remain that face in front of Cana.'

After that, he went to the front of the barrier and tapped a few times on different spots on the barrier which resulted in the barrier slowly dissipating.

After the barrier was removed, John stepped forward and opened the door to reveal what was inside.

He stepped into the room after he made sure that its safe to enter, and what he saw surprised him.

The space inside the room is bigger than what it actually looks like on the outside. The space inside was as big as an acre!

In the center of this room is an ordinary looking mansion, But this mansion had a weird and gloomy atmosphere around it. Along with the trees surrounding it, giving the whole space a weird and gloomy but harmonious look.

"Is it the norm for ancient powerhouses to play around with pocket spaces as residence?" John asked with a twitching eyebrow.

"Well, if you do not have a pocket space residence in my times you would not be considered a powerhouse at all." Sebastian said with a smile.

"But this one probably only has a few years left of life without someone maintaining it, If you make a cringy movie for me I might consider repairing this thing and giving it to you."

John's lips twitch thinking, 'Is making fun of me all you are thinking of?'

If Sebastian heard what John was thinking he would definitely answer: Yes, Making fun of you is what I have been thinking of.

"I'll think about it."

"You better think about it, I think we'll get rich with this movie."

John just ignored Sebastian and continued to walk toward the mansion while looking at the ravens that occasionally flew by.

Wait... Ravens?

How could there be animals inside this space where all the trees are bare and there are no visible food everywhere?

There must be something wrong with this raven!

Thus when a raven was sitting on a branch a lynx puppet sneaked attack from behind and pressed it to the ground.

The raven seemed to panic as it was pressed to the ground and kept flapping its wings, its eyes then glowed red as darkness covered the lynx and the raven.

From outside the patch of darkness, John couldn't see anything inside as if a black curtain was covering that spot.

Sebastian on the other hand smiled and spoke with interest.

"Oh. There's actually cursed puppets inside this space, I must say boy that you are very lucky, because what's in this space is probably useful for you."

[Should we make the movie?]

[Yes]

[No]