37. Parcener

Erza was pretending not to listen. But Levka noticed Erza wasn't doing his work properly after hearing her.

'Father, you know how I can't sense a dead person.' she asked him in another way.

Levka can't sense who is dead. It's where she lacks, even though she, herself,is not a living being.

'When I was around them I could only feel Rose a little but couldn't feel Lily at all...Why?' Levka stopped after asking him.

After a moment of silence he spoke up, 'It's her punishment.'

Rose was reborn but Lily couldn't get a rebirth because she had killed two innocents.

Levka knows Killing destroys a soul. She also knew Lily was compelled to do so. They would have died. Erza agreed to that. That's why Lily's punishment was quickly over.

'She was sent to live in a body that was created to serve as her vessel.' Levka was shocked to hear Erza say that.

'What happened to that girl's soul that's originally born in Ruan?' Erza looked away from her eyes as she asked them and he started working while lost in his thoughts, ''No soul was in that body. Like how I was put in an empty body after wandering for a decade."

Levka could hear his thoughts, 'She has to live as a wandering soul?!'

Erza nodded.

The only thing that was not forgiven was the death of her daughter. Lily won't be able to have a child because she had killed her daughter. Levka sighs thinking at least Lily, in this life, would be able to clean her sin. Erza stops working fully and turns to her with an astounded face, 'Why did you say…you could feel Rose a little. She is not...did she turn into a vampire?'

Levka answered with a confused face, 'Not yet. Only half...and she was bitten twice.'

Levka didn't sound right to him so he asked, 'Sorry?!'

When he heard Xen Atrisa's essence is in her as well and Xen Mona saw that Rose would survive if Rose gets bitten by Atrisa, he was not surprised. Atrisa is the main host and can dominate the venom. But still, Levka didn't feel right thinking, the Ruan's shouldn't have relied on the vision. Meanwhile, Erza was thinking something. Then he looked to the side. The wall had many paintings hanging on it. They were drawn with charcoal. He went there and stared at them for a while.

The painting had a crow digging a grave for the dead crow that was lying beside it.

"E-Mistakes." He brushes over his finger on the signature below.

The signature was really beautiful. How the curve of the alphabet held, showed how cherished that name was. 'Lilianna.'

'What are you looking at?' Levka asked at his sudden change of action.

'Nothing.' He looked to another frame.

There, in the painting, a human was burying another human body. The person who was burying the body had blood on his hand. The red color was being focused as the whole canvas was in black. After a moment Erza says, 'We all learn from our mistakes, don't we?! The important thing is, how we utilize that experience. Not all of the actions will be done with a great motive. Sometimes, accidentally, we end up doing something unexpected. But hiding them instead of admitting would be the foolish thing ever to do.'

Levka couldn't understand the meaning of it.

The sons of Adam and Eve, who was the greedy one, was being manipulated by the devil. He escaped after murdering his own brother, instead of admitting and apologizing to God. The Devil succeeded in achieving his motive but that greedy son didn't.

Levka became more confused, 'Are you talking about your brother?'

Erza said, 'Those girls are brave to embrace their mistakes. So don't worry about them. They will learn with time what they should put their faith in.'

Soon the time of departure arrives.

Ruan Ryba was nowhere to be seen as Rose and Lily were hoping to see her with Erliyen. They thought Ryba might have told Erliyen everything they had done. The place where they were staying in Justice, was the castle in the Justice premises. Benjamin was handling the check-out form.

Rose went beside him and watched him writing, 'What, a bad handwriting!'

Benjamin smirked looking at her then looked down to write, 'I'm glad!'

'Ha??' Rose frowns in surprise.

'What do you expect? I would lash out at you after what you have put us through?!' Benjamin said with a smile.

After thinking for a while she said, 'That won't be a wrong thing to do.'

'Silly you!' Benjamin softly hits the paper on Rose's head.

Benjamin went to give the form back to the reception. Rose understood Benjamin had a very soft heart inside of his metal body. Lily came out last with Talitha.

'Did you find it?' Rose asked.

'No. I kept the ring in my dress. I don't know how it could get lost.' Lily was worried.

Rose was sure thinking it's not lost. Lily understood her and asked, 'Somebody stole it? But who?'

'Simple.The parcener.' Rose looked at someone among the judges.

Tao Xin was there too. Lily looked back at Rose, 'Rose, Father…'

Rose stopped her, 'Let's not talk about it, Lily.'

When Lily tried to talk Rose avoided, 'I will think about it later. I'm going to see the arrangement.'

Rose walked past the judges without bowing to them which they didn't expect. Tao Xin looked disheartened. Erliyen noticed Rose's behavior towards Tao Xin. While going downstairs, Rose saw Ryba walking with a man in the corridor. His blue-colored eyes were very unique.

He didn't have eyes like Ruan's, instead, the color he had was turquoise. His hair was silver in color. The emblem that he had on his uniform holds the logo of his family, the similar gold ring's design that's worn by Ryba. She didn't have any doubt guessing who he was.

Lord Han Rihan, the heir of the Han clan, Ryba's husband, the former commander of the Dell clan.