Chapter 25

the next day we all gathered in the kings throne, and martin kings said to us that he got information about axel was. axel has the business to east city three months ago, usually axel's doing save the children and oppose the bad people activity but this time his business was helping the east city to find a boy that had been missing on a journey to the south city. is that me? i looked at lucifer and he looked away felt guilty because he makes me lost for two years.

we decided to go to east kingdom first to find more clue and lance and alice want to join us. there's nothing wrong if they joined our journey and we depart from here to the east city. at the night we camp in the middle of the forest again, i can't sleep and looking at my left hand that has lost three fingers, i was thinking if i can protect the others with this hands, i can't hold the sword properly with this condition. elias still wake and he said that he's still felt guilty because of him, my fingers are gone while protecting him. i said the most important thing was he is still alive, and i asked him what if we met alex again, what will he do. he was such in a dilemma about that and he is not sure if he can kill alex either, alex is like a big brother to him.

we continoued our trip and we're strong together, there is no obstacle can make us down until now and we finally arrived at the east kingdom. i met king gelasius and the queen in the throne, he was very happy that i really coming back after two years and he saw lucifer and thank him for saving the queens life that day. i heard someones running behind and it was ivy that was hugged me and she said that she was glad that i come back. lance said that i was such a playboy here, and i was glad that i coming back here. back to the topic, i explain to the kings what are we doing here and where is axel. the kings said that he ordered axel to find me and now he is somewhere out there, probably still find me in the south kingdoms. so, no luck here and we want to make it fast finding axel and we wanted to make our moves to the south city.

someone knocking the door and he opened the door, a man who badly injured asking for help. king gelasius know that man was the one who come with axel to find me, and the king asked that man what happened. the man said that they're was searching the boys first but they met a group of people was lost on the way, axel was bringing them back on the way to the east city but they were being attacked by big group of bandits and right now axel was being kidnapped. we can't waste the time and we going to the where was axel's group last being attacked abd we'll find a clue right there. this time ivy want to comes with us and the kings telling ivy to not joined me, ivy pouted at her father. and we were going now.

we arrived and we just seeing the remnants of the battle here, and ivy told us that there was a trace where they're going. i see, now we know where they're going, but something feels weird here. what are ivy doing here?! ivy said to us that she quietly followed us. geez, i scratch my head and can't say anything about it. we make a plan to turn someone into a bait and we decided that lucifer was gonna be the bait. he said why always him.

we make him walk alone following the trace while we were hiding in the back of the tree and there was two guys following lucifer from behind. they took the bait and they kidnap lucifer, he was angry but at the beginning of the plan i told lucifer not to fight back. and he was holding back and let the bandits took him, we followed them and we arrived at the cave.

lucifer were brought into the cells that contains people who were being kidnap here. when lucifer arrived, he break the arms of the bandits and start fighting all of the bandits here. we arrived when lucifer had been defetaed several people in a seconds and i told him to release all the people that are lock inside the cells. lucifer left and someone throws a knife to me, it hit my chest and i fell down. someone with a huge body came and i think it was the leaders here, elias fight him and he was strong. lance and kristabelle was protecting ivy, alice, and lilith from the other bandit, but the situation are being desperate for them. then i sneak the leaders and stab him from behind and elias finish him off, then we are able to strike the other bandits.

we've won against them and lucifer back with the other prisoners that had been locked down here. there was axel appear with lucifer and lilith was so happy to meet her father again. he praise me for doing this stuff, and i asked him to help escort the other people away from here and he ordered other people to leave here. alice was pinched my cheek and said how did i stay alive because she saw me getting stabbed in the chest. i show her a book that shield me from the knife and i told her to follow the others, she left afterwards. when i go outside this cave i saw the book again and i still wonder what the meaning of this book and a boy younger than me appear.

"talk to me if you can give me something that you carry to death. that means your name."

i surprised that boy appear out of nowhere and i was thinking if this boy was right. i remembered that lucifer gained his name from the boy who gave it to him when he died. then i talked to the book "my name is taz" and the book suddenly speaks through the words that appear from the paper. "hello taz" i want to thanked the boy because he help me to solve the riddle but he disappeard, i don't know where he go and i also think his face was similiar to me when i was a child. nah, maybe it's just my imagination.