"I look at this life as a puzzle without all the pieces in the box."
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Chapter 41: Puzzle pieces
[Suzue Reed]
Night came and we finally arrive at the inn. i opened the door and let my sister come in first before closing the door again, completely ignoring the kid outside.
"Ezu!!" lilith said in surprise, the door opened and Ethan entered the room while staring at me with a blank expression before clicking his task.
"don't do that again"
"he had his own hands"
"stop being a petty" i lightly pout and notice EThan sticking his tongue at me.
pissed i once again squeezes his head.
"stopppppp you damn woman!"
"who thought you to curse you brat!"
"if you don't want me to curse then don't use one stupid!"
"who are you calling stupid?!!"
"you!, stupid stupid!"
"oh welcome back" both of us stops and stared at the source of the voice.
"yes, hello Xavier sorry about them"
Xavier just smiled.
"come on you need to take a bath you stink"
"i know that" Both of us started walking to the room... luckily each room has its own bathroom which is very convenient i don't have to travel the stares too much.
i took a quick bath and wore a simple long sleeve blouse paired with a vest, a combat pants and a boots. then dried my hair using the towel.
"oi kid use the towel after bathing ... i need to buy you some clothes first"
i didn't heard a response but took it as a yes and went.
walking towards the stairs is extremely silent, which is very odd for an inn. the rooms are probably soundproof or the occupants might not be inside.
the whole place is so quiet... where's lev? he's always there to greet us. oh in his mother, i haven't seen her since the my return to take the room.
when i reach the ground floor i notice xavier and Lilith talking. My eyes silently rose when i notice something odd on the young man's expression.
He looks really happy... so happy like a person taking a stimulant.
i dislike it...
"lilith" she turn towards me and smiled
"what is it?"
"go to the room, it's night you need to rest"
"but it's to early"
i stared at her sternly and she sigh in defeat and nods.
"okay, thank you for accompanying me xavier, i'm going to rest"
Xavier smiled at her and nods.
"of course my job is to make the costumers satisfied, have a good rest"
i let lilith kisses both of my cheeks before walking upstairs. i stared at xavier who bows at me before leaving the Inn.
i went to the same store where i bought my sister's dress and bought clothes that would last for three days and a bag to keep them and decided to go to the guild next.
i roam my eyes around the town noticing different kind of expressions from the people fear, happiness and anger. they were actually common expressions that a person could see to the others.
but it's not usual for them to show expression without being provoke or being showed signs to make them express those.
when i finally reach the guild. i yawned before entering the guild and got greeted with serious and stern expressions from the adventurers.
speaking of adventurers why are they called adventurers? when their work is for hunters?
is it a mistake? or does it have a purpose?
eh it probably doesn't matter. i ignored the stares and went to the board where the information about deicide shows.
it's just few and majority of them are just sketches of the dead bodies which is actually pretty detailed.
my eyes landed to the sketch of a dead body 3 days ago. i hum when i remembered seeing the man.
it was the man i met when i waited for my sister to dress up. he greeted e with a nod and an exhausted expression in his face is clearly shown.
my eyes moves towards the information of the man and silently read it.
Augustus Quinn: An adventurer and owner of floral inn.
my forehead creases and i immediately straighten it and stared at the other photos. they were just names and their status.
they did not put any information about the sins they committed the clues are probably hidden in there.
"excuse me" i slightly turn my head and stared at the owner of the voice.
he visibly flinch when our eyes connect.
"yes?"
"we just want to thank you for eliminating the goblins in our stead. we know we have no rights to s-" i raise my finger to stop him when i notice a stack of documents in the receptionist table.
and no it's not the documents that captured my attention but the contents of it.
i walk towards it and picked up a paper placed messily in between.
it's an information about the raid of the adventurers 10 years ago...
a raid to an orphanage that abuses children.
many children manage to survived after the raid..
my eyes landed at the four names... Ajax, Charles, Lucas, and Xavier
My eyebrow rose and placed it back to the table.
"your sister... said the same thing a person said towards us when they save us."
i turn my head towards the source of the voice and met with a pair of cold eyes.
"i become an adventurer to help people" Lucas quoted causing me to hum in amusement.
"that's just like her" i said and examined some of the documents.
"she's a great person, you must be happy to have her as your sister"
"i am... she's the most beautiful person i know and i sometimes think that i don't deserve her" he hums and leans on the table and stared at a particular table.
"After the abused stop the four of us decided to become adventurers but.."
"Xavier got adopted?" he nods and glances at me for bit and went back to staring at the two who are playing with a wooden chess.
"yes, augustus was a very strict man who wishes to surpass the person who we adored so much, Felix" he pointed at a sketch of a person who died 4 days ago...
my eyes squinted when i notice that the repeated stabbing and sliced in his stomachseems a little bit off.
"Felix was a great man... he saved as from despair and treated as like his own son but he died because of deicide"
"who was the closest to him?" i asked which he immediately answered.
"Xavier"
"oh i see, do you love him?"
"yeah i do... i see him as a person, i am pretty sure it wasn't deicide who killed him"
he suddenly said causing me to stare at him in amusement and interest
"how so?"
"he never sinned , if he sinned it's for the sake of the people"
i smiled and hum
"well you are right with that"
"eh? but you don't know him"
"the method of the killing says it all"
both of us stared at board and i suddenly felt the puzzle pieces slowly fixing themselves.
i just need one more to confirm my suspicion.