"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
― Antonio Porchia
Chapter 47: Death
death is the most unpredictable thing that people will encounter with or without their will. people that wishes to become a person who will defy death never succeed. Doctors who keep inventing medicines to prolong a person's life succeeded, barely succeeded.
it would take a whole lot of hard work and effort to lengthen a person's life, the need to sacrifice many countless nights just to make a medicine that could cure a disease that might kill one of the members of their family.
but that's it, just lengthening not preventing. Death is unstoppable you could push it away but it won't disappear.
One thing i know about death , it doesn't choose its victims, the victims invited themselves.
signing, i stared at the three who immediately rushes to the bathroom.
one of the people that they know scratch that, the world know decided to left this place not because he wanted to but because someone help him.
this land doesn't reek of blood and death. there is just one person that volunteer to shorten his chosen person's life.
Deicide means the killing of God. Hypothetical speaking, Deicide killed a bunch of adventurers maybe because of how the guild was named as Theos, God in translation of Greek.
Or he just killed them because he's insane enough to do it.
i don't know maybe it's either of them or maybe both of those reason.
But..
"you rushes the bathroom first? did you smell food?" i questioned the boy who stared t me blankly but i could sense disappointment in his eyes.
"i smelled A dead body so i rush to the bathroom.... but..." a pout appeared in his lips causing me to smile a bit and stared at the direction towards the bathroom.
"no blood? suspicious" i quietly said and sip on the tea.
and there it is a again the weird taste that lingers on my tongue failing to separate with the taste of the tea.
"What happened?" Xavier appeared with a smiling face and a confuse expression while staring at where the trio went.
"i don't know, Ethan went to the bathroom when i told him to check Charles who took his time on the bathroom then when he came back he said he saw a dead body instead. I really don't like assuming things but i hope it's not someone i thought it is"
i calmly said and observed his expression.
he stared back at me calmly and then showed a concern expression.
" i hope so too, excuse me for awhile, i'll call the physician right away"
i didn't answered and let him walk towards the Exit, but before he disappear in my sight, i spoke.
"The tea taste weird, Ethan. you should not drink it" and it didn't fail for me to notice how his fingers shook lightly.
to light that it would considered as a illusion of the eyes.
i inserted both of my hands and watched him disappeared in my sight before facing back at the table.
"but i wasn't planning to.... drink the tea" Ethan slowly said back to how slow his speech when i first talk to him.
i ignored him and stared at the plates on the table.
if i remembered correctly i took a sipped on the tea a countless of times and the weird taste won't disappear, if that weird taste is a poison then... why did it do nothing to me?
The door suddenly opened and i glanced it only to be greeted with a face that belong to a Greek god and an annoying devil.
"Ezu" he coldly said and walk towards me, my eye twitched and stared at him alert.
if he's here because he will throw some works towards em, i'll kill him... i can't but ill try.
"good morning" i greeted and stood up and bowed. Ethan seems to realize that he's a Noble and bow, but different from mine. his bow is the normal one different from the usual church bow i do.
i notice behind her is 2 men, one who look like would die because of how pale he is, and the other wore a very stoic face and his body is so muscular and huge, he looks really strong.
then my eyes landed towards Xavier who is still wearing his smile.
"Good morning" he patted my head which causes the two unfamiliar men to look like they have seen a ghost or something.
"who's this?" he coldly said and stared at Ethan, i and the kid stared at him blankly when we both notice how scary he look.
Ethan turn his head away causing the three men behind him to pale in fright.
i stared at the strict looking man i called father and snickers.
"hah you got ignored" i know i made him pissed because the next thing i know is i felt a pang of pain behind my head.
i clicked my tongue and rub the back of my head that he smacked.
"Anyway the dead body is in the bathroom, Duke, Grand master" Xavier politely excuse themselves and went to the bathroom.
we all watched the both of them disappeared and enter the bathroom.
"So who's this?" Father stared at the kid intently observing him.
"Ethan just Ethan... i found him following me in the forest"
he sat in the empty seat and the huge looking man sat 1 chair away from him. i snicker on my head when i started thinking that the man seems like avoiding my father like as if he has a contagious disease.
"i heard that you and your sister joined the Guild"
it wasn't a question but a statement so i didn't bother to reply and just stared at him as if he was saying something so obvious.
when silence took so long between us i decided to cut it when i notice the scary looking man starting to fidget on his seat uncomfortable.
"where did you heard it?" i feel annoyed noticing how smug he's looking when i interrupted the silence and lose the silent competition between us.
"From him" he glance at the man beside him. "He's the guild master of Theos"
"So you are the one who named the guild to a word translated as God?"
"ah no that's not me, the person who named the guild is the person who first establish The adventurer guild"
i ignored his explanation and sipped on my tea.
he doesn't look like a guild master in my opinion.
"you keep... on ... drinking that" i glance at ethan and stared at the cup and my hand and silently placed it back on the table.
"you.. think.. it has a poison... but you still drink it.. stupid woman" pissed, i karate chopped his head causing him to throw tons of insult at me.
This brat.