Chapter 18 - Chapter 18: Lost

Lilian got very worried at his current state and stated his name silently "Ril...", Ril stopped with with his shouting and then looked up while hearing his name and said "so...it wasn't a dream" he said in a sad tone "Claire... Claire...stole all the shards...and killed this maid in front of me..." Lilian was surprised by the words he said and asked "What do you mean?"

"Claire is a traitor..." Ril said in a gloomy tone, Lilian still did not understand anything about the situation and was confused, 'Claire is a traitor?' he asked to herself "I don't believe it... You're lying, right? RIGHT?" He kept asking Ril and then "I'm telling the truth, I can't believe it too but...I guess it's the truth...."

Clarisse and Gabriel also went out of the mansion because of the sound of the alarm, then they saw those three looking at a dead body, Clarisse went near to them and asked "What...what happened here?..."

"Claire...." Jiro slipped a small voice and Clarisse heard it

"What happened to Claire?" She asked anxiously

"She killed this maid here and stole all three shards..." Ril replied in a gloomy tone

"But, it might not be Claire right? It might be an enemy that just disguised their selves as claire, right? Right??!?!" Lilian insisted, she still does not believe what Ril said but it seems, Clarisse believe Ril's words even though they are sisters "What Ril said... might be true..."

"What? Clarisse what are you saying? You are sisters..." Lilian said while her voice tremble,

"I know my sister well enough....I guess she's still in that old man's control...." She said calmly while looking dreary

"What do you mean?..." Lilian asked in confusion while Clarisse was turning her back and made on last glance to them "I'll go and look for my sister and return the shards to its rightful place"

"Wait-" Gabriel said but then, she vanished instantly to look for Claire.

But Lilian is pretty stubborn, so instead of just waiting, she also followed Clarisse, Jiro and Ril also followed her and only Gabriel remained at the mansion, he said he had to explain the situation on Zeal so he did not follow them...

After a while of following her, they arrived at a place near the seashore, Clarisse needed to cross the sea to go to the place where Claire might be, surpringly, she only needs to concentrate herself and walk on the sea. Then, she set foot on the sea and walk slowly, then she started running so that she can go to the place quickly.

Lilian, Ril, and Jiro also need to cross the sea but they do not have a boat, So what Jiro did was to make the sea full of Ice so Both Ril and him can run, While Lilian, who manipulates the power of gravity, made herself fly and flew to the place where Clarisse is headed.

When they reached their destination, it was an island, and when Jiro and Ril saw, It was the Kahio island they lived for years

"Did we get lost or something? Why did we came here?" Ril ask in confusion

"I don't know too, but... this is where I saw Lilian and Clarisse arrived...." Jiro said while being uncertain.

They kept walking on the island and saw their old cabin, for once, they felt nostalgic while seeing their old home, but they have to move forward to look for Lilian and Clarisse.

While Lilian, who was still seeing Clarisse's trail, saw her going in to an underground room that looked like a laboratory deep in the forest on the island of Kahio, she followed her to the underground room, and she was shocked to how spacious that place is yet it was also dark, because of this, she lost track of Clarisse. She kept going in, until she accidentally went into a room where it looked like it was a swimming pool in the past but now it is dumped by so many waste, yet the water in the pool is still there but it was surrounded by wastes and the whole water became dirty, the pool was around 30 ft deep, it's not a normal pool and Lilian got anxious just by looking at it, she has a phobia on deep water or sea and she can't even swim. She had nothing to do but tremble in fear while being away of the pool.