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Chapter 7 - Chapter 7: A Letter from the Second Sage

Sabia Third's view toward Fedyenka scarred Bella who was hiding and listening to their conversation the whole time. Suddenly, Sabia Third called out,

"Who's there?"

Bella was going to rush off from that place. At that moment, Sabia third threw a chain and pulled her. It is said that she uses it for combat. The chain was so sharp that it already made a deep cut through Bella's legs. Bella started crying out of pain. Fedyenka could do nothing at that moment. Because if she did, it would be considered that she was plotting something and the woman is with her. Even the Jinn Lord's infant son was on the suspect's list at the moment.

"Who sent you?" asked Sabia Third with an angered voice.

"Aunt Charlotte, wasn't that too much? What if she's a commoner who was just curious?" said Fedyenka as if she doesn't know her.

"She could be a just commoner but she is wearing our palace's nurse uniform. Are you a nurse, little miss? said Sabia Third with a stern face.

"Yes Ma'am. I have recently joined. I was just curious. Please let me go..." said Bella while sobbing.

"She can't even say things properly Aunt Charlotte. I think we should heal her and ask her all the things after that. Then we'll get a clearer answer." said Fedyenka.

"Alright." saying this Sabia Third clicked a switch in her right hand which was attached to the chain. The chain loosened and went back to the thing she was holding. She took a small bottle out of her pocket and opened it's mouth. A green smoke came out of it and went inside of the cuts on Bella's legs. Slowly her cuts started healing.

"What is this Aunt Charlotte?"

"It's simply called healing incense. However, it has a special name, Verdcurador."

"I guess I'll just call it healing incense. Verdcurador is a bit hard..."

"No problem My Dear Highness. Now, you. What's your name little miss?" said Sabia Third as she closes the bottle.

"It-It's Bella. I am the one who led Her Highness here. I don't have any ill intentions Ma'am. I was simply just coming this way to deliver something to you. You-you're Sabia Third, am I right Ma'am?" said Bella in her usual stuttering tone.

"You are a nurse of the palace's medical faculty and yet you don't even know who I AM?!?" said Sabia Third with a raging voice.

"N-No Ma'am. Please don't misunderstand my intentions. I really was delivering something to you. M-Me and...my father has just moved in the city. I'm sorry, Ma'am I don't know any important people's face here. I'm sorry."

"Huh...Where is it? Come on, hand it to me." said Sabia Third while she reached out with her left hand toward Bella. It was clear that she has no interest toward commoners. It gave Fedyenka a great hunch. She had a feeling that the Sabia will soon reveal her true form to her.

"H-Here it is Ma'am. The letter sent by Sabio Second." said Bella. After she gave the letter to Sabia Third she said, "May I go, Ma'am?"

"Yes you can scram." said Sabia Third.

Bella slowly walked away. Staring at Fedyenka a little she gave a thankful look toward her.

"Ah I see. My Dear Highness, Fedyenka." said Sabia Third.

"Yes Aunt Charlottle."

"We have to go somewhere tomorrow night. If you want to of course."

"Where is it?"

"It's to the Sabio Second's Palace. You have gone through enough tonight. I'll send some other maids to look after you" Saying this, Sabia Third walked away. While she was walking away, Fedyenka saw something that was visible from the lower part of her coat. It was a small part of Moco's tail. Mona's tail was ordinarily black but Moco's tail had a dotted black and white pattern. Seeing that Fedyenka was frightened inside but still she kept herself calm from the outside. After she left, she headed straight to her room. She laid down on the bed and fell asleep.

In deep sleep she could hear strange noises. As if something was beeping and some people were talking. She opened her eyes and saw a light. The light slowly faded away. She could still hear some noises. Then suddenly she heard someone saying,

"Do it fast, don't let her live again. Oh no. Noo!!!!"

The moment she heard it she woke up. Someone was knocking on the door and saying,

"Your Highness? Your Highness are you there?"

"Yes I am here...What was that."

"Please open the door Your Highness. I've been waiting here for ten minutes. I have brought breakfast for you. And I have also brought you something from your mother."

Fedyenka opened the door and saw a maid. She thanked the maid for bringing her breakfast and took the thing her mother sent. Her mother sent it in a wooden box. She opened it and found a sunscreen cream. She felt embarrassed. There she thought that it was some important intel.

"Mother was just worried because I'm more allergic to sun than most people...Mothers are weird, yet the best thing in our life." said Fedyenka.

After that, she got herself ready, ate her fill and went outside wearing a black hat and covering herself with an umbrella. No one expected for a vampire to come out in the morning so, she could get out of the Palace of Egret without no problem but one. A guard stopped her in the middle asking,

"Why are you holding an umbrella when you have a hat young lady?"

Fedyenka folded her umbrella and told the guard that she is really careful with her beauty. She acted like a Western old lady and left the guard speechless. Thinking that her mother's sunscreen actually worked, made her smile.

While walking, she bumped with someone and fell. Thankfully it was Felix and not Charlotte the Sabia Third.

"Brother! I was looking for you-" saying this she fell again. Her body was feeling numb. Soon enough she got her sense back and found herself lying her head on her brother's knee while Felix was calling her over and over again. Seeing them, some guests of the palace came to see what is going on. They came and started asking a tons of questions. "Who are you two to each other?" Where are you two from?" "What are you two doing here?" "What happened to her?" - all those questions made Fedyenka feel more sick. Felix dealt with all the fuss and took his sister to a shade of a big tree.

"Fedyenka? Fedyenka?...Fed? Are you alright? Holy God of all beings, what has happened."

"I'm...okay...It's just that-"

"It's just what?"

"I saw a weird dream last night."

Fedyenka tells her brother everything she remembers about the dream. Her brother told her that she is just stressing about it and that she should leave the matter as it is.

"So, where were you headed to?" asked Felix.

"I was going to you but I bumped to you instead and got sick."

"Can't you fix your speaking tone even a little bit?"

"WHY? What was so informal about it?"

"Leave the matter. I was going to inform you about something."

Fedyenka got all ears the moment she heard that. Then she told her brother,

"Maybe we should go somewhere with less people and more sunlight. We won't be suspected then. By the way, Why aren't you wearing any hat, brother?"

"I don't need it now. I'm not as allergic as you. Mother sent me a sunscreen."

"Oh she sent you that too."

They went somewhere in the garden with small trees and then they sat on a bench.

"So, the matter I wanted to discuss about is...that, I think Sabia Third is in love."

"SERIOUSLY?!? You-"

"Calm down will you? I think she is in love with Sabio Second."

"And how did you get this 'trust me mate' information?"

"No, it is not a 'trust me mate' information you speak of. I heard her talking to someone on a telephone. She was saying that she can do anything for Sebastian. Even though most people are uninterested in the Sage's names and never studies them, I know each of their names."

"Woah...Wait, that means Sabio Second is somehow related to Sabia Third's doings."

"Yes. We have to get some reliable proofs and information. But we cannot do this all by ourselves. We will be in grave danger if we proceed any further with risk."

"Ah! You think we are alone? Saying this, Fedyenka told her brother some important things about the relic and the people. She still didn't share every information.

"So you mean, Sabio Tenth is trying to help us to go through this and his...ah...crush, saved you from such incident? I couldn't hear ANYTHING when I was in your pocket. You were holding my ears so bad that my ears are still hurt."

"Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt your ears. Brother, how about I introduce them to you? I have to talk to them about it first."

Later on, Fedyenka also told him the matter about Charlotte and Sabio Tenth's letter. Hearing that, Felix was worried and told Fedyenka to be careful. After the conversation, Felix left. Fedyenka went back to her room still thinking about many things that happened to her in these few days.

When the sun finally set, she went outside again. She thought of going back to the hall where the party was thrown. She found it sealed by the police. She couldn't enter. She chose another stair to go down to the garden. Little did she know, it leads to a Hall full of giant skeletons. What's more bizarre about it was that, the Sabia Third's coat was hung on a chair and the letter she read was on the table in that hall.