Grievius Lophood
"Big Drinker"
"Great Lover"
1296-1349
Reading the grave for the tenth time in the last 15 minutes Adryan found himself alone in the cemetery.
After placing the blue flower on Grievius' tomb, Isengar said a few words and left the cemetery, the pastor and the one who was in charge of burying the coffin had finished their work to give the duo privacy.
'This is all my fault, Mr. Grievius, Viktor.' the redhead thought heavily as he looked up at the cloudy sky.
'I was too blind and overestimated my own strength'
'I was drawn to the club thanks to the law of convergence and with my arrival I brought death to all of you' he thought as he ground his teeth.
'All I did was bring about a huge disaster that almost killed all of us and the fact that I'm alive now is because the bastard who brought me here still has plans for me,' he thought as his red eyes flashed with anger, but then his eyes softened and lowering his gaze,he looked at the blue flower that the detective had left behind.
Looking at the blue flower, the redhead couldn't help but associate the blue of the flower with the girl's neck and this made him lower his head in shame.
'Even Coin's death may be my fault, my arrival brought disasters I could never foresee, even people I never met...'shaking his head Adryan look at his hands.
'Why did I even choose the hunter in the first place? Was it really because it had the necessary power to protect me or did the City of Calamities influence me so much that I didn't consider other pathways?'
Remembering how he hadn't even taken a moment to think about which pathway to take, the redhead sighed in defeat knowing that the second option had a better chance of being the correct one.
'I didn't even realize it and I was used like a puppet....' he thought as he felt a feeling of enormous helplessness.
'Even when Klein chose Seer his decision was not as influenced by the Sefira Castle as mine was by the City of Calamities....'
Raising his gaze and seeing Grievius's grave again, the redhead just lowered his knee to the ground and placed the red flower next to the blue one, but he didn't get up when he did so but just stared at the flowers.
'Now all I can do is get stronger so my actions will never again be controlled by others.'
Rising and pulling the metal bottle from his pocket, Adryan opened it and tilting his hand caused the wine to fall onto Grievius' grave.
After that he took a big sip from the bottle and then raised it to the sky.
'For you bitter old man,Viktor and little Coin'
Wiping his hand over his mouth and closing the bottle again, Adryan left the cemetery without looking back...
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Opening the door of his house and entering he couldn't help but take a sigh as he felt at home again.
'I'm tired but one thing first...'Adryan thought as he went to the kitchen and seeing that the origami was still where it was since he last saw it, he just grabbed it and headed to his room.
All the redhead did was place the Hangover Time on the table next to him like the origami.
With all that done he closed his eyes to meditate so he could sleep.
He needed to know more about his destiny so the talk with Will Auceptin couldn't wait any longer.
Before he knew it he had fallen asleep and the world of dreams embraced him again.
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In another part of Backlund a boy no older than 14 years old was playing with some cubes but before he could place the triangle on top of the square he stopped short and turned to look in one direction and smiled.
"Fate catches up with all of us,sooner or later..."
With that said, the boy lay down on his bed and closed his eyes sleeping.
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Opening his eyes again Adryan found himself in the midst of a world that had been turned upside down and twisted, the redhead found himself on a barren plain with picht-black stones at his feet and not even a piece of grass.
In the center of the plain stood a black steeple with a huge silver snake coiled around it.
'Just like Klein's story but shouldn't you be awake little one?' Adryan thought seeing that the huge silver snake was asleep with its head lying on its silver body.
'It doesn't matter now I have to talk to Will' shaking his head, the redhead began his way towards the Black steeple and although before it seemed to be more than 500 meters away and he had only taken 7 steps but he was already in front of the Black Steeple and the huge silver serpent that was unaware of his presence.
Taking just one look at this beautiful snake that was covered in dense patterns and symbols, which were all connected to each other and formed wheels that ran through the entire body of the snake.
'A beauty' nodding to the snake Adryan just took another step and found himself in front of the black steeple gate that was old,rotten wood that open by itself showing the darkness behind it.
The interior was just like Klein's story, with the stairs spiraling up and down, the corridors, bookcases and rooms were normal, inverted or some embedded in parts of others.
'It's like the world of Evil Within 2 with all this mess'
Thinking that, Adryan advanced through walls and doors until he reached another place, he didn't know if it was the basement or the attic but he didn't care.
Now he was surrounded by darkness but having been in a greater darkness it did not affect him, looking in a corner he saw how there was a figure sitting and he could feel that it was looking at him.
Giving a slight bow to this figure, Adryan spoke.
"It is a great honor to be in front of You, Your Excellency Snake of Fate"