Sitting in a room, Zenobios brought two glasses of tea for them to drink.
"Hope your journey here isn't too stressful". Zenobios asked courtesyly.
"Nah, it wasn't" Igor answered.
"How do you find this place, this place is supposed to be a secret location". Zenobios asked sitting opposite of the two.
"Count Larmore gave us series of locations which might be a possible place for the research center, we happened to find this place by Luck ". Igor said with a smile on his face.
"Really, well, rest for now, we will talk later, i have work to do ". Zenobios said as he looked at Barbara with the side of his eyes, who was looking at him with all sorts of gazes making him flinch a bit.
"I'll be going, see you later ". He said with an uneasy expression
Leaving the room for the two, Igor turned to Barbara
"Do you seriously need to make obvious your suspicion of him Barbara "? Igor asked.
"I hate pretense, so it is not one of my forte, after seeing all those abominations, my disgust for these researchers as become unfathomable". Barbara said.
"That been said, let me check your body ". Barbara asked without batting a eye.
"Excuse me! What do you want to check in my body ". Igor said freaking out and stood up at a supernormal speed with a red face.
"Urgh, what are you hiding, nothing more than a body covered by skin, let's see it ". Barbara said teasingly.
"Covered by skin?! Of course I'm covered by skin, you pervert"! Igor replied nervously with red face.
"Hahaha, see the look on your face Igor, who would have thought you have this shy side on you, muahahaha" Barbara said laughing her heart out.
Igor looked away from her with a shy red face spouting.
"It not funny".
"Okay, okay, I'll stop, but seriously I need to check your body, there's something i want to confirm". Barbara said stopping her laugh and went to Igor's back.
"What do you want to confirm". Igor asked begrudgingly removing his shirt and letting Barbara check his back.
Checking the spotless back of Igor, Barbara soon found something.
"Just as i suspected a curse mark, you said you were having a feeling that we should come here, the research center near northern lights city, this is the answer". Barbara said.
At Igor's left shoulder, a mark of three dash lines was there.
"Zenobios put that mark on you to find this place, but why would he do that ". Barbara said.
"A curse mark! Isn't having the Emblem of Valier enough, ah". Igor said.
"Why would Zenobios want you to find this place purposely, what are his intentions". Barbara pondered.
"Probably because he has the same mindset as us, you know i invited him to join our cause, he probably led us here to have more discussion ". Igor replied.
Barbara looked at him with a disagreed face.
"No, i don't buy that, he is one of the researchers that caused the plague, created numerous abominations and to top it all he signed a contract with a devil ". Barbara said shaking her head.
"Maybe he wants to correct the mistake of his past ". Igor said.
"Nah ".
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Some hours later, Zenobios came to meet them.
"I'm sorry i hope i didn't make you sit for long in the room"
"It no problem, we are going to meet anyways". Igor replied.
"Let's cut the chase, we know you led us here to find you, what are your intentions". Barbara said straight forward.
"Barbara! Where did you learn to talk like this without spite" Igor called out.
"From a certain someone with green hair". She replied.
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"Achoooo!!! Who just talked about me ". Larmore said rubbing his nose.
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Zenobios was taken aback with this sudden accusation,he smiled and replied.
"There's no need hiding it any longer since you already know, but how did you know"? Zenobios said.
"My naive partner over there kept saying he was having a feeling to come here. The only explanation to that is he has some connection to this place, but I brushed it off, but meeting you at this said place increased my suspicion ". Barbara replied.
"So you've known of the curse mark, well it no problem, I'm quite intrigued by your proposal, reversing the effect of the plague, why do you want to do it, it is not like people are actually complaining".
"It because of a catastrophe the would likely ensue in the future, we want to stop it before it happens and to do that we need to reverse the effect of the plague ". Igor replied.
"Is that so"? Zenobios said with a sinister smile.