222 Ch. 222 'Who Is This Man?'

Zephyr felt he shouldn't make Niken run away first. Especially now that Kazuto was on his way here. So he decided not to scare the girl and ended up running away before Kazuto saw her.

After all, at this distance, he could already tell what was going on inside Niken. Therefore he didn't need to confirm it by approaching that girl.

"Isn't this amazing?"

Xiao Yue frowned in confusion as she wondered what was so great in an awkward situation like this.

"Every time the black knight could barely maintain his sanity, you always showed up on time. Even though your brain doesn't remember it, your heart still remembers him. Isn't that right, Ni.ken?" Zephyr deliberately emphasized the name of the black-haired girl when calling out her name.

"Who are you? What do you want from me? What place is this? Did you kidnap me using my brother's face?"

Zephyr still smiled kindly. "I'll explain it to you, but I don't know if you can believe it or not."

"Try me."

"Okay. This place is a Meridite country located in the middle between the west country and the southern continent. Unfortunately, this place was destroyed because there had just been a great battle between the two wizards. I'm sure, when you come back, you will find this place to be a beautiful place, and you will love it."

"Can you speak in human language? I don't understand what you're talking about at all?"

"You're on time traveling, Niken. You are not from this era, but the past."

Xiao Yue gasped at the young man's expression. She's time-traveling? Does that make sense? She never heard nor seen someone who could travel in a different era!

How could one travel through the dimension of time?

Pang!

Suddenly her head ached like a needle prickling his brain.

Time traveler!

She remembered that she was the famous, almost extinct time traveler. She is not a time master like her mother or aunt Xiao Hua.

She is the Great Time Master!

"I am a time traveler," said Xiao Yue, whispering in a voice of great shock. "I ... I am the Great Time Master?"

"Right. Not only that, but you are also the new Phantasm Lord. I don't know what happened to you in your real-time, but I do know someone was trying to manipulate your memory."

"Not. Nothing is manipulating my memory." Xiao Yue denied Zephyr's statement because she felt sure of her memory.

"Fine, if that's what you want. Can you tell me what you saw before you came here?" Zephyr deliberately bought time so that Niken would not be depressed and then ran away or returned to the past.

He wondered, when will Kazuto arrive? The black knight will miss his meeting with Niken when the girl's time-traveling is up.

But strangely, her heart was telling her that this man meant no harm to her. On the contrary, this man sincerely wanted to help her out of her misery.

In the end, Xiao Yue chose to listen to her heart rather than her brain, and she started speaking fluently as if she were talking to a friend.

"I live on Nishian Island with my father, mother, and brother. I've lived and grown there since I was born. There was no war, and I didn't lose the people I loved. My life is perfect because this is what I want all my life."

"But?"

"But… I'm not happy. I felt something was missing from inside my body."

"It's because what you see isn't real."

Xiao Yue frowned and looked at Zephyr with a look of dislike. "What do you mean, not real?"

"You should know yourself. Both of your parents are gone, and your brother..."

"My brother is still alive!" Xiao Yue hissed, interrupting the wizard's sentence.

Somehow in her small heart, she knew her parents were gone, but she didn't want to accept the fact that her only brother was not there.

"Right. Your brother is still alive." continued Zephyr in a sad tone. "So, you've admitted that your parents are actually gone?"

Xiao Yue couldn't argue with it because she didn't know why she could think her parents had left her for a long time.

What exactly happened?

Xiao Yue felt that her head was dizzy like something heavy had hit her. Her breath was struggling for air as if she had just done a strenuous activity that drained his stamina. Her chest felt tight as if something inside was forcing her to come out.

What must she do to be free from the suffering she is currently feeling?

"Niken,"

Xiao Yue's body stiffened when she heard a strange voice coming from behind her. It wasn't the voice of the wizard, but the voice of a different man.

Miraculously, the voice was able to get rid of the pain in her head, and her chest, which felt like she was being crushed, could now breathe freely.

Xiao Yue turned around slowly to see a black-haired man with gasping breath standing there. In the next instant, the man walked over with large strides, then hugged her without giving her a chance to react.

Xiao Yue didn't recognize this man, and her brain told her to rebel to break free. But somehow, her body didn't want to obey his mind at all.

Instead, she felt comfortable and protected in that man's arms?

Who? Who is this man?

***

In the present…

Izzy couldn't hold back Kazuto from his change of heart, which started to corrupt with darkness.

Not seeing Niken for more than a month made Kazuto's heart filled with dark energy. Not to mention, they felt the ties that bound Kazuto and Niken began to fade.

Kazuto, who was trying his best not to become an evil knight, aided by Izzy's flute, coughed out black blood from his mouth.

Only time could tell them that Kazuto didn't have much time.