Chapter 127 - Secret Revealed - Part 2: Elina’s Health

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Elina was too shocked to even think straight. She didn't have a hearing problem that would actually make her hear something weird.

She was absolutely sure about that. Right now all that was going on her mind were two words - 'Master' and 'Rex'.

She was trying to form some sort of link between those words and without a doubt she was close to the secret that Rex was hiding from them.

'According to what they said... Rex would be their master right?'

'Or... we they talking about someone else?'

She didn't know if the one whom they would fight was Alex because she hadn't heard what they spoke inside but after coming out of the room she just assumed that.

'But when I think clearly, it doesn't makes sense.'

'I couldn't sense any mana from Rex then how...?'

She was getting entangled with many doubts and thoughts which were hardly being solved.

Though what she was thinking was a bit strange for her, it did have a meaning behind all that was happening.

This was not the first time she had observed Bandis and Zor saying that. She had heard them talking about the master thing.

She peeked a bit and was satisfied to see that Bandis and Zor left. Immediately after that she walked towards the room and knocked the door.

"Yes co-"

Elina entered the room even before Alex could allow her.

'If you were going to barge in anyway, then what was the use of knocking the door...', Alex thought and made an awkward and weird expression.

He stared at Elina who stared back at him. He could see that she was somewhat troubled by something.

"Is something the matter?", Alex asked right away.

Elina who came there to ask something said, "Well, nothing much, I just wanted to know if you asked Sir Bandis and Sir Zor for a duel..."

Elina wanted to know the truth about it. She definitely knew that she was close to solving some puzzle or finding some great secret but it was as if she was missing just one last piece of the puzzle.

Alex who heard her question paused for a moment and averted his eyes.

'If I tell her that I asked them for a duel, then she would definitely scold me for being over-enthusiastic!', was what Alex thought.

'No! I shouldn't tell her that...', he decided not to tell her about it.

He was trying to find an excuse that he could tell instead of the truth.

"Come on, tell me, did you ask them for a duel?", she asked.

"N-no!"

Alex almost immediately answered the second time she asked that.

"Ah?", after hearing his answer, she wondered for a while about it.

'Did he really not ask for a duel? Then what were they talking about?', she was totally confused.

The last piece of puzzle seemed to be getting out of her hands which she didn't want to happen.

She thought hard but couldn't reach to any possible conclusion.

Alex was looking here and there the moment Elina glared back at her.

"Alex... you are telling me the truth right?", Elina asked.

Alex was sweating profusely each time Elina spoke something.

"Y-yes!", Alex answered back with haste which arouse a spark of suspicion in Elina.

'Something is weird... is he scared or afraid of telling me about it?', was what she thought.

"If you don't want to tell me, it's fine!", immediately after she said that, she left the room.

"Ah? Wait...", Alex was left alone in an instant.

"Sigh... looks like she knew about it from the start...", Alex said to himself.

"But... why did she ask about it all of a sudden? And why was she so tensed up?"

Now even Alex was confused a bit and thought about asking Elina, but right now after he saw her expression, he refrained from doing so.

'It will be better if I ask her some time later...', after thinking that he took a look at the papers in which he had works.

Elina, Who rushed out of the room, was walking with haste towards the garden yet again.

She wanted to confirm it from Rex as what she thought was true or not.

Also, she could recall that Rex was going to reveal something earlier when all of a sudden the letter had arrived.

She dashed as quick as she could and finally reached the garden, but unfortunately she couldn't find Rex.

It seemed like he had already moved away from that place and because of that he wasn't present there.

"Why...? Why is it like everything is against me today?", she asked herself and waited there for a moment when other maids arrived who saw Elina over there.

"You majesty, do you require something?"

The maids could also see that she was tensed up and thus asked her.

"I want to know if you had seen Rex.", she asked.

All of them maids stared at each other and then shook their heads and denied.

"..."

Elina has no words for this because out of so many maids not even a single maid could see where Rex had gone!

But that was something to be expected. Rex was completely trash in front of their eyes and no one would pay any attention to trash anyway.

Other than the good looks and royal status, he had nothing good and that was concluded by the crowds which even the maids agreed and thus they didn't bother to even waste their time in observing him!

Thought because of this Elina was a bit worried right now as she wanted to find Rex no matter what.

Her confusion just kept increasing as she thought more and because of that she rushed back in order to search for him.

But even after searching the entire castle, she failed to find him.

'Where... just where did he go?', that was the only question in her mind.

MEANWHILE...

'Wow, looks like it's lively today...', Rex thought while walking around the streets.

It seemed like he had sneaked away from the mansion and probably because of that Elina failed to find him earlier.

He didn't have any plans of returning right now anyway and probably because of that Elina would had to wait even longer.

Right now where Rex wanted to visit was the Library where he had seen his aunt for the last time before he returned to the castle.

Though, he didn't want to directly teleport there. He was just taking a look at the surroundings.

He was observing the behaviours of various people who were present there and it was an ideal day too because there were a lot of people today compared to any other days.

'Hmm, so this is how they bargain and buy things...', he smiled and observed keenly.

Some of them did find it weird because all that Rex did was stare at what they were selling. Though they didn't chase him away because he was wearing a relatively good clothes that could be compared with that of the royalty!

Rex just keotbwaljing further and even before he realised, he had already reached the library.

Then he greeted his aunt and then talked a lot with her. She knew about Rex and was probably the first person in the city to know about him.

They engaged in talks for a long time and amidst that a topic was discussed which was directly related to what Rex was hiding.

"Sometimes, it's better to share things with others rather than confining it to yourselves..."

Rex heard her aunt say that and then lowered his gazes.

'Aunt... you just don't understand...'

'It's not that I want to hide from them...'

'All I want to do is not make them worry!'

That was what he thought. He probably just guessed as to how they will react since he had experienced that once!

When he told to his wife about something in the past life, she was intensely worried which caused her hypertension.

Probably that trauma was even there today in his memories and just because of that he didn't want to involve or tell more people about his powers which he considered as stupid buffs.

That was probably why he had sealed his powers so that others wouldn't know and get shocked, but little did he understand the mentality of this era in this world!

The ones who had more powers were respected and if Rex were to disclose this to his parents, without a doubt they would be happy rather than worry about him.

But unfortunately he didn't think that way and just stuck the 'worrying' word into his mind.

Though after talking with his aunt; he realised that what he was thinking was a bit wrong.

Even though he was 89 years old from the soul after adding this life which would be 105 years old, he had the mentality of a child!

He thought that he had better experience but after listening to his aunt, he understood that he was wrong.

"Hmm... if that's the case... then I'll reveal it to them!", he decided.

'Ah? What will he tell? Haha', the aunt just laughed while thinking that after looking at his dedicated and innocent face!

"Okay thanks for the time aunt! I will visit you next time soon?", after saying that and waving his hand, he left the place immediately and returned back to the palace only to find his mom sleeping after getting exhausted.

"Prince!!! How could you be so cruel? Your mother kept searching for you and just because you hid somewhere, she fainted after searching for you all these time!", said some of the maids without paying any respect.

"Huh...? Mother was searching for me?", he asked with a shocked expression.

"Don't act so dumb Prince!", said one of the maid.

"Even if yo-"

Even before she could complete saying, he dashed off to see Elina because it was weird for someone of her caliber to faint!

"Mom...!!!"

"..."

To be continued...