[Rein's POV: ]
'I had never seen him like that...'
It wasn't the first time he cried in my arms, but the way he kept crying for hours back then was a completely new side of him.
He was mentally strong, one of the strongest in this world perhaps. But even he broke down and let his tears flow for that long of a time.
'It was a completely new thing for me... for us actually. Everybody in the house knew about this incident already.'
He said he was alone in that place, and even Celes came out after he had woken up and started crying because she was separated from him.
It was difficult for me to understand what they were trying to say for a while, but I figured it out soon.
'The person he was fighting was somehow able to separate him from everything else in that place. And by him, I mean just him. Even his special person inside of him, Lucy, was disconnected from him.'
Even Zoe who always knew everything that happened to him had no idea about any of it until after they found him in that destroyed room.
'I came at night, and everything had happened in the afternoon.'
Mother Nolan told me how there were thieves that they already captured and how the one that had gathered them managed to escape after defeating Eon, a shock I was not expecting to hear as soon as I arrived from that goddamn shithole.
"Haaa. How far is this damn place?!"
"The map is showing it's just a little ahead of that tree over there. We're almost there."
"Fuck this! I'm not doing this next time! She should live in a place where we can at least reach quickly for a freaking tea party!
Who the hell is she to live in the middle of nowhere like this?!"
"Um... someone who got second place in the annual alchemy competition? As well as someone who's probably a lot stronger than us?"
"No! She's a half demon bitch! A Bitch!"
All the matters of past happenings on one side, we were going to the place where that demon bitch lived. The one prince Charles had accompanied during the competition.
And it was getting more and more frustrating as we climbed this damn mountain!
"Calm down now. We are almost there. Complain directly to her all you want when you are there."
"That's what I'm going to do! Hump!"
He got an envelope from Prince Alph during Anna's grand tea party that was sealed and only opened when opened later that night.
It contained a simple letter inviting us to a tea party and coordinations of the place where we had to be for this tea party, which apparently was located way down from our territory, in high mountains in the middle of nowhere.
'I still don't know why we were climbing this damned mountain instead of flying there directly but, whatever!'
I don't care anymore.
It had been six freaking hours we were walking on foot after the nearest city from here... which was not Near at all!
I don't even remember how much we have walked until now, but if he wasn't lying this time about the final destination, we would reach that damned place in a bit.
"She better serve us a divine tea."
"I'm sure she will."
This basted...
I will never forget the day he broke down like that.
Being completely isolated was no good experience for him.
Which was strange once again.
And he had put every bit of his mind to solve this mystery these last few days, and still failed to understand it.
Perhaps all that made him think highly of that dream. And...
Facing that person and getting separated was a kind of experience he never knew he needed to get better, to learn more about himself.
'Perhaps it could have been the reason he saw that weird dream in the first place.'
But whatever it might be... it was important for him. I know that much.
So I'll just do my best to believe in him.
"Alright, we are finally here..."
We reached the location! Finally!
"...but, where's her house?" He was confused as soon as we reached the location.
The place we had reached was a simple open area with a little more light than the rest of the forest.
There was nothing special about this place.
At least, not to normal eyes.
"There's a boundary, Eon."
I could see it.
Just like the one present some distance away from our estate, there was a boundary in this place that looked like a completely black place to my eyes.
"A boundary? You mean a permanent boundary? Here?"
Even he couldn't see this with his special eyes, just like the previous one.
"Yup. And it's like a gate. A square in the middle of this place."
It was different from the one we have back in our estate, the one in the crack of a tree.
It strangely resembled a door, and there were no signs of any activity in this specific area to indicate the presence of monsters either.
Which obviously meant this thing wasn't just naturally present here.
"This should be the place."
"Her house?"
"Or a place leading to the house. We will see once we cross this."
All boundaries were connected to some other point of space. And there was no guarantee that place would be on this planet.
"Wow... now this is what I call a secret hideout."
This bastard... he was suddenly all excited now.
"Hump! Whatever!"
I didn't like her from the start but now, she was even influencing my husband!
'I don't like that bitch at all!'
Secretive half demon bitch!