Chapter 214 People live eternally through memories...

Chapter 214 People live eternally through memories...

Capital City 'Astra', Core Area.

Rex Mansion, outside Ashtel's office room.

Link and Riya stood in front of Ashtel's office room with solemn expressions on their faces.

Link even looked a bit nervous at the moment.

Just when he was about to knock on the door, the door opened by itself and the head butler walked out of the room.

A gentle smile hung over his old face. His smile widened further when he noticed Link and Riya being so nervous.

"Master Ashtel is not at the mansion right now, young master Link... you might have to wait for tomorrow to meet him..." (Butler)

"uh, where did he go Grandpa Olin?" (Link)

Link's real grandpa died during the starting years of the fifty-year orc war. Olin might not be his real grandfather, but Link considers him as such.

The head butler Olin has seen Link grow up from the day he was born, and thus Link started to call him 'Grandpa Olin'.

At Link's question, Olin shook his head and said in a gentle tone.

"I don't know the specifics, but he said that he was going to solve some old matters... I have no idea about it though..." (Olin)

Link nodded his head and thought to himself.

'Could it be... he doesn't want to see my face because I was unable to protect my comrade... does he think of me as a failure now?' (Link)

Link clenched his fists and his shoulders dropped, he was clearly depressed by this.

Link was feeling depressed but he didn't say it out loud, but such things didn't apply to Riya at all.

"Grandpa... is he angry at us?" (Riya)

A nervous look appeared on Riya's face too.

Both Link and Riya knew that Ashtel was not a person who would get angry at just anything. Folloow current novÊls on nov3lb((in).(com)

But there were also things that Ashtel could not tolerate, and that included 'Failure'.

Ashtel trained Link since the day he was five years old, and he was always strict in his teaching.

He gave the knowledge of all his techniques to Link over the years. The training was strict but effective.

But the only thing that Ashtel didn't tolerate was 'Failure'.

Today, Link came back from his mission while 'failing to protect his comrades', and thus he was quite nervous about how Ashtel would react to it.

Olin smiled gently and replied to Riya's question in a gentle tone.

"No, he didn't seem angry when he left, you don't need to worry young lady, even if he was angry, only young master Link will be punished..." (Olin)

Although Olin was trying to console Riya, it was totally ineffective.

"No... i-I was the reason why we failed... I-I was not able to save the life of our friend..." (Riya)

Riya's eyes became a bit moist as she said that, the blow she received from Zach's death was just too huge for her.

Before this, she had never failed in healing any fatal injury and this was the first time that her healing was so ineffective.

Seeing the coffee, Riya brought out the box of candies and sweets that was gifted to her by Zach. (Mentioned in the reunion chs, read them again if you don't remember it...)

Riya glanced at those sweets and said in a complicated tone.

"Am I still allowed to have these candies... even though I don't deserve them..." (Riya)

At Riya's words, Stella smiled and said in a gentle tone:

"Yes, your friend prepared them for you as a parting gift, I am sure he will be happy if he knew that you appreciated this gift..." (Stella)

Riya stopped hesitating after hearing those words, she took some and gave a few to Link too.

While eating those sweets, tears fell from her eyes as she blamed herself for her own powerlessness.

Seeing this, Stella got up from her seat and walked over to Riya. She used her handkerchief to wipe her tears and patted her head to calm her down.

Riya directly hugged Stella and started to sob silently. Eventually, she fell asleep in Stella's arms.

"Sigh...It seems the blow was a bit too heavy for her... but at least she cried her heart out now... I guess she will be fine after she wakes up later...." (Stella)

Olin glanced at the sleeping face of Link and shook his head.

"They both seemed to have been under a lot of stress... I guess they fell asleep after they got rid of the stress caused by constant self-blame..." (Olin)

Stella nodded her head as she patted the head of both of them. A gentle smile hung over her old face.

Olin took the used cups and organized the tables neatly.

"By the way, what about Master Ashtel, he might get angry at them for returning with failure..." (Olin)

Stella simply smiled at Olin's words and said in a calm voice.

"Hmph, I will kick that bast*rd's A*s if he dared lay a hand on these little kids!... who does he think he is!? I have raised him since the day he was a snotty brat!" (Stella)

"Cough!! Ahem..." (Olin)

Olin knew that no one in the whole human empire dared to say this about Ashtel aside from Stella.

(Fun fact, Ashtel is very respectful towards Stella as she is like a motherly figure to him... he calls her Aunt and calls Olin Uncle...)

And the fact is, that Stella might really kick Ashtel if he dared to be rude to these children in her presence.

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Author's Notes.

Yo! It's your beloved author here!

Sometimes memories are the best medium to keep your loved ones alive in your heart, even if their silhouette is long gone, they will live in your heart as long as you keep their memories safe...

Question of the day.

Which memories will you like to remember forever?

(Tell me in the comments.)

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