Yaya finally noticed us when I pointed on Rena. She suddenly looked fearful when she saw me with the others. I know why she is afraid because she renovated my house without any kind of permission from me. Rena noticed Yaya"s behavior and looked at the direction that Yaya is looking at. As soon as she saw us, she nodded like she understood."No wonder you are so afraid, the owner of the house you renovated has come back from training. Alright, alright, stop hiding behind me, just let me do the talking alright. You helpless woman... I really don"t know what to do with you, " Rena said as she shook her head in dismay.
Yaya is still hiding on Rena"s back when we approached them. Clearly, she is very guilty. I put my hands on my waist and glare at her to give me some explanation. But the one who started talking is the other girl named Rena.
"You are Kazuma, right? My name is Rena Suzuhara, but they all call me Rena since that is my name in the chat group. You are the owner of the house that little Yaya here renovated right?"
"Yes, that is right. This woman did not even ask me to renovate my house! I demand some explanation!"
"Alright, Kazuma. Don"t get too angry at Yaya, it"s also my fault too for not informing you and besides, I can"t contact you at all because Yaya said that you forgot your phone which means that we have no communication tool for you."
"Why not contact Moonlight instead? She brought her phone with her. You can just message her and ask her to relay the message."
"Ah, we didn"t do that because it"s a personal reason and Moonlight did not know about it yet so we decided to just contact you directly but as you can see, we have no ways of getting contact with you."
Moonlight"s eyebrows raised as she heard this. "What is this all about? Why can"t you say it to me?"
"Ugh, this is a pain, but I had to say it. I am sorry Moonlight, your father pa.s.sed away last month while you are still on the ruins. According to the doctors, he succ.u.mbed to his illness after fighting it for how many years."
Moonlight stopped as she heard about this. Yaya pulled me away and whispered some info to my ear.
"You see Kazuma, according to the will of Moonlight"s father, the place that Moonlight is staying in right now should be converted into a Magician Society building as part of his last will. We can"t just disobey what her father said in his will so we have no choice but to convert it to a building that you are seeing now."
"Is she very close to her father for her father is giving out his all to just give Moonlight something extravagant like this."
"He is very close to Moonlight. Since Moonlight"s mother did not care for her at all, most of the parental care that Moonlight receives came from her father. Even that magic skill that changes the bamboo sword into a real sword is a magic skill that her father pa.s.sed down to her. You could say that Moonlight is a papa"s girl."
I heard about Moonlight circ.u.mstances before. Her mother is someone who only views her daughter as trash after seeing that she can"t easily achieve what her brother is capable of doing so easily. Her family"s circ.u.mstances were quite complicated that I never knew the real story behind it.
"So you are not the one who caused this house of mine to turn into an extravagant skysc.r.a.per then?"
"No way! I don"t have the money to burn just so I can renovate a place into something like this! And besides, I am already comfy with a house that I made last time. Why would I change the nice layout of my house into something like this then?"
She has a point. Only the rich families can do whatever they wanted to fulfill whatever they want. And from what I can see, Yaya is not one of those people with money to burn. I took a glance at Moonlight and Rena talking and saw her crying while Rena seems to be consoling her loss. Looks like everything is legit news and not some alibi that Yaya got to cover her troublesome act. Either way, it"s none of my concern...wait what the f*ck am I thinking, why am I getting heartless as day goes by?
Leto and Miya approached me as they were left out of the events. "Umm, just what is going on?"
"Moonlight"s father pa.s.sed away last month."
Leto and Miya were taken aback hearing this so they decided to just back off at the moment because it"s not something that they can even help with. They can only console Moonlight for her loss.
"Anyway, can someone tell me where are my items located at right now? With this house-I mean, building, it is hard to know which place they put all my precious stash."
"Your things are intact on the fifth floor. You don"t have to worry about it too much. We didn"t disturb and sell a few of your things. Nothing is missing at all, " Yaya said.
"Can anyone tell me what is going on? I know that Moonlight"s father converted my house into a Magician Society building but what is the purpose of this society thingie?"
Rena answered this. "The Magician Society is an organization of magicians in Tokyo. The chairman of the Magician Society was the father of Moonlight but after he died, Moonlight is the one who will be succeeding in his position. The Magicians Society acts as the main place where magicians can come and go as they please and ask for information and job requests. In short, it was like a guild in games. A place where you can buy, sell and find artifacts, magic, information, and anything that is related to magic. It would be wise to say that this place is now the second place most visited by magicians though it still can"t beat Oracle"s place and the Council of Magicians.