Chapter 2007 Who Are You?
"Really?!" Rean was taken aback for a moment. After hearing Rui"s inquiry about their connection to the Underworld Relic, he thought Rui would try to hold them captive until he was satisfied. "That was way simpler than I thought."
"Why?" Rui glanced back at Rean.
Rean shrugged his shoulders in response. "Well, the Underworld Relic is such an important item for our devil races, no? If you thought we had some connection with it, then it wouldn"t have been strange if you kept us locked or something like that."
Tapir, who was listening to everything so far, couldn"t help but ask the question in everyone"s minds. "Clan Master, what is he talking about?"
Rui thought for a moment as he looked at the elders in the room. After a bit of pondering, he eventually decided to tell them. "After Mephisto pa.s.sed the Underworld Relic to me, he also told me that the Relic had reacted to these brothers. Some kind of resonance, according to him. At that time, I didn"t believe it since Gean and Doan had been attacked by Mephisto in the first place. Seeing the pain they had gone through, I thought it was just Mephisto"s doing once again."
Rui then narrated the rest of the story, telling them how nothing happened the second time the twins saw the Relic. It"s just that at that time, Rui was the owner, not Mephisto.
"This..." Tapir narrowed his eyes for a moment. "They only suffered when Mephisto was the owner. Now that Clan Master has it, nothing happened. It does sound like an attack made by Mephisto using the Underworld Relic."
f.a.gund agreed with him. "I think so too. He tries to kill our members when he finds out their soul-guiding strength. Then, that thing happens. It feels a lot like he"s messing around with us."
Rui nodded. "That"s the conclusion I reached as well. But then again, I don"t see what he had to gain from this resonance story."
Roan decided that it was better to hurry things up. "Whether you guys believe Mephisto or not doesn"t matter. The point here is that we upheld our part of the deal. Can we go to the Swamp of No Return already?"
Hearing that, the meeting hall went silent. Rui began to receive quite a few Divine Sense messages, asking him to try and find a reason to keep the twins. But then again, forcing them to join the Light Devil Clan wouldn"t be an option. After all, what would they have to gain if they couldn"t use their strength and talent? That"s why Rui had decided to keep a good relationship with the twins instead. Their Light Devil Clan had always been different than the other devils, after all.
"Are you sure you don"t want to join our Light Devil Clan? You truly have a lot to gain from it. Our resources aren"t that much different from the other Elder Devil clans in the Underworld, you know?" With that, he asked one more time.
f.a.gund, who had known the twins since the Realm of G.o.ds, also insisted. "He is right, Gean, Doan. You know I"m the next Light Devil Clan leader. I can say with certainty that we"ll treat you very well, even when Clan Master steps down for me."
"You brat, that will still take many years." Rui got a little angry as f.a.gund"s words made him feel old.
Surprisingly, Rean and Roan still shook their heads. "We have our reasons to go. However, it is a fact that the Light Devil Clan treated us well. If there comes a day you need our help, we don"t mind coming to your aid. That"s the most we can do for now." That wasn"t a lie. Until this point, the Light Devil Clan did everything they said they would.
Seeing that the twins were adamant, Rui finally decided to leave with them. "Okay. Only the Elder Devils will be able to bring you inside the barrier surrounding the Swamp of No Return, so I"ll bring you there myself. As I mentioned before, there"s a formation stopping the swamp from expanding, so it isn"t easy to get inside. I still think you two are just asking for your deaths, though."
The other elders tried to convince Rui once again, but he just raised his hand. "I"ve made up my mind. We"re different from the other devil clans. As the connection between Heaven and the Underworld, our clan must stay true to our words. They got us the Underworld Relic, so I will get them to the swamp. That"s all."
Soon after, Rui used his Spatial Powers to grab the twins once again. "I don"t want to waste my time anymore, so we"re leaving straight away. Is that fine with you two?"
Rean and Roan couldn"t ask for more. "Of course! Let"s go there!"
f.a.gund sighed in response before bidding his farewells. "I hope to see you again. Thanks for everything."
The twins nodded, and finally, Rui opened a breach in s.p.a.ce, disappearing inside with the twins.
The elders in the hall began to discuss what had just happened straight away. As for f.a.gund, he just shook his head and decided to leave. However, it was then that he saw that t.i.tia was still there. Not only that, she seemed to be deeply pondering over something. "Is everything okay?" Yet, it didn"t seem she heard f.a.gund"s words. Without much choice, f.a.gund touched her shoulder, catching her attention.
"Ah!" t.i.tia jolted for a moment. Only then did she notice f.a.gund there. It"s just that Rean and Roan were now gone. "W-Where are those brothers?"
f.a.gund looked at her with a weird expression. "They just left with the Clan Master. It happened right in front of your eyes. Didn"t you see it?"
ραпdα nᴏνa| сom "I..." t.i.tia truly didn"t. That"s because all her focus was on her hand.
f.a.gund noticed that she held a medallion in her hand. "This... Isn"t this that medallion that hid your group in the compet.i.tion? The one that can make you invisible to the eye and Divine Sense?"
t.i.tia nodded in response. "Yes... Gean gave it to me while you were talking. He said it was a gift."
f.a.gund, obviously, became very interested in it. After all, it could use their Light Element, which they were good at. "Nice, perhaps we can reproduce it here in the clan. It would be of great use during the next compet.i.tions to decide the following Underworld Relic holder."
t.i.tia bitterly smiled after hearing that. "I don"t think it"ll be of much use, though."
"Why is that?" Naturally, f.a.gund found her words strange.
t.i.tia then pa.s.sed the medallion to f.a.gund. "Try to infuse your Light Element in it."
f.a.gund nodded and did as t.i.tia asked. In theory, it should generate concealment just like the one that happened in the compet.i.tion. However... "This..."
The thing was, nothing happened at all. No, to be more precise, something did happen. The medallion lit up... and that was basically it. "What"s the meaning of this?"
t.i.tia finally told f.a.gund what she had been thinking all this time. "I"m absolutely sure this is the medallion Rean used in the compet.i.tion. However, it has no concealment abilities at all."
"That"s impossible!" f.a.gund refused to believe it. "I saw how the Light Element creat-" It was then that f.a.gund understood what t.i.tia was trying to say. "The one who used Light Element was not the medallion..."
t.i.tia nodded. "Indeed. The one who used that Light Element ability was Gean. Gean and Doan can also use Light Element, just like us, Light Devils. Or so I think..."
After that, f.a.gund looked back at where the twins had disappeared with Rui. "Just... who are you?"