Dilireba was up in her room staring at the dagger in her hand. She gently traced the design on the small dagger as her thumb.She sighed and decided to make a chain for the dagger and wear it as a necklace.
She stares at the ceiling, her grip tightened around the dagger.
Dilireba took a deep breath and headed downstairs.
Qi Weilan was already in the living room chatting with Yue Yingyue.
Qi Weilan noticed that Dilireba was coming downstairs. She returned back and gave Dilireba a smile. "Everything will be okay. We got your back."
Dilireba smiled back. She knows that everyone was worried about her.
[I have thought this over and I"m determined to do so.]
A glint of determination and stubbornness flashes in Dilireba"s eyes. However, it disappeared so quickly that no one noticed.
"Reba, you okay? You know that you have us, so if you want our help we will lend a hand."
Dilireba nodded.
"I wanted to find out who planned the "accident"."
Qi Weilan sighs in relief, she looks at Yue Yingque with a smile.
"Darling, we should tell her now."
Yue Yingyue sighed and nodded.
"...we"ll do as you say."
Dilireba looks at them curiously. [What are they hiding from me?]
Qi Weilan looks at Dilireba, her expression was serious this time.
"How should I say this…"
Yue Yingyue sighed and said, "Let"s just show her while we explain."
"En. Reba, follow us.."
They head into the study room.
"What are we doing here?"
"Reba, can you grab that red book in the corner?"
Dilireba nodded and did as Qi Weilan instructed.
Dilireba stepped back. To her surprise, the bookcase started to move on its own. It revealed a wall. She looked at Qi Weilan in confusion.
Qi Weilan went towards the wall and touched the wall, Yue Yongyue followed.
"Reba, come. Place your hand on the wall."
Dilireba hesitates for a second but puts her hand on the wall. Then comes a bright light.
They arrived inside the private room.
"Reba, sit. Make yourself comfortable, we will tell you what we can."
Dilireba and the two sat down on the couch. Dilireb looked at the table, where the tea and pastries were. The tea and the pastries are still warm.
"This…"
"Reba, this is our private room, it is soundproof and used for meetings. Pretty neat, right?"
"Mhm. Wait, meetings?"
"Yes, to put it simply, our family is part of an organization called the Theians."
"Our family? You mean..."
"Yes, Mantou is also included."
Dilireba looks at them in surprise.
"Our boss and the rest of the organization decided to reveal themselves to you after a discussion this morning involving the deaths of your parents. We know that we cannot hide our existence from you sooner or later, so we decided why not now."
"So that time where you need to take a call, you are meeting with the organization?" Dilireba quickly catches on to what they are saying.
Qi Weilan nodded.
"Then what do you mean by revealing themselves? That I"ll find out sooner or later?"
Qi Weilan look at Yue Yingque.
Yue Yingque said, "Well you see, there is a reason for why this organization was created."
"So, you mean the purpose of the organization was somewhat linked to me?"
Yue Yingque and Qi Weilan nodded their head.
"This…"
Yue Yingque and Qi Weilan waited for Dilireba to digest the information.
"So, you guys are in an organization that was somewhat related to me and that even Mantou had been involved?"
"Yes."
"How long have you guys been in the organization?"
Qi Weilan pours the tea into the teacups and hands them to Yue Yingque and Dilireba.
Then she sighed.
"I suppose we should start from the origins. The organization was formed one year before you graduated from high school, which is the year that Bai Jiayu graduated."
"We joined the organization a week after it was formed since the boss informed us about the organization. It wasn"t really like a cult but more like where the weird, talented, and out of place people are in."
"Out of place?"
��Mhm."
Dilireba was a bit confused.
"Then what does this have to do with me?"
Yue Yingque look at Dilireba smirking, "This whole organization was somewhat evolved around you, so you are basically the whole point."
"What do you mean?"
"Reba, you know that your parents found you by the river with the box, right?"
Dilireba nodded.
"The box is as usual and far more advanced and very out of place compared to the world. It"s also unusual for you to be near the river with no one watching. You are very clean despite playing by the river and very carefree. When you are brought back, it almost seems as if you glow. The light only goes away after a week. Perhaps, it was a protection of some kind. It really was fate that you are brought back to us. And these past two years, we started to recall memories. Memories that are familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time. It could be said that they are dreams but later we discovered that they are fragments of memories."
"You mean the dreams that I had could be fragments of memories?"
"Yes. To be exact, it is fragments of past life."
"Then the organization…"
"Some of the population of the organization also have the same unusual occurrence as us, and all of them are weird or the out of place people."
"This…"
"I know that this is a lot of information and they seem unbelievable, but please trust that we will never do anything that would bring harm to you."
"Then… What are you guys doing in the organization? Is it dangerous? Is Senior brother disappearing from time to time also relates to the matter of the organization?"
Qi Weilan was surprised, her eyes softened. [I knew that our family"s Reba is very special but nevertheless, I don"t expect that she is able to accept this whole thing this fast.]