"Master can I have an ice pack as well, I have no one to give me one!!" Theo suddenly shouted, this caused the other four to laugh knowing what he is implying about."ACHOO," Feena suddenly sneezed, "Geez staying at a falls for so long is really cold."
"Achoo, Achoo," tears started welling up in her eyes as she kept sneezing.
"Then you should have worn warmer clothes right now," Hideyos.h.i.+ reprimanded before putting his own jacket on her.
"I"m-"
"You"re not alright. Just use it and return it to me tomorrow," Hideyos.h.i.+ stopped her from complaining.
"Then thanks," Feena could only shyly reply.
In reality while the other three was away. The four of them became closer. And it became natural for her and hideyos.h.i.+ to show their concerns. But obviously the concern was hidden beneath their reprimanding words.
"Master, can you please increase the heater," Theo suddenly said once again.
"Stop that will you," Karen smacked him in the head.
"Hey that hurts," he complained ad he rub his head.
"So Raven, how was your training?" Mamoru decided to divert their conversation.
"It"s getting better. I can stay comfortable for half a day. When I started I was completely uncomfortable after three hours."
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"Seeing how you"re enthusiastic about your improvement, then we shall be taking this seriously even more."
"You all should do so. She is helping us because our enemy is far stronger. So take this opportunity while we still have time."
"We understand."
"But is it true?" Feena suddenly asked.
"What?"
"That Eureka was demoted?"
They all became serious.
"She had been demoted indeed," Raven replied.
"But didn"t she accomplished a lot while in there?" Karen asked this time.
"She did, but her demotion was done before the war."
"What did she do?" Hideyos.h.i.+ wondered, what Eureka had been doing all this time was for the kingdom so what was her fault that caused king Akihiro to be mad at her and even demote her.
"Insubordination, she had decided something without the kings knowledge."
"What is it?"
"Confidential," that"s right they were all tasked not to disclose information about Haruka so they really couldn"t answer entirely all of their friends questions.
"There"s no reconsideration?" Feena asked instead, they know that once something is considered confidential, no matter how close you are you must not disclose it.
"The king had. She didn"t."
"Huh?" they were all confused. The king reconsidered her demotion but she didn"t accept?
"I also asked her for her reason," Raven sighed.
(Flashback)
"Why? The king wanted to return your t.i.tle so why?"
"I needed the t.i.tle in the past in order to be acknowledged of what I"m doing. Without it other would just throw it aside."
"Then why?" Raven heard about Akihiros consideration and how Eureka declined it so while sparring he decided to ask her.
"My decisions and suggestion are all being accepted without it already, so I no longer need it," Eureka stopped attacking and answered him.
"So you"re saying that you only needed it to become closer to the king?"
"Yes, if I don"t get close to him, I won"t be able to do anything. But now that he has an idea of the reason why I"m here and that he has trust in me already is more than enough. The t.i.tle would just get in the way."
"If you have a t.i.tle you have more duties, is that it?"
"Yes, with more duties I"ll have lesser time taking the steps to be taken for the upcoming war."
(End of Flashback)
"Then couldn"t she just, approach king Akihiro and tell him everything?" Theo was the one who asked causing all of them to stare at him.
"I wonder if you will be fine in your future duties," Azusa couldn"t help but say referring to his kong duties.
"Eh? Wh What"s wrong?" Theo was shocked at how they all look at him.
"A little knight suddenly approaching the king, speaking of so many things that could be considered as nonsense and ridiculous. Do you think that that would be fine?" Raven was still the one who replied.
"Ah, that"s right."
"That"s why she had to take all those steps, she had to plan everything. And now that king Akihiro and my father has trust on her, then she will continue planning and taking measures without further distractions of her duties."
"I remembered something," Azusa said.
Everyone looked at her.
"You all were training in blindfolds, right?"
"Yes we were."
"Then have you ever wondered about Eureka"s aura?"
Everyone fell into deep thought.
"As I was training under her, I became more acquainted with auras and I"ve noticed how her aura have the greatest fluctuation. Sometimes it"s strong, sometimes it"s normal, but there are times when there"s none."
"I think I"ve noticed that as well while we"re there. Especially when she sneaked to the enemy line, her whole presence completely disappeared," Raven replied at the same time thought, "Did the other zeros have such fluctuations?" Theo was the one who asked this time.
"No, I don"t think so. Even though we aren"t as proficient with auras like Raven and Azusa, I haven"t encountered such," Feena was the first to answer.
Karen, Mamoru and Hideyos.h.i.+ nodded their heads.
"I never encountered it, have you Raven?" Azusa answered.
"Once," Raven replied after some thinking.
"Where or who?"
"King Akihiro. Rememner when he lost control? His aura was erratic. But when we had that internal battle, his aura was in complete control that you can feel how string it was."
They all fell silent. King Akihiro was one of the strongest. Then who is Eureka? Is she really a zero?
*****
*Why would you be wanting that?*
*Because I don"t want to meet any of them, I don"t want to recognize them.*
*They are your family.*
*No, you are my family both you and Zu.*
*WE ARE YOUR KIDNAPPERS, WE ARE NOT YOUR FAMILY.*
*I don"t care. I grew up with you and you cared for me.*
*If we didn"t take you then you would have had a better life much much much better than this, death surrounded life.*
*Just do it Ao. I want that it"s your faces which I will last see. And it will be the last faces that I"ll remember.*
*I can"t. I can"t do it. I can"t completely take you away from your family.*
*Please Ao, I"m begging you.*
***Fine, I"ll do it but..*
Eureka woke up, sweat covered her forehead.
"To end up, having a dream of you, after getting it back. So this was your but back then," she smiled bitterly as she brushed up her hair.
She stood up and went to get some milk. She then walked out to the garden.
"It seems that my showing of strength is becoming more and more suspicious. It"s pretty obvious though, I won"t be able to keep it for so long. My only choice is to drag it out more."
*****
"So she had planned everything, even the timing of your arrival to Archic Kingdom?" Kaoru asked.
They finally had the time to talk about Haruka. Him, Yukimura and Akihiro.
"Yes, we arrived there just as they were preparing for war. And she used that to bet with king s.h.i.+gure. Which is obviously part of her plans as well," Akihiro replied.
"So will you be telling me now? What you know about Haruka"s circ.u.mstances and what happened?"
Yukimura and Akihiro looked at each other, they were in inner hall after all.
Akihiro then started telling him what Eureka told him in the north tower. Then what she had done in the Archic Kingdom.
Kaoru fell silent, from the point where she appeared to when she started becoming a knight and all the things she did to be promoted until now.
"Everything was planned," Kaoru commented afterwards.
"And it seems that even Azusa"s kidnapping was something she already knows."
"What more is coming then?" Yukimura asked this time.
"I"m actually more concerned with her strength. She is obviously not a zero, with everything she had done, there"s no way she is a zero. But if she came from this era, what kind of ability is still not known or rare enough for us not to know of?" Akihiro then commented.
"Is it really not possible to pry her mouth open to make her confess?" Yukimura hated riddles after all, and currently Eureka is their greatest riddle, they are just lucky she is on their side.
"If you can without her turning her back on us, then do so," Akihiro replied sarcastically.
"I know it"s impossible. It"s just a thought," Yukimura answered back.
"She"ll tell us," Kaoru interrupted before they started arguin again.
"She"ll eventually tell us. It already came from you brother. Let"s just wait for her, just as we had always been doing," Kaoru then said.
"We know that. She had proven her loyalty and no one can deny that, I no longer have any suspicion towards her," Akihiro sighed.
"And?" Kaoru then said.
"And what?"
"What are you planning towards Haruka?"
"Not yet, not just yet. But soon, I know soon," Akihiro replied but still with some uncertainty.