Extra's Perfect Ending-Chapter 195: North

"Shitty old man"

"Wanna die?" Egul glares at him with serious eyes

"...."

Shutting his mouth was the right move, Leon followed Hilda and Egul walking through the ice storm without any problem. occasionally they would be hit by very fast snow but, the Egul barrier is too strong to break.

"How long can you maintain this barrier"

It was simply too effective, he could give it to people. use it himself and protect them from the environment. So there has to be some catch to this kind of power.

"About 10 hours, but I have to eat something in between to maintain this"

"You’re okay telling me that?"

"HAhAHAHAHA" Egul laughed "With little research, you could have found out. My weakness has been public for a while now. Speaking of which, who are you, and why are you with Leon?"

It was spoken casually but she could tell that if she answered wrong here it would spell disaster for her.

"Maid of the Antores house"

She decided to go with a truthful answer, since under the clothing she still had her maid uniform on. And moreover, she doesn’t have a story prepared, if her lie is not good then maintaining it would be harder.

"Hahaaha, I’ve met that Antores guy before such a pain in the ass to deal with his creed. Why are you here? Shouldn’t you be in the capital? I heard that Antores is in trouble with Tudor"

"Can you elaborate?"

During her time in Tumidus, she hadn’t heard much about Politics in the capital because she was too busy trying to find the heretic that Reeva wanted to eliminate. On top of running his restaurant business. She was juggling too many things to keep track of.

"Why would I? I don’t know any more than this. City people politics is too much of a headache... You still haven’t answered my question, why are you here?"

"I’m here with the young master of the family that got kicked out. We’ve been branded as heretics and as you can see, we’re on the run. We’ve been pardoned by the prince, so we’re under his protection until the high court says otherwise."

"Hm... your master. His name was Jeera.... no, Reeva right?"

"Yes"

"Congratulations! He is a fuel that’s being used to attack Antores right now. Seem like they really want to see Antores gone."

"...."

Hilda is perplexed, no doubt this happened because they discovered that Reeva was a heretic and Duke Antores let him go. Antores has plausible deniability when it comes to his investigation, he could say that his team simply found nothing and burned the evidence that they gathered when the church searched them. but with Hilda at Reeva’s side, the matter became much more complicated.

3rd circle mystic is not seen every day and to say that you give a third circle mystic to be your disowned son’s servant is rather unbelievable. So the only conclusion that one would get from it was that Hilda was a directly communication with the main house.

Thus pinning all the blame on Antores house and having a case of bringing them down. Knowing Duke Antores, he’s properly fighting this tooth and nail. He’d likely call for Reeva when they arrive at the capital to check on his ex-son and get Reeva’s idea of the story.

"I think I need to go back...."

"Girl, there’s no turning back now. The church will burn you right when they find you" Snow part ways as Egul walks through them, a combination of his big body and mystic force make the snow easy to traverse.

"But if we... no.."

Hilda grits her teeth, her first Idea is to go back and testify against Tudor. But that would be suicide for her since she would be admitting to some heretic behavior and not being associated with Antores strip her of her protection. Leaving her with nothing to defend herself.

"Glad you could see it too, you have nowhere to go. Especially with the girl on your back. She reeks of heretic"

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"You could smell it?" Hilda asked it was a rather unconventional way of detecting a heretic

"Sometimes, when you can’t hide it very well"

"Wait, could I ask you for a favor?"

"Go ahead," Egul said neither interest nor uninterest.

"I overheard that there’s a potion that could change a person’s circle and I want to get it for this girl here"

"Such a thing exists?"

His voice is more animated than before. Looking at Hilda he could tell that this was not a trap, set by the Antores’ house, if he fell for this then the girl’s acting skills were simply too good.

"I’m not sure but, my master and the other group of people know about it. They’re trying to get it right now. They say it’s is that it’s around the village"

"So you basically got nothing..." Egul catches that Hilda doesn’t really have reliable information since she can only tell it’s in the village. And her information is not concrete either, just a bunch of saying you heard from another person.

"I don’t think the prince’s information is that bad"

"You made a good point...." Egul put on his thinking face before turning into a smile "Fine, you owe me one even if I don’t find it. I swear on my name that I will look for the potion you seek. Continue travel north and I will meet you at the red flag"

"wait... fine"

Before Hilda could stop him, Egul disappeared from the wood, leaving only a deep pit of snow.

"..."

A sigh of relief came out from her when she discovered that the power from Egul didn’t disappear. However, there is still another problem.

"Do you know what is the red flag?"

"Our tribe usually marks the place of the meeting using a red flag because it could be seen in the snow But..."

"It’s dark out here and the only light we had couldn’t be far enough to decern color"

"....."

No matter, they just need to follow the path that Egul points to. With that in mind, they start walking again, the mystic power really helps with the traversal.

Unknowingly, she and Leon were heading north.