The Extra of The Lunerra

Chapter 458 - 91: A Forgotten Memory

The rest of the dinner, like the beginning, was very quiet. There was not much conversation, no celebration. It was just... a quiet, peaceful, and pleasant dinner. The conversations were normal and there was no trouble at all.

So it didn’t take long for the end to come.

Back in our rooms, we were no longer simply ’waiting’ but making preparations to leave. Things were being packed, the jet was being prepared to fly to Cevilian.

The Eshaware adventure, at least this one, was over. We had everything we wanted and we were going home.

And so, the hours passed. The preparations were finally over. The news came that the jet was ready for takeoff.

And with that information came another one...

Just like the person who accompanied us when we first came here, someone would accompany us when we left.

His smiling face was bright, his yellow eyes of royalty were distinctive, and the presence of spirits hovering around him made it impossible for me in particular not to see him, even if he was not standing directly in front of our door.

"I hope your last day was comfortable with no problems."

Alith.

"It was comfortable."

Thanks to the guards standing behind him, it looked as if he had come to arrest us, but I knew he had no intention of doing so, so I was relaxed.

It’s just that, when I first saw him here, he was such an annoying, pampered ’young master’ type of person. He seems to have changed a bit too much, now that I see him like this...

It must have been the effect of stopping pretending.

"Happy for us, then."

His smile widened after his words and his eyes shifted from me to the people behind me.

He didn’t say anything about them, though he certainly studied the duo of Adrian and Alysia more than necessary.

"I won’t keep you waiting any longer, I have no doubt you are eager to get home."

He turned around. At the same time, the other guards turned in the direction we were going.

"Let’s get to your jet."

And so we did.

Step by step, with our belongings being carried by the bodyguards behind us, we made our way to where the jet would take off.

"Like the day you arrived, the jet will be surrounded by people wanting to take pictures."

But when this warning came out of nowhere from him, I couldn’t help but slow down a little and look at him.

"No problem."

This was something I knew. After all, the media needed to see that we were alive, there was no such thing as restricted access for photographers.@@@@

Why did he feel the need to say so?

I found it even stranger as we drove on.

And after a certain period of time...

"..."

Suddenly, I stopped walking completely.

No, he didn’t give me a cryptic message or anything. What he said probably didn’t mean anything. It was just... he probably didn’t know how to get to the point and just said something random.

Because, now, it was quite clear that he was going to get to the point.

"Was this necessary?"

Alith was in front of me, his back still turned to me. Only now he was standing where he was.

And not only him. Everyone else was standing still.

Even the dust particles in the air were frozen in place, let alone everyone else.

Instead of dust particles, tiny yellow particles were floating in the air now.

"From my perspective, yes."

Alith slowly turned to face me. In the midst of frozen time, his palish yellow eyes locked directly on me.

Wait...

"I would find it strange if you had no connection with Saligia, especially considering how much you hate them.

However... there’s also something else that’s on my mind."

If that’s true...

"I didn’t say there was no information about your relatives, I said there was ’almost’ no information."

I paused, my already jumbled mind stopped working, all my thoughts disappeared. A single word echoed in my ears.

Relatives?

"Your father has an older brother. But the strange thing is... there is literally nothing about this person except his existence."

And the moment he said those words, my whole vision shook. I was hit with an incredible, sharp pain in my head that I literally had to do everything I could to hide it. It was as if... a memory was forming in my mind, as if it was tearing through the walls it had been trapped in and coming to the surface.

"This lack of knowledge about him feels... too artificial. It feels like... someone hid everything about him even more than your parents."

It was a memory from almost a year ago.

"What I suspect is..."

It was the dream I had the day Sith woke up from the sleep he had fallen into after preventing my complete transformation into a wiera.

Most of what I saw at the time was fading from my mind the moment I woke up... so most of this specific memory remained buried, secretly.

Until now.

"We just have to keep going, there are millions of wels and a limitless skill at stake. We can’t give up."

It was a deep voice, belonging to a man...

Aaron Tenebra.

"I know but... They support us just for the project."

The next one was softer, a woman’s voice. Aria Tenebra’s voice.

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"If it wasn’t for your brother, they would have cut us off already. How long are we going to go on like this?"

"That your uncle may have been the one who purged information about your parents. It also makes sense that he hid things about himself if that is true."

What snapped me out of my thoughts was something I saw out of the corner of my eye, the yellow particles surrounding us, floating like snowflakes, beginning to glow faintly.

"Do you, by any chance, know who your uncle is... Aiden?"

Alith was running out of mana to stop time.

We didn’t have much time.

And yet... it was harder than ever to speak because of the importance, the weight of what I had realized and learned.

"No..."

And yet, somehow, I managed to utter that one word.

Alith first examined me, looked me over from head to toe. Then, though... he simply sighed.

"I don’t think you’re lying, and if you are... I won’t care as I’m sure you have your own reasons. I’m just... completely sure you’re an enemy of Saligia, at least after what I’ve heard from the spirits. And I have told you all this in the hope that I may have information you are not aware of."

He took his eyes off me, turned them slightly upward, and looked at the yellow particles floating down.

He turned in front of him, exactly where he was before he froze time.

"I hope it was useful. And even if it didn’t... don’t forget what I said before. That I will always support you in the best way I can. Just give me a call when you need my help."

And then... the yellow particles disappeared completely.

The guards started walking again, and so did Alith.

It was just...

"Aiden? Why did you stop, are you okay?"

Ah...