Chapter 297 Guest
"So she is cured? That's amazing!!" Nial exclaimed in joy. He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on, and was radiating a beaming smile. He stood in the middle of the huge living room inside Miranda's mansion.
,m Gianna was standing near the family of three and was ready to serve them the moment they needed something. The corners of her lips were curled upward as she personally witnessed the childish version of Nial for the first time. It was cute in a way she had never expected to think of Nial. After all, the young man was always dead-serious and fully focused on working hard to improve his strength.
Miles and Maline looked at their son with a similarly bright expression before Maline sighed deeply at the thought of her stubborn daughter.
"Yeah, Sabrina is cured but she is different from before," She said with a sad expression before she shook her head as she added, "...I mean that is normal. Sabrina is cured and perfectly healthy for the first time in her life. It is only obvious that she wants to do things she had never been capable of. However, I still think that she is being too reckless…"
Maline sighed at the thought of her daughter. Sabrina was cured not too long ago, yet, she acted like a reckless bunny and jumped into all kinds of danger to become stronger.
"Reckless…Sabrina? That is really weird, but I can understand her somehow. When I awoke my Origin, I also felt like I would be able to do everything I wanted to. In some way that is the case, if I were, to be honest with myself. There are not many things I cannot do and I guess Sabrina will feel the same. But where is she?" Nial asked curiously. He wanted to meet his sister as well.
His prediction was that the woman Hana had mentioned earlier was none other than his sister. However, that was something he wanted to confirm first. And to do that, he would have to find the woman, whom Hana had spoken about, or he would have to ask someone, who knew about her.
Either way, Nial was not far from getting to know what happened to his sister. Her disease had been extremely dangerous and curing it was certainly not easy.
"And the Guards, who protected you, prevented you also from reaching out to me, right? Looks like the Heaven's Gates organization didn't want anyone to find out about Sabrina…" Nial was exhilarated that his sister was fine and that he had finally reunited with his parents. Nonetheless, he wanted to find out more about the Heaven's Gates organization.
He couldn't really understand why there was a need to hide everything. The organization could have formerly invited Sabrina to cure her instead of abducting her. No sane parent would reject such an invitation. But the Heaven's Gates didn't think of acting in an official way to help Sabrina but they had forcibly kidnapped her and her parents.
Something had to be wrong about the way they cured Sabrina's disease, and Nial wanted to find out more about it.
Maline wanted to make sure to inform Nial that the guards prevented them from searching for him but before she could speak Nial's head flicked in Gianna's direction.
The young butler noticed something as well but Nial had already lifted his hand to signal everyone to stop talking.
"Gianna, look after my parents for a moment, please," Nial spoke calmly as the Dragonflame Spear manifested in his hand. More than a dozen compressed balls of darkness emerged around him as he approached the entrance of Miranda's mansion.
"N-Nial?! What is wrong?" Maline asked in fright, but Nial could only lift his hand as he quietly answered,
"Either nothing or lots of trouble…"
When Nial finished speaking, Miles dragged Maline further back. Gianna emerged in front of Nial's parents, wielding an elegant, paper-thin bladed dagger in her hand. Just by looking at it from far away one could tell that the dagger was anything but ordinary.
Nial was able to visualize the dagger for the first time since he found out that it was actually a Spiritual Weapon but he didn't pay much attention to it as he had to prepare himself for the worst-case scenario.
"Nial, you fucking idiot, come out here!!" the enraged voice of a woman reached Nial's ears. This caused him to smile oddly because he knew who talked to him like that. After remaining calm for a few seconds, Nial cleared his throat.
"Kirlia, how have you been? Is Hana fine as well?" He asked in a low voice while trying to keep his calm as he continued to speak, "How about you come inside and tell me if Sabrina is your sister's disciple!"
If Kirlia was sent to drag his parents back to the Heaven's Gates organization, he would fight her with all his might. Nial didn't have anything against Kirlia, and she shouldn't hate him anymore either. At least, Nial hoped that her opinion of him should have changed.
Kirlia Maverick knew about his situation as well because Hana had told her about it one day. Hana trusted her master, which was why she shared her worries with Kirlia, despite knowing that she had broken Nial's trust.
However, Nial was fine with Hana's actions. She meant it well and it was not as if it made a huge difference to Nial that Hana had told her master about his situation. Hana had been in a similar situation as Sabrina, after all.
She had a terminal disease and was brought to the Heaven's Gates organization that had cured her. Kirlia was well aware of the complications of the cure.
"She is really your sister…well damn…" Kirlia blurted out in surprise before she opened the door of Miranda's mansion. Her eyes immediately fell on the balls of darkness and the Dragonflame Spear in Nial's hand.
Kirlia lifted her eyebrows before she turned serious.
"You were ready to fight me to protect your parents?... That's admirable," Kirlia stated, not hiding that she was impressed. Nial knew that he was weaker than Kirlia but he would still fight her if it was necessary to protect the people he loved. Not many would do that.
"It's not necessary anymore, I guess?" Nial asked all of a sudden as he retracted the balls of darkness. He stored the Dragonflame spear away before he turned back to his parents to sit back down.
"Just treat this place like your home," He said calmly after he made sure that Kirlia would not pose a threat to them.
Kirlia smiled wryly at his comment and stepped forward. Nial's parents looked at her warily. They knew Kirlia Maverick, had seen her a few times with Sabrina's mentor and another young veiled woman, and they knew her temperament.
Upon seeing her smile faintly, Maline and Miles flinched. They were sure that Kirlia was planning to take them back to the Heaven's Gates organization, and that she wanted to separate them from Nial once again.
However, Kirlia merely sat down on the couch in the living room, while Nial made himself comfortable in the chair next to the couch.
"Why didn't you bring Hana as well?" Nial asked with a faint smile on his face. His [Mana Sense] didn't detect any ill-intentions from Kirlia, which was why Nial could remain so calm.
'I really didn't want to fight her. Lucky me, I guess…' He thought while cold sweat trickled down his back.
"Hana is with my sister, Kristine, right now. Hana and Kristine's disciples are currently receiving some preparatory lessons about their next mission," Kirlia said without the intention to hide anything. Somehow, Kirlia had grown oddly calm after stepping inside Miranda's mansion. This surprised Nial a bit but it was definitely not like he disliked it!
"Is my sister Kristine's disciple or not? Wait…do you even know that because Hana said that Kristine's disciple covers herself up in veils and cloaks even more than her?" Nial asked while squinting his eyes.
Kirlia smiled in return before she shrugged her shoulders.
"Well, I guess. Your parents and Kristine's disciple were brought to the Heaven's Gates headquarters nearly at the same time, so I think my sister's disciple could very well be your sister. But as you already told me, it's not like I can tell you for sure because Kristine is extremely careful and meticulous about not exposing her disciple's identity," Kirlia bit her lower lip nervously but her words made it quite obvious that her sister was Sabrina's master!
At that moment, Maline and Miles approached the coach.
"Sabrina told us a bit about her mentor…I even saw her picture, and Kirlia looks quite similar to Sabrina's mentor…." Maline suddenly recalled and provided the last missing piece to complete the puzzle.
'At least I can be certain where Sabrina is…' Nial thought as he shrugged.
It had been a bit confusing but now it would be much easier to find his sister.
"I guess it's good that Kristine thinks highly of keeping Sabrina's identity a secret from the outside world. Nobody will bother her more than necessary then," Nial mumbled thinking that it would be a mess if he were to be connected to Sabrina.
In the future, this would happen but if it was possible to postpone something troublesome this would be for their best.
"As long as she is healthy, everything is fine!" He sighed loudly, which made everyone give him a warm smile.
'He really loves his family…'
"If you're not here to take my parents back, why did you come?" Nial blurted as he turned back to Kirlia. She wouldn't come to him for no reason.
"If someone beats up members of the Heaven's Gates Guards while threatening the entire organization by saying that he would come over to 'question' it, we cannot stand idle.
I was told to beat the Dark Lord into a pulp and to humiliate you publicly, but that is actually a bit childish. It's embarrassing to do, and entirely useless in my opinion," Kirlia said honestly, feeling like her organization had turned into a place filled with dumb monkeys.
"I can understand their intentions. Their reputation is at stake because of all the losses they incurred in the last few months.
First the Mutant Minotaur, then the attack of the Dryx, and now I openly humiliated them by beating up a bunch of arrogant idiots," Nial nearly laughed when he recalled how easily he had beaten up his parents' 'Guards'.
In fact, most ordinary people were not really a challenge to him.
That was mostly because of his dark energy. His Dark energy was much stronger than most energies and abilities could be at his rank.
Through the highly destructive power that could be used in numerous ways, it was possible for him to transcend ranks.
But that was not everything because his physical strength was much higher than that of ordinary Originals.
He possessed more Mana than ordinary Originals as well, which made things even easier for Nial.
After all, he was in possession of an Ancient Origin ring instead of any of the four 'normal' Origin rings others created.
However, Nial also thought that it was time for him to find stronger opponents.
Defeating stronger opponents meant that he would gain more benefits.
'Looks like the U21 Runicier tournament is even more important for my future growth than I would have expected…'