Chapter 73

"Oh my goodness! What happened to you, Lil Ludger?" Caron was surprised to see Ludger's current condition that was carried by Hudson.

"Ah, about this...I was actually alright but they didn't even let me to walk by myself. I I just almost fall after my training..." Ludger tries to make an excuse but he stops talking after he saw his mother's face.

"Don't tell me that you are pushing yourself too hard again!" Katarina said with a cold tone.

"I never do...something like that..." Ludger who wants to make a retort stops.

"Do you think I don't know how you always skip your meal and read until late at night before? What? Do you want to say that you didn't skip it but forgot about it because you are too busy? You seem to be confused because I know about it." Katarina sternly said.

"No, I know it must be him who tells you about it." Ludger said in a small voice.

"Do you angry at him because he told me about it? It was because he care about you so don't hate him." Katarina said as she look at Ludger's horribly pale face and tired eyes.

"I know because he always treats me like his younger siblings." Ludger said while he looked sad.

'Did my dear daughter miss him? I always wonder if she likes him?' Katarina wonders about her daughter feeling toward the young man that always help her before.

But Ludger is currently thinking about different things. 'I really miss the chocolates. When he will finish his apprenticeship and come to this city.'

"Now, you need to eat something and get some rest." Caron cut their gloomy atmosphere.

Both of them look at Caron and smile before they thank her. "Thank you very much for your help."

"That's fine. You need to eat and take a good rest right now. I will be angry if you want to work in your current condition." Caron warn.

"Mr. Hudson, could you put me down?" Ludger said as he looking Hudson who was frowning.

"Oh right! You are too thin so I almost forget about you." Hudson said with a teasing tone.

Ludger ignore him and started to eat the food that was given by Caron. Katarina also makes some warm drinks and puts a glass near him. When Ludger finished everything they had given to him. Caron and Katarina quickly took everything away from him.

"Huh?!" Ludger seems to be surprised by something as his body swayed because an extremely sleepy sensation hit his body.

As his body drop down from the chair, he could feel someone catch his body and prevent it to fall to the floor. Later he will hear that his mother was the one that took him into their room.

***

After Katarina let Ludger sleep in their room, she returns to the kitchen where four people look at her with worried faces.

"Is Lil Ludger alright?" Caron was the first person who asks her about Ludger's condition.

"Don't worry about him. He just fell asleep because of this." Katarina said while pointing to the glass.

"Huh?! Did you give him sleeping drugs?" Favian asks with a strange expression.

"No. It was something that make people feel relaxed. My child call it as relaxing tea and it was safe for consumption as it was made with herbs and flowers. You also have tried it before." Katarina explains with a calm face.

"I have tried it before???" Favian was confused after he heard Katarina answer.

"This is similar to the drink that you try before. I only mix it with some dry flowers to help my child to relax. My child seems to have a hard time sleeping lately." Katarina said with a sad face.

"So you realize it!" Hudson was surprised by her words.

'What an awkward parent and child.' Hudson scratches his face to stop him from saying what he is thinking out loud.

Not only Hudson but the others also have similar thoughts. They thought that this pair of mother and son keep thinking about each other but hiding it from each other too. The son who didn't want his mother to worry about him and the mother who know anything but act ignorant.

"Wouldn't it be better if you ask him about it?" Hugo who feels curious asks.

"That child get into hardships because of me before. But because my child is smart, that child always hides everything from me to make me not worry about it. But I could feel that there is something that make my child feel worried. So I want my child to have a rest at least for today." Katarina said with a sad tone.

The four of them were stunned and just looking at Katarina's face and have their own imagination about how horrible things happened in their past. Of course, it was just their wild imagination and it was far from the truth. And they won't be able to know about it because the two of them won't talk about their past because they are afraid that they will change how they treat them.

***

'When I opened my eyes, I saw that I was standing in front of the large mirror. Huh? Why is the mirror show a different reflection?' Ludger, no, it was Renneshia who is surprised by what she saw but then she realized that it was just a dream.

"Who are you? Are you my past or my future?" The owner of the body, Shia asks.

'Huh? You notice my existence?!' Renneshia was surprised because she could see that Shia was alone in the room.

"I notice your presence for few times in the past but I never know I could see you if I look in the mirror. So who are you?" Shia told her with a proud face and change into a curious face when she asks the question to Renneshia.

'My name is Renneshia and I am someone from a distant future. I don't know what happened but sometimes my consciousness seems to enter your body.' Renneshia decides to explain it honestly.

"Oho! It was really interesting! I have wanted to hear your voice and talk to you from the first time you start to appear in my body. This seems to be fun." Shia happily said.

'What?! Can you explain it to me? Why do you seem to know about it?' Renneshia feels confused by Shia's reaction.

"Hmm, do you understand if I say that it was because our fate tangled together because of the Goddess fragment in our soul?" Shia said as she tilt her head in wonder.

'Huh?! Did you mean that I have it in my soul?!' Renneshia seems to be unable to accept it.

"It seems to be related to the current interference that happen to the Goddess... Then, do you know that the fragment has the power of time and space?" Shia said while thinking about something.

Renneshia becomes speechless at Shia words that seem to say something known as common sense in this distant past. But Shia was the person that being raised as the seer race leader from she was born. Shia might be able to answer the questions that she is unable to find the answer.

"This reaction. You seem to never hear about it before. Did the Goddess never tell you about it before?" Shia asks with a confused face.

'You really can talk with the Goddess?! Isn't that just some kind of superstition??' Renneshia ask.

"Ehh?! Did the Goddess never talk directly to you? H-How could that happen? Can I hear about what happened to you?" Shia said with a confused and surprised expression.

'Can you please let me know about the power of the Goddess fragment to me first? I need to know about it.' Renneshia said with a sad tone.

"Alright, this older sister will teach you about it." Shia proudly said.

She started to explain about the 'Goddess's Daughter' power. She simply explains with an easy-to-understand explanation. From Shia's explanation, she was able to understand that it was a great power that was able to control part of this world's rule. But of course, there will be side effects when she used it. That's why they could only use it when they really need it.

Shia calls it the 'Saeculum' attribute. It was part of the Goddess's protection and blessing. While it was powerful power, it couldn't be used to hurt or kill the creature from this world. And it couldn't cause to the nature of this world. That's also why she didn't attack the people who chase her before.

After hearing Shia's explanation, Renneshia told her about what happened to her. She could see how Shia keep changing her expression as she hears the story. And when she told her about what she just felt in the adventurer guild, her face becomes angry. But then someone comes barging into the room with a panic expression.

"Lady Shia, this is bad! The undead started to appear again near the temple wall. They started to attack the villagers living around the temple. We need to defeat them but we don't have enough people to fight against them." The middle age man reports with a panicked expression.

Another person comes into the room. "Reporting to Lady Shia, I have prepared our soldiers and we will able to attack them at any time if you give your order."

"Thank you Sir Mordake. I am grateful for your quick response. We need to quickly help the people before there are more victims in the surrounding. And also ask the mercenary to help us defeat the undead and save the people." Shia orders with a serious expression.

Renneshia has a bad feeling as she listens to the report and something bugging her and making her feel restless and worried about Renneshia.