Kamala looked at the book in her hands.

"In normal circumstances, I would simply ignore this. But you were kind enough to share a few secrets about you, so I will do the same. I apologize if it causes any grief to you."

She bent forward toward Amelia, the one who was impacted by this event.

Amelia shook her head.

"Please continue, I have finally found a lead concerning my origins, and my parents. Now that I remembered some of the past, I won't let it stop at that."

Kamala straightened, and nodded.

Orion and Karteira stayed silent, this moment was important for Amelia.

"I still wonder if it is a good idea to tell you about him. To begin with, he his strong."

Kamala thought for a second, and then shook her head.

'If anything comes to that, I am sure that man would help her.'

She looked at Orion, who had his eyes closed and his arms crossed.

"Alright. What happened that day was no accident, nor an attack from the dragons."

"It was closely related to the dragon event in a sense."

"The Apostle named Kelvin, one of the strongest in our ranks, was the cause of this."

Orion listened to the story, until a name he barely remembered left the mouth of Kamala.

'Wasn't that man... the one that fought against the lady in blue during the ceremony? I thought he was a good man from their exchange, but everything doesn't look as it seems.'

"The town of Bandir, even small as it was, was unrelated to the attacks of the Azur Dragon. The problem at that time was that Bandir was directly on the way of the dragon."

"No one knew if they would be spared, or if they had to flee their houses."

"Only a few remained in the city. In those few people, there was a woman, who had decided to stay too, with her small child."

"This woman was named Henrietta. She was an elegant woman, and a widow. Nobody knew who was her partner, but he seemed to have past away before the child's birth."

"There starts the problem. Kelvin fell in love with Henrietta. He tried many times to get her out of town, unsuccessful."

"After many tries, he began to lose his patience. He threatened Henrietta. Kelvin was ready to hurt the child at this point. Which... he did."

"But in his anger, he lost control of his magic, and blew the whole town with the few people still residing in Bandir."

"No traces of the woman named Henrietta were left behind. Only the child she was desperately protecting until that incident."

"That child... might be Amelia."

Orion opened his eyes and without thinking, hugged Amelia strongly.

Her mind was a mess, memories began to surge in her mind. Memories of happiness with her mother. She was only one year old, but those blurred memories still brought great sadness.

She embrace him in return, her arms around his sides. She grabbed strongly his back, and silently, her tears flowed on his chest and thighs.

Amelia made no sound. She was in Orion's arms, slowly regaining her composure after sorting her emotions.

Karteira watched with sympathy. This kind of story was something recurring for the Apostles. Just looking at the situation with Kamala, she began to clearly understand the threat those self-proclaiming powerful humans were posing to the continent, and the ones living on it.

'I now know what Orion meant. We cannot tolerate the Apostles anymore. The corruption is most likely a part of it, but as he said, the corrupted humans exist because they are wicked people to begin with.'

Her thoughts began to align with Orion.

Kamala stared at the book in her hands once again, displaying guilt on her face.

Orion noticed her.

"Making that face won't change anything. If you were part of it, I would understand, but you are not. There is no reason for you to be guilty. Belonging to a side doesn't mean that you can control their actions. Everyone is responsible for their own actions."

Kamala stared at him, before smiling.

"I have a question, though. How did this story came to be if no one survived? I cannot believe the Apostle named Kelvin bragged about an event like this."

She showed a serious expression this time.

"There was a few soldiers that accompanied Kelvin. Some of they died, but most survived. Those were the testimony we've obtained... before Kelvin killed them all."

'This is worst than I thought. That is certainly a lot to register, and right know, I cannot bother with it.'

Ivan was his priority right know.

Amelia unwrapped her arms around his back, and lightly pushed him.

He looked at her face, which was soaked in tears. He was also soaked, but he couldn't care less.

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"Did you find your answer?"

She nodded, wiping the tears away with her hands. Karteira leaned toward Amelia, a handkerchief in her hand.

Amelia looked at her and smiled, taking the piece of tissue.

"Orion, revenge is spicy."

He blinked a few times.

"PFFT! HAHAHA!"

This made him burst in laughter.

'I never heard someone say that! That's too funny!'

"What!? Why are you laughing?"

"Ah! Amelia. Sometimes you say the funniest thing ever. You are not wrong though."

He stopped laughing, and with a smile, he stared inside her glistening pearl eyes.

"It is once of the worst feeling to have, but unless you get drowned in it, it isn't that bad. Make it a goal, not an obligation. Then everything will come to you when you are ready."

"Trust me, rushing doesn't help that much, it will only lead to your end."

Orion realized something after saying that.

'Why did I say that like I learned from experience?'

The battle against Elliot was still far, there was four months remaining. Out of the fourteen Apostles, four were no priority targets (Kamala, Florian, Olivia and Eric), one was dead (Kiel), and the remaining eight had to be dealt with before he was unsealed.

"I know. I'll follow you until the end. I just want that man dead for what he did to my mother. The rest haven't changed."

Orion nodded. Her face was back to being normal, if you ignored the red marks under her eyes.

"Then keep that 'spicy' feeling inside you, and prepare yourself for the day you will unleash that feeling on your target."

She nodded.

On the side, Kamala was feeling strange. She just sent three monster in a quest to hunt Kelvin down.

"Alright, let's get back to the conversation we had bef-"

Orion was going to continue were him and Kamala left before, but something grabbed his attention behind Kamala.

He stood up from his chair and walked fast toward the bookshelf.

Kamala instinctively thought that he coming for her, so she closed her eyes. Orion moved past her, and stopped in front of the bookshelf.

"Is it alright if I borrow one of your book?"

Kamala opened her eyes and turned to look at him with a surprised face.

"Huh? Ah, yes. Feel free to read whatever you want."

"Thank you."

Orion grabbed two books on the shelf and walked back the couch.

"I cannot believe you possess two of his books too. I've been looking around for his books everywhere, but they are rare."

The two books were from his favorite writter, a man named N.

"Oh, these books. The red book on your left is one I cannot understand. The green one is the one I used as reference to bring Hocride to this state."

The red book was named 'The mysteries of space, and the laws behind it.' while the green one was named 'How to create a place that everyone wants to live in.'

'This N is clearly a man that knows many things unrelated to each other.'

He sat there, starting with the green book.

The three women looked at Orion, completely immersed in his reading. Kamala was dumbfounded, the man known by all Apostles as a threat to their live was a simple bookworm.

'He is just like us. Why have I considered him different?'

She only had the Apostle book to learn about the demons and angels. She had no idea about their lifestyle.

What she didn't knew, is that they all had hobbies, and things they loved to do. Even an hybrid like Orion had the right to have something he liked.

Once she realized that, the way she saw him was no different than a human. Which is something she will come to regret later.

Amelia and Karteira, not knowing what to do now that Orion had completely forgotten about the place he was in, turned to look at Kamala.

"What do we do now?"

Amelia asked Kamala.

"I can show you around?"

She was lost too. Luckily, she wanted to know more about them, about how they came to be this man's companions.

They both agreed, leaving Orion alone in the living room of Kamala's house.

He didn't notice them leaving, and continued to immerse himself in reading.

'So that's how she made this city prosperous! I see!'

He was reading about the many ideas on how to control a city, on how to stop problems before they appeared, and on how to make money with a specificity of the area, in this case, the sea.

After an hour, in which the girls talked about the many moments they lived through individually, Orion finished the first book.

'That was interesting. Kamala is certainly a genius. Having this book in hand doesn't mean you will be successful, you have to employ it based around what 'you' want it to be.'

He placed the green book on his right, and grabbed the red book.

'The mysteries of space, and the laws behind it.'

Something called to Orion when he saw that title.

He opened the book, reading about the stars, the way gravity works in greater details, the astral bodies, the variation of heat and cold between elements, everything.

'This is impressive! Is this how the world works?'

He kept reading, until one section, the last one, caught his full attention.

'In space, there is a body that is difficult to observe without knowing what to look for. It is darker than space itself, and deform space around it, to the point where even light cannot escape it's grasp.'

'We call them 'Black Holes.' They are either the remains of a dead star, or a state that we do not know yet. What we know is that their mass directly affect the space around it. The mass they possess is disproportionate to the size they display.'

'You can imagine it like this: you have a metal sphere on a mattress. What is supposed to happen?'

Orion thought about such a situation.

'The mattress would be squashed by the metal sphere.'

This was the correct answer.

'Now, what happens if the ball is larger?'

He kept thinking.

'The mattress would support more weight, until the sphere rip through the mattress.'

'At last, imagine the first sphere, but with the weight of the second one.'

Orion opened his eyes wide.

'That's impossible! That shouldn't be possible at all!'

'This is how we describe a 'Black hole'. A powerful ball of matter that weight heavily on the fabric of space, and even time.'

He kept reading. This subject was the most fascinating for him.

'Another useful piece of information is that the only way we have to find them is by looking when they are 'feeding'.'

'Feeding? Are black holes alive?'

This would be the most crazy outcome if this was the case. In reality, no they weren't.

'The black hole, like I said, is a ball that do not let escape the light. It means that it doesn't let matter escape either.'

'Stars, dust, light, foreign objects, anything that comes close to it disappear in an effect called 'Spaguettification' or 'Noodle effect'.

"Pfft! What is this naming sense!"

For the second time today, Orion laughed. Even the girls heard him.

'When space stretchs vertically and compresses horizontally, the matter transform into long and thin shapes toward the center of gravity, in this case, the compacted matter at the core of the black hole.'

'There are many things we do not know about black holes, so I cannot explain more than this, but there are a lot of new things to learn about them.'

'Remember that they are called with another name. 'Singularity'. Something we do not under, and that is currently impossible to describe completely.'

'Never play with a 'Singularity'. I know that they are almost impossible to encounter, but be careful. Do not attempt this at home either.'

Orion closed the book and gazed outside of the window.

'Stretching and compressing... !'

~

*RUMBLE*

The ground shook. All of Hocride shook from a sudden burst of power.

Amelia, Karteira, and Kamala, currently upstairs talking about the point where they fought the first Corrupted Lord, stood up in a hurry.

"What is happening!"

Kamala exclaimed, not knowing why the ground shook. Maybe it was an earthquake.

She had to look at the city and look for any damage.

Amelia looked at Karteira.

'I have a bad feeling about this.'

'The usual?'

Amelia nodded at Karteira.

The three ran down the stairs. The room was a mess, everything had been flung everywhere.

In the middle of the room was Orion, a large smile on his face.

"O-O-Orion! What have you done!"

Amelia pointed at the sphere in Orion's hand. A sphere a pure void, with sparkling stars every now and then.

Karteira was her mouth agape.

"I created a new element just now?"

A new element formed inside Orion's soul.