There were several knocks at the door. Kael opened it to see what’s going on outside. Opening the door revealed several of his neighbors, worried about the sounds they were hearing from Kael’s house. A woman asked him about what’s happening inside the house. He spent some minutes convincing his worried neighbors that it was only his experiments that made the noises. Kael reasoned out that he was just testing some potions, and some of his experiments failed. Knowing that Kael was a student of the kingdom’s academy, his neighbors requested that he should control the noise of his experiments, as to not bother the sleeping people near him. Kael apologized, and waited for his neighbors to return to their houses.

Kael closed the door, and made his way to where he left the intruders. The person that looked like Osbert was still in his mind. He remembered what he did to Osbert, he felt sorry for killing him. Even though that’s the only thing he could do during that time, he still regretted his actions. He arrived in their dining area, and was shocked to discover that the person that looks like Osbert was not there.

Kael scoured the room. He saw the window was opened. He rushed to look outside, but he didn’t see anyone. He returned to the other intruders, unmasking all of them. What he wanted to see wasn’t there. He regretted not tying up the intruders. One of them was able escape.

In the morning, only then did the remaining intruders woke up. They were tied by Kael who still didn’t know what to do to them. He was still thinking about the person who escaped, but it was far too late to try and find him. Kael set aside his worries for the time being to question the remaining intruders.

The questioning was short and uninformative. The intruders refuse to answer anything that Kael was asking. Everytime Kael asks them, one of them will utter “I don’t know”, and that continued on until Kael gave up. If only he was questioning demons, Kael might force them so hard that they reveal what he wanted. But Kael was not fond of forcing people to get what he wanted, so he let the intruders stay in his house. He forced them to sleep, as he needed to go to the academy.

In the academy, Kael was still thinking about the objectives of the intruders. His mind was wandering while the instructors were teaching. One of the instructors, Magister Kever noticed his change in behavior.

“Kael”, called Magister Kever.

Kael followed the magister, a little far from the other students.

“What’s the problem?”, Magister Kever directly asked.

“Nothing, magister”

“No, not nothing, there’s something bothering you”, Magister Kever insisted, then he pressured Kael to say the truth. “What is it? You can tell me”

Kael refused to say anything to the magister. Magister Kever was quick to ran out of patience, and let Kael return to his classmates. But the magister knew, he was sure that there’s something that Kael didn’t want to say to him. He had a plan to get to it.

Magister Kever’s combat practice ended, and so is the classes for that day. Kael was about to rush to go home, when Yulian called for him.

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“Kael, wait!”

Yulian ran to Kael. He was aware, even during Magister Honnora’s class that something’s wrong with Kael. He didn’t have the courage to say or ask anything to his friend, but he didn’t want to do nothing. He decided that after Magister Kever’s class he will ask Kael. And so he did.

Kael was surprised that even Yulian was asking him if there’s something bothering him. Perhaps his change in attitude was too obvious that anyone could know that something was wrong. Yulian was eager to know what’s bothering him even if he denied Yulian’s inquiries many times. Soon enough, maybe because of Yulian’s annoying insistence, he gave in.

“Can you come with me?”, Kael asked.

Yulian wasn’t ready for the invitation. However, since he made the effort as to make Kael give in, he accepted his friend’s request. He followed Kael, opposite to the direction where he usually go to after class.

Arriving on the front of his house, Kael suddenly felt that he shouldn’t reveal what was inside. He tried convincing Yulian to not enter, but it was much too obvious to Yulian that he wanted to hide something. Somehow, his friend had way more patience and was more stubborn than him. He had no choice but to open the door.

Yulian marveled, seeing the cleanliness of Kael’s place. He was distracted for the moment, but he noticed Kael was leading him to the dining room. He carefully followed his friend, fearing that he might disturb the neatness of the place. His careful steps quickly turned into a jump, as he saw the tied up intruders, sleeping soundly in the dining room.

Yulian almost yelled, but Kael managed to stop him before he could do it. Kael explained to him what happened before the intruders were captured. As he was listening, his anxiousness turned into awe as he saw Kael in a new light. The way his friend incapacitated the intruders was amazing for him. He felt like it was difficult for their age group to be calm during those situations. After Kael explained most of what happened, he understood why Kael was acting strange during their classes that day.

Kael clarified the situation to Yulian, but all they could do is wait for the intruders to wake up, so that Kael could try to question them again. As they were waiting, they heard several knocks at the door.

“Who is that?”, Yulian asked.

Kael shrugged his shoulders, and quickly went to the door. Opening the door revealed an unexpected guess.

“Magister Kever..”, Kael was dumbfounded.

“Can I come in?”, the magister requested.

Kael didn’t know what to do. He let the magister sit in the lounge room. He was about to ask the magister’s purpose for visiting him when he heard Yulian’s voice.

“Kael?”, Yulian asked walking towards the lounge room. He was shocked to see Magister Kever. He hastily greeted the magister.

Magister Kever invited Yulian to be seated beside Kael. He observed the motions of his two students. Yulian kept on looking towards the dining room.

“Mind if I go there?”, Magister Kever requested.

Kael wanted to deny the request, but he didn’t have a good reason to do so. The magister didn’t wait for his answer, already walking towards the dining room. The magister returned as fast as he left his seat.

Magister Kever was silent. He saw what he saw, and it gave him the reason why Kael was acting strange.

“You two, can I hear the explanation for that?”, Magister Kever asked, pointing in the dining room.