Yes, the cafe skill has been activated again. Do I need to tell them the reason for her rune not appearing...
Aella was so confused and looked at Noella, asking what had happened. Hearing what Aella said, Noella tried to do what Aella did, but later, the rune from Noella didn’t appear to like Aella. The two were so confused and looked at each other.
I watched them try everything to emit the runes, moving all their hands everywhere. Their faces were so serious that they even shouted to make the runes appear when they preferred to not use chanting.
“RESOLVERE! FOTIA! GLACIO!” Both of them shouted at the same time.
Maybe I need to tell them about the skill..
Noella’s expression was scared and sad “Wha..t ha..d hap..ppened..Sis..ter? Wh..y. We..ca..n’t..use…sp.ell..?”
I saw Aella still thinking, and after that, she looked at me...
“Is this what thou hast done?”
I replied, “What do you mean?”
"Before, I could use the resolvere, yet after thou asked it to use it again thee, I can’t use it again, what hast thou done?”
“Well….It’s not me that you can’t use spells…”
“What thou mean?”
"The things around us that prevent you from casting a spell..”
“Around us? What around us that prevents us from casting spells?”
“This place... prevents someone from casting spells; more correctly, this place will negate all kinds of power, so the one that makes your spell not cast away, you are inside of this place..”
The look on their faces was unbelievable…
“Forget about that, how about you enjoy your drink and cake, just don’t think much about this place..” And they were enjoying their drinks and cakes.
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Out of the blue, Aella threw a question at me...
“Thy name is Darya, right? So are thou a human?”
“Hmmm..of course, I am a human..”
“Thy attire is a weird one for a human…”
“My attire?” I looked at the clothes that I wore; it was just a plain white shirt, and black pants, not jeans, for this moment, I didn’t wear the apron. “What’s wrong with my attire? Even your attire is white as mine.”
“Well, thou hast these delightful cakes, it seems so expensive, and delightful possets with sugar that are so rare, yet with that attire, it feels odd, it seems thou look as a peasant..”
Me, a peasant!... Wait a moment! I have a pair of traditional clothes that are used for nobles or civil apparatus.
“You want to see me wear noble attire? I have it if you want to see me wear it.”
“I don’t mind it…”
I walked out from the counter and towards the stairs. I went to my room, immediately to the wardrobe, and searched the clothes…I found it, after that, I searched the hat of the clothes and found all of it…I changed my clothes to traditional clothes…After I changed the clothes, I came back down to the first floor with some struggles to move because of the outfit, especially on the stairs…
After I stepped onto the first floor, I saw them watching me with some giggles. I walked towards them with small steps, every step I took. In front of them, I asked...
"What do you think..”
Their faces were confused...
Noella was the one who said first, “It’s that outfit; the nobles who wear it?”
"Well, this is the outfit that past nobles wore; right now, it’s so rare for someone to wear this as a casual outfit or party outfit.”
“It’s that outfit, worn by a man or a woman?” Aella asked.
“This outfit was worn by a man..”
"Yet at the bottom of it, it’s as a skirt, yet it’s most tight; it causes thee struggle to walk..”
“It’s not a skirt, but a cloth wrapped around my feet…so basically, this is not clothes, pants, or a skirt, but a cloth wrapped.”
Noella’s eyes were towards my back, and she pointed at it. “That behind you, is that a dagger?”
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“Ah! This, yes this is sort of a dagger…but there is something inside of it..”
“Something inside of it? What do you mean?”
“There is a creature inside of it; make this dagger a sacred dagger.” Well, there is a lot of myth about this dagger becoming sacred because a creature is inside of it.
“What type of creature is inside of that dagger?”
“It’s an occult one; I believe my ancestor caught that creature. After defeating the creature that my ancestor was fighting for 30 days and 30 nights without resting, he put the creature inside of this dagger, and this dagger passed and inherited every generation until me, as the latest generation.” Well, all of that is bullshit, but it is a myth that this dagger is sacred, so a lot of this story is being told by some people who think they are powerful.
“Can I look closer at that dagger?”
“Sure..” I took it out from my hip back, and the dagger was still unsheathed from the sheath, and I brought it to Noella. Before I brought it to Noella, I gave it a message to her “Don’t unsheathe the dagger; if you unsheathe, the creature that my ancestor fought for 30 days and 30 nights will escape.” Of course, you can’t unsheathe it, because it’s fake; it’s just a prop where there is nothing inside of that sheath; it's just a sheath with a dagger handle to show that there is something inside of it.
Noella seemed so nervous to receive it with her two hands “*gulp* I understand..”
The dagger was passed to Noella's hands. Aella and Noella took closer to the dagger and seemed fascinated by the carving in the sheath and the handle...
Noella asked, “These carvings are unique, and I have never seen this type of carving pattern in a dagger or sword..so this sheath is made of wood, right?”
"Yes, the sheath is made of wood..”
“And what about the dagger itself?”
“The dagger is made of 7 types of iron..”
“7 types of iron? I don’t know if there are some types of steel.”
“Well, there are the sky iron, katub iron, pulasani iron, welangi iron, terate iron, werani iron, and windudadi iron.”
“I have never heard of those irons before..”
“And each of those irons has a magical power..”
“Magical power, you said?”
“The sky iron is coming from the stone that fell from the sky, I don’t know the magic power of this iron, Katub iron has power for immunity, Welangi iron has power for safety and easy to find sustenance, Terate iron has power for sway the ladies, Werani has power for powerful body, Windudadi iron has power for constancy of heart and not drowning from water…and these iron will not activate if there is nothing inside the dagger…so a lot of people are trying to find a creature that powerful to put in the dagger, so the power from these irons will be activated.”
They were fascinated by the power of the dagger, but Aella was confused about one thing.
“Wait! So there is sort of magic power 'i this dagger, yet if thou sheath the dagger, the creature shall 'scape, so how doth thou use this power if thou bear never the dagger?”
“The dagger is an artefact, not a weapon…you can just display it in your home, but the power from it is still intact on you, it’s like the creature from the dagger is following you anywhere and anytime..” or I can just say it is a stand.
“And how didst the creature wot the owner of this dagger?”
“If the owner has passed away, the dagger will be inherited or passed to the eldest son or daughter; how’s the process? The soul of the previous owner will be in the dreams of the next generation. We believe a dead person's soul is still intact in their home for 7 days, so in these 7 days, the owner will communicate with the eldest son or daughter in their dream.”
“So this dagger hath been passed down for a hundred years, 'i thy family or dynasty, I say that?”
“I think it’s more than that; it’s more than a thousand years old, and this dagger is not the most powerful one; there are a total of 58 types of iron that make this dagger. If someone could find a blacksmith who could make a dagger with more and more iron, the dagger would be more powerful, but the more iron you put in, the more powerful creature you need to fill the dagger. If my ancestors fought for 30 days and 30 nights to fill a dagger with 7 types of iron, how powerful is the creature that can fill a dagger with 58 types of iron that make this dagger? If someone could find a blacksmith who could make a dagger with more and more iron, the dagger would be more powerful, but the more iron you put in, the more powerful creature you need to fill the dagger. If my ancestor fought 30 days and 30 nights to fill a dagger with 7 types of iron, how powerful is the creature that can fill a dagger with 58 types of iron.”
Noella felt so nervous to hold the dagger “Ca.n I ..brin.g..it..ba.ck..to..you?”
“Sure..” I took the dagger from her two hands and put it back on my hip.
Aella asked, “So what is the name of this dagger?”
“It’s Kris or Keris, it’s more like a relic than a dagger..”
“I shall remember that name and try to bid mine fellow blacksmith if he knows about this artefact, yet allow me to ask thou again?”
“What?”
“What are thou wearing? thou are more as a peasant than before…wait for a lady peasant with that 'i thy bottom…At least the cloth hath a great pattern, it’s sort of flower, plant root, leaf, or…what the hell is that pattern? it’s not making any sense, yet it’s great.”
“Hei…don’t disrespect it…the name of the clothes is Surjan, and this one is the lurik type. The name itself shows the pattern of the clothes; lurik means stripe; this one has two vertical stripes, black and brown, that multiply until there is no space anymore; and this type is not for the big nobles or the royals. This one is usually used for nobles in civic apparatus.”
Noella joined to ask, “And what about the skirt?”
“I told you it’s not a skirt; it's just a plain cloth that is wrapped around my legs..the name is Jarik, You can just wrap this cloth as you want. Yet, there is a rule about how many times you wrap the cloth; it is an odd wrap, usually 7, 9, or 11..”
“Doth yarik hath that kind of pattern?”
“There is another name for the pattern itself; the name is batik, and usually the pattern is a flower, wing, wave, cloud, and many more. My pattern is a wave; the name of this batik is parang, there is some meaning in this pattern; it means never give up, like a never-ending ocean wave.”
“There are no ornaments in the apparel or robes that I often see 'i the nobles' attire, yet thy attire is so nought..”
“At least there is the hat or blankon; it is made from cloth that ties each of them.”
“See! It’s so simple; there is no expensive garment, or the uniqueness of weaving, or sort of that, thy skirt is a plain cloth that is wrapped around thou, thy hat is the like that ties each of it, are nobles 'i thy kingdom so plain 'i sense of attire? There might be something that portrays the grandeur of nobles, as a beautiful dress that is made from wool, linen, or silk.”
“Simple is a great unique for us; the more you try to show someone how grand or majestic you are with those beautiful dresses, the more people envy you. This attire that I wore is an image of nobles, who are the same as their people and avoid all of the lust in this world. The big meaning of this attire is giving hope or light; it gives hope to the people that nobles are the same as them…”
Because of the uneasiness from the tightness of the jarik, I wanted to take it off… so I unfolded the wrap in front of them, making Aella and Noella.