Nina regained her senses abruptly.
And, when she did, she saw Ghislaine sitting in front of her, a few ters away. She was dressed casually, and the red blade of Hiramune rested on her lap as she stared at her expressionlessly.
Nina was very confused at first, until she rembered what she had been doing not long ago, and said:
"Huh... Ghislaine? What are you doing here?"
She stood up — or at least tried to — but at that mont she felt a dull pain at the side of her head, and fell back down into a seated position.
"Ugh!"
She groaned in pain as she brought a hand to her head.
Then she noticed sothing else, she was once again dressed in her training clothes, which implied that soone had dressed her at so point.
Nina was already confused enough by the situation, and then Ghislaine hamred in the last nail:
"I am watching over a potential spy of the Kingdom, it has been pleasant because of the sound of the waterfall."
Nina looked at her doubtfully.
She felt a viscous liquid on her head, exactly where it hurt, and when she pulled her hand away, she realized there was blood.
"Huh...?"
So mories began to return at that mont.
She had been at the waterfall, taking a bath after training, and then... Aisha attacked her with Magic?
She vaguely rembered very strange mories in her mind.
A white desert.
A cave full of Trolls.
And mountains with dozens of Red Dragons.
Those did not seem to be her mories. They mixed together in a chaotic and uncontrolled way, as if she were watching multiple screens at the sa ti. It was very strange.
But she also noticed one detail.
While she could see those mories, she also felt that her mories could also be seen.
Nina was very perceptive when she needed to be. She quickly connected Ghislaine’s words, Aisha’s presence, her mories, spy of the Kingdom.
She murmured as she caressed her temple and tried to rationalize the situation:
"I am the spy?"
A dull pain assaulted her mind again, and she made a pained expression, but heard Ghislaine reply:
"The one who will say that is Aisha, I am only here to watch."
She switched her crossed leg and looked distractedly toward the waterfall nearby, then ran her hand through the lake that ford below it.
Despite being on guard, she did not seem especially cautious.
Of course, Nina knew she did not need to be. Ghislaine was a Beast Emperor.
Nina knew from experience that anyone who had reached that level in the Beast God Style would have supernatural reaction and tracking abilities, and beyond that, she was a Sword Emperor, which gave her the best reaction speed, and the best execution weapon.
Not that she was planning to run away, of course.
Nina looked around, trying to understand more about her current situation. Even with her mories returning, she still did not understand so things.
She saw that Aisha was outside, saying goodbye to soone. She focused to hear the conversation.
"I’m sorry for not being more useful, Miss Aisha."
"Don’t worry about that, Jasmine, it was good enough, be careful on the way back!"
Nina recognized the girl as Jasmine, the mory Miko.
After saying that, the blonde-haired girl left, while Aisha ca bouncing back into the cave.
She was wearing the long robe of Star Rise Academy, and headed toward Nina with a smile.
"Oh! You’re awake! How are you? I was in such a hurry that I even forgot to heal that on your head..."
Aisha approached and placed her hand on Nina’s aching head, while Nina only looked on in silence, seeming to have a guilty expression.
A green light shone, and the pain that had been there until then vanished as if it had never existed.
Aisha then waved her hand and a stone bench rose up from the ground, until it beca a comfortable chair.
She looked at Ghislaine sitting on the stone, who shook her head no, and then looked at Nina, who had her head lowered and looked dejected.
Aisha asked:
"Hm, why are you making that face?"
Nina looked up.
Aisha was staring at her innocently, but Nina had lived with her long enough to see her eyes differently.
Her eyes were staring at her very coldly, as if weighing her worth on a scale, it was sowhat intimidating to look at.
But she still answered:
"I am in trouble, aren’t I...?"
Aisha seed to realize that Nina was looking into her eyes, because her gaze changed in the very next instant.
"Haha! Why do you think that? Everyone makes mistakes! Let’s see what really happened, well, what do you know about your situation?"
Aisha was acting very casually, but Nina glanced toward Ghislaine, who was now observing her. It was clear that she was there to identify truths and lies.
Nina sighed.
She had no intention of lying at all, but knew that in her situation that would not be a very reliable thing to say.
She began:
"Well, from what I understood... this place seems to be so kind of trap... to gather information about Rygar and the Kingdom of Gaia."
She looked toward the waterfall, and the mory of a tiny dark blue viscous being coming out through her eyes returned to her mind.
She shivered before continuing:
"And I was the person revealing that information, even though I didn’t know it."
Aisha nodded.
"Well, I believe that was more or less it. We even captured the little guy, is he familiar?"
Aisha pulled a small blue flask from her robe.
Inside it, there was a small blue sli, writhing and trying to find a way out.
A strange feeling arose in Nina when she saw the source of her problems. She could barely believe she had been controlled by such an insignificant little being.
Aisha had used a strange Magic to force its expulsion from Nina’s body, and she rembered the process well; it was what made the sli resist and cause internal damage in her head.
Nina nodded, and Aisha put the flask away.
"Fortunately, you didn’t know we were coming, so we managed to catch it by surprise, the main body cannot connect to or cut off contact with this little one while it is sealed with my Barrier Magic, so it is a victory at least, this will be very useful in the future..."
She looked at Ghislaine, and then back at Nina again.
"But we had so problems with it as well, Jasmine was unable to access the little sli’s mories, I don’t know if it is because of its singular race or so special ability it has, but she couldn’t."
Nina asked, a little nervously:
"Huh, just one question, what exactly was that thing? And why was it in that waterfall in the middle of nowhere?"
Aisha looked at her doubtfully, then sighed.
"Well, that explains why you were caught so easily, you don’t even know the abilities of one of your main opponents... this is Vita, the Nether King, one of his abilities is dividing his body and parasitizing multiple targets at the sa ti, didn’t you read about Hitogami’s apostles? I even made a booklet..."
Aisha was looking at Nina judgntally, and Nina was embarrassed.
"I did read it... but it’s been a while... they went so long without appearing that I thought it wouldn’t be that important for now."
Ghislaine, standing in the back, comnted:
"Honestly, I thought the sa. I probably would have been caught even more easily if I weren’t married to Rygar."
Aisha looked at the two won and shook her head.
"That is not the point right now. In any case, Nina, Jasmine couldn’t read the mories of Vita’s fragnt, I am not going to risk removing the Magic Seals to test it, he will be more useful alive, so you need to tell everything you know about this, did you see any strange or seemingly disconnected mory? Jasmine found nothing while looking through your mories, but Vita is a singular case, it will be very useful if you rember sothing..."
Nina raised an eyebrow.
"She didn’t see anything? Actually I do have so strange mories, but I thought Jasmine had already seen everything."
Aisha beca excited, and Ghislaine seed more interested.
Aisha continued:
"Right... it must not be accessible in the usual way. In any case, rember as much as possible with accuracy, don’t let anything slip by."
Nina, who thought she was in a terrible situation, finally saw hope.
By then, she had already understood more or less what had happened.
Due to the fact that she had hidden this place and co here secretly, there was no way to asure how much information had leaked and the potential damage. That being the case, all they could do was hope for the best.
But the fact was that, even if unconsciously, Nina had leaked information about the Kingdom of Gaia.
And potentially...
She had even leaked information about Rygar’s current whereabouts.
The danger that represented could not even be asured.
And, regardless of whether or not she had been controlled by the enemy, the fact was that Nina’s actions caused the information to leak.
The consequences of that information leaking were still yet to be seen, but Nina would bear a great share of the bla if things went wrong.
Who could say what Hitogami could do knowing that Rygar had gone to the Dragon God’s Hole accompanied only by Eris? Or knowing that the Kingdom no longer had his presence?
Nina was grateful that Aisha was keeping the Kingdom’s latest operations secret from her. The fact that she knew nothing ant that Vita could know nothing.
Outside her knowledge, Aisha was also relieved to be hiding from Nina the fact that Jino had gone to Begaritt.
That would be a great advantage if used well.
Nina was only the third person Aisha investigated. In the first two, she did not find anything significant, until she finally found this place after asking Jino whether Nina had any secret.
She put the pieces together and followed Nina after making up her mind, and was glad she had made that decision.
Nina began to narrate all the mories she rembered.
Many of them Aisha identified as having descriptions similar to what her subordinates had reported about the Ever-White Labyrinth.
The mories were blurry, and there was only so relevant information every now and then, and they certainly were not complete at all, but they confird one thing for Aisha.
Hitogami’s apostles had so kind of base in the depths of the Ever-White Labyrinth.
The most important piece of information, however, was none of that.
The most important piece of information was mories of vast mountain ranges, with hundreds of Red Dragons...
And an enormous crater stretching for kiloters.
Aisha’s expression darkened the mont she heard that.
Until then, she had been beginning to plan how she could use this Sli fragnt to pass false information to the Nether King, but after hearing about that, she stood up in a hurry.
Then she spoke to Nina one last ti:
"Nina, we are in a complicated period for the Kingdom... and we may need all the strength we have at our disposal. So I am granting you temporary amnesty until this turbulent period cos to an end."
Nina’s face lit up, but Aisha finished:
"But don’t think this is forever. When Master returns, and when this is over, you will still have to face this one way or another, Jino will not be able to protect you from punishnt... so make this amnesty count, and contribute as much as possible."
Ghislaine stood up when she saw it was finished, and Aisha concluded:
"You’d better pray that nothing happens to Master... Nina."
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