Chapter 15 (1/2)
The Very Antithetical Alchemist (4)
The sun was setting, an eventful day at Llyod village was ending
The ate became calm
“Douglas, are you sleeping?”
Inside the shabby hut Ledio was lying on a hard wooden bed
Although he was lying on the bed, he hadn’t fallen asleep
“……Not yet”
Douglas was lying on a small bed on the other side
He couldn’t fall asleep, like his father
“Barton told e”
“Well, he seee to me”
“I heard you risked your life again”
“…… I just wanted to find the flower”
“So you risked your life Don’t you kno dangerous the outside is?”
At his father’s rebuking, Douglas stood up
He seemed to be upset
“Then what should I do! The e told me You will be fine for just ashort period Soon, you will suffer again!”
After he awoke fro,
except the worry about his father, and the fear that he would be left alone
“I’m okay Noe just need to find the flower of Randor…”
“Yet we haven’t found it We’ve spent more than a year already!
It was true
To cure o, to find the flower of Randor
“Are you even sure that you can be cured with the flower?”
“Douglas…”
“Well, does it even exist?”
Ledio couldn’t say anything
He understood his son’s concerns
But he couldn’t give his son a clear answer
“It does”
Somewhere, someone answered
It wasn’t Ledio’s voice
“……!”
They looked around their house
The voice didn’t come from inside, but outside
“Wwho is it?”
Ledio asked carefully
With his sick body, he stepped closer to the door
While grabbing an ax with his hand
“The flower of Randor”
“……?”
“I heard that you are seeking it”
Ledio didn’t reply
He opened the door slowly
Screeee…
The rusty hinges of the old door made an uncomfortable sound
The owner of the voice was standing by the wall of the hut
It was a young boy
“What are you talking abo…”
“Excuse me”
The boy came into the house smoothly
“Who are y…?”
Then Douglas recognized the boy
“Mmmph!”
Suddenly, as if he , he covered his mouth
“Douglas? Do you know this boy?
“HHe is the e I told you…”
“……What?”
That hy
The reason Douglas covered his mouth
He spoke without any respect unconsciously, because the e to him
“So, so, sorry, Sir! I made a mmistake…!”
“It is okay By the way,”
After he callas, Ian addressed Ledio
“I ae”
Ian put so
It was a fist-sized ice ball
“W…what is it?”
“You may need it”
By his instinct, Ledio stepped closer to the stuff
He investigated the ice closer
“This……?”
Ledio opened his eyes wide
With shaking hands, he picked up the sphere of ice
He saw soht in the ice
There was a violet flower that was frozen
“The flower… of Randor?”
Douglas was surprised as well by Ledio’s
The flower that they had never found, even though they had searched for a year
Did Ian bring them a flower of which even its existence was uncertain?
This e?
“The flower, I will give it to you”
Ledio’s eye started to shake
“Before, I just want to ask one thing”
Ledio was ready to anshatever he asked
He suffered fro
His life was ticking
He couldn’t just die while leaving Douglas alone
“How did you know?”
“…… Pardon?”
“Its effect wasn’t known”
With Ian’s question, Ledio barely cooled down his head
It wasn’t an answer that he could speak easily
“That is…”
The herb which was fatal to es
Aabout it
His life was at risk
“Please don’t spend your ti”
Ian read Ledio’s mind
He spoke quietly
“I can find it whenever I want”
Ian threatened Ledio indirectly, for young Douglas
Ledio understood the intention of Ian
What would happen if a e decided to harm Ledio?
That would be the end of Ledio There were no ways to prevent it, nor run away
The ansas an important matter
“Of course, I dare not to”
This e saved his life twice
From the hands of the thief,
From his mana addiction
“…… The illustrated book”
Ledio spoke out as he decided
“I saw it in this illustrated book”
Ledio walked to an old bookshelf
Most of the books were about alchemy
There were a few kids book as well
Click!
Ledio didn’t pull out the book from the shelf
Instead, He took off a cover piece of the bottom of the shelf