28 The Imperfect Berlin (1/2)
Berlin took one last look at Alicia and smiled warmly. He then casted some magic on her to clean the blood and mud off her and Loeri before disappearing. A few hours had passed before Alicia finally woke up. She felt a bit dazed but other than that she was not as tired anymore. The biggest thing was that her body ached all over. ”Ah… Seems I overexerted myself. But what happened to all the enemies?”
Alicia quickly got up and looked around attentively. But she saw no sign of any living humans or demonic beasts. All she saw was Loeri running over to her. ”Alicia, look by your feet.”
Alicia looked down and saw a golden scroll. She bent down and picked it up. When she did a stream of light shot out of it and a small image of Berlin formed in front of her. ”Alicia! It seems you have found the scroll, good! Very good! With this, you may now return. We will go over what the next step will be once you get back. Inside the scroll is a teleportation magic inscription. All you have to do to use it is spread the scroll on the ground and step into the magic circle and you will return to the cottage. I will see you soon.”
Alicia was very happy she did not have to walk all the way back. It had been many months since she left. But there was still one question left that needed to be answered. ”Loeri do you know how the rest of the enemies died? I remember before I passed out that they all of a sudden collapsed onto the ground.”
”Mother, an old man killed them! He caught Mother just before she was going to fall over and told Aunty Loeri to give you the scroll. He also told Aunty Loeri not to tell Mother that he did these things!” Frey who had been quiet all this time popped out of Alicia's hair and said.
Loeri looked at the little fairy with her mouth wide open. The damn fairy spilled it all! Alicia couldn't help but laugh as she saw Loeri's reactions. ”So Master Berlin killed the rest and told you not to say anything?”
”Yes, the old man said he went a little overboard and so he killed the rest of those men. He asked me not to say anything but Frey had to go and tell you.” Loeri explained.
”Why do you blame Frey!? Frey was not told to not say, anything to Mother! The old man only wanted Aunty to keep it from Mother but never asked Frey!” Loeri heard Frey's words and was stunned for a moment as she thought 'That's right the damn old man only asked me to keep it from Alicia and not Frey! He must have forgotten about Frey!'
Alicia let out a laugh as he heard this. It seemed Master was not fully paying attention to details. So even he can make mistakes! Alicia laughed even harder knowing that the always meticulous Master of hers actually made a mistake. ”Well, at least now I know Master Berlin is not perfect. Alright, let's get going we will go home now.”
After picking up Loeri and putting her in her rightful spot on top of her head and checking to make sure Frey was ready, Alicia rolled the scroll out on to the ground. There was nothing special it seemed about the scroll itself. Even the magic circle that was drawn on it did not seem to be done in a special way. It only looked like it was drawn with normal ink. Seeing that she could not figure out how it was made Alicia decided she would ask Berlin about it later.
Alicia stepped into the magic circle and waited a few seconds before a sudden bright flash of light filled her eyes causing her to close them tightly. When the light dimmed, Alicia opened them once again to find herself standing in front of the entrance of the cottage.
Alicia smiled and shouted out: ”Master Berlin I am home!”
Berlin, who already knew that Alicia was home, strolled out of his study with a smile on his face. ”It's good to see that you are back! I am...”
”Mother, it's the old man who told Aunty Loeri to not tell you that he was around!” Frey came flying out of her hiding spot and pointed at Berlin.