Chapter 131 - It is not that I forgot, it is that I didnt care to remember in the first place (1/2)
”Why did we come here?”
Beth was acting suspiciously. Usually, she will be laughing and talking and teasing him. Now she was focused and looking around as if she were hunting for something.
”Kiss…” she turned around, and she kissed him on the cheek.
Henry lowered his back for her to take what she dėsɨrėd. It was the perfect disguise to mislead the people spying on them. That way, they will believe that they were on an ordinary date. Only passing around for a couple of hours, eating some snacks, kissing, shopping, and waiting for the time of the movie.
”You will see, my love, I have a surprise for you,” she smiled at him, making him blush.
'She told me, my love,' his face was of a tomato prince. ”I will wait, then, my dear.”
He answered back, making her blush too and turn her face to the other side.
The ones watching over them had to wait and vomit.
[This is horrible.]
[I am leaving, I can't take it anymore.]
[This is too much for single hearts.]
[They look so cute, but I am leaving… sigh…]
One by one, the other competitors quit, and they went back to look for the treasure.
”Come, let's go,” Beth took Henry's hand again and guided him through a hidden door. They had passed several times in front of it, and it seemed a service room, nothing important. However, Beth knew it was different. The last time she came to that mall with Gandalf, she noticed that door wasn't there, it was just a wall, but Gandalf kept looking at it as if it had something. He even smelled it and shook his tail.
”Where is this?”
”The treasure secret place.”
Henry raised his brows and sent a signal through his clock, his people were behind him.
”Don't be afraid, my lady,” Beth smiled, ”I will protect you.”
Henry could only shake his head.
The little hallway through the door took them to some spiral stairs to an upper floor. It was poorly illuminated but surprisingly clean. Not a single dust could be seen, and the walls were painted gray with no adornments.
Beth intended to go up, but Henry stopped her. ”I should go in the front… in fact, I should be the one to go up, and you stay here, it could be dangerous.”
”I am not afraid.”
”I am,” Henry sighed, ”I don't want anything bad happening to you, okay?”
”You don't have to worry about that,” she smiled, ”I will be careful.”
”No,” Henry shook his head, ”I can't allow for anything happening to you.”
Then a couple of black-masked men came through the door and took Beth with them. Henry nodded at them, and another group of black-masked men followed him.
Beth didn't say anything, she just stood by the side with a frown on her head. She understood that it could be dangerous, but she believed that the old man Master Mills won't ever put at risk Henry's life. Therefore, Henry didn't tell her the whole truth from the start. She felt a bit betrayed.
Henry, on the other hand, had already gone up to the last step in the stairs. He went into a small room that had no door, no windows, only a white light illuminating a table and a box. His people threw some artifacts to the floor, they were tiny sphere robots that circulated the area for traps.
Nothing happened.
”It is clear, Young Master,” one of the men said, and waited for Henry to give an order.
Henry looked carefully at the spheres and the place, but didn't come closer. Then he said, ”Henry Mills.”
The room stood the same for ten seconds, when it suddenly changed. It was a magical illusion created for each participant. Those judges won't make it any easier.
”I will go, don't get inside,” he ordered his men.
”But…”
”It is fine,” Henry looked at the Captain of his team, Mateo, ”I am the only one that can enter. Don't follow”
The illusion before them was a road on a crowded street, though, it seemed that the people inside were walking without any sense. The big buildings looked the same as the ones in the real world.