375 Between Truth and Illusions (1/2)
The person that had appeared in front of Yale was a woman who despite not having a bad body, it would be difficult to say that she was a beauty because she had her body full of scars.
Moreover, even ignoring the scars, just looking to the expression on her face, it was enough to feel displeasure as she gave the impression that she was a wicked woman.
”I never expected that I would find you here. I heard that you fled from the Special Realm and left Imperial City hidden to avoid being noticed.”
The woman looked at Yale with hatred in her eyes as if she was looking at her worst enemy.
”I will never forgive you for filling my body with scars. I don't mind if you are just Yale's consciousness, but I need to get rid of you!”
The woman tried to grab Yale's throat, but the attack was easily avoided.
”I also hate you, Lor. I don't know how you managed to enter this place, but you are a real shadow. However, I know very well what to do against someone vicious like you.”
Before the shadow of Lor could say anything else, she was cut in half by Yale. Yale had already acknowledged that she was real, but there wasn't any rule against attacking a real shadow after acknowledging it.
”To think that the first real shadow was the shadow of Lor... If she dares to appear in front of me in the real world, I need to make her receive the same suffering.”
Yale wouldn't look for her, but he was decided to kill her without any mercy if she appeared in front of him again.
After all, Lor had evil intentions against Aizu back then, so even though nothing happened at the end, and Lor was the only one who ended suffering, Yale didn't plan to forgive her if she appeared in front of him once again.
Stopping to think about Lor, Yale continued moving ahead thinking that it would be difficult meeting someone else who could surprise him, but the next one to appear surprised Yale even more than meeting with Lor.
The surprise was because Yale didn't meet a person, but a wolf, a big Frost Wolf.
”This should be a joke, right?”
Although it was a wolf, Yale couldn't mistake that wolf because it had left a huge impact on him.
”You are Wyba's mother, right?”
Yale quickly reached the place where the Frost Wolf appeared and patted her head.
Meeting Wyba's mother had been a great surprise, but the problem was that Yale was unable to deduce if she was real or not.
Before, he noticed it because the Lor he had meet didn't match correctly with the one on his mind, but everyone else was almost exactly like he remembered them, which was normal given that they were created from his memories.
All the shadows had the appearance of the moment when they entered the Timeless Border, so it was a good way to differentiate them.
The only problem with that method was if someone entered the Timeless Border while having the same aspect as Yale remembered because then it would be difficult to ensure if it was real or illusory. That was the reason Yale could easily notice about Lor at first sight, but for those who were fake, he had needed to exchange some words first.
In the real world, Yale could rely on his bloodline to understand wolves, but he didn't have any blood in his current body, so he wasn't sure if he would be able to speak with Wyba's mother.
”We meet again. From here I saw that you treated my daughter very well, thank you.”
Yale was worried for nothing because he could understand Wyba's mother without any problem.
In fact, in the Timeless Border, everyone would be able to communicate with Wyba's mother, and the same would apply to any other beast.
”She is my dear little sister, and I will do anything to protect her, but... I have already failed...”
Hearing the words of Wyba's mother, Yale started to feel guilty by how Wyba ended in that war. Although he also knew that even without doing anything, Wyba would still be alive and without any danger, he couldn't avoid feeling guilty.