Chapter 226 Stirring Trouble
Obsidian took a step back, unsure if he should respond to that sort of answer.
From what he had deduced it would seem that he wasn't the only one who had a bad feeling about that female, but unlike them, he didn't harbor such resentment as they did.
His mind trailed to when he had simply knocked her unconscious, he guessed that she was fortunate enough that he was the perpetrator and not Nix.
"Do... Do you mean what you just said?" Obsidian voiced out, gauging his reaction.
Nix raised a brow and glared at Obsidian, in an instant he burst out in peals of crazed laughter.
"I wasn't convincing enough?" He began and pointed a finger at Obsidian and continued with his laughter.
Obsidian narrowed his eyes, he saw nothing funny and when he turned his attention to Lank momentarily, he could see a flash of anger and confusion mixed in them.
He was suddenly curious about how a female could stir up strife in their hearts and why Nix would go to any length to pull her into the ashes.
"If you truly know her? Then you would understand that a serpent deserves no redemption whatsoever." Nix hissed in response.
"I had not thought that you would know her so well,"
Lank placed his hand on Obsidian's shoulder and lightly tapped it, shaking his head. There was no point in trying to justify himself, he had stirred up a sleeping dragon.
"She had done enough damage while at the academy, why bring her here?!" Nix roared in rage, bringing his leg down on the chair in front of him.
Krii!
A dent was formed in the middle of the metal chair.
Lank bit down on his bottom lip and closed his eyes so he could calm his thoughts. 'Think happy thoughts.'
Hyperventilating, he placed his hand on the wall and deactivated the glow in his eyes as he tried to think of the connection all of this had with Obsidian's whereabouts, "unless..."
His head whipped to his side and directly at Obsidian. "I'm just beginning to get the link."
Pushing back his hair and shaking his head at how narrow-minded he was earlier.
"That's right." Obsidian finally gave in to the truth hidden underneath all the explanation he was trying to give.
Lowering his head in despair.
"Ughhh!" He let out a choke when he felt Nix tighten his grip on his fur collar and pull on it so it tightened on his throat.
Lank jumped back in surprise and was visibly disturbed by how fast Nix had suddenly become in a matter of seconds.
"Dude! How many things, skills, and abilities have you been hiding?! What the heck are you two talking about?!" Lank questioned in worry as to why the two looked like they could fight any minute.
Nix ignored Lank and focused his attention more on Obsidian. "Why did you let her escape?!"
"How am I supposed to know she's the monster you paint her to be?!" Obsidian yelled back and shrugged off Nix's hands.
"Paint her?!" Nix repeatedly scoffed and turned his back against them so he could rapidly think of how he could reply calmly.
"Lank, would you like to explain how our little friend came hiding in here?" Nix said with a sigh, turning around so he could watch the two of them.
Lank gulped, he wasn't the one who had carried so much hate as Nix, he dreaded speaking about her.
Shaking his head, he leaned on the wall and proceeded to speak. "She's an itch that doesn't want to go off, nor can she be trusted. I think her ability chose her for the right reasons and she shapeshifts into the best suit for her character."
"A snake huh?" Obsolete cut in and rolled his eyes.
"Yes, that and also birds, she evades capture majorly through that sick means." Lank facepalmed as he felt his blood boil with rage at the thought.
Obsidian couldn't help but let out a laugh after what he had heard. "So you're telling me you two had tried to trap her like an animal?"
"Lumina and Nix could have dealt enough damage if I wasn't the one who–"
"You got that right, interference sometimes can be detrimental to our concentration!" Nix snorted, feeling frustrated at the missed opportunity.
"Even Lumina?" Obsidian let out a gasp.
"She had tried to initiate Gia into whatever means she had used to get into the organization. Forcing her into a vegetative state." Lank said with a sigh.
He couldn't stop blaming himself for running away and leaving Gia with Ayanami at the time, if that had been avoided, probably Gia would have been helpful to Fae in her time of need as she had been to Gia.
He had been too weak and blinded by rage to make poor decisions, but not anymore.
To lighten the mood, Lank burst out with the words, "she had a weird liking for Nix."
"Shut it!" Nix hissed at Lank, jumping over him and tackling him to the ground.
"Never!" Lank yelled amidst the struggle to get free.
Obsidian rubbed his chin and nodded. "She stirs trouble wherever she goes it would seem."
Nix paused at the words and nitpicked what he heard. "What do you mean–"
Smack!
He felt a foot hit his face, throwing him off balance. Pushing himself with his palms he narrowed his eyes at Lank who whistled away guiltily.
'Stay calm, you would have done the same if you wanted to get yourself free.' He repeatedly told himself until he believed it.
Putting up a smile as he got to his feet, he focused his attention on Obsidian, he wasn't going to let go of those words he had spilled.
"Where did you see her?" Nix questioned, curious to know where Ayanami was after that little stunt she had pulled.
"You're gonna kill her, right?!" Obsidian pointed out that he could feel it.
"Because of her," he hissed through gritted teeth and lowered his head so he wouldn't blow a fuse.
Inhaling and exhaling he was sure he could talk as politely as possible, Obsidian wasn't the problem but rather Ayanami.
"We lost two people and a friend severely injured that day." He finalized.
"We did?!" Lank cut in, unsure if he could recall who that second person who had died was.
Nix gritted his teeth at the fact that he couldn't explain all there was that had gone wrong on that day.
The scene that had transpired that unfaithful day would frequently return to hunt him, Mrs. Neider had a mental breakdown because of Ayanami's deliberate words, and because of that, she was killed in a similar way Aer had died.
He had begun to feel that not all who had joined had willingly done what they did, it was the pendant, that goddamn piece of jewelry that needed to go or at least give them a chance to fight back against the force pulling their string.
Aer had simply gone with the orders given to her and only that was enough to set his anger ablaze.
'The trunk and its roots are the problems, the branches are forced to sway and feed on what is given.' Nix deduced in his thoughts.
If there was anything he could pick up was the fact that Fegan and Mr. Gaviel had been part of the core members who had managed to break free from the clutches of the organization.
This would only mean that his mission would turn a lot harder than he had intended.
"You wouldn't understand for now," Nix said with an air of dismissal.
Lank had a pout, clearly not pleased with the answer but also not willing to pry further.
Obsidian dropped to the ground in disbelief and denial. This wasn't him, he had a high sense of morality and was naturally brutal to those who rightly deserved it but after listening to what Nix had said he immediately regretted letting off Ayanami.
"I had her in the palm of my hands, yet I let her live." He said in a daze.
"I had tracked her down from a restricted area and yet all I did was make her unconscious and fled from the scene," Obsidian mumbled, his fangs growing and his slits pupils contracted.
Nix closed his eyes and turned so he could put his head on the wall, that was a miss that he wished wouldn't happen anymore. She had been too lucky to cheat death so many times.
"It's time I let you two in on my plans, you should alert your roommate once we are done with this awkward meeting," Nix calls them so they move closer before he speaks.
Crawling towards Nix, Obsidian sat cross-legged on the floor and so did Lank.
Nix followed suit and sat comfortably on the floor, "We can't stay here anymore, it's time we prepare to leave this shit hole."
"What?!" Obsidian and Lank said in unison.