Zero looked at Isaac, who stood there waiting for Zero to get up, for a few moments before he made an awkward smile as he stood up and gave place to Isaac.
"Sorry, I didn't know that these girls had company," he said before looking at the three girls who were making a confused expression. He then smiled before speaking,"well, I have urgent work to attend to. Let's meet again if fate allows us to," and then bid them goodbye waving his hand as he walked to the counter where he paid the bill.
"Who was he?" Isaac sat as he kept looking at Zero with a narrowed expression and then Eliza answered with an awkward smile, hurriedly before anyone else could speak,"that was… Zero. He said that we looked like someone he knew and began talking with us. He was a bit funny, so we let him sit with us for the time being while we waited for you." Her eyes were concentrated on Isaac as she tried to understand more about the brother of the Rose sisters.
"And you are?" with a cold gaze, Isaac spoke as he analysed Eliza from head to toe sending a slight chill down her spine before a cold expression formed on her face and she bent a bit forward with her smile vanishing as she put her forearms on the table before speaking,"Eliza De Wain, nice to meet you too Sir Isaac Rose."
Looking at the change in her demeanour, Isaac blinked a bit before he realised that the environment was turning more chilly with every moment around him. Realising who was responsible for this, he once again looked at Eliza with his eyes wide open.
Annabeth and Elizabeth too looked shocked as they observed the mana level of Eliza.
"A-Rank…??" Muttered Annabeth as she observed Eliza with her eyes gazing at her. After that, the temperature returned to normal as Eliza completely ignored Isaac and said,"I will be focusing on eating now."
Isaac kept observing Eliza and from his expression, it didn't look like he was happy with the way Eliza threatened him. His eyes were gazing non-stop at her before,
"Cough Cough… brother. How is grandfather doing?" Elizabeth's voice came from the front and he snapped back to reality. He looked at her and then adjusted his demaneor before speaking,"he is good and he wants you back at the mansion as soon as possible."
Hearing his words, a shocked expression mars Elle's face as she stands up and slams the table furiously…
-Baam!!
Creating a lot of sound as she speaks,"I am going to Arcadia City and no one! I mean NO ONE CAN STOP ME FROM GOING THERE!!!" with her mana swirling out of control.
Looking at her mana surging, Isaac gulped a bit before he gave a fake smile and spoke,"but it's grandfather's order. You know how he is, don't you? He really cares for you!!"
"And exactly how I am?" An aged voice came from behind Isaac and he turned around, only to be dumbfounded by what he saw.
A man wearing a black suit, with short white hair, stood there with his blue eyes observing all the people present there. The man was about 60 years old, but he looked younger than his actual age with a height of about 6.2 ft tall.
Elle and Anna's grandfather, Williamson Rose, was present with about 4 men in black suits right behind him and a certain white haired kid hanging by his collar in his hand. The kid didn't look like he was amused being carried like that as he glared at Williamson continuously.
"Zero?!! Grandpa?!! What…??" Annabeth, looking at the scene, stood up and questioned with slight hesitation in her voice.
"I am being kidnapped, against my wishes. That's what's happening, right now," Zero spoke with a displeased voice as he stood as Williamson let him go and he wiped his cloth as if trying to clean the non-existent dust there.
"Grandpa!! What are you doing here?!!" asked Isaac with an even more baffled expression than before. He did not anticipate Williamson's arrival this early. Even if he did so, he did not think he could find them right when he met them.
"And why is it so hard for you to think about what I am doing here?" Questioning back, Williamson looked at Isaac with a slight glare and Isaac shrieks back while everyone begins leaving the restaurant one by one.
"You should ask that question to me!" Zero speaks with a half annoyed tone as he looks at the grandfather and grandson 'talking' to each other. His eyes observed Eliza, who was making an expression of 'What should I do next?' and Zero silently chanted a message to her as 'Don't do anything yet. I will handle it. Just wait and watch for now.'
Eliza then calmed down a bit before Willamson narrowed his eyes at Zero before speaking,"I am not a petty person, kid. Neither am I a fool to take you as a weakling and force you to do something. Who knows what might happen to me if I end up making the wrong enemy? I brought you here cause I don't know when will be the next time I will see you again and I want to make a deal with you, and looking at the way you aren't escaping, either you really can't escape or you are interested in what I have to say, either way it's beneficial for me."
Zero then sighs a bit before he moves a little and speaks," I do want to make a deal with you, but it's different from the one than what you want. But still, you should solve your internal matters first."
He then observes the faces of Elizabeth and Annabeth, who were looking at him confused. Everything was too fast, too sudden for them and they couldn't comprehend what was going on at all…
Though Williamson began speaking slowly and briefly as he looked at the confused faces of the four people in front of him.
"After what I saw yesterday, I immediately boarded a flight to get here to make sure you both are alive and safe. It is my responsibility to make sure you don't end up in any more danger. I also got into Isaac's cellphone to trace your calls and found out that you would be here, and as soon as I reached here I found-"
"You traced my call?" A bit shocked at the actions of his grandfather, Isaac looked at his grandfather, but Williamson looked back with a piercing gaze, making Isaac shriek back again.
"So.. as soon as I arrived here, I saw this guy walking down happily, giggling and laughing in between like a madman and I stopped the car before picking him up and bringing him here. Well… he was also one of the secondary reasons I came to Bryxton, so in case I didn't miss the chance as soon as I saw him I caught him. Surprisingly, he didn't fight, but only acted like he was running away, so it was easy to get a hold of him."
Among all the people here, Isaac was the only one left confused with the others more or less understanding the whole scenario. With Zero being Reaper, almost known to everyone here, except Isaac… wait a sec..
"How did you know it was me?" Finally realising an important detail, Zero looked at Williamson a bit dumbfounded. Until now, everyone who knew about both the identities of Zero was someone he knew about. Whether it was a special ability or something else, he kind of knew how the other person knew about both his identities but Williamson… How did he know?
"I got this thing called invariation. That allows me to mark a certain target, I see. So every time I see him again, no matter how much he or she is disguised, I could easily know it's them," speaks Williamson with a smirk as he observes Zero with a look that spoke 'that's what you get for showing off so much'
It honestly ticked off Zero a bit, but he shakes his head before…
"What am I missing here? Who is he?!" Confused by whatever was happening around, Isaac finally asked as he looked at me, wondering exactly who I was. Though before I could say anything, Williamson asked as he looked at me,"do you want me to tell him or should I make him leave for now?"
Looking at Williamson… he wasn't joking at all.
'Are things between Williamson and Isaac not good? I thought Williamson treated all his grandchildren with extraordinary love and care, without differentiating between any of them.' Zero wondered as he looked at Isaac before speaking.
"Hmmm… rather than moving him away, I want you to bind him here and make him unable to see or hear anything. Can you do that?"
Williamson looked at me with a slightly curious gaze and Isaac made a face that was more of a smirk as he believed that his grandfather would never do something like that no matter who it was but….
"All right. [Prison Of Senses]" immediately Williamson chanted a spell at his grandson, rendering him unable to make a single move.
Looking at the frozen Isaac, Zero finally sighed before speaking,"All right. Get these guards to move out. I guess you want to know about the curse, right? But let's talk about something else first."
Williamson commanded, and the guards moved out as well, then Zero relaxed against the seat before he stared deeply into the eyes of Elizabeth as he spoke,"Have you heard about the Pearl of the Moon Goddess?"
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