'But why was Mo so ridiculously trusting?', Shin asked himself.
Mo should have known how vicious various beasts could be. His fruit had been snatched away by a wolf that looked similar to Shin, so he would have been much more cautious, so what was it exactly that was letting him trust Shin and his words so much?
While it seemed like a tough question to answer, the truth didn't hold much meaning to it and was quite simpler than what Shin was trying to comprehend.
He was a kind man – that was the answer which Shin was searching for.
But then again, what happened that caused the kind man to get cursed?
By getting the answer to one question, a series of other questions would end up getting asked, so yes, for now, it was better to go with the flow.
"Ah, she is over there.", Shin lifted his right paw and pointed towards the witch, who seemed no different than a weird creature.
This time, her transformation had given her a mouth that resembled the crocodiles while the limbs resembling that of birds – wings – only for the forelimbs.
The hind limbs were like that of a wolf even now and so was the tail.
"What kind of a weird beast is that?"
"…"
Even Mo was surprised to see her from a distance. Her size was twice that of Shin and the colors were distinct so Mo could easily spot her and make the comment.
"Are you sure that she is a witch?", he asked.
"Haha, who else would be capable of having such a weird form?", Shin asked in return with a burst of laughter.
"…"
"Makes sense…", Mo accepted the fact with hesitation.
He then made up his mind to ask her, however, he feared that she might end up running away by getting scared of his appearance.
Talking Trees – they were rare. Yes, such kinds of trees were quite rare, however, not all of them were as intelligent as Mo was.
Those talking trees would lure enemies with voices of their loved ones only to kill or hunt them so many or to be precise, almost all races and beasts in the forest remained cautious when the matter was regarding them.
Shin spotted Mo's hesitation and said, "Wait, I will go and bring her."
Mo was glad that Shin was understanding. It was probably his first time meeting someone like him.
"Hey, Kaily!", Shin shouted as he approached her.
"Yes master?", Kaily recognized the voice and turned around with a reply.
"Listen…"
Shin then explained the situation while pointing at Mo. He explained the reason for his coming towards her hut and the potion that he required which was actually something that Mo wanted.
"Come with me." – that was how Shin ended his explanation.
She understood it perfectly and said, "Yes master."
She then followed Shin and arrived near Mo.
'Woah…'
'So this is the one that needs the potion…'
'He looks bigger as I look him closer.', she had many thoughts and views regarding Mo.
But she didn't care about them since all she had to do was give the reverse potion.
Before she could hand out the reverse potion, she had few things that she wanted to know.
"Tell me, how did you end up turning into a tree?", she asked.
Shin was curious about that and wanted to ask after he had been reverted, however now that Kaily had ended up asking, Shin thought that he would support her too.
"Yes, I want to know that too.", was what Shin said.
"Sigh…"
"It's a long story…"
"Are you sure you want to hear about that?", Mo asked.
Well, Shin definitely had little time so he couldn't possibly agree and sit there to listen to his life story!
Kaily too had the same thought, she knew Shin's purpose for inviting Kaily to join him and creating familia.
After all, Shin had mentioned Aella and she came to know about it.
Therefore, she too thought that they didn't have much time and if it really was the same wolf, whom Kaily had seen earlier, then it would be wise to leave earlier rather than actually waste time here, listening to someone else's backstory.
Both of them shook their heads at the same time.
While Mo did say that it was a long story, he wanted them to hear it.
He thought that they had nothing much to do, however, he was wrong.
Seeing them shaking their heads intensely was proof that they had something important to do.
"Haha, I was just kidding…"
"It's actually a small thing.", was what Mo said.
"Small?" – that was intriguing and confusing at the same time.
"Yes."
"I turned into a tree because another Elder Tree cursed me for eating their fruits without permission.", was what Mo said.
"Ha?", now that was quite unbelievable.
The elder trees are quite cautious about their fruits, after all, they take almost ages to form and ripen.
So a normal human couldn't just go and eat them, the elder trees won't even let him do that.
Of course, Aella was able to steal fruit from Mo earlier – that too might have not been easy.
But then again, Mo was a human back then, so it was intriguing to hear that he was able to eat those fruits that could practically heal any sort of physical injuries.
"But how? How could you-", Kaily wanted to know about it.
Yes, it was that intriguing, It made her plea for more, however, Shin stopped her.
"Oh, that is sad to hear."
"Don't worry, you will be healed now!" – was what Shin said while interrupting her talk.
"Yes, I will be free now!", tears flew down Mo's eyes as he imagined himself being free.
Kaily wasted no time and flashed the Reverse potion which actually instantly appeared in front of her from her spatial storage,
It was a glass bottle with fine edges. It had a silvery touch and was giving off a whitish glow with some sparkly texture.
"…"
"So this is…"
"The reverse potion?", Mo asked with a shaky voice.
He was already crying floods so it was understandable that his voice wasn't like before.
Kaily nodded her head after hearing his question.
Right after that, she asked him to drink it.
Mo didn't waste even a single second. He moved his large hands forwards, which were covered with leaves, and tried to grab the bottle of potion.
"No!", Mo shouted.
Failed, he failed to grab it and the bottle just rolled on the ground.
Thankfully it didn't break!
"You…"
"Stay there and open your mouth.", Shin thought about helping Mo instead of standing and seeing him break the potion.
But how could he help?
He was small, way too small in size when compared to Mo.
His mouth was way higher and he could reach that height only if he were to jump.
Was he going to swing his tail and hit the bottle so that it would land in Mo's mouth?
Obviously not! Shin wasn't confident in his strength. He doubted himself since he had a hard time controlling his tail.
Yes, it would sometimes shake on its own as if he were wagging and other times, it would hardly move – when he would be sad.
Sometimes it would stretch out and become similar to a stick which was weird.
So he had a hard time dealing with it.
He would definitely not use something like that.
Well, Kaily could have easily helped in this case. She could have used her spatial storage and poured the potion directly into Mo's mouth and she was about to do that when Shin butted in and said that he would help.
'How would master help him in this situation?', was her question.
She calmed herself and decided to observe him.
His eyes started to glow with a green light just as earlier right after which he transformed himself into the normal crow.
'Wha-'
'What am I seeing?', Kaily was way too surprised to even speak.
Her voice just echoed inside her head when she saw Shin changing his form into a bird.
'Wait…'
'This doesn't make sense at all…'
'Does he practice making potions as well?', she asked herself.
Although she was a witch, an old one at that, she had no idea about the transformation skill.
It was developed recently, after all, a couple of years ago, and she never left the forest so she had no knowledge about that.
Well, despite being developed recently, it was only the Dragons of Higher-Order that could use it – since they would often transform into humans and visit cities.
That was why Kaily was thrown back with the sudden transformation.
The elves observed that since most of them had eyes on Shin thinking that he might be planning to steal Mo's fruits instead of helping.
Alira and Terran were also looking at Shin as he did the transformation.
Although Terran wasn't surprised now, he was definitely puzzled and was in awe earlier when Shin had transformed into a crow in the Lian Plains.
Alira, instead of being surprised, was fascinated by this – she had no idea about the situation and how shocking the transformation was.
Shin just flew over Mo and poured the Reverse Potion in his mouth. He landed back on the ground and returned to his original form while expecting to see Mo revert back to his previous self.
"Master…"
"That was…", Kaily wanted to know what that was.
But Shin didn't say anything to her, not right now at least, after all, he was looking at Mo.
"…"
To be continued…
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