The Prince of Prophecy and the Bladeless Sword

7. Traveling Through Time

The five children were silent in the dim candlelight in the large room. Their minds were still affected by the story they had just heard from Azlan, a stranger who owned the Poisonous Rose Inn in Summer Village.

Sean was the first to react, the boy turned away from the middle of the room and chose one of the beds.

"This room is strange," Sean said, making everyone's attention turn to him. "It's as if this room is specifically for us. As if the innkeeper knew we were coming," the boy continued as he turned around.

However, Sean's forehead wrinkled as his vision suddenly blurred. The boy rubbed his eyes while the others looked around. When Sean took off the glasses he always wore, his vision suddenly became clear. To make sure that it might be wrong, Sean put his glasses back on but his vision was blurry.

"Wow. I'm fine without glasses," Sean said in disbelief and decided to take off his glasses with a big smile.

Sean's eyes were indeed minus which made the boy always wear glasses.

"I don't think it's just you, Se," Gio said but the boy's attention was on Leon. "Look, Leon is even fine now. Before, Leon was battered with swollen eyes, and many wounds all over his body and face," Gio explained while looking Leon up and down.

Sean approached Leon to make sure. He remembered, that even before they entered the strange portal, Leon was still injured but since then his appearance had changed drastically, even more handsome than usual.

Leon himself did not respond because he had just realized it.

"It seems like the healing system is automatic?" Sean thought.

No one answered because it could be that way.

"Are you okay, Le?" Gio confirmed, taking one step closer to Leon.

The person nodded. "Yes, it's fine now. It's better," he replied.

"Are you sure?" Gio confirmed once again. "I doubt it because you were so bad before. Your injuries were severe, and maybe you should have been hospitalized, but you stood on the side of the roof railing and made me panic," Gio explained remembering the incident before they were in that strange place now.

Gio's words made Zenata freeze in her place. After all, the girl was the one who saw Leon being tortured by his gang at school.

"You must have suffered so much that you were desperate and wanted to commit suicide. That made me panic, Le," Gio said this time sobbing a little, imagining that Leon jumped from the school roof and didn't survive.

Zenata was shocked again to hear Gio's story that Leon intended to jump from the school roof and end his own life due to the cruel treatment from the Elite Gang of which Zenata herself was a member.

Confused by the situation and Gio who was crying because of Leon's pettiness earlier. The boy cleared his throat a little. "Enough. Don't think too much about it. We're not at school now. Remember, we're in a foreign place that we don't know at all."

Sean replied, "Okay. Let's just find a way home. This place is weird, it makes me uncomfortable."

"Okay. It feels very scary," said Viona who was standing near Leon.

"Yes. Let's just find a way home," Leon agreed.

Gio nodded and wiped his tears that fell remembering Leon's suffering at the school where he was targeted by rich kids.

"Okay. Let's just rest for now. Tomorrow we have to find information and carry out missions so we can return to the world where we should be," said Leon.

The others nodded and began to observe the room. Although only lit by candlelight, the place was a large room with five beds facing each other. Two beds on the right side, and three beds on the left side. In the middle was a long table with long wooden chairs. Each bed was equipped with a mosquito net. There was a medium-sized table on the side of the room near the entrance, there was some food a water jug ​​and some glasses made of wood.

"This place is like a fantasy world," said Sean. The man was still observing his surroundings. "An era where there was no electricity or other technology. Centuries ago," the man continued.

Don't be surprised if Sean said that because the man must have read a lot of books, whether it was textbooks, science, other knowledge, or even just fantasy stories in the novels. Sean Huga is indeed known as a bookworm.

“Great,” Sean smiled a smile that looked happy.

Not all nerds are nerdy, quiet, antisocial, loners. No. Sean, on the other hand, is a sociable and talkative guy even though he is quite quiet.

“We are travelling in time,” Sean said.

“You are the happy one, we are the scared ones.”

Their attention was drawn to the voice behind them, Zenata looked scared and didn’t like the place.

“Do we care about you?” Gio replied sarcastically.

Almost the entire school knew who Zenata was and what she was like so quite a few hated her, including the four of them. It was just that Leon and Sean didn’t show their dislike for Zenata, unlike Gio and Viona.

Leon just stared at the girl coldly and indifferently. Leon still remembered when the girl joined in the bullying by just standing still and watching. It was even more painful with Zenata’s insulting gaze that Leon hated even more.

“Enough. No need to make a fuss anymore. Let's take a rest first, and obey the rules," Leon said in a commanding tone.

Gio and Viona stared at Zenata sharply and disdainfully as they moved to the chosen bed, leaving Zenata in her place.

"You too," Leon said before turning to lie down on his bed.

Of the three beds occupied by the men, Leon chose to sleep on the left side near the window with a wooden door and white curtains tightly closed. Gio was in the middle, and Sean was on the other side. As for Zenata, the girl chose a bed in the same direction as Leon, and Viona was on the other bed.

Zenata looked uncomfortable, several times the girl frowned, snorted, even pretended to vomit, or something else that annoyed Viona but she ignored it. Leon himself just watched because his mind was elsewhere.

Being in a place in the middle of nowhere guided by the system made Leon wonder. Could they return to the real world if they had completed the mission? However, Leon felt that the journey was not just about completing missions to get points and stars. But more than that. Leon was sure there must be something they were hiding.