Chapter 210: Search
Lord Rigas looked at my father and looked at everyone who was waiting for his answer.
"I was away."
He said confusedly, it seems like Cataina really hide it from her own father.
What a clever woman that he didn’t even notice anything.
"But, Cataina. She can’t be what we were thinking right?"
I heard Lord Rigas asked as he looked at me straight in the eyes.
"She’s weak, she can’t even hunt well."
He continued and I frowned at what he said.
I remember Cataina acting like my mother as she was even named after her to so, it must be this.
She acts weak, and innocent in front of the Count, but behind his back she was completely different.
"Weak?"
I asked as I looked at him, I don’t know what to feel for the Count, Do I feel sorry for him because his daughter whom he adopted and raised with so much care had fooled him for so long?
Or should I feel disappointed as he didn’t even bothered on checking on her?
"Your daughter wasn’t as weak as you though, Lord Rigas."
I said as I looked at me, and I couldn’t help myself from sighing.
"We weren’t be here if not for your sweet darling daughter."
I continued and everyone looked at me with surprise on their faces as I said those words.
"She had been fooling you as she knew how much you loved my mother, that’s why she copied her mannerism, and even before you adopted her."
I said, Flamear already told me about Cataina’s past.
She fell in love with Hellion when the latter visited the orphanages with his mother.
And to fool the count who always loved founding the orphanage in my mother’s place. She learned about her, and even copied what she was like.
To the hairstyle and up to the preference in clothes.
She took advantage that she looks a little bit like my mother and I, with that small resemblance and with her perfecting her acting, she gained his trust.
His trust that made him adopt her.
That’s why Abanoon also eyed her body as the next vessel.
As she was as cunning as her, like also what she did to Jessie soul to fill the gap.
"You never even bothered knowing how she had been fooling you this whole time."
I said and I saw the shock on his face as I said.
I looked at Flamear and signaled him to go to where Lord Rigas.
"Show him."
I said and Flamear’s eyes glowed, so as the count.
Tears streams down on his face as he was seeing the flashbacks of Cataina’s past.
"See?"
I said as I looked at him, I know it was such a heartless move for me, but I want him to know that his daughter wasn’t trust worthy.
And besides, him showing in here means he was willing to fight and aid the empire against the enemy.
There was no room for us on getting betrayed just because of lack some information and trusting the wrong person.
And what’s worst!
Is Cataina now became Abanoon’s puppet.
A puppet who can never bite it’s own master, Just like Iivan.
He can’t used his power against her or any of her creatures, that’s why his family ended up like that, it was good that they were rescued.
"Oh, I never thought Lady Cataina to be ruthless and so scheming to even schem against the father who fought for her just to get her into the Rigas."
I heard Lord Dorkinya said and we saw the empathy on his eyes.
Some looks feel pity for him, as they all knew his past and how miserable the Count was, but it was lighten because of his adopted daughter who reminded him of his first love.
"We don’t have the much time. Before the moon gets bloody again, we needed to take them down."
I said as I saw them frowned at what I said.
"What do you mean?"
Father asked me again as he looked confused at what I said.
"When the sky becomes red, Abanoon will destroyed the empire. After all, that was the day where she can unleash her power, and Jessie was aware of it. She knew, as when their souls become one, she can read her mind."
I said and they all looked worried at what I said.
"When is the next red blood moon?"
Hellion asked and he looked at the people around, and they all fell silent.
They fell silent as they knew.
The red moon will five days from now.
That was the first blood moon, after she regains a body .
"The red moon will appear five days from now."
They whispred and everyone looks nervous.
They all knew that we were not just fighting Jessie and Abanoon, but there were also now Cataina and the Tenebrisayan.
"What should we do?"
Lord Nuchi asked as he looked nervous.
"That’s why we needed to attack before it happene or else, blood will scattered in this land again for the second time."
I said, that’s why I always upper handed her because her power were still sealed.
"You know where the villa right?"
I asked at Lord Rigas, I tried to find it by finding Abanoon’s trace, but it seems like Jessie became smart and hide where there place that’s why I couldn’t find where it was.
Lord Rigas looked at me as I asked him the question.
"She had many villas."
He said which made me frowned at him.
"What do you mean?"
I asked him while frowning my forehead, while Hellion was on my back also standing as they were looking at the map that I made using my power.
"She said it was for her helping other children, and now that you mentioned, it I never bothered on asking her the locations."
He said which made me feel annoyed, how can he give her money to buy house without asking the location, is he fooling me?
I tried reading his mind, but inside his mind is him asking his consciousness to remember anything.
It seems like he was telling the truth, but it didn’t ease the annoynment that I felt towards him.
"How can you not know?"
Father asked him and even he and the other were frowning at what he answered.
"I don’t know she said she will buy some villa in the west, next she will say she will buy another in the north."
He said as he looked confused at what he was saying.
"Are you really telling the truth?"
The emperor asked him and his voice is full of authority making the count realized that he was the emperor and he needed to submit to him.
"I only knew one." He said as he seems to remember something.
"There was a villa that I bought for her when she debut."
He said which made me looked at her.
"Where?"
I asked as I was now looking at him with straight face.
"It was in the south, near the the ocean, there were villa’s there too, but it was far from hers. I bought it to make her feel comfortable whenever she wants to stay there."
He said which me nodded and look at Flamear to look at it.
Flamear vanished in air as he obeyed my command.
"Now, we need to make sure, where we will put all the people."
I said Lord Dorkinya’s territory in the south was secured, but it was not that very big, while here.
I looked again at the map and saw that Klartis and Solaris both got big territories, but I already secured their territories.
And in the north there were even some nearby villages, but no territories, as monster always flocks here ,and this where Tenebrisayan’s pass by whenever they entered the empire.
"Lord Nuchi."
I looked at Lord Nuchi as he was looking at me and he looks nervous.
"How was it going to your territory?"
I asked and he looked at me and smiled bitterly.
"My territory was small, and there were lots of villages there too."
He said as he looked at me and I nodded as I was calculating.
I can put some people to live here in Klartis territory, and some in Solaris, and need there territory to make a barrier to make sure no people will die again, just like what happened in the past.
But we must first need to know where they were.
It is impossible for them to hide in the capital. There are too many people who lived there and if they even stayed their people will probably be flocking now, but since monster keep on pestering them they hide in their houses fearing to go out and some fled to safe place.
"Have you talked to people in the capital?"
I asked Jarnus trying to make sure that my huncher was right.
"Yes, Your highness. Some families from noble families were even scared to get out from their house when we knocked there, yesterday."
He said as he looked at me, it seems like they were asking people too, if they find something strange near them.
I was to sit when-