"This child...!" Salina couldn't help but smirk.

When they were searching for him all day, they couldn't see even his shadow, but after the departure of Kalipsi, he decided to show up?

"Don't tell me?" Second, the old man asked with his widened eyes fixated to Salina.

"Yes! That child was observing us from the shadow," she couldn't even believe that matter, but it's a fact when they aligned the circ.u.mstances.

"Let's go." Salina and Second hurriedly strode to Tala's residence without alarming the surrounding.

Salina didn't even knock as she just walked in kicking the door wide open. She halted in the living room seeing Tala sitting comfortably with a cup of tea in his hand.

The old man couldn't take their unceremonious barging in. So in respect a little, he closed the door.

"Who are you?" Salina immediately asked. The old man just sighed seeing how their young miss dealt with the youth directly. They didn't even gather sufficient evidence and information about the youth, but their young miss get direct to the point.

She already guessed that Tala wasn't a citizen here, so she doesn't need to confirm it. Salina's aim to know was his origin.

"I'm Tala," Tala replied. Her calmness made Salina and the old man confirm their speculation.

The old man looked at Tala who has an indifferent att.i.tude than he was when he first saw him. Does he already know that we're coming?

"Don't pull my leg. Who the heck are you?" Salina showed an incredulous smile.

"I'm Tala," Tala repeated.

Salina raised her brows. The brat in front of her really was really stubborn. "Surname?"

"Batiles."

Salina looked at him examining every action he took, but she could not get a rough idea that what he gave to her was true or not.

"Is that truly your surname?"

Tala shook her head. She unhurriedly sipped a little bit of her tea again.

Salina paused. She thought he will deny it.

The old man beside him was also surprised. If the youth wanted to hide his ident.i.ty, why would he deepen their suspicion?

He denied his surname but not his first name?

They couldn't get the point of the youth.

Tala didn't want to hide her surname, but the case was that she doesn't have a surname.

"Well, I guess I can't get information from you." Salina smiled indifferently.

Tala nodded.

Salina curvaceous smile became more indifferent. The youth didn't even show a slight bit of hesitation confirming her guesses.

"Even though you said it, I would like you to answer me. Why did you come down here?" Salina's voice was serious.

The old man froze to her question. How can she tell that Tala was from there?

Knowing the expression of her subordinate, Salina explained, "I get the information about the '12 hours of death' through him."

The old man widened eyes looked at Salina and then at Tala. 'Oh! That's the reason why she's so sure about the mystery of this young lad.' It now dawned to him why his young miss talked this way.

The only people he knew that has knowledge about the information of these large sacrificial altars were those higher-ups on their land and some strong people of their neighboring realm. So, how did this young man knew it?

Does it mean that he is from the neighboring realm?

A friend or a foe?

The old man tensed up and heightened up his guard. He did not know how many people this young man had brought, so he needed to be prepared for a sudden attack.

"I think teacher Salina knows it already," Tala stared at her tea.

"Or maybe not," Salina raised her brows.

Tala just shrugged her shoulder.

"Do I need to call your friend so that you will answer me seriously?" Salina's voice shows a sign of threat.

The man beside her froze. Their young miss never uses underhanded ways just to make one spout out information. She will directly deal with the person she wanted to deal with. But thinking back the mysteries of the origin of the youth, it was just a good decision not to fight him directly.

Who might know that they may offend someone stronger than them.

But according to their investigation, Kalipsi was innocent and has nothing to do with Tala till two months ago. That's the reason why she let him off earlier.

"I think your way smarter than that," Tala sipped her tea again.

Salina didn't know what to do anymore. The youth seemed like didn't bother with them.

She saw the confidence beaming around Tala.

She sat confronting Tala. She looked at him a.n.a.lyzing the young man and thinking a way to squeeze information.

She couldn't use brute force for she didn't want to offend anyone without evidence of their immoral actions.

She really just wanted to gather useful information about the origin of the young man.

If he's a friend, then she needs to thank him, but if he's a foe, then she needs to do something.

Without sufficient evidence, she could only stand by.

Tala put down her tea and lean her chin to her hand while looking at Salina, eye to eye, making an innocent look.

From the moment Tala realized the origin of Salina, she knew that not answering her will result in Salina's obedience.

Seeing Salina's face closely, it reminded Tala of a painting of a refined lady she saw with Prince Makisig and the King and Queen of the Luzvimenda Realm.

"You don't seem like an enemy, so why not tell us who you are." Salina didn't notice any enmity towards the youth, so she took aside her enmity gaze.

She knitted her brows hearing no words from Tala. The youth just kept looking at her.

The room fell silent.

A forceful thug of the door broke the silence of the room.

A panting youth hurriedly looked for Tala.

"Tala! Tala! I have an important thing to discuss with you," the youth shouted. Arriving at the living room, he covered his mouth with his hands letting no sound to come out. Not for the fear of the lady in front of Tala, but for a fact that the thing he wanted to discuss with Tala has something to do with the lady.

"Kalipsi, what good timing, Salina curved out a smile.

Kalipsi gulped. He can roughly guess the words behind those words and that made him shudder in fear. Not for his well-being, but for Tala.

A man sudden appearance behind him made Kalipsi's guess confirmed.

The man held his shoulder and forcefully made him knelt and sealed his energy, restricting him to move.

Salina stood up near Kalipsi. "This young man tried his best to hide you Tala. Can you show a little kindness for him?"

"Tala, you don't need to say anything. You can scape now. You don't need to help me." Perspiration ran through his back, but Kalipsi forced himself to spout out those words.

Kalipsi knew how strong Tala was, but he estimated that two versus Tala will result in Tala's disadvantage. He was experiencing first-hand the power of the old man which he appraised that it was equal to Tala's might.

Salina unsheathed her knife and pointed it to Kalipsi's throat. "Are you really going to keep your mouth shut?"

Salina thrust it a little harder.

Kalipsi could feel the chilling metal pointed on his throat.

"If I see a scratch on his neck, you will taste the blood of your own," Tala's voice became gravely serious.

Salina and Second didn't know why, but her skin crawls after hearing those words.

Kalipsi wanted to yak to persuade Tala to escape, but the old man covered up his mouth with his hand.

'His trembling?' Kalipsi noticed the slight change of demeanor of the two.

"Is that a threat?" Salina surfaced a grim expression.

"See it for yourself." Tala rested her left leg to her right knee.

Even though Kalipsi was held that tight, he didn't let his guard down and mind to rest. He was waiting for an opportunity to be freed from the tight grip of the old man.

For two months together with Tala, Kalipsi knew that the most precious thing to Tala was his comrades.

Tala will never abandon him.

Salina was going to wound Kalipsi when another blue-clad man came rus.h.i.+ng without a warning. Unlike the old man beside Salina, he was wearing a deep blue mask. He whispered something to the old man and that old man reported the exact words to Salina telepathically.

Salina surfaced an incredulous face as she looked at Tala. She pulled back the knife and said, "That's all for today. I'll see you soon."

They then leave without a trace.

Being captive in that state, Kalipsi breathed heavily as he finally freed himself from the forceful restraint.

Tala extended her hand to a.s.sist Kalipsi who wanted to stand up.

"What do you want to say?" Tala has guessed that Kalipsi's barging in was something important.