La Route de la tombe

Part 10

Chapter 10

It was close for the sun to set over France, Kim, Chloe and their horses were crossing the forest.

"Do you think Gabriel and the others managed to get the miraculous book from the hollow?" Asked the blonde woman looking at the boyfriend reading the land map.

"He knew how to read the code and he had Kagami and Adrien to do the dirty work for him. They're most likely to have survived. If Kagami lost her life in there, then we still have to get rid of Adrien, if Adrien is the one, who died then there won't be any problem." The raven-haired man explained his girlfriend.

"I can't wait to get the book back and fulfill all my wishes"

"I couldn't agree more and...." Kim said putting his hand into the pocket of his tunic showing Chloé a golden ring. "Chloé Bourgeois, will you marry me?" Questioned Kim surprising Chloé.

"Is that real gold?" Asked the blonde earning a nod from the Vietnamese.

"The finest gold in Europe baby"

"Oh Kim, you really want me to be your wife?" Asked Chloé euphoric earning a confident nod from the black-haired man.

"There is no other woman I would love to spend the rest of my life, rather you," Kim said, then Chloé embraced the fiance.

"I love you" Chloé expressed kissing the man on the lips.

"I really don't like to interrupt our moment here, but aren't this the horses Gabriel and the others were riding with?" The raven-haired asked pointing at a carriage with two horses standing in the middle of the road.

"Yes, it is," Chloé said while they passed with their Berline aside the carriage to see no one on the vehicle. Kim stopped and jumped at the empty carriage on the roof opening the door to see it was really empty, just a few writing utensils lied around the vehicle.

"They must be inside the crypt there," Kim said pointing to the half-cut bushes, where the entrance was. "Or there is another exit and they went there. I wouldn't be surprised if the crypt was in some way connected to that mountain over there"

"What if they were really dead?" The blonde questioned, then shrieked as she had another thought in mind. "What if they lost everything?"

"Trust me, they alive. I don't know why, but I have a strange feeling telling me, they're around"

"If you say so"

"Come on, let's move faster before it gets dark," Kim said getting on the ride, then demanded the horses run by pulling the leash up of the horses.

As it got darker over the woods, Gabriel was reading the book they stole from the cave and Adrien sat together with Kagami around a campfire. Adrien held over the fire a stick with six fishes in different sizes to grill them.

"I ate more fishes since it's easier to catch them with the sword when you're around the woods or nature only. Sometimes when I was inside of the town I tried to swipe something else like a bread, but I ended have to run away, cause people noted that it was me and tried to arrest me" Adrien recounted to the Japanese woman. "Dressing up as a mime or anything else and dance or play for them was the only way for them to not suspecting you for being an outlaw"

"The mask I have I used to put it on every time I assaulted somebody in the woods or anywhere else to cover my identity. I've been doing that for around four years if I'm correct."

"Probably as long as I did."

"Yeah," The woman said turning her head along with Adrien at Gabriel, who was deeply focused in the grimoire.