【Re:Freezing】 | Gray Fullbuster x OC

62: Nothing But Days

The discovery of the blood made everyone gather in the forest behind the house to try and figure out something. However, there wasn't really anything else. The only thing that could possibly help them understand the mystery surrounding this house was the book Pandora entrusted to Levy. There wasn't any need to hurry up and translate it. She was free to take all the time she needed. After all, there wasn't anything urgent that needed to be solved. This was a hidden past that didn't affect their future, it only made them immensely curious.

The house wasn't going anywhere either. So far, only Yuka, the wave user, could open a path to the house.

And so, they all returned to their respective guilds.

They had a feeling they wouldn't be returning to the place until after the book was translated.

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"Your blood was on the ground?"

"Mhm."

Blinking, Cana observed the way Karissa munched on her croissant nonchalantly.

Earlier, when the Fairy Tail gang returned to Magnolia, Karissa parted ways with her family to go buy a snack from the nearby bakery. Coincidentally, she ran into Cana who was coming out of the store after snagging herself some brownies to munch on. She was craving for something sweet lately.

They decided to eat their food at the park where Karissa recounted what they discovered at the hidden spot.

Karissa jumped when Cana shamelessly pulled up the back of her cardigan along with her shirt to look at her back.

"Mmphff?!" Karissa whipped around to check if there was anyone walking by while Cana inspected her back.

"Well," Cana dropped her clothes and appeared to ponder the information. "If that amount of blood was left on the ground... then you must have gotten hurt somewhere around this area. No amount of blood comes out of someone's leg or arm like that. It has to be your torso. But I don't see any scars on your back... except for, well... you know."

Cana was sure, even when she was a child, she never saw anything like a scar on her body. The only one that was on her body was the stab wound she got from Gray from their job in Novera.

Karissa swallowed her food and placed a hand on her left side. The wound she got from the mind control incident... There were times when she'd think back to that night whenever she looked at herself in the mirror, and she could almost vividly remember the sensation. That wasn't something a person could easily forget.

Gajeel's dragon nose couldn't lie. That was her blood on the ground.

But she couldn't remember such a traumatic event happening to her body.

The more hints she discovered, the more the suggestion that her memory was tampered with by someone became obvious.

"Things would have been simpler if we never found that crime scene." Karissa sighed before taking another bite of her food.

"You guys already have this ancient book to translate. That's already enough work, especially since Levy's actually got to brush up on that language. That's how you know it's a freaking old language."

"Yeah... but Levy's taking it as a challenging opportunity so... win-win?"

"I guess. But it's creepy, honestly. You don't even know what kind of injury it was from. Like, was it an accident, did someone or something do it? It leaves a lot to the imagination and I don't like trying to imagine what could have put me in that stare." Cana shuddered and plucked out a brownie from the small box the bakery gave her. "And how's Pandora and Van taking it?"