[DISCONTINUED] Protector (Zane X Reader) Book 2

Chapter 14

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"Oh my Shad! You're Aphmau's kid?!" I found myself exclaiming as the lord of Phoenix Drop looked at me with uncertainty. "Wow! You look nothing like her! This is crazy! Oh! I've seen your mom in her underwear, that's crazy too! And you guys look the same age! This is so crazy!"

He leaned over to Dante, who was actually the head guard, and asked, "Are you sure she's the resurrecting, righteous shadow-knight?"

Dante shook his head. "I don't want to believe it either, but she hasn't made a move to attack since she ran to hug Emmalyn, and she's been cooperative since then. I know that doesn't sound like much, but we know how shadow knights can be."

Levin nodded before turning his full attention back to the shadow knight. "How did you bring Kenmur back from the dead?"

"I already told you, I don't know. It felt like instinct, but I've never done something like that before." He didn't look like he believed me, and I didn't blame him.

"Fine. I'll drop it. Who were you before you became a shadow knight?" He asked me this because he thought it would be simple to answer.

But for me? Not so much.

"Well... unfortunately, my... 'conversion', was rocky to say the least, so some of my memories didn't, well, transfer. I know my name, (Y/N), I know my birthday, and I know that I was a maid. For which village, I don't know—"

"You were a maid? Like, a servant?!" Dante cut in, and Levin shared the same confusion.

"Yeah, I guess it is a little improbable, but anyone can be a shadow knight if Shad deems them worthy, not just guards. And losing memory is normal, I just lost quite a lot on accident." Dante looked confused.

"No... losing memory is very not normal. I've never met anyone who's lost their memories. In fact, Shad wants them to keep their memories so they know who their lord is and they can kill them. Why are you different?"

He said it so casually, but it shocked me to my core. I'd always wondered why so much of my life was a mystery to me, but I'd always told myself that it was normal and I just had to deal with it.

Now, to know that I was the only person to ever experience it... it made me wonder what was wrong with me.

Levin spoke up, "I don't have much experience in magick other than what Zoey has told me but... can't you erase memories with magick?"

Dante pondered for a minute, but I replied for him, "Yes. I've seen it."

They gave me a look of horror, and I quickly amended, "No! I didn't do it! No no, Gene did." Dante's eyes widened and he looked away, looking somewhat distraught at the mention of Gene's name. I'd ask later. "We finished a mission and an old lady saw him hiding the body," Levin all but flinched at the mention of a body. "So he erased her memory so she wouldn't tell anyone we'd been there."

Dante seemed relieved that the story hadn't ended in murder, and I made another mental note to ask him about it later.

"Alright... so... do you think it was possible that someone deliberately erased yours?"

"My what?"

"Your memories." He seemed very annoyed with my foolishness, and frankly, I didn't blame him. "Maybe... maybe you knew something they didn't want you to know."

That idea rattled around in my brain like a maraca being shaken by a six-year-old suffering from a sugar rush until I came to the show-stopping conclusion of, "Nah."