A trip to Bessekai

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•Risse Hartfel•

"Listen to me, there's a curse spelled on you" Lune stated as he tapped the black tint on the side of my neck.

My eyes widened with his words, his voice was serious and so is Tsuki's expressions.

"A curse?" I asked with a cracking voice.

He nodded and pointed out to my neck "This black tint is a sign of the solemn utterance from the black witch"

"Did you somehow meet other people other than us?" Tsuki asked.

My heart was beating fast. I didn't know I was cursed, there was no one who I encountered other than the people in the palace and..

The children!

"Th-there were three children from over the hill who were playing with me" I answered.

"They don't look suspicious, they looked like ordinary children" I added up.

"The children over the hill? There are only two kids living there with their parents, one girl and one boy, its most likely just them who plays there" Tsuki said.

"B-but, there were two boys, but he didn't speak much" I was getting nervous, my body was feeling fear from this dreaded revelation.

"That don't add up though, you've been feeling weak ever since you got here, right?" Tsuki asked me.

"The seamstress" Lune said.

"We stopped by her place and she was talking to Risse" He added.

We were left in question as we tried to puzzle the answers.

"But the kuro majo (black witch) isn't the only one who can cast a curse with a tint like that" Tsuki explained.

"It also doesn't mean that tint means a very harmful cast, don't worry" Lune reassured me after seeing me in such a terrible face.

Everyone fell silent for a moment and suddenly both of them had an Idea in their minds.

"Change your clothes, we got to go somewhere" Lune and Tsuki both ordered me in unison.

I chuckled as they stared at each other and obviously blushing as it only took a second for them to look away to opposite directions from each other and left me hanging.

"Wait!--" I yelled at both of them, but in just a second they were gone by sight.

I sighed heavily.

"Mama" a soft voice then suprised me along with a soft touch on my leg, a little boy was holding on to me. I smiled at him and crouched down as I pat his soft hair. I cooed him with my baby talks and he laughed.

"Hiro!" I heard a woman yelling softly as she gets closer to us, the boy took a glance at her directions and smiled widely. His smiles were like sunshines.

"Mama!" He exclaimed as he ran to her and hugged her.

"Oh dear you're soaking wet with sweats. Why were you running? I told you not to go anywhere" she scolded him but her sincerity showed.