Chapter 107 – Letter of Knowing

After Peronell left the house Ramiel went and open the parcel Pablo delivered a while ago. Opening it, he found a letter that corresponds to his question.

The questions that Ramiel asked were about the curse on his legs. The other one was about the chant that Gundry taught him. He noticed that when he muttered those chants he would feel a strange throbbing on his leg. It made Ramiel suspicious so he decided to ask about it. It took Ramiel a lot of money, to the point he is now just living with dried fish and rye bread as his daily food.

He has his ale but sooner or later he has to live without it. Ramiel felt like that it would be much pain to try and sleep but the letter is important. He opens the letter and immediately unfolded it. The letter said first about how odd of a request Ramiel is asking, then what followed was an explanation to the questions Ramiel had. The chants that Ramiel sent belong to one of the hex chants that attract curses. Knowing this, Ramiel widens his dead-like eyes, his eyes spiraled and his mind stuttered.

Ramiel continued reading the hypothesis of the expert that he sent a letter to. It said in the letter how Ramiel’s leg was worse than the scriber’s curse. Not only that the black fragment that Ramiel cut from his leg and sent along with the letter almost cursed the letter, it also attracted a few curses. The expert had to purify the letter in order for him to read it. It also mentions in the letter that Ramiel has zero resistance to curse. It baffled the expert how a human being created by the maker didn’t have the resistance to hex, curses and that of magical.

Ramiel knew that the reason why he didn’t have any resistance to curses is that he wasn’t from this world. If he was born in this world then he might have grown resistance. But since he wasn’t from this world, there was no way for Ramiel to grow his resistance immediately.

It was natural for him to easily attract curses. The letter also said that there might be someone who made Ramiel take the curse, considering that the hex chants seems like it was purposely made for Ramiel to speak about it. The letter from the expert also harshly told Ramiel, how a bit gullible he was, for not questioning what he was chanting.

Ramiel didn’t know what he was chanting back then. He didn’t even know the words of the land, so how could he expect that the ones he was muttering were hex chants? Ramiel was ignorant to this world, and with how little to none he knows or trusts in this world, it was obvious that he would fall to false kindness.

Ramiel was an underachiever, a slow learner who wasn’t good at things. But even so, it didn’t mean he wasn’t able to suspect. He thought that Gundry was suspicious for the only fact that there was no escort for him.

He didn’t want to believe that he was somehow put to the trouble because he thinks nothing to himself. But with the letter arriving, revealing things that made Ramiel connect the dots. He felt like he was a fool, a big damn fool that was played like a fiddle.

Ramiel felt angry, he wanted to scream, he wanted to take revenge, he wanted to go back to the town of Tal and make them explain themselves. But even so, when Ramiel looks at his condition, his ailments, and how far the town of Tal is made him feel helpless.

He then remembered how famous the Argos house, and how much influence they possess. Ramiel knew that they must have great connections, and if they did what Ramiel think they did, then one sight of him, would make them move and try to take out Ramiel.

Ramiel shivered in anger and fear. He could not believe that someone as unimportant like him would receive such treatment, he didn’t bother any, yet in the end, he was cheated and treated like how he was. It made Ramiel feel so empty.

Helplessness coated Ramiel truly, and as he crumpled the letter, laid his top on the table, and just let his cheek feel the cold table. Ramiel took his gourd of ale, drank it, and felt tears run down his cheeks. He slightly made sobbing sounds, and as his heart was filled with a helpless anger, Ramiel decided that he wants to sleep.

So he slept.

He let his tired body rest.

And as he slept a visitor bearing a smug expression came in. With her long blonde hair tied into a ponytail, this woman was here to annoy Ramiel out of her former house. Yet, when she saw the sad state Ramiel was, she hesitated. She scratches her head, turns her eyes to the table where his dried tears can be seen.

There she saw the crumpled letter, and when she took the letter, saw the contents of the letter, she saw the words ‘you have been fooled’ written. It made her frown, and as she looked back at Ramiel, she sighs, put the letter down and waltz outside.

Outside, she peeks back at Ramiel and then looks back at the sky. She was supposed to try her best in annoying him out of her house with Abby’s suggestion, but with how things are she could not do something like that to a wounded man. Pouring salt into a wound isn’t her style, and even as the way she is, Peronell wasn’t the person who would kick a man down at his lowest.

She wants her home back dearly indeed, but Peronell didn’t want to act like a piece of unprincipled shit. So, for now, she decided to let it go for a moment.

The salty wind stood still.

With another sigh, Peronell climbed up the hill, back to Abby’s house, intending to stay there for a good while.