Chapter 6- the settlement. part 5(CH24)

Rivera liked these things in a marvelous way, and he had made such a chair for her himself a very long time ago.




 But Rivera wished her master not to ask her what kind of bone it was, for she was afraid he would look at her with disgust. Her master was a human before now. Thinking about these things made her face sweat like rain. And she produced a handkerchief out of nowhere to wipe her sweat.




LINIAS narrowed his eyes.




-" Are you okay ?".




Those words made Rivera 's heart beat like a drum, knowing full well that her master would do so when he knew she was hiding something. 




 




For a moment she cursed her maids in her heart for making her this chair, which she loved madly. And she didn't know what to answer. She laughed angrily and said:




"No, I'm fine. But I haven't drunk blood in years."




It was a lie that Rivera didn't need to drink blood anymore. But she did not find anything other than this, to distract her master from this damned seat.




 




 LINIAS , looking at the golden ring that Rivera wore on her left thumb, knew that this enchanted ring abolished and suppressed her need for blood. He had no idea why she said that. 




But he knows she's hiding something. In fact, he didn't care much about that.




So he said, ignoring her : 




Rivera , are n't you bored".? Those words made Rivera and her deputy's eyes twinkle.




LINIAS continued :




"Actually, Rivera , I'm so bored, and I don't know what to do, and I've come to meet you for that. Do you have any idea?"




Rivera swallowed her saliva, squeezing her palms.




"There are many things."




 She looked at her master with great interest, as if her eyes were shooting x-rays to read his thoughts.




LINIAS  said :




"Are you trying to control my mind , Rivera? "




Rivera replied with a smile:




"No, I never thought of that." Rivera remained silent.




LINIAS  said :




" So?...". 




"I'm sorry, I was.. I remember something. But, I don't think you will like what I'm suggesting to you.. So.. Shall I keep talking or shut up?" .




LINIAS signaled her to continue




 She said:




"The invasion will take away this feeling from you."




" Rivera . Are you serious about what you're saying?"




Uncomfortably, Rivera replied , caressing her earlobe:




"I'm quite serious, that's why I said you wouldn't like it."




LINIAS sighed and said:




"I invade only because I'm bored. What madness is this?.. I thought you were going to say funny things but this is.."




He raised the teacup and stared at the steam rising from it for a while, then said:




-"I've never seen tea here until now. But I've known tea for thirty years, and all this was ten days ago."




 




Rivera smiled at this. She thought it was a joke."




"What. Don't you believe me? I told you."




"No. Not at all, sir, but I never understood anything. Is this some kind of riddle?"




 




-"It is a strange riddle, and I never knew how to solve it. Yet it is an absolute truth. I was a young man of thirty years...or perhaps an old man." And he put the cup of tea in its place without drinking from it, and continued saying: 




"Do you have information about that giant woman I told you about?




"- Unfortunately , that story is strange and difficult to understand. Even for me, and when I try to comprehend it, I feel that my perception of the world is fading...but the professor may..."




-"The Professor .. I had never seen the Professor so fervently before.. He told me crazy things. I could no longer understand anything of him. He said things about sheep... and about castles, and palaces floating in the sky, and a gigantic castle in the shape of a woman, and underground cities. Made of gold, ruled by a skeleton, a throne above the clouds, and crazy things... why didn't he tell me about them earlier?"




LINIAS sighed , and continued, staring at the people in the room:




"This is pure madness." Rivera checked LINIAS ' face for signs of worry or annoyance, but found nothing. And she understood what he meant:




-"I understand what you mean...Do you want me to check these things for myself? Although I've seen them before, and there is nothing in them to delight, especially the throne above the clouds...it was accompanied by a really troublesome woman."




 




She was upset about this, and Rivera thought that she had better kill that woman when she had the chance. There is no doubt that it will be a thorn in the throat in the future.




 




"No. I don't like interfering in what doesn't concern us. As for the invasion, I hate it and loathe it. Don't ask me to be like the filthy Verna kingdom .. Wars don't bring roses. Also, I don't want us to be annihilated again."




Everyone snorted at those words. Even the maids behind him.




 




LINIAS looked at them in confusion. Didn't understand why they did it. He looked back at Rivera , who was coughing.




"Allow me to speak, sir." So said Rivera's deputy, who was kneeling beside her chair.




LINIAS gave Rivera a meaningful look, and Rivera immediately understood what her master wanted.




" Gilgamesh de Emperador. If you want to speak to the great master , raise your head." 




-" Excuse me ". He said and raised his head. He stared with his sharp turquoise eyes like an eagle to his master. LINIAS asked him to continue talking.




-"The humility of my master is without limits. But, humility, honesty, mercy, compassion, and love, no longer exist."




LINIAS  said :




-"This is true.. This world and the other world is sick. No. Everything has died in it."




Gilgamesh said :




" It is, as you say, sir, that you must crush it underfoot." 




"Crush it...?"




-" Yes sir " .




 "What are you talking about exactly?"




"I'm talking about the world, sir."




"The world? You mean that I have to crush the world?"




" Yes, sir." 




-" Are You serious?".




"All seriousness, sir."




 So there is one more person added to the rest of the lunatics. LINIAS muttered these words, and Rivera gave an icy look as he thought she was the reason for this talk.




Rivera was troubled , and she fiddled with her cup of tea. She raised her eyes to spy on her master, but he was staring at her with icy looks. Rivera could not stand those looks that seemed to know her thoughts. I burst out laughing like crazy. She raised a cup of tea in front of her.




"Cocococo!..it's delicious tea!..isn't it? isn't it?..uh..what a smell. what color!" For a moment she forgot herself and drank the tea at once.




In an instant, her face shrank and turned green with nausea. Rivera could not stand drinking many things, and tea was one of them. If she had not kept it for her comrades when they came to visit her, she would have thrown him in disgust.




 




She put her hands around her mouth, and her cheeks swelled up as if they were going to explode with vomit.




LINIAS stared at her coldly and said:




" Are you going to throw up... you're going to throw it at me?" Rivera shook her head in denial. 




"You reap what you sow, Rivera ."




She shook her head affirmatively.




 




" You admit that?" She shook her head affirmatively again. 




LINIAS was about to laugh at this spectacle, but feared that it would diminish her followers' respect for her. That's why he did




his best to keep himself from laughing. As he saw tears welling




 




 up in her eyes, he said: 




"Why are you still here? You want to throw it at me right?"




She shook her head vigorously, red tears flying around her.




"Don't tell me you're asking permission to go?!"




Rivera shook her head affirmatively.




-" Oh God , what is this nonsense?! Go, you idiot!" Rivera ran like an arrow, to open a door into the room, and shut it behind her. A severe vomiting sounded. 




 




LINIAS turned back to Gilgamesh , who wanted an answer to his earlier conversation. So LINIAS continued to speak, ignoring the voice that Rivera gave as a roar:  




"Gilgamesh , let's go back to what we were talking about. Your talk about the world is true. I agree with you, that the world has made me sick all my life. But that is the doing of the people who live in it. The world is really a heaven, but. That's only if people love each other. as their love for themselves."




 




-"It is as you say, sir. But allow me, to say, that this is impossible, for the inhabitants of the world are beasts."




- "Beasts? Mm.. they sound a bit harsh when you say that. I think you're right. But not all of them are like that.. Also, aren't we also part of the world? Does that mean we are the same?"




 




"Absolutely, sir. We can't be like these monkeys."




LINIAS stuttered .




- "Monkeys.. uh..it is..maybe..why do you think this?"




"Because these worms, they will not stop wriggling disgustingly until they are crushed underfoot."




 




  LINIAS glanced at Gilgamesh , thinking that the man in front of him was joking. But in vain. He was completely serious, as if he was talking about an absolute truth.




So... are they beasts, Monkeys or worms? As I expected this guy has a head problem like the rest. He sighed in his heart, and he understood what the man wanted to say. Speaking to him, he said:




"That's why I said I had to crush the world. Because they're disgusting worms, aren't they?"

Chapter end