Chapter 68: Chapter 66
"You..."
Frowning, Alyia watched with Hye as the werewolves worked alongside the Orian group workers around them. Her eyes narrowed, and, gritting her teeth, a click of her tongue echoed.
"I thought you said they weren’t beautiful...!"
"No, I said I wasn’t sure."
"That’s the same thing! You..."
"The construction method of this world is quite strange, you know? Without support through soil drilling or... Oh..."
Hearing that voice, Alyia pulled her finger from Hye’s chest and turned, only to see long black hair swaying in the wind as the dark shine of blue eyes drew her gaze to a single point: the stunning face of the woman in front of her. Her eyes scanned up and down quickly over Arche’s body before finally settling on Hye.
"I... Sorry, am I interrupting something?"
"No, it’s fine. What were you talking about before? The construction process?"
"Yes... It’s quite fast and simple. The progress we've made in the past few hours is incredible and... Are you sure I’m not interrupting...?"
Alyia’s gaze didn’t waver, even causing her face to inch closer to Arche’s. However, seeing her expression of discomfort, she quickly stood up and resumed maintaining an appropriate distance between them.
"Uh, sorry, I... You were talking about the construction process, right? It’s actually quite simple. It’s just..."
As Alyia moved away with Arche and continued explaining how the construction of the houses worked and why they were safer despite lacking a significant foundation, Hye heard a laugh echo in his mind.
"It must be quite frustrating, doesn’t it? Not being able to see, even though it’s one of your primary skills."
"What are you talking about?"
"Don’t you realize? She’s obviously surprised to encounter not just one, but hundreds of beings that escape the sight of her eyes."
"Eyes... You’re quite focused on that, aren’t you? The eyes of the lord, as you called them. What are they? And why are you so sure she has them?"
"There’s nothing to explain. As the name suggests, the eyes of the lord are the eyes of the father, of my father, and... maybe... of your creator. I say she has them because I can see, not the mask she lets them observe, but her true appearance. I can see everything."
"Mask..."
Considering that what he sees might be false, Hye looked at Alyia for a moment. Her smiles and eyes... so Samael is saying all of that is false?
"And speaking of which, ask her why there are two bearers when Adam is only one. It’s more than evident that she’s his successor, although, for some reason, Eve also seems to be embedded in her essence. However, that boy she says is her brother, he also has them, but that shouldn’t be possible."
"Do these eyes have their own abilities?"
"Abilities...? Some... Think of them as a treasure that all beings would like to possess but none can even comprehend."
"None... does that include you too?"
"Obviously, after all, their existence predates mine... And then there are those two... How long do you intend to let them observe?"
Looking back for a moment, his senses focused, and beyond any obstructions between them, Hye could clearly hear the fingers tapping on a smartphone from afar, not to mention the words those two men were saying.
"Isn’t it better if we get a bit closer? The trees are blocking our view."
"If you want to die, go ahead. Or have you forgotten why we were both sent here?"
“No, it’s not that, but… it just doesn’t make sense. Who would be stupid enough to try something against her? Or was it not the case, and for some reason, she killed him herself? Maybe ‘he’ got too close?”
"No... According to the information I received, 'he' was following the boy before everything happened."
"The boy...? But he’s a novice hunter, isn’t he? 'He' was in rank A, just like me. It’s impossible that he could have done something like this."
"Well, I don’t..."
Reducing the range of his hearing, Hye looked around and walked towards Lykos, who was still bringing blocks from the trucks parked at the entrance of the property and stacking them in piles for the construction.
"Can I talk to you for a moment?"
"Oh, sir, of course... How can I help?"
"Sir..."
Following Hilary’s advice, his senses were tuned to detect any gaze or approach around him, allowing Hye to notice the many eyes directed at him at all times. However, in such a crowded space, it was impossible not to be observed at some point, leading him to think it might be mere chance. Yet now there were so many gazes that it would be strange to think it wasn’t intentional.
"Did you also notice the arrival of the other two who came with us?"
"The ones outside the fence? Yes, probably everyone noticed. But why haven’t they come in? Should I call them?"
"No. Take someone with you and deal with them... or rather, don’t kill them, instead, imprison them somewhere on the mountain."
“Capture them…?”, Lykos hesitated, looking at Hye with a face full of doubt. “If you don’t want them around, why not just expel them? Capturing them… wouldn’t that be too extreme?”
His restrained voice and the roll of his eyes made his hesitation about the request clear. Hye discreetly scanned the surroundings, noting the various gazes around him before looking at Lykos again.
"They’ve been following us for some time, you understand? Even before we arrived here."
"Oh, yes, I understand...", her mouth says something, but perhaps because her senses are extremely heightened, Hye can’t help but think that her discontent has become even more obvious, despite Lykos trying to hide it If "that’s the case, don’t worry, I’ll take care of it."
Lykos’s departure seemed to make the gazes even more anxious and obvious, with many not even bothering to hide that they were watching him. Their eyes shifted direction the moment Hye tried to look at them, and, at those moments, for some reason, their bodies trembled briefly.
"Could it be that the place where that spatial ability sends them is that bad?"
"I’m not sure if that’s really the case..."
Listening to Samael’s words, Hye observed the surroundings once more. The werewolves’ tremors repeated, echoing through their bodies like small waves.
"This was just an observation, but yes, I know this probably isn’t the real cause. Anxiety and hesitation, as well as tremors caused by apparent fear... this is just the natural reaction of beings who have finally realized that their lives are now truly in someone else’s hands... Well, not that they weren’t before."