Bab 8. The Legend Of Diavolos

"I forgot!" Nathan's hug made Nathania remember her goal again.

"Forget what?"

"I have something to tell you, this is so terrible!"

"What's so terrible?" Nathan looked at Nathania who looked very enthusiastic.

"Earlier in the garden, I saw flowers burning and there was a boy sitting on a tree and ... and ..." because she was too excited, her breathing became irregular. This is one of her bad habits, which is panicking too much.

"And what? try to calm yourself down, your face is so red. Let's sit down!" Prince Nathan asked Princess Nathania to calm down because she was not being chased by anything.

"I've calmed down,"

"All right, then tell me!" these two twins really have very different personalities, even though Nathania is a little older than the Prince, but she looks like a younger sister.

"Earlier, when I joined the meeting with Father, Mother and Grandmother. It seemed like there was a little commotion..."

"The commotion over what?"

"I don't understand, what I heard is the King of the State what is the name ... um ... What fo?" she said thoughtfully.

"Fotia?"

"Ah yes, Fotia. I heard that the meeting was to discuss the issue of the peace agreement. Then, because of the small commotion I asked permission to go to the toilet, I couldn't stand it, I almost peed on my pants, hahaha ..." she laughed innocently. Prince Nathan was forced to be patient waiting for the essence of the story that Nathania wanted to tell.

"Nathania, you are..." thought Prince Nathan. He became worried thinking about how the teachers who taught her to study, it would take extra patience to deal with it.

"I ran, Mother almost told Noel and Rony to accompany me. I immediately refused. You know why?"

"Why?"

"Because I wanted to escape from that boring meeting, hahaha..." Nathania laughed out loud, she really enjoyed jokes like that. Unlike other noble descendants, Nathania loves freedom and wants to live as an ordinary person without being bound by the rules of the palace.

"So you got away?" asked Nathan who had always been a loyal listener.

"Yes, but when I passed the lavender garden. You know what I saw?"

"She's doing it again!" thought Nathan.

"Oh yes? what did you see?"

"The fire ... the fire that burns the lavender flowers,"

"Really? who burned it?"

“That's the problem, I'm so confused,” her cheerful face turned gloomy, each remembering the murderous gaze of the black-haired boy with very striking eye color.

Nathania was silent for a moment, thinking about how she would explain what happened to Nathan. The flames that suddenly appeared and disappeared miraculously were completely beyond his imagination. Nathania does not know what the real world is like.

"Why are you silent? What happened?"

"I met a strange boy, he was sitting in a tree, looking at me with a creepy gaze. I feel, I'm so scared,"

"Boy? what's he doing up in the tree?"

"I don't know what he was doing, when he looked at me, suddenly a fire appeared burning the flowers around me. The longer the fire got bigger. The more I was scared, the more threatening his eyes became,"

"Did he say something?"

"No, he didn't say anything..."

"What happened next? He attacked you?"

"No, when I was limp and sat down, I thought maybe at that time I would burn to death. But, the boy jumped from the tree, actually I'm not sure whether he jumped or flew,"

"What? you mean he flew, did you?"

"I can't remember, what is clear he looked at me for a while and then just walked away," just by telling what happened, made cold sweat pouring down. For Princess Nathania, it is the most terrifying thing she has ever experienced in your nearly 9 years of life.

"Who put out the fire?"

"The fire goes out by itself,"

"Really? how come?" apparently, not only Nathania felt the oddity, Nathan did too.

"I'm not sure, but when that kid left me, the fire just suddenly disappear."

"So, you mean that kid did it? he seemed to have the power to control fire, didn't he?"

"Can you guess? I'm not even really sure he did it. But looking at the weirdness that's going on, I can only guess,"

"I don't think your guess is wrong. I've read a book about the legend of diavolos,"

"Diavolos, what is it?"

"The king of demons or fiery demon inhabiting the largest volcano in the world inhabiting the land of Fotia,"

"So, there is such a thing?"

"I don't know, whether it is real or just folklore. But in that book it tells about how the ancestors of The Fotia conquered the king diavolos whose power was so terrible,"

"How terrible?"

"Its power can control all volcanoes in the world. It can certainly cause terrible destruction,"

"Impossible ..." Nathania swallowed hard, she couldn't imagine what if all the volcanoes in the world erupted simultaneously.

"That means diavolos is cruel, huh?"

"The devil is definitely cruel, but the more violent ones are humans who are willing to make a pact with them,"

"Why do humans make a pact with the devil?"

"Of course to get many things, such as vast and fertile land, strength, wealth and power,"

"They gave it away for free?"

"I don't think there is such a thing as unconditional gift in this world. If you make an agreement, of course there is a risk that must be borne,"

"For example?"

"By surrendering their souls to the demons,"

"Is the story real?" asked Nathania, the more she knew, the more fear she felt. She did not know that there are humans who actually sell their souls to demons.

"I don't know, but it might be true, if what you experienced this morning was really the boy's doing. Given that the guests who came to Lithonia were members of the kingdom of Fotia who according to the story were people who had made a pact with diavolos."

"If the story is true, I don't know what will happen. But, can all the people from the Kingdom of Fotia be able to control the fire?"

"No, according to the books I have read, diavolos only sealed one person who came from the descendants of the first king who led Fotia or the king who made a treaty with diabolos. The seal as a sign that the king diavolos inhabited the human body also gave him terrible strength,"

Nathania was silent, even though she did not really understand the essence of what Nathan had said. However, one thing she was sure of that the mysterious boy, of course received the diavolos seal if the story written in the book was really true.

"Don't worry, because it's still a legend. Whether it's true or not, it is the adults who know it,"

"But, why did Lithonia make a peace treaty with Fotia? Have we ever fought with them?"

"Yes, we have had several wars with Fotia and Edafos,"

"Edafos? I never heard of it?"

"Edafos is one of the three great nations currently leading the civilization, apart from Lithonia and Fotia. They are also a strong and dangerous country,"

"I don't understand, why do we have to fight with them?"

"Of course to prove who is the strongest and has the right to lead civilization,"

"Just because of that ?"

"There may be other reasons we don't know."

They looked at each other and thought the same about what was happening in the outside world that they didn't know. War and power, maybe just a few of the thousands of realities they have to live with in this cruel world.

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