I AM AN ATHEIST

A Perfect Lie

During the exact moment when Xavier came beside him and questioned, the rest of the people walked back towards Boar4.

From their actions alone, Xavier understood that these guys were with Boar4, and also not hearing any answer from Herald, Xavier asked again " What happened?".

As to why Herald was hesitating, because he was in dilemma to tell him the truth or not, he feared that if he told the truth then Xavier might become the second Golu himself and act on instinct, he may even attack Boar4 right away.

The fight was just stopped, it would not be good to initiate another fight right now, this thinking was making Herald not yield the entire truth.

Then Keeping his thoughts under check, Herald answered: " Nothing much, It is just Guru disappeared from the same place where you were standing ".

Herald told him the truth, but not entirely, he decided to mix lies and truth.

Xavier finally understood why the people were staring at him when he appeared, it was because of Guru.

" Oh..but why was he here?"

Xavier questioned, he knew Guru must have been here for a reason.

" Haha...prince"

Hearing Xavier's question, Herald took a laugh before replying: " Stop asking such a silly question, is not it obvious? you already know it, we were all fighting, this is the reason why Guru appeared here".

Herald did not stop his explanation as he continued " prince, I know you may be thinking why was there necessary for the Guru personally coming here? and why were we fighting?"

Coincidentally, Herald hit the jackpot as Xavier was thinking about it.

" look at the blood there" Herald pointed at the blood tainted tiles on the ground.

Xavier looked over there and found the traces of blood, they were fresh, looked to be fell just a little while ago.

It did not take even a second for him to realize that the matter was serious, he listened closely to Herald, his intention was not to miss anything.

" The blood belongs to one of their own, this person got fatally injured during the fight, it made Guru angry, and this incident resulted in Guru to appear here right away and stop the fight, also he took the injured one along with him".

" And to why we were all fighting each other, it was also related to Boar4, some of his followers wanted to show off their strength, so they began fighting everyone including themselves ".

Herald explained while his face showed his confidence.

Molu who was beside Herald impressed by his ability to explain things, in all of the explanation he never mentioned Golu at all.

What if my brother asked the same question to me? I would have probably mentioned Golu right off the bat, Molu thought. He understood why Herald was hiding Golu's involvement in the entire narration, it was to make sure there would not be another fight, especially after having angered Guru a few moments ago.

Herald was pleased himself for being able to avoid the name Golu in the entire truthful narration until the next question he heard: " What happened to the one who injured the person? Who is he?"

Herald knew he should not waver or hesitate because it could create doubts, so he replied immediately: " Guru took her along with him and about her identity I don't know".

The point to be noted here is that Xavier referred the perpetrator as he, while Herald referred the perpetrator as her, this clearly showed the skills that Herald posses in terms of situation management, they could be said to be top-notch

Xavier seemed did not doubt the authenticity of his words, the spontaneous answer from Herald brimming with confidence was enough to convince even a highly intellectual detective let alone Xavier.

After knowing about the incident, now only Xavier found that Golu was missing, it was strange because Golu never left Molu alone,

deciding to know his whereabouts Xavier turned towards Molu and asked: " Where is Golu?".

The sudden enquiry about Golu shook Molu, He did not know the way to answer, even Herald could not come up with anything in that situation.

Molu and Herald were about to sweat, but at the moment they heard:

" They don't know where he is"

A female voice rang next to Xavier, Xavier turned towards the newcomer and tried to access her identity.

She was wearing a hood and leather armour, she carried a sword on the right side of her waist.

" We meet again Dragon112"

She said. Xavier also recognized her at the same time, he could not forget that unthankful hooded girl Dragon63.

" Dragon63, Why? What happened to him? "

Xavier asked in concern, Xavier had only one friend and the rest of his closed ones were his cousins and relatives, so he cared a lot about them.

Especially Golu, because of his recent personality change he remembered his childhood. In his childhood, he was weak and was often bullied by other kids, his two cousins will often come forward to defend him, they either beat up or take beatings to protect him, back then they were not cowards.

So Xavier was thankful for the magical food because it seemed to bring back their personality that changed over time, at the same time he knew that it did not bring their personality back, rather it changed their personality.

Golu and Molu were utter cowards, they would run away for their life at any given time, but after eating the mysterious food from Foen, they changed, especially Golu. He became braver and braver such that for every misunderstanding he would unsheath his sword.

While Molu did not seem to change a lot, but his cowardice was not there, for example, if they had been their previous self, every day they would have nagged before the training in Guruschool with the emotional sentences such as

" Brother, we don't want to go"

" Brother, please protect us, we don't want to die inside"

" Brother, let's stay together in the room"

" Brother, that room is scary, I don't want to go"

Xavier was prepared for all of these, but he did not get any thanks for the food.

However, Xavier knew it is not a good sign, they lost their original personalities, they were not themselves, they felt more like some other persons, he wanted to bring them back to their original selves but he still did not know what they had gained in exchange. He could only get these answer from the two people from the Orientation day or Mojo, but he did not know where those two disappeared to, according to what he knew the disqualified ones returned to their respective homes.

Since he did not know anything about them at all, he couldn't investigate them, the second option was knowing it from Mojo. Sadly he was not strong enough to smash Mojo and take information out.

So all comes down to his lack of strength, either be it saving Faiza or investigating the food and bring his cousins back to themselves, he needed strength.

Xavier understood it clearly, he knew what his priority is, that is to get stronger.

The reason for his concern, Due to the personality change, Golu might go overboard and do something bad.

"it's nothing to worry about, do you remember Chicken23 ?"

Dragon63 threw the question.

" No, I don't " Xavier replied as he thought Who the heck is Chicken23?.

" That guy, who was commanding me and a group of few people before you took on the spider boss"

Hearing it, Xavier recalled, indeed when he went there, he saw a man commanding the people.

" yes, What about him? What it had to do with Golu?".

Xavier asked in a state of confusion.

" Golu went along with him in one of the rooms, and they wanted to pull an all-nighter ".

Hearing it, Xavier lost in his thoughts, pulling all-nighter here in a sense spending the whole night while making efforts to clear one or more rooms.

There was not any compulsory rule to stay all night in the Guruschool, if you wanted, you can.

There was enough freedom to stay all night, but one had to attend the morning training.

Xavier knew that from day two itself, there were plenty of people who began to pull an all-nighter.

" Hmm"

Xavier replied with a hmm.

" thad"

At the moment, when Xavier saw Molu fell onto the ground, he rushed at him, keeping Molu's hand on his shoulder, he helped that guy stand up, then Xavier asked: " what's wrong? ".

" Brother, I am tired and feel like I have got no energy, let's go home"

Molu replied in a slow tone making it to be looked like as if he was feeling unwell.

This was the idea of Herald when Xavier started chatting with Dragon63 while avoiding Xavier's attention, Herald whispered the plan into Molu's ears.

The main intention of the Herald was simple, that is to avoid the topic of Golu and as much less conversation as possible, the reason was that Boar4 was still here.

He did not want Xavier to know the truth right now, it could be told to him later. He also surprised that Boar4 stayed silent without barking, may because of the appearance of Guru.

After hearing the request of Molu, Xavier decided to go home and said: " We are going home".

Then Herald appeared to the other side of Molu, keeping Molu's other hand on his shoulder while looking at Dragon63 he said: " prince, you go and say goodbye to her, we will be waiting outside".

But something happened before the duo even took a single step, Dragon63 approached them and said: " Let's go, I am your new neighbour ".