Office Romance with a Werewolf - Chapter 100

Present time…

In the middle of a sunny day…

Nida was tying the unconscious Ranz to the world tree…

“I don’t know anymore. I don’t know.” Nida said, while crying loudly.

She’s securing her knot to Ranz so that he cannot get off the tree once he wakes up.

Sob, sob, sob

She had given up trying to wipe off her tears that were constantly rolling down her eyes.

Nida was overwhelmed by the truth she discovered after forcing Randell’s core to show her what really happened.

“Should I believe the core?” she asked herself, as she doubted what she had seen.

“Should I confirm this first to Daniel?”

Questions kept popping up in her head as her mind was confused about what she should believe.

Actually, she saw more than one version of the memories, and she also discovered that not only Rendell’s memories were altered, but so was hers. Their memories were altered and erased multiple times, so she doesn’t even know what is real anymore.

“Mila, Wendell, Angel,” she mumbled after getting down from the large root she was stepping on to tie Ranz.

She counted the people who had messed with her memories.

Mila, whom said to erase her memory for safety.

Wendell erased their memories for the safety of the pack.

But the worst person was Angel, who had been tricking her since the beginning.

“Why didn’t I recognize her? She’s the person I saw in the white room who tried to erase my memory. Why did I let myself be deceived?” She said as he recalled the lady who she had encountered ten years ago.

Nida is trying to organize the messed up memories she collected and the swirling emotions she had. She is also confused about how to feel.

Angry?

Frustration

Sadness?

Despair?

All Nida wanted to do now was release all her dust and destroy everything.

She was not vicious or evil, but she had this urge to vent all her overwhelming emotions by destroying everything and anything.

But she held herself well, although she felt like exploding.

“Is it Ranz or Randell?” She asked herself, also getting confused, who is the person she had dated before or who is the one she’s dating now?

Which is the one she loves?

Which is the one that would harm her?

“This person is a scary one. Does he like me first?” She wondered, her gaze fixed on Ranz.

She only saw Randell’s entire memories, including the altered one, but she wasn’t able to see all of Ranz’s memories since she realized late that there were two people inside Randell’s body.

“Ack!” Nida crouched down for a moment while holding her head tightly in her hands.

She’s not hurt physically, but she’s slowly breaking down mentally.

“This is too much!” her voice echoed loudly in the jungle inhabited by gigantic trees.

Her dust brought her here and has been comforting her since a while ago, but she doesn’t know yet why they brought her to the middle of a jungle.

“Eat some twigs?” she repeated, what her dust was telling her to do.

“Are you also traumatized by everything we experienced? I am sorry that you all have to be taken care of by a priestess with a messed up life.” She said, not moving out of her crouching position, but her dust moved on its own and brought a twig in front of her.

“Hurry?” She repeated their words again as she watched her dust move up and down, indicating that she should hurry and eat the twig they were offering.

“But this is?” She took the twig and was skeptical of what her silver dust was trying to make her do.

ZZOOOOMMMM

Aack!!

She was shocked by the sudden strong wind brushing off the twig from her hand, but her dust stubbornly picked up the twig again and shoved the twig in her mouth, which pricked her and a little bit of blood stained the twig.

BBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

The ground shook intensely, which made Nida dock and watch the gigantic tree in front of her swing its branches.

“What is happening?” she exclaimed, and the unnatural movement stopped after her shouting.

“Poor child. Your memory was altered again, without your knowledge.” A heavenly voice spoke to her, but she decided not to be deceived again. She believes that everyone is suspicious because even the lady with an angelic face and named Angel tricked her.

“Show yourself and fight me now! I am tired of so much scheme and trickery!” She shouted in rage.

“What time did you catch that wolf?” The heavenly voice said, calmly asking her such a random question.

“Huh?” She reflexively looked at her watch. “Hmm?”

She feels strange about the time.

“1 pm? What is happening?” she asked, surprised.

She was sure that it was still early in the morning when she chased Ranz around the city. She furrowed her brows once she realized what might be happening.

“You altered my memory!” She angrily shouted without any clue about who she was talking to or where she should be looking at.

“Should I ask you about the time if I was the one who altered your memories?”

“B-but…”

“Look child, it’s you and the other priests coming here and disturbing my peace. I was about to let your problems be. But…” the heavenly voice let out a sigh before finishing her statement. “You really are pitiful. Should I grant you powers to repel memory manipulation spells?”

“Who are you? No! No! No! I shouldn’t listen to anyone anymore. I cannot be deceived anymore!” She said this while tapping her ears, refusing to hear the heavenly voice any farther.

“You refused? Then it’s not my loss.” The heavenly bluntly said, which made Nida stop what she was doing.

“Anyway, look at the swamp over there, if you are wondering what happened to you this morning. If you ever change your mind and want to have the ability I am offering, feel free to climb up to my crown and meet me there.”

“To your crown?” Nida asked, but the heavenly voice stopped responding.

“A-are you a tree? Wait, why would a tree speak? No no no nida, you’ve seen a lot of peculiar things, like a talking tree. It doesn’t make any difference.” She talked to herself. She is getting confused about whether to trust the voice or not, but worse than getting confused, knowing that her memory was altered once again is making her extremely frustrated.

Pat pat pat

She patted her chest hardly to calm herself.

“Did I go insane? If not, What would they get if they kept erasing and altering my memory? What’s the sense of this all?” She groaned with questions, but no one else could answer her.

Chirp, chirp, chirp

Nida looked up at the canopy created by the towering trees.

“I envy you, peacefully staying in this jungle.” She started to talk to the towering trees.

This is the moment that she just wanted to be a tree and be still for the rest of her life, with a silent constant life.

“Hmm? Should I try what she said?” She looked into the swamp the heavenly voice talked about.

It is located near where she tied Randell.

Step by step,

Slowly, she approached the swamp and peered into it.

“It’s a typical swamp. Should I have to say some spells or prayers?” She wonders if she should put her finger in the water.

Plop!

One sound of water dropping and then an image formed in the water showing the front door of her apartment. Soon, a lady with the power to control water appeared.

“I feel like I am watching a fantasy movie.” She commented, as she could see the lady with unearthly beauty was surrounded by floating water.

“Hmmn.. this bitch!” she commented after watching more scenes on the water.

It’s a memory she can’t recall because it was deleted in her head, but the scenarios showing on the water are making her fume in anger.

The lady who introduced herself as a sea priestess brought Ranz into the world tree where she is now. Then she went to pick up Daniel and the three of them got into a confrontation in front of the world tree.

Daniel apologized and Ranz remained hostile towards Nida, so they ended up fighting, but they were stopped by the sea priestess Vina by knocking down the three of them.

The damp showed how Vina erased their memories and teleported them back to where they were. She returned Daniel to his house, and she returned Rendell and Nida to their hotel.

and then left them without a word.

“Wait? If she returned us to the hotel, she expected me to not remember, including when I forced read Rendell’s core. Then why did I still end up fighting and running around with Ranz, and why did you bring me back here?” She asked her dusts. After watching what happened to the water, she should not be fighting against Ranz if her memory was really altered. Why is she back at the World Tree again.

Her dust swirls around her, acting as if they had a lot of things they wanted to say.

“What of it?”