Your Badass Healer

37.

Chapter 37

Twenty minutes left and this round will end and gladly I and Maple met everyone while walking earlier and now we're currently thinking where is the possible location of this card we're finding.

"What's the riddle again?" Lily asked us.

We're trying to crack a riddle here. Since the written clue was a riddle.

Kung ang ibang clues ay mga salita, ang isa namang ito ay isang polaisipan.

"If 9999 = 4, 8888 = 8, 1816 = 3, and 1212 = 0, then what does 1919 =?" Jen repeated the riddle.

Lily frowned and she is in a deep thinking.

"Dati 'di ako sigurado kung bobo ako, pero ngayon sigurado na."

Si Taliyah na naman ang nagsabi niyan. Hindi na lang siya pinansin ng lahat dahil lahat sila ay abala sa pag-iisip.

Natawa ako nang napapadyak si Maple. "Ngayon ko lang narealize na ang bobo ko," naiinis na sabi nito 'tsaka napaupo sa putol na puno.

"Ba't ba kase gan'yan ang riddle!" Reklamo ni Koji sa likuran.

"Kaya nga, ba't di na lang," napabuntong hininga kaming lahat dahil sa nagsalita na naman si Taliyah.

Kailan ba 'to naging tahimik?

"Kung umaga bukas, kung gabi sarado! Tapos ang sagot bintana!" Dagdag ni Taliyah sa kaniyang sinabi.

Napahilot naman si Airi ng kaniyang sintido. "Tangina, Taliyah. Tumahimik ka na lang."

Ramdam ko ang inis ni Airi kaya naman ay natawa ako. Si Airi na maiksi ang pasensiya.

"Grabe namang palaisipan 'yan, halatang pinag-isipan ah," Pang-aasar ni Mwehehe kay Taliyah kaya naman ay nakatikim ito ng sipa galing kay Taliyah.

"It's 2. 1919 = 2."

Lahat ay napatingin nang biglaang magsalita si Oks. I frowned when Lily clapped.

"Yup! That's right! I get it now!" Lily sang out happily.

"Wow, so ano? Hindi niyo e-explain? Gets namin no? Gets namin," paninira ni Taliyah sa kasiyahan ni Lily. 

Lahat talaga ng lumalabas sa bibig ni Oks may silbi, kahit madalang lang siyang magsalita. She's also pretty and  smart.

Oks let Lily explained the riddle to us.

Though, I kinda felt bad. I didn't tried to think and understand the riddle. I'm too exhausted to think. I know they can crack that easy riddle. 

"1919= 2. The riddle is about the closed sections of a number. For example, the top of nine is closed so 9999 has four closed parts. Similarly, the top and of an eight are closed so 8888 has eight closed parts, " Lily explained briefly and I nod.

"Wow, ang ganda ng pagkaka-explain. Wala akong naintindihan."

Napasapo si Panther ng kaniyang noo dahil sa sinabi ng kapatid.

"Wala akong kadugong gan'yan ka
bo—"

"Sige, ituloy mo. Ituloy mo!"

Taliyah cut what Panther supposed to say and I laughed at them.

"I think we need to find a place or thing that has number 2 or need to write number 2 in there," I said and  they all agreed.

We started moving and searching up. I laughed silently. Kani-kanina lang nagtatalo pa sila. But now look, they're helping each other like nothing happened.  

"Hey, guys!! I saw number two in this huge tree!"

All of us immediately walk towards Panther when he shouted those words. Nang tuluyan na kaming makalapit ay itinuro ni Panther ang parte ng puno kung saan  may nakalagay na numerong 2. 

Nasa gitnang parte ito at nakaukit doon.

"So, ano na? Nasaan na ang
card?" tanong ni Mwehehe sa 'min.

"Tanga, malamang hahanapin," sagot sa kaniya ni Taliyah at nginisian lang siya ni Mwehehe.

"Humanda ka sa akin kapag nakita kita sa personal," pagbabanta ni Taliyah sa binatang lalaki.

"Hoy, Taliyah. Ano'ng gagawin mo?Mas bata sa 'yo 'yan."

Kumunot ang lahat ng noo namin sa sinabi ni Koji. Ano'ng ibig nitong sabihin?

"Tanga!" sabi ni Airi kay Koji matapos niya itong batukan.

"Hey, guys. We need to find the card. Stop bickering each other," suway sa 'min ni Panther kaya naman ay tumigil na sila sa pagtatalo at sinubukang hanapin ang card sa puno.

"Ito ba 'yon?" tanong sa amin ni Oks habang nakaturo sa ilalim na parte ng puno.

There I saw a card buried in the tree's one if its root. Kukuhanin na sana ni Oks 'yon pero kaagad kong tinapik ang kamay niya palayo ng marinig ko ang hanging marahas bumubulusok papunta sa deriksyon kung nasaan ang kamay ni Oks.

Ang patalim na tatama sana sa kamay ni Oks ay bumaon sa puno.

Valer was the one who threw the knife.

"Well look who is here," Valer uttered while smirking at us.

Oks and I look at each other and I nod at her. Mabilisan niyang hinugot ang card at ibinigay sa akin.

"Give that card to me and no one will die," Valer warned us calmly but his gun was already pointed at us.

"Sino tinatakot mo?" Pabalang na sagot sa kaniya ni Taliyah.

"Parang 'di mo naman ako kilala, Taliyah," nakangising sabi ni Valer kay Taliyah.

"Malamang hindi, sino ka nga bang kingina ka."

Natawa kaming lahat sa sinabi ni Taliyah. Medyo totoo naman kase. Hindi naman talaga namin kilala ni Taliyah si Valer sa labas ng laro.

"Maple, paano mo natagalan ang mga 'yan?" tanong ni Valer sa kasintahan.

"Sumali ka rin para malaman mo," natawa akong muli sa isinagot ni Maple kay Valer.

Valer was about to say something but he was cut off when a deafening sound echoes and lingered in our ears and around.

That's a sign that the round two was finished. Tapos na ang dalawang oras?

I checked the timer and the two hours time really ended.

I wonder who will be in the top two.

"Tapos na? Sino kaya makakapasok sa top 2?"

Rinig kong tanong ni Mwehehe at sigurado akong 'yan din ang tanong ng lahat.

We look up above when letters started appearing in there and starting to form a statement.

"The round two just ended. Congratulations to all of you for coming here this far. But only two guilds will be up for the final round. In those two hours, we calculated  the total of the cards you'd been collected. Here's the top two and the over all rankings."

Lily read it out loud and then my eyes widened when I saw our guild's name on the top two.

In the over all rankings, we are in the second list and Hades guild was in number one. While Valer's  guild is in the third spot, Hecate's guild was on fourth spot and Falcon's are in fifth spot. 

Oh my gosh, I'm not expecting that we will be in the top two!