Memories - King's Return (Wakfu): The Hub

Chapter #31 - Reasoning

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Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei stared into the man's eyes, half filled with fear and half filled with anger.

"I don't need a refresher, Elmen," Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei harshly insisted, putting a bit of a tease to his name.

Elmen sighed. "Child, just come to me to my office so that you can tell me what you've done over the years," he tried to convince the Eliatrope with a sad tone. Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei thought how his act of thoughtfulness made him sick.

Elmen stood looking at him, neither of them moving, while Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei kept his gaze on the floor. Elmen reached out and granted his wrists to begin pulling him. He lightly tugged toward the portal.

"Let me go," Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei demanded, not moving an inch.

Elmen sighed again and pulled harder to force Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei into the Zaap. Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei stopped pulling against him and walked through, gritting his teeth.

As he walked through the Zaap, though, he was met with a gorgeous and humongous room that had everything a person could ever need: A dining table, a bed, a desk, and another smaller room. The walls, though blue from the outside the tower, were long strips of marble dotted with rubies where the walls met the ceiling.

Elmen walked over to the table which had been set with two plates of food. He motioned for Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei to sit beside one of the plates.

They sat in awkward silence as Elmen ate his plate of food.

"You know you're allowed to eat that, right?" he asked politely.

"Yes. I don't want to."

"You should... you look like you've eaten once in the past three days."

"That would make sense."

"...why?"

"Because that's literally all I've eaten."

Elmen looked surprised at the statement as he should have been. Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei maintained eye contact with 'his' plate of food.

"Ralo, you kno-"

"Don't you dare call me that."

Elmen sat in silence is for a moment before his corrected himself hesitantly.

"Ralocolcourtay, you know that's dangerous..."

"It's safer than eating whatever food you're trying to make we me eat," Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei added, making Elmen visibly cringe.

"Do you not trust me after I took you into the Torntam for years?" he challenged.

"Q was the one who took me in from the forest. You were just there."

"I still provided all the permission he had to do such a thing."

"Before or after he left, Elmen?" Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei finally said with tears forming in his eyes as he was about to break. Elmen stared at him dumbfounded as he thought. Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei observed as his wings under his hat refused to move. Normally in a situation like this, they would be flat as he was sure his own were. Elmen stood up to assert dominance.

"Before he left, Colcourtay."

Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei was quick with his rebuttal, though.

"Then why would he leave after you gave him privilege?"

"Because he was power hunger for what I wouldn't give him."

"Was he power hungry to return this power to someone else perhaps?"

Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei finally paused as he felt his watery tears finally streak down his face. Elmen had nothing to say at this point, though, and he was ready for Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei to slander him.

"Elmen, did you or did you not try to kill me?"

Elmen leaned slightly back in shock of the question.

"w-what..?"

His voice slightly shook.

"Let me explain all of it to you, if you don't remember," Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei spoke seriously and firmly with commands in his tone, "You tried to take my Wakfu, didn't you?"

"I might have once or twice, but it was for your good! You were over flowing with power and I know you remember the period of time when you were very sick... right before you... left," Elmen reminded him.

"Oh, when I was sick? I only saw you there once or twice and you always had a strange flower-shaped pouch on you, but I never saw you leave. I would always pass out," Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei said back.

"You had Ylucest. It happens to every going Eliatrope going into their twenties. You just had yours early and I was trying a solution before it killed your completely! You weren't nearly ready for the power boost it gave you!" Elmen yelled still slightly shocked.

"I never got a power boost, liar."

"Only because I took it from you so that Ylucest didn't kill you after. You were young, Ralo."

Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei sat in silence a moment. He began to cry as he thought of those times when he sat sick in bed experiencing the unstopping fiery feeling of the pain as his Wakfu dashed around his body wildly at the time.

"Sure I was, Elmen, sure I was," he whispered as he walked slowly toward the Zaap of which they came through.

"Ralocolcourtay, don't leave..!" Ellen tried to stop as he ran over to the Zaap himself. Coilcarairanmieianzenmarlei had already gone through.

"He... he actually didn't listen... He's going to be beat up by the Torntam soon, and I won't dare stop them." Elmen was enraged at his idiocy and foolishness. He picked up a microphone that would send a message to the entire Torntam.

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