Chapter 288 – Master Quartz
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After a while, they arrived in front of a building.
When you follow Limit and go inside, you will see toys lined up on shelves. From simple dolls to sophisticated robots made through magical engineering, the number was staggering.
However, Isabella did not even look at such a place and followed Limit to the counter.
There was his wife, who was in charge of the store on behalf of Limit.
“Honey…”
“Sarah. I’ll talk to the customers, so take care of the store a little longer. Isabella. Do you want to come in?”
There was a door behind the counter, but it seemed to lead to a dwelling.
Limit calmed his concerned wife, opened the door, and went inside. Isabella glanced over at her wife, and she followed.
When we reached the living room through the front door, Limit pointed to the sofa and said,
“Sit down and rest. Bring me some refreshments.”
She was the one who moved her steps into the kitchen with those words, but he couldn’t help but stop at the voice he heard.
“No. Are you okay. It won’t be long anyway.”
“… Okay. Then let’s do it.”
Isabella did not want to have her personal feelings for Limit. His disregard was a shock at the time, but it is understandable now.
She could have been helping her friend’s daughter and ruining her own family’s life.
Rather, it felt strange to try to help like this even now.
Isabella took her chair and asked Limit as she sat across from her.
“I will ask you directly. You said it’s dangerous, but what’s dangerous?”
“… You’re asking about that too. First of all, to tell this story, I must explain the day you disappeared.”
Limit closed his eyes, took a breath, swallowed his saliva, and continued.
“First of all, the fire that broke out in your house that day. It is true that Martin Rougester caused it. I was trying to find a keepsake left by your grandfather.”
“A keepsake? What was it that Martin Rougester started the fire for?”
Isabella was surprised to learn of the existence of the memento, which she hadn’t even told her granddaughter about, and that even Martin Lou Jester coveted it.
And she could also know that the reason she was called here had something to do with it.
Limit answered her question.
“… It’s Master Quartz. I was trying to find the masterquartz that your grandfather used.”
“Master Quartz? But wasn’t it destroyed in the fight with Austin Chevrons? She must have heard that…”
Master Quartz.
It is a god made in the Hunter District.
Made only for her grandfather, Dominic Martinez, it has the effect of strengthening telekinesis and reducing brain load.
That’s why Martin Rougester, who uses the same telekinesis, may have coveted it even more.
Seeing Isabella’s expression of incomprehension, Limit shook her head.
“No. Masterquartz wasn’t broken. It’s just that your grandfather lost his powers because he couldn’t use psychic powers.”
“What do you mean? Does it have anything to do with your grandfather’s psychic shock attacks?”
“Okay. Masterquartz unites with its owner. Of course, it is natural that you lose your strength under the influence of your grandfather, who has become no different from a normal person.”
Isabella was convinced. Right now, even if it’s just her divine power she received from Ignis Magna a while ago, it’s because her will is tremendously affected.
But at the same time, questions arose.
It was how Limit knew these important facts.
When asked about it, he replied with a bitter face.
“My father designed the master quartz. Thanks to you, I found out.”
“… I see. So, is Masterquartz already in the hands of Martin Rougester?”
“Right. It’s just that your grandfather didn’t seem to be able to use what he had written. That’s why I said it was dangerous. He intends to catch you and interrogate you.”
Her grandfather would not have disabled the MasterQuartz without thinking. Perhaps the key to unraveling the mystery lies with Isabella.
Limit was worried about that, so he was thinking of persuading him to leave immediately.
What he doesn’t know is that the reason Isabella came back here in the first place was because he called.
Isabella flatly refused.
“No. I’m not going back. Now that this is the case, I have to take Master Quartz with me.”
“What are you talking about! How do you take it I know you’re greedy, but calm down! If things go wrong with you, you won’t be able to see your father!”
Limit rushed to stop Isabella, blinded by her greed, as if he thought she was pushing her to commit suicide.
However, she evaded her touch with a simple movement and tilted her head as if dumbfounded.
“Mister. I know what you’re thinking, but I don’t want to die. I’m not going to do anything nice for him. I am saying that I will go because I am confident. All right?”
“Ha, but how…”
Limit’s expression didn’t improve despite the rant. Instead, Isabella nervously lit a spark in her hand as she looked at the patient with the delusional disease.
Its size is not very large, but the magic that dwells there is so huge that it can swallow even a huge building at once.
Limit, as befits the son of the craftsman who created the Shinki, was astonished when he felt a fragment of Isabella’s power.
“That… Definitely great. But it’s not just Martin Rougester. Too bad.”
His words are right. She was a confident Isabella who wouldn’t lose if it was 1:1, but there’s no way she would fight so fair, so Limit couldn’t help but worry about her.
Isabella hesitated for a moment, then she slightly turned her head and glanced sideways at her warming, she said awkwardly.
“… It’s okay because I have friends too.”
“You mean these people?”
“Yes. Especially since this man here is stronger than me.”
Isabella’s cheeks were red, perhaps ashamed of calling her a colleague. She can’t face the warm eyes of the party and she changes the topic.
And Limit realized one fact through such a series of processes.
‘I’m doing well now.’
Even when she was living in Hunter Town, she was a child who acted as if her emotions had disappeared in the dark.
Besides, if she had an ally whom she trusted enough to admit without hesitation that she was stronger than she, she might really be able to handle Martin Lou Jester.
Limit admits he made a mistake and lets Isabella go.
After following her through her toy store, her party immediately moved toward the Martin Lou Jester’s mansion, which was written in her letter.
Gaon stood side by side and asked.
“By the way, didn’t you say you also have your parents’ keepsakes?”
“It did. But maybe it’s a lie. I collected all my parents’ mementos. Now, I have them displayed in the house you saved. Martin Rougester wouldn’t have stole anything he didn’t need.”
“Thank god. Then let’s go right away. To get the Master Quartz back.”
Now, all you have to do is defeat Martin Rougester without any complications.
Isabella clenched her fists at the thought that she could finally get the revenge she had been procrastinating on.
***
Tick! Tick!
In the quiet study, only the ticking of the clock ticked quietly.
In the center was a figure.
Martin Rougester.
The rival of Dominic Martinez, the first and last EX-class hunter, and the current strongest player in Hunter Town, he fiddled with the silver pendant while recalling the report he had just received.
“Today I become a transcendentalist.”
Isabella Martinez. The hateful descendant of the Martinez family is now looking for him.
Limit Clark may not know it, but his eyes and ears are scattered around him.
From the moment the two met, he had already been briefed on everything.
Seeing him coming to see him even after meeting him, the young girl seemed quite confident, but it was regrettable.
I don’t know how he got that much power, but in the end it couldn’t reach him.
No matter what kind of existence it is, in the end, it cannot go against time.
Click!
Martin Rougester opened the lid of the pendant and peered inside. Numerous devices were put together with delicate and sophisticated technology to represent the time.
However, the hour and second hands stood still as if they were out of order and did not think to move.
“You bother me until the very end. Dominic.”
Perhaps if he had gotten word of the Masterquartz a little sooner, he might have already had this power in his grasp.
He never dreamed that he would squeeze his energy right before he died to seal it like this.
At first, it was as if my heart stopped.
How to find a little girl who ran away from the village five years ago. She’s not even sure if she’ll ever be alive.
Fortunately, Isabella Martinez was alive, and news of her was quickly found.
Thanks to that, she was just waiting for her to reach her leisurely now.
Tick! Click! Tick! Click!
I kept opening and closing the pendant to the sound of the clock’s second hand. It was an effort to reduce nervousness in its own way.
She was afraid that Isabella Martinez would suddenly change her mind and she would run away.
Time passed helplessly in such worries.
And just when his anxiety swelled to the brink of bursting, an unfamiliar presence entered his psyche.
A total of 6 people had considerable power, but at the forefront was the person he had been waiting for.
“Here you are.”
Awakening, Martin Rougester opened the door and came out to greet him.
As he passed the corridor, he ran into her subordinate who was running to report, but he moved in a straight line to Isabella without even giving him a glance.
After passing through the central porch and halfway across the garden, Martin Rougester finally had Martinez’ last descendant in front of his eyes.
“It’s been a while.”
“… Where are the keepsakes of my grandfather and parents?”
Even though she already knew it was a trap, Isabella was the first to bite it.
Martin Rougester laughed happily.
“You mean Master Quartz? That I have Fortunately, it didn’t run away with its tail curled up. Courage is imaginary It is extraordinary.”
“… I didn’t come here to hear your compliments. Give it up. It’s not something you should have.”
Haha! So are you deserving? Do you have psychic powers at the level of bugs?”
Most of Isabella’s power comes from the magic she has learned. Her psychic powers were nothing more or less than merely assistive.
Unlike Dominic, who was born with her transcendent telekinetic power enough to distort even space from the moment she awakened, Isabella’s level was barely A-class.
She is, of course, bound to be laughable as Martin Lou Jester.
But Isabella didn’t even blink.
“I admit that I am lacking. But still, wouldn’t it be better than a thief? This is the inspiration.”
“Dare…”
Martin Rougester gritted his teeth.
Although he seeks power with the intention of taking all the blame, he is not immune to his own ugliness.
When it is pointed out in front of her, no matter how hard she is, her emotions are bound to be disturbed.
Deed deed…
The whole garden began to shake.
The uncontrollable and leaking power touches the leylines and causes an earthquake. His telekinesis was enough to move an entire mountain.
As if Isabella didn’t need her long words, she straight away spread her wings and she cast her own magic.
And the moment their eyes cross each other,
Kwaaaaang!
As the two forces collided, a terrible shockwave overturned the garden.
It was the moment when the battle between the two families, who had been competing for the pinnacle of one world, began.
