Chapter 30:

Chapter 21(Part 2) - Hypnotize?

Shadowed Love


“This place never changed.” She commented, making Hazuka look at her and memories from years ago flashed in his mind. He was about to reply but Lily started to run towards the restaurant, “Jahy!” she called out while waving her hand at the person they were looking for.

Jahy was about to leave his restaurant when that familiar young voice, shouting his name casually from behind, made him flinch. What happened to the ‘uncle’?

“Lily.” he turned around and Lily immediately grabbed her hands. “We need to talk.” She said and pulled him to the spot where they had eaten earlier.

“Huh? About what?” he said when they sat. Lily and Hazuka were sitting in front of him.

“We need your help about something.” Lily said and looked at him seriously.

“About what?”

“Uhm… did you see all the members of the group earlier?” Lily asked him, she needed to take it slow or he would misunderstand something.

“Yes?” Jahy was really puzzled. What are all these about?

“Did you see that girl who looks like she has the second brightest personality after me?” Lily described Catte as what she had observed earlier since people also saw her.

“So? What about her?” Jahy asked and thought ‘so it’s about that girl’.

“She’s a human.” That simple sentence was enough to make Jahy’s heart beat faster. He couldn’t contain his excitement and repeated,

“A human?”

“Yes.” Lily said while smiling. But that smile disappeared when she added, “And I’m hoping you didn’t forget about the curse.”

“Ah…. That fucking curse.” Jahy’s eyes also dropped and felt disappointed, but there was still an ounce of excitement left in him. He just felt disappointed because that girl might have had a goal to accomplish in this world.

“Lily, with your ability, I assume she crossed the barrier by accident?” He asked her and Lily nodded sadly.

“She also knew it and was about to bid goodbye, but since our vampire friends thought she was also a vampire, one of them was driven with excitement and pulled her inside. It was already too late to grab her back.” She explained what just happened earlier.

“That is why we need your help.” Hazuka added while looking directly at Jahy.

“How exactly do you think I will be of help?” he asked them. He specialized in cooking, so he didn’t think cooking would be of help to a human whose memories were replaced.

“Uh… is there any chance you can bring her memory back?” Lily asked him back.

“No, I can’—“ he didn’t finish what he was going to say when Hazuka cut him off.

“Don’t lie to me, Jahy my boy.” Jahy gave him a puzzled look, so Hazuka added, “Didn’t you come from a family specializing in hypnotizing?”

His words made him flinch and dumb-founded. He had been pursuing his cooking career that he had forgotten about the hypnotizing ability from his mother's side. They were all great hypnotizers and he was not an exemption.

“Uh… you want me to hypnotize her?” he said and pointed at himself, so the two nodded with determination.

“But hypnotizing won’t bring her memories back.” He said, the truth. However, Hazuka and Lily both know about it already, so they are not shocked and saddened.

“But it might spark something and slap her.” Lily replied, ‘slap’ meaning that it would slap her to wake her up and get some of her memories back.

“Oh, okay. But did you ask her for permission?” he asked, and the two just stiffly sat on their seats. He sighed in disbelief and was about to take back his agreement when Lily talked.

“We will ask her tomorrow night.” She said, she wouldn’t just sit and let the agreement drop. She needs to make an excuse or extension.

“All right, tomorrow night then. But…” he looked at Hazuka and Lily with raised eyebrows and an interrogating gaze.

“But?” the two repeated.

“Why did you call me Uncle earlier when you arrived and suddenly dropped it now?” he asked, making Lily laugh in relief.

“That’s because I am great.” She joked but Jahy broke it, “Stop it, that won’t work on me anymore.”

“Hahahaha, that’s because they don’t know what happened years ago, so you are my uncle in front of them, okay?” she said, her tone joking but her eyes looked serious.

“You won’t even bother telling them?” he asked her.

“I will tell them when I need to and when the time comes.” She just replied with contentment and made him think that her past might have really affected her and that she was having a hard time opening up her past to them.

She must have really trusted and liked this group that she didn’t want to break her past to them, thinking that it may result in separation.

“Hazuka.” She just blurted out Hazuka’s name, sounding like she was calling him. But she just somehow knew what Jahy was thinking and meant that it was all okay since she has Hazuka now and she trusts her precious gang.

She really meant what she said and would break her past to the group once the time comes.

continue next chapter~

A/N: hi! sorry for the short part of chapter 21, im getting the hang of my work and i might get back to my usual daily sched after maybe 2 weeks? but i still dont know! like this if youre not a bot hehe, by the way, thank you so much for reading my story!