Ken and Andrew approached the house, which was present almost 100 meters away. Meanwhile, the others followed them.

  “The air here is pure, no traffic, and the scenery around here is also stunning. What more do people need?” said Harkey, viewing the place.

  Lucera and her friends felt the same as they walked with conversations going on.

  “Did we come here just to feel this atmosphere? Or you have some other plans,” asked Harkey while walking.

  “Well, this place alone is not our trip; we would still go somewhere else,” Galen told.

  “But for now, let’s just enjoy this place,” added Galen.

  “How could someone live here separate from our region?” Ken wondered.

  They saw several sheep around the house when they were nearby.

  “Wow, I have never seen this many sheep,” Andrew said as his excitement level went up.

  The reaction was the same for Ken and others when they saw it.

  The house was a classical one; it was brown and looked like it had been built several years ago.

  “You knock on the door,” said Ken.

  “You do it,” replied Andrew.

  They started arguing until Lucera saw this and knocked on the door herself.

  “You guys are useless,” said Lucera.

  “She called me useless. How can this trip be more hurtful than this?” Ken thought.

  Even if she knocked on the door, no one came from inside to open it. They waited for like 10 seconds before Ken, “Let us go in by ourselves,” opened the door.

  What they saw was surprising to say the least. They saw a clean house with no electronic devices.

  The house had a fireplace at the right end, an ancient clock present at the top, and a mysterious box which looked ancient at the left end.

  Everyone was shocked to see it as they went inside.

  “Who are you?” a voice came from the entrance.

  Andrew turned back quicker than anyone and said, “I am Andrew, and these are my friends.”

  “We knocked on the door, no one opened it, so we came inside, I am sorry,” he apologized.

  After seeing him, everyone else also apologized to the old man.

  “I forgive you all, it’s been a long time since we had guests over here,” the old man said.

  “Who are these guys?” an old lady asked as she entered the house.

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  “These are our guests, Eira,” the old man told.

  “Old man, what’s your name?” asked Ken.

  “I am Nils Janelt, and she’s my wife Eira,” he introduced them to all.

  Then everyone introduced themselves to the old man and the old lady.

  “So only you two are living here, right?” Andrew asked them.

  “Yes, we have last left this place twenty-five years ago,” the old lady said.

  “What do you eat daily?” Harkey asked one of the crucial questions.

  “I would go fishing, which is nearby, and we grow crops here,” said Janelt.

  “That’s amazing, but it feels lonely, right?” asked Violet.

  “Yeah, but we have adapted to that feeling; it is a lot peaceful here, so we enjoy living here,” said Eira.

  Then their conversation went on until 10:00 am.

  “We love sheep; they make us feel energetic every day,” said Janelt.

  “Do you guys want something to eat?” asked Eira.

  “Yes,” everyone was excited about the food, as they hadn’t eaten breakfast yet.

  “It might not fulfil everyone here; we have only limited food, sorry,” Eira told them.

  “It’s ok, we will adjust with the food,” Galen replied, even though he would love to eat a lot as he was hungry.

  Then they ate a dish that consisted mainly of radish and carrot. The quantity of the food was less, but the quality makes up for it.

  “Our son went missing 25 years ago; your voice is closest to him,” Eira pointed at Galen.

  Everyone was stunned when they heard that.

  “What’s your son’s name? What happened 25 years ago?” Yucio asked with some curiosity.

  “His name was Hendrik; he was a vice commander, and after that great war, he went missing,” said Eira.

  “Did he—” Andrew tried asking something.

  “After the war, he came here injured and stayed for two weeks. We didn’t meet him after that,” added Eira.

  Both Eira and Janelt’s faces turned sad when they spoke about Hendrick. Ken and his friends saw that, and it made them sadder too.

  Eira talked about Hendrick’s confidence and strength. Everyone was in awe when they heard that.

  It certainly reminded them of Roger, as he is the closest one to compare with.

  After Eira spoke about her son, the house was completely silent as everyone didn’t know what to say.

  After a few minutes, Galen asked Janelt, “What is that great war?”.

  “It was a war between the region of Vaelheim and Brumalden,” told Janelt.

  “The war took place for several months before Brumalden King died,” he began revealing.

  “A total of 160,000 people died during the war. It was the recent war in this world,” he added.

  “We came here 26 years ago from Vaelheim before the war started,” he told.

  Then he revealed more about the war as that conversation went on till 11:16 am.

  “Why did no one else live here? It is a beautiful place after all,” said Ken as he was confused.

  Some people lived here when we first arrived, but that changed eventually due to an increase in leopards arriving at night.

  “Leopards? What?” Haili shouted immediately.

  Everyone else had the same reaction as her. “What is this place? We learned some crazy stuff here,” Andrew thought as the trip turned wild.

  “Then how do you live here?” Lucera asked them.

  Only then do others realize that these 2 had been living among leopards that came here at night.

  “You won’t believe this, I can speak with leopards,” Janelt dropped an even bigger shock.

  The girls started laughing, but the boys didn’t, as they could relate Janelt to someone they knew.

  “You can speak with leopards, haha,” Violet couldn’t control her laughter, just like the remaining 3.

  “Violet, shut up,” Ken shouted, clearly unhappy.

  “Why did he want to tell a lie to us? If you don’t believe this, at least don’t laugh, it will hurt them,” he added.

  The girls stopped laughing.

  They felt embarrassed for what they did and apologized to the old man Janelt.

  “I don’t intend to tell lies. If you stay here tonight, you will find out for yourself,” Janelt said.

  “We are sorry, we would like to stay tonight, but our parents won’t accept it, but we will come here again,” said Galen.

  “Will the leopards obey your orders?” asked Andrew as he wanted to confirm his internal thoughts.

  “Yes, I don’t know how, but they won’t do any damage to the house or the sheep,” replied Janelt.

  “We believe you, old man. I would love to see you speak with them, but today is the right day, it seems,” said Ken.

  It was already 11:45 am when their conversation ended. “Time for fishing, would you guys like to come?” Janelt asked them.

  “We are sorry! But we need to leave now,” Galen said before anyone replied.

  “Why, Galen? We will see him fishing,” said Ken.

  “No, the trip is not only here; we need to continue our travel soon to reach there,” Galen said.

  “Where are we going next?” asked Yucio.

  “To there,” he pointed to the place below the mountains.