The Princess and The Lord

Chapter 1262 The Mysterious Symbol

1262 the mysterious symbol

after the plane crash happened people were still distraught and traumatized therefore everyone was given one day off to rest before starting their activities. because of that, lory had a lot of time to examine the picture zhao li xin gave her.

lory started looking for old scriptures from all the sources he could find on the internet unfortunately after hours of searching she didn't get anything even though lory had predicted this but still, this made her disappointed because it meant the picture that zhao li xin sent was not common and lory couldn't help but worry about that. however, what bothered lory the most was her sense of familiarity with the symbols, as if she had seen them before but couldn't remember where.

suddenly there was a knock on her room, lory frowned for a moment and then walked to the door she peeked through the peephole before making sure it was garrof and lloyd a second later lort opened the door wide "come on in," she raised her hand to invite them in.

"good evening, sorry disturbed your rest," lloyd politely greeted her.

"don't worry, i'm not..." lory beckoned them to enter then closed the door.

lory walked around the table and then dropped her butt onto the chair while on the table the laptop screen and lory's tablet continued to move which meant lory was automatically searching on the internet.

"have you eaten your highness?" garrof notices her tired face.

"yes," lory pointed with her gaze at the small table next to the window.

garrof raised his brows and then said: "cake is not a meal, princess"

"you sound like my husband" lory rolled her eyes.

"well, thank you" garrof was sincerely flattered to have something in common with someone poised and cultured like zhao li xin.

lory took a deep breath even though she hated to admit it she did need a nice meal since she hadn't eaten anything since landing.

lory picked up the room telephone and then called room service to order food after that she leaned back in her chair later on she let out a heavy sigh. garrof saw lory immersed in her thoughts thus he got curious.

"something bothering you, princess?" garrof ask. lory's brows furrowed, "li xin sent me strange symbols and signs that look like spells, but i don't know what kind of spell these are"

"can i see it?" garrof asked.

"sure" lory handed her phone to garrof.

garrof checked lory's cell phone "huh, why do i feel like i've seen this symbol before?... yeah i think i had seen this before, but where?"

"let me see" lloyd took lory's cell phone from garrof and then examined the picture carefully after a while his brows furrowed "yes, i've seen some of these symbols before, especially this flower symbol..." lloyd enlarged the symbol to show lory. "you've seen this symbol too, princess...don't you remember?"

lory took the phone with a confused look "what? where?"

"this woman named serena, can we trust her? you said she's from dolza, does she have anything to do with the s.a.i.n.t. organization?" said lory worriedly.

"well, serena was exiled from dolza because of a journal article she wrote, even though she was offered a hefty amount of money to withdraw her article and denounce it as fantasy or something but of course she refused, a stubborn woman like her would never do that even you put gun on her head" garrof laughed.

lloyd snorted "and it did, you know she almost died a few times because of this and after they destroyed her entire reputation and hard work she had no other choice but to live in hiding until now."

garrof's eyes twinkled as he teased him "and you said you didn't care about it"

"that's not what i meant..." lloyd grumbled.

"why was she exiled just because of that?" lory was perplexed.

garrof clicks his tongue in annoyance "after the dark war ended, luxemborough and dolza used this to blame the dark age war on the lucient family because the lucient family's influence after the war even exceeded that of their previous generation, and that scared them.

they didn't want the only flaw they could use and manipulate to disappear just like that, they couldn't let this happen so that's why they used all means to ruin serena's reputation, some people even tried to kill her, but thankfully, she wasn't an easy woman to get rid off"

"they had to ruin lucient's reputation because that was the only way they could appear as a virtuous organization - the savior of the new world - the saintess and the holly knights paladin, in the end, everything was just one big farce!" lloyd snorted disdainfully.

"can we contact serena to see how far the investigation is going?" lori asked.

"i think it would be easier if lloyd made the call." garrof's eyes fell on lloyd.

lloyd pursed his lips and pouted, "why me?" he complained.

"well, you know how moody she is, she might not answer my call when she's not in the mood but if it's you she'll pick it up before the phone rings twice," even though garrof sounded like he was teasing lloyd but his expression showed confidence.

of course, lloyd will not trust him, "shut up, you just messed with me!" lloyd huffed.

"well if you don't believe me..." garrof took out his cell phone then proceeded to make a call after the call connected garrof waited...and waited...kept waiting he checked his phone as he waited but still no one answered not long after the sounds of disconected were heard.mgarrof closed the phone and then said, "see..."

under garrof and lory's eyes, lloyd reluctantly took out his phone but then realized he didn't have serena's phone number "wait, what's her number"? instantly a 'ding' sound was heard.

"i've sent it to you!" garrof looks ecstatic as if waiting for a good show to happen.

garrof reaction made lory curious even more thus she also waited expectantly, meanwhile, lloyd glared at garrof as he proceeded to make the call, a moment later the sound of a dial tone was heard once, and shortly after the phone answered.

"hey, darling you finally called me~" a sultry voice coming from behind the phone.

lory's eyebrows rose in surprise while garrof threw an 'i told you so,' expression at lloyd.