60 Is He Hibernating Or Something? (1/2)
In another continent, the man Arima had let go previously, was meeting with another person which seemed to be a king of some country.
The time Arima met him, the man had a disguise on, right now, his true appearance was revealed, he was a young-looking man, with dull dark eyes, his hair was gray and he wore black clothes with a jacket.
”What do you mean you couldn't do it?!” The king he was meeting with, shouted in indignation.
”It's like I said, we stumbled upon a man who stopped the whole operation” The other party responded with his indifferent voice.
”Don't fool me, Arister! You're a Z rank! Why do you think I asked you to do that?!” The king shouted.
The Z rank, Arister, suddenly released his aura and closed the mouth of that king ”Don't play too much with me, I accepted your request because you payed for it, but I failed, that's all” He said with a cold voice, he took out a certain number of s.h.i.+ning golds and threw it on the ground.
”I give you back the payment, I can't accept it when I failed my mission, that's for sure. But I won't accept anything from you anymore, that guy let me go by saying to me to stop doing this” He started talking about Arima.
”Basically, he let me go, let me live, at the condition that I stop my contract with you” He said and turned around to leave ”Don't try anything to me, I can easily destroy your country alone” He teleported away and the king fell on his knees exhausted.
He gritted his teeth and shouted a name.
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The same day, in the Inn's restaurant.
”What did you do?” Lilis asked Arima with a look that made think like she was about to lecture him ”Weren't you supposed to enjoy a day with Lanya? Why did you release two magics like that? You also used Time, right? And you even resurrected them? Before even asking how the h.e.l.l you can restore a soul and reconnect it to its body, why did you use it so openly? Do you want the G.o.ds to attack you even earlier?” She started drowning him with a barrage of questions. She seemed to be a bit too much caring of that, after her talk with Night.
Arima was looking away while Lanya smiled wryly ”It's okay, he saved a great number of lives, you know?” She tried to calm Lilis.
The latter sighed and looked at her, the she saw what was pending at Lanya's neck. She saw the beautiful purple necklace. She widened her eyes, she quickly grabbed Lanya by her shoulder and dragged her to a corner of the place.
”Did he actually give you that?” Lilis asked after putting a sound proof barrier, escaping from Arima's senses, wasn't so easy as only moving away from him.
Lanya smiled and held the pendant in her hand ”Yes, he actually made it in front of me” She said
”Seriously?” Lilis was shocked, she just proposed the idea of going with Lanya for a day, because she wanted to talk to Night alone. Never did she expect that Arima would actually do a date-like thing ”Can I see it for a moment?” Lilis asked Lanya after she observed the pendant closer.
Lanya nodded and gave it to her, when Lilis grabbed the necklace it transformed into a purple light that flew back to Lanya's neck, and reformed as a pendant.
Lilis was looking in daze at her empty hand ”…Semi-transcendental…” She muttered in shock and laughed wryly ”That pendant was refined by Karma, right?” She asked to Lanya.
The latter tilted her head, then thought about the drop that fell from Karma on the pendant, in the end, she nodded.
”I won't say to you to care of it, because it's most likely that necklace that will take care of you. As it's bound to your soul, you'll also never lose it” She said and dispelled the sound proof barrier. She started walking back toward Arima ”It will protect you” She said.
Lanya looked at her pendant one more time then remembered something. She walked quickly toward Night who was eating on the table ”Master, here” She handed at him the pendant with the dragon wings.
Night's eyes widened and took the pendant with his magic, he then became a light that flew to his neck. As Arima could do it, Night could also bound some things to his soul.
Night glanced at the pendant at his neck ”Thank you Lanya” He said and Lanya smiled.
”Well that's good and all, but I still have three days to spend in boredom” Arima commented and everyone looked at him blankly.
”Why don't you just sleep then?” Lanya, Lilis and Night said at the same time. Arima fell silent and silently took out a cake and ate it. He finished eating and stood up, he disappeared and directly reappeared on his bed.
”…He actually will do that” Night said and the two others looked back at him.
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The next day, Lilis and Lanya left the Inn together. While Night stayed, he befriended the owner of the Inn and just lazed around while eating and talking with him. As expected, Arima just slept.
The same day, a middle-aged man wearing some flashy clothes entered then Inn ”Where is Arimane Blade?” And asked to the owner which already had knelt down in front of the man, apparently, because of his ident.i.ty.
”Who are you? And what do you want with him?” Night asked before the owner could say something.
The man frowned and looked at the wolf cub that was sitting on a table ”How does small a beast like you dares to talk with me in such a way? I'm Jerio, oldest prince of Center City” He presented.
Night frowned, his pupils changed to the one's of a dragon ”Repeat that” He said coldly.
The prince froze and began sweating, he bowed almost instantly ”Sorry! Please don't kill me!” He shouted. The owner and all the customers of the Inn looked wide eyed at the oldest prince bowing to a small wolf cub.
That prince wasn't actually haughty or something, his character was just like that. Also, his strength was only at the ninth level, so he took the full blow of the threat of a tenth level dragon who had an earthen realm body.
Night sighed and his eyes changed back ”I'm the soul beast of the one you're looking for. What do you want?” He then asked.
”Yes” Jerio said and obediently sat at the same table Night was on ”Your summoner helped my brother and sister through an ordeal yesterday, I'm here to thank him and bring him to the castle” He said with a straightened back.