[There isn’t an issue with it, but it’s a catastrophic situation, Host.]
‘…Explain,’ Ryuk, who was hardly controlling his anger with his fingers tapping on the ground, paused upon hearing the words from the system inquiring.
[That ability calls you father.]
‘Huh?’ Instantly, all the pressure emitting from his body vanished as Ryuk, seated, blinked with his eyes looking straight towards the bond before wanting to say something, but only asked, ‘and who is mom?’
And, of course, naturally his mind focused on the most important prospect here.
[You don’t have to fear, Host. It isn’t me.]
‘I see.’ For some reason, a feeling of relief washed over him. Setting this matter aside, he now focused on the information provided by the system, further inquiring, ‘You mentioned about it being immature. Did you find something that could be threatening about it?’
Ryuk deemed it crucial to investigate whether Shunya’s immature personality, as indicated by the system, posed a potential danger by leading to poor decision-making and unrest.
In the end, handing over control of one’s life to a childlike mind is like entrusting crucial decisions to someone who may not have the wisdom and discernment of a mature individual.
[No, it doesn’t possess any threat.]
The system replied after a short pause before mentioning something that caught Ryuk’s attention. He asked, ‘Is there something I should know about Shunya?’
[The problem is solved, Host. You can rest assured.]
‘So, you are not going to tell me?’ Ryuk’s gaze rose up to the sky, a smile beginning to form on his face. He found it amusing how the system was attempting to divert the conversation by subtly shifting the focus, as if trying to conceal something of importance.
[…]
‘Really?’ He again called out feeling that now even the system was starting to hide things from him but not having anything extra which Ryuk could do he turned his senses towards the woman approaching him.
“Are you fine?”, As Esme approached the man sitting near the pond with a rhythmic step, her white dress fluttered in the Moonlight while her golden eyes remained fixed on him.
She had come forward after changing the clothes of the women who had fallen unconscious while in a deep sleep, and she took a seat beside him.
“Yeah, not new for me” Ryuk sat with a smile visible on the open side of his mask, amber eyes looking towards the sky while pondering about the reason of that statue sealed within his body.
Aside from focusing on the system’s reluctance to reveal the full truth about Shunya, Ryuk honed in on the crucial issue – the root cause of another matter.
“I trust you, you know?” Esme noticed that his face appeared slightly hurt today without any mask of illusions needed to hide them. This made her think that he was concerned about how she saw him with another woman.
Despite that awkward situation, she trusted him enough to dismiss any doubts.
“Let’s go to the auction house first,” Ryuk ignored her words and directly proposed his thoughts about going to the auction house, leaning his body forward to stand but halted by her sudden appearance on his lap.
“You will exhaust your energy,” Ryuk held a small smile, looking at those golden pupils near him just a few inches away, trying to remind her that teleporting directly into his lap could lead to the depletion of her energy core.
“I missed you,” Esme’s hands lifted, moving towards his cheek before clasping them between her hands, with her eyes fixed on his deep ones while her finger slowly moved towards his mask, trying to take it off.
Swish
‘?!’
Even before she could remove them, the mask disappeared, leaving behind blue particles and revealing his face, which caused her one hand to cover her face with a blush, her eyes relaxing as if she saw something soothing.
thump thump
Her heart raced as she listened to the sounds of the breeze flowing through the trees, mixed with the rustling of leaves and the gentle water near the pond. Amidst the calming sounds, her heartbeat quickened, her eyes fixed on him, her hands gently touching his face.
“I need to do some work, Esme,” Ryuk allowed her hands to move all over his face while closing his eyes, reminding her of the important task at hand.
“I missed you,” Esme repeated herself in a weak tone, her speech slurring as if she were drunk. Her lips were bitten, and she looked possessively towards him, her head slightly tilted to express how much she had missed him.
During her journey to this place, she continued to push forward, moving quickly despite her depleting energy. Her mana heart kept producing energy after short intervals of rest, allowing her to meet him once more.
When he asked her to accompany those ships, she felt abandoned and decided to teleport directly from the ship while she needed to recover her mana over a distance of a hundred miles. She had to wait for a while before arriving here and found him entangled with another woman.
“I heard you, Esme. Tell me what you want?” Ryuk lifted his eyebrows as he gazed at the woman perched on his lap, her legs entwined behind him as she snuggled close to his chest.
“You,” Esme replied bluntly before leaning forward, making Ryuk’s eyes shift towards her pouted fish-like lips while her eyes never moving away from him in case he ran away.
“You seem proactive,” Ryuk mused while calming himself as he dodged her kiss and buried his face in her neck with her hair strands caressing his face.
“H-huh? Wh-what?” Esme was taken aback not by his actions of dodging her kiss and burying his face, but by feeling a sudden lift of her body, particularly the man around whom she wrapped her legs had stood from a seated position while her hands wrapped around his neck in alarm, feeling visible fear of falling down.
“If you are missing me that much, then stay here until I do the job,” Ryuk, who due to his strength, even in the seated position with his legs not in a position to lift anyone easily, stood while taking Esme with him very easily.
“N-no, Stop, it’s embarrassing!” Esme suddenly noticed Ryuk’s body starting to be surrounded by orange light, realizing that he was going to move swiftly and leave this place. Realizing that she would appear like a koala, she tightly shut her eyes.
“Just use your illusion, it’s punishment for distracting me.” Indeed, Ryuk was definitely human in the end. Having already seen Zheng Xiang’s naked state, and then Esme pouncing on him with such an open invite, caused him to be slightly distracted from his goal for the day: gathering detailed information on those people who were sold as slaves in Heindal and to which families they belonged.
The need to know the names of families was mostly for Bella, simply to analyze if someone went missing at such a tender age, then definitely some members of families were also involved.
“Kyaa~!”
Only a fading cry remained as Ryuk’s body vanished from the area, hurtling towards the center of town while holding a white koala in his arms. The koala had wrapped her legs around his waist, shut her eyes, and pressed her plumpness against his chest.
