Chapter 149: Chapter 149
“Come this way, the elevator has been prepared”, said one of the guards. The male guard nodded, and he led Eru inside the door, revealing a cubic space that looked a lot like a lift back on Earth to Eru. “This is like on the Adventurers Guild?” Eru asked. The male guard nodded, “It’s the same model. After all, the lift was made in combination with Sylphid Academy and our D/D”, he explained.
The lift took Eru and the male guard right in front of the manor’s main entrance, where the long elevator was located. After that, Eru was led inside by the male guard, and once they were inside, the male guard spoke to one of the staff inside the manor before turning towards Eru, “My job ended here, Mr Eru. If you need anything, please speak to him. It has been a pleasure accompanying you”, he said, leaving Eru alone with a young male servant. The young servant had short, blue hair with facial features that one would define as common.
“Right this way, please, sir”, the young male servant led Eru towards his room. “If you ever need anything, please push the button right below the light switch”, the young male servant bowed politely before leaving Eru in his room. Eru observed his room, finding that it was quite expensive. “Yes, expensive is the right word I would use to describe the room” Eru rubbed his chin. Eru removed his backpack, throwing it right on the massive king-sized bed before laying there himself.
“Now, what?” Eru rested his hands behind his head.
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Inside the mayor’s mansion, the man with a curly moustache paced back and forth inside his office, his expression unsightly as he did not know what to do. “Damn it, damn it, damn it”, the man with a curly moustache said, “Why did my son turn like that?” Then, as the man with a curly moustache was worriedly pacing back and forth inside his office, a figure cloaked in black appeared inside of his office, staring at the man with a curly moustache intensely. “What are you doing?” the cloaked figure said, his tone was deep.
“Oh, perfect timing, sir”, the man with a curly moustache quickly walked in front of the cloaked figure and kneeled in front of him, “You got to help me, please.” The cloaked figure’s gaze landed on the kneeling man with a curly moustache in front of him, and he snarled with disdain, “What did you do?” he asked; his stare was frightening to the man with a curly moustache. “P-please help me, sir”, the man with a curly moustache said, his knees trembling and his voice stuttering, “M-my son, there was something wrong with my son.”
“What’s wrong?” the figure cloaked in black asked. “I-it’s like this”, the man with a curly moustache began to narrate what had happened previously with him and his son. “You mean to say that your son’s personality just changed suddenly?” the figure cloaked in black clarified. The man with a curly moustache repeatedly nodded, “Y-yes, yes, it’s like that. What should I do? At this rate, he was going to come back to that weak personality of his”, he bit his lower lips, and his tone was filled with trepidation and worry.
“Hmm”, the figure cloaked in black placed his hand on his chin, “That is worrying”, he said. “Yes, exactly what you said, sir. That is worrying”, the man with a curly moustache gritted his teeth. “If this goes on, the seed inside of my son’s body won’t mature to what we wanted it to be”, the man with a curly moustache said. The figure cloaked in black snorted, “Tch, it was already done by the time your son lost his right arm.” The man with a curly moustache flinched, “Then, what should we do?”
“We? What do you mean we?” the figure cloaked in black said with disdain, “You don’t need to do anything for this. I’ll clean up your mess and explain it to the higher up. Just continue to make the guild master busy.” After that, the figure cloaked in black approached the window, opening it and turning his head at the man with a curly moustache. The figure cloaked in black glared menacingly towards the man with a curly moustache, “Do your job properly this time”, he barked, “I can’t believe you lost our only insurance on the guild master.”
After saying what he wanted to say, the figure cloaked in black jumped out from the window, disappearing from the man with a curly moustache’s sight. “Grr”, the man with a curly moustache snarled, “Just you wait, Alexandro!” he mumbled; his whole body trembled as a terrifying aura came out from his body.
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“Achoo!” a man with a goatee suddenly sneezed as he was about to fall asleep. “Who’s talking bad about me?” the goatee-man, Alexandro, got up from the sofa before scratching his head, “What a drag”, he sighed. Then, Alexandro picked up a glass before pouring some sort of black water into it. “Gulp~”, Alexandro drank the black water, his face contorted, “As expected. No matter how many times I drank this thing called soda, I would never get used to this taste.”
Alexandro twirled the glass in his hand, “However, this thing really is addicting to taste. Even though I don’t like how it tastes.” Alexandro put down the glass gently before letting out a sigh once again, “Oh, my beloved Syndra, I’m sorry that we had to part this way. Even though you always thought that Sylphid’s government was just, I knew otherwise. That shitty mayor was holding you hostage, using some strange power that bound you to this city. It took me three years to break you free from that damned thing before sending you away from this place.”
Alexandro’s eyes changed colour into bright purple as he clenched his fists tightly, “I promise you, Syndra, my beloved, that upon your return, Sylphid City will be cleansed by this very hands of mine.”
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“Ah, this is life”, Eru said with a smile as he enjoyed himself inside of a massive bath. “How the hell did Duncan fit this many features? How big is this mansion?” Eru pondered as he submerged himself in the comfort of the bath. “I wouldn’t mind having a mansion like this back home” Eru looked up to the starry sky since the bath inside of Duncan’s mansion had an open roof. Eru sighed, “How rich must one be to have a massive building on top of another massive building?” Eru shook his head, “Even back on Earth, there’s not many people did have this privilege.”
“Earth? What is that, teacher? Is that where you came from?” suddenly, a naked, dark-skinned woman appeared behind Eru with a towel warping her body. “What the hell!?” Eru jumped up, startled, “Why are you here!?” Eru yelled. The dark-skinned woman was, of course, Sydney. She tilted her head slightly to the left, “What? Can I not come here? What’s wrong with bathing with one’s own teacher? From where I came from, a teacher is the same as a parent”, she said. “What!?” Eru composed himself, “I did not teach you much, you know”, he sighed.
Sydney smiled, “It did not matter. A teacher for a day is a teacher for life. Besides, you defeated my father. In our custom, whenever you did that, you have the qualification to approach me”, she said while puffing out her well-amped chest. Eru facepalmed, “So you will not leave no matter whatever I said?” Sydney shook her head, “No. I resolved myself in accompanying teacher tonight”, she said, “Look, I even brought out alcohol.” Eru let out a sigh of exasperation, “Then, I will leave.” After that, Eru left in a flash, leaving a dumbfounded Sydney with a bottle of alcohol in her hands.
After a little incident back on the bath, an attendant invited Eru for dinner with Duncan and his family. Being polite, Eru accepted the invite before changing to a fancy outfit that was given to him earlier today. The dinner went by like what Eru had imagined it to be. It was like those scenes in the movies, with Duncan and his family sitting close to each other with a long and luxurious table separating them, Eru and Long. Eru laughed, particularly when Long asked about the table.
“Isn’t it an inconvenience having dinner with a long table like this?”
Duncan let out a small chuckle, “It is, yes. But it wouldn’t be proper etiquette having dinner with our guest on our usual dinner table.”
After that, Duncan and his family began to chat with Eru and Long. When Damian yawned, it signalled the end of the dinner and Eru bid farewell to Duncan, his family and Long. Eru hadn’t decided that he was going to stay here and wanted to look around more. As Eru walked down the garden by the entrance, suddenly the lights around him went off briefly. When the lights lit up again, Eru found that he was surrounded by multiple figures clad entirely in black.
“Prepare to die!”
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