“Hey you hick…
Your eyes just… hick… turned golden…”
“…”
Kael stayed silent. The man, however, extended his hands towards him, wanting to remove his cloak,
“You have golden eyes, let me see.”
“You are drunk.”
Kael spoke. The scent of alcohol made him scrunch his nose in disgust.
“Of course I am drunk! Why else would I be roaming out in the night!? This is the only time that demoness is asleep and I can do whatever I want!”
The man snapped.
“Demoness…?”
Kael raised his eyebrow.
“My wife!”
“Right…”
Kael nodded.
“Why do you sound like you don’t believe me?”
The man narrowed his eyes, getting even closer to Kael, making it difficult for him to breathe.
“What is there to not believe?”
“That my wife is a demon!
She is a demon, I tell you!!”
“Oh? Is that your wife? She indeed looks like a demon, like you said.”
Suddenly, Kael pointed in a random direction, and in an instant, the man’s eyes widened in horror.
“W-What? Where? And how dare you call my wife a demon, you bastard!? Who do you think you a—”
The man instantly turned silent as he realized no one was standing in the direction Kael pointed.
“You! Are you blind—”
He turned back to face Kael, but Kael was nowhere to be found.
Yes, he had escaped.
‘Interesting human.’
Imperia commented as Kael continued to walk towards the gate.
“Interesting indeed.”
Kael chuckled as well.
He was walking as fast as he could since he knew he didn’t have much time left, and this time, he was actively avoiding others. He had enough of his human interaction for the day.
In about 30 minutes, he was in front of the gates.
But now, he was facing another problem.
The gates were closed, and six guards guarded them. Kael couldn’t just pass through without alerting them.
Fighting the guards wasn’t an option either. According to what he knew, these guards had artifacts that would instantly inform the Palace if something out of the ordinary happened. If a fight broke out, their Bonds would also come out, buying them the time they needed to activate the artifact.
He couldn’t ride Igni either since he would attract too much attention.
Yes, Kael realized now that he would be leaving the Royal Palace’s protection, he would need to bring out Igni eventually, but he couldn’t do that right now. Not when he was still in the Royal Capital.
‘Me! Me! Father! Let me!’
Suddenly, Vitaria called out in an excited tone.
“What?”
Kael frowned.
‘Let me help!’
“How are you going to help?”
‘Just let me out!’
Vitaria spoke up. Kael shrugged as he opened the portal, and very quickly, the adorable fox walked out with a ‘foxy grin’ on her face.
“Hehe~”
She laughed as she stared at the six guards. Her purple eyes shined with a playful light, which, for some reason, made Kael pity the guards in front of him.
…
“Haaawwwhhh!”
Mason, who was guarding the Capital gates, yawned lazily. His shift was about to end, and he was looking forward to returning to his home and getting some sleep.
But suddenly, he saw a figure walking towards him. He turned towards the second guard standing next to him. The two frowned. Mason turned back towards the figure, and as it got closer, he recognized her.
“Riana?”
He called out.
“Riana? What’s your wife doing here at this time?”
Noah, the second guard, questioned with a frown on his face.
“…how do you know she is my wife?”
Mason frowned.
“…because you never stop talking about her?”
Noah answered after a slight pause, almost as if he needed time to think of an excuse.
“Stop lying, I have never once talked about my wife at work.”
Mason narrowed his eyes.
“You did. You mentioned her name two weeks ago.”
Noah was confident.
“And why do you remember it so well?”
“What do you mean? I just do.”
“So you just do…?”
“Yes. I have a good memory.”
Noah nodded.
“What was I talking about?”
Mason suddenly questioned.
“Huh? What?”
“You have a good memory, do you not? What was I talking about when I mentioned my wife’s name?”
“Y-You were talking about how the two of you were having a fight because you two couldn’t decide on your newly born daughter’s name. She wanted to name her Lysa, and you wanted to name her Iara.”
“And I told you this two weeks ago?”
Mason raised his eyebrow.
“You did.”
Noah was still confident, but then,
“My daughter was born 5 days ago, and I had this fight 2 days later. Also, I never liked the name Iara. I liked Lysa more. I just wanted to mess with her so I could later give in and make her happy, which I did yesterday.
I had no reason to go around talking about this. The only other person who could tell you this story would be…”
Mason’s tone turned grimmer and grimmer, and Noah’s expression changed.
“Mason…”
He called out in a careful tone.
“Listen to me, I can explain.”
“Sure, explain.”
“Your wife’s father and my father are close friends. They were the ones who introduced us to eac—”
“My wife was an orphan.”
Mason answered, and in an instant, Noah turned silent.
“…fuck, she didn’t tell me that.”
He muttered in a very low voice, but it was more than enough for Mason to hear. Not that it mattered, as suddenly, Noah pushed him back.
Mason’s vision jerked. He turned towards Noah again and saw him staring at the direction his wife was coming from, as if nothing had happened between them. And now, he could no longer hold back,
“YOU LYING BASTARD!!!”
He screamed as he jumped on top of Noah and started punching his face.
“W-What are yo—”
Noah tried to resist, but the punch broke his teeth, enraging him as well.
“YOU SON OF WHORE!”
He shouted as he grabbed Mason’s hair and pulled it as if he wanted to rip his head off.
“Hey! What the hell are you doing!?”
The rest of the guards, who were positioned at their spots, all rushed towards them, confused and curious.
They had been on watch the entire night. Obviously, they were bored, the gates were abandoned, and Kael used this opportunity to silently climb the gates, all while a little fox sitting on his shoulder continued to laugh out loud.
“Fufufu~
Humans~ So fun~”