Dylan sat on the sofa, eyes closed, Fir sleeping on his head once more. There gave the impression to be some sort of ethereal air round him as he refilled the mana that Fir had simply greedily devoured up.

“Fir appears to consuming much more these days.” Sherry commented quietly.

Dylan nodded his eyes. “He nearly ate half of my mana. That is all he does these days. Eats, then goes again to sleep.”

“Is there one thing fallacious with him?”

“No, however he is sluggish on a regular basis.”

Sherry hummed again a response and shoved a slice of fruit into Dylan’s mouth with a smile. “Return to what you have been doing.”

Chewing the pear, Dylan smiled and closed his eyes once more, purifying and absorbing the mana round him. All of the sudden, he felt a burst of pure magic surging close by. It unfold like waves, inflicting one to really feel a gush of consolation wash over them. It was an unnoticeable phenomenon to those that have been unfamiliar with magic and even mages who weren’t delicate to magic, however Dylan was at the moment absorbing magic and Sherry was a gifted mage, it was not possible for them to overlook it.

“That magic…why does it really feel so acquainted?” Sherry muttered.

Dylan opened his eyes vast. “It is Goddess Sennia’s magic.”

“Goddess Sennia? However why would it not…does it have something to do with that dream?” Sherry all of the sudden had a revelation.

“…It got here from the park.” Dylan suppressed a practice of thought that emerged in his thoughts and opted to give attention to the duty at hand. He grunted, standing up so roughly that it woke Fir up. Fir appeared round confused however seeing as nothing was fallacious, he went again to sleep. “Let’s go.”

Sherry nodded and the 2 sprung out the home, sprinting to the place they sensed the turbulence of magic. Along with his sharp eyes, Dylan may immediately see Matthias leaning towards a tree trunk, asleep. The kids have been approaching him with none warning and Matthias was displaying indicators of waking up. Cursing below his breath, Dylan retrieved his sword from his storage and picked up his tempo.

“There’s somebody sleeping right here once more.” Diana pointed at Matthias. He was fairly far-off from them in order that they could not actually distinguish his facial options however may vaguely inform that he was unconscious.

“When did he seem? How come we did not see him earlier than?” Fiona questioned.

“W-what if he is a ghost?” George timidly steered.

“It is day time proper now and ghost aren’t actual!” Frank debunked.

“This jogs my memory of Dylan.” Yasmin commented.

As the youngsters obtained nearer to Matthias, they observed that he wore large, cumbersome black bracelets round his 4 limps and neck. There was additionally the addition of heavy chains that embellished the bottom round him.

“These are handcuffs aren’t they? What if he is a nasty individual?” The children stopped approaching Matthias on the thought. Wearing a plain black gown on this warmth and handcuffed, every thing about him simply screamed suspicious (or cosplay).

“Stand again!” Dylan yelled, dashing in between Matthias and the kids.

“Dylan?” The kids gasped in shock. Dylan was holding a sword in his arms, one hand on the sheath and the opposite on the deal with, prepared to attract at any time.

Dylan glared at Matthias while ordering the kids. “Go to Sherry and do not look again.”

“What? Why?” The kids requested.

At that second, the slumbering Matthias awoke from all their yelling. His hazy eyes opened to see Dylan’s offended face, the confused faces of 5 unknown youngsters and in addition an apprehensive Sherry. Matthias blinked, clearing up his eyes just for them to blur up once more with tears. They fell, trickling down his cheeks and falling from his chin. “Dylan…” He muttered with a clean face.

Dylan froze, uncertain as to how you can react. “…Matthias.” He growled.

Tears nonetheless dripping, the corners of Matthias’ lips curled up right into a smile. “I do know that is all simply in my thoughts however I, I am simply actually glad to see one final time earlier than I die. I am sorry for every thing I’ve finished to each you and Sherry. I’ve sorry for not having the ability to prevent.”

In Matthias’ head, every thing he was seeing was all his creativeness. The blue skies, the intense solar, Dylan and Sherry, every thing made up by his head as a solution to escape the thoughts numbing ache of the poison that was slowly consuming away at him. Regardless of considering so, Matthias felt nothing however pleasure in seeing his lengthy misplaced good friend and having the ability to at the very least apologise gave some him type of salvation.

Dylan narrowed his eyes. “You, what did you simply say?”

Matthias wasn’t actually anticipating Dylan to answer to him. He was at a misplaced for what to say.

Dylan took a deep breath, lastly noticing the restraints positioned on Matthias. They have been costly magic sealing restraints usually solely used on harmful criminals, often ones on loss of life row. “Matthias, have been you executed?”

Nonetheless shocked, Matthias nodded and chuckled dryly. “I used to be sentenced for the crime of murdering you two. Everybody who noticed me cursed me, even Eliza came visiting. His majesty personally oversaw the execution himself, he made certain I drank that Yiv poison.”

“Yiv poison!” Sherry gasped. She’d heard rumours of the notorious poison. It was famend for being probably the most painful solution to die, a sluggish and grotesque solution to go. She forged eyes of pity at Matthias. Sherry died in a comparatively fast means, stabbed by way of the chest and really rapidly dying from her wounds. In comparison with that, Matthias’ loss of life was simply traumatising.

Sherry felt a tug at her shirt. She appeared down and noticed the youngsters taking a look at her with confusion and concern.

“Sherry, is one thing fallacious? Why’s Dylan so offended? He even has a sword.” Fiona requested.

That introduced Sherry and Dylan again to their senses. They have been so caught up by the sudden look of Matthias that they’ve completely uncared for the existence of the youngsters.

With a cough, Dylan launched his tight grip on the deal with of his sword and reeled again his killing intent that was unintentionally leaking out from him. Nonetheless talking in Divian, Dylan spoke to Sherry. “Sherry, can you’re taking the youngsters into the home? I want to speak to Matthias.”

“However-“

“I will be advantageous. I will not do something, we’ll simply discuss. I will be fast, I promise.”

“…Okay.” Sherry turned to the youngsters. “Let’s go inside for now, okay? Dylan wants to speak to his good friend alone.”

Sherry smiled in an effort to reassure the kids. “It is advantageous. They’re just a bit offended with one another and are going to make up now.”

“However he has a sword!” Diana identified. She was not satisfied by Sherry’s clarification, nobody was.

“He had one while you first met one another, did not he? It is really one thing actually particular to the 2 of them so its sorta an indication of peace. So, despite the fact that he appears to be like actually offended, he is really completely satisfied on the within to see his good friend once more after a very long time.”

“So, he is a tsundere?” Frank requested.

Sherry giggled. “Sure, precisely. Now, let’s get inside, we will not interrupt the tsundere from getting dere can we?”

“”Okay”” The kids very reluctantly accepted Sherry’s clarification. It wasn’t their place to stay their noses in in any case. Plus, they’ve seen Dylan’s reverse face earlier than. Even when he is smiling, inside he was plotting how you can torture them below the guise of coaching, cough, it made excellent sense to them that he may look offended however really be secretly completely satisfied inside.

—–

King: Oh, that satan is lastly useless. How creepy of him to maintain smiling below all that ache. That’ll hang-out my desires for days!

[Matthias disappears]

King: Uwahhhhh!!!! What within the goddess’ title is happening?! How, what, the place’d the physique go?!

Goddess Sennia:…Oops