Chapter 105 A Lot Of What’s Happened
Isaac and Lenna’s time as the temporary go-to for problems and issues went by far smoother than either of them expected. Thankfully, Izen and Edward were good at finding competent people even though Tim had not been chosen for his competence. The guardsman had been chosen for his firm character and absolute loyalty which was all well and good in a normal guardsman, but was not the only metric a leader should be chosen by. Tim had grown into his position after many years of service and was now a solid commander of the Safeharbor Guard. On the other hand, Alecia and Alexis were both friendly and competent girls who could be serious when they needed to be but were usually more prone to goofing off. While the Guild Master was away they had almost completely shelved the goofing off part and entirely leaned into their competence. The pair of them ran the Safeharbor branch of what was commonly known as the Adventurers’ Guild without any immediate problems. Isaac and Lenna didn’t know what Edward would return to, but there hadn’t been any problems that needed someone in power’s immediate intervention at least.
It had been a day over two weeks when Isaac and Lenna finally got the message that Sera and Izen had returned from the capital. It had been a simple letter that was brought to them by a guardsman directly. Inside the letter, Captain Tim had explained that they were relieved of the duty of ‘Temporary High Authority’ in the city and were now free to carry on as usual. The only thing that Isaac and Lenna had actually changed from their regular schedule was that they didn’t go hunting while Sera and Izen were away. The two still practiced their music in the Orchestral Hall and still raided the Guild and public libraries regularly. They still sparred and practiced their combat techniques, though now they did most of it in the basement of their new home, and they still stayed in the Celestial Dawn.
After dismissing the guardsman Isaac turned to Lenna. “Well, that was a relaxing two weeks. I’m beginning to think that maybe it isn’t us that attracts all of the craziness, but Izen.” He told her.
Lenna shook her head. “I do not think it is a matter of attracting craziness but rather a simple case of falling dominos brought about by your entry to our world.” She explained. “A lot of what’s happened came about simply because you were here. Lua sent me to you because she knew that you wouldn’t have any prejudice against me and would take me in. That set off my uncle who then did everything from an assassination attempt to subterfuge to an actual city crushing raiding party. His demise then caused Shamsha to be sent after us which led to the skeleton invasion, and our climactic battle with the lich from ancient times.”
“The mushroomancer thing probably wasn’t my fault but was a classic case of ‘wrong place, wrong time’ or ‘right place, right time’ depending on how you look at it.” Isaac continued from next to where Lenna had left off. “Capturing your aunt and uncle was by sheer happenstance. I’m sure that given enough time and enough problems, the Flame Ravens would have been sent after them. I doubt it would have gone smoothly with how insanely lethal Fen is when he needs to be. They might have had to call in a double platinum team to deal with Fen and whatever monstrosities Jala had cooked up.” He went on.
“But Judgment and Time would definitely not have come here had you not gone on about you being a demigod.” Lenna added. “That one is entirely on you.”
“True.” Isaac agreed. “But honestly, that didn’t affect Safeharbor very much as a whole. Out of all of the craziness, I think the demigods showing up are towards the bottom of the list. A lot has happened in the last seven and a half months. I can’t take responsibility for Mister Nobody, though. That one was already going on long before we came around.”
“That is fair.” Lenna replied. “It has been the most eventful half a year of my entire life.” She told him. “Soon it’ll be our wedding and then we are off to travel the surface. What am I going to do about the sun? Are we going to exclusively travel at night?”
“We could add black glass lenses to the inside of your helmet to work as sunglasses.” Isaac offered. “If that isn’t enough, then yeah, we can travel mostly at night.”
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“That is an interesting idea.” Lenna commented. “We can give it a try when the time arises.”
“Well,” Isaac began with a sigh as he plopped back onto the bed. “now what do we do with ourselves?” He asked her. “We have a while until the wedding but nothing to hunt and no obvious adventurers to be had.”
“We can continue living our lives as we have been.” Lenna offered. “Most people’s lives are not a continuous string of adventurers and near death experiences.”
“Yeah but where’s the fun in that?” Isaac questioned.
“Great.” Lenna said with an eye roll. “Now something has to happen. I can guarantee that you just spoke something into existence, again.”
“Okay but at least I didn’t specifically mention something.” Isaac defended himself.
“I think that might be worse.” Lenna replied. “At least then I would know what to expect.”
Isaac looked contemplative for a long moment before he sat up abruptly. “I know what it’s going to be.” He told her.
“Lua, give me strength.” Lenna prayed aloud.
“Judgment is going to come back and it’s going to be a whole thing.” Isaac explained. “He’s been gone for a while and he definitely looked like he was going to come back last time we saw him. On top of that, he was going to check in with someone important on how to handle us, well, me. That was more or less the entire reason Lady Jikan showed up.”
“Maybe it is less you speaking things into existence and more you just making connections subconsciously.” Lenna commented. “Who knows, maybe you’ll be wrong this time and Judgment will just send a letter like a normal person.”
Isaac barked a laugh. “Judgment, act like a normal person?” He questioned with a chuckle. “That’ll be the day I wear a pink suit.”
“I’ll hold you to that.” Lenna promised him. “If that day ever comes, I will remember this conversation.”
“For a day.” Isaac added quickly. “I don’t think I would survive wearing a pink suit for more than a day or two.”
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“I am glad that you had an uneventful time.” Sera told them with a sigh after they finished informing her of the happenings while they were away. “Two weeks of noble insanity was far too much for my old heart.”
“Agreed.” Marie said from beside her with a scowl. “You should have skipped more of the events. Most of those were for the younger nobles anyway.”
“Someone had to be there for poor Lucius. He looked like a drowning man in a thunderstorm.” Sera countered. “Those wolves looked like they wanted to devour him alive.”
“They certainly wanted something from him.” Marie replied.
“Marie!” Sera exclaimed. “That is my son! I do not even want to think about it.”
“It sounds like you weren’t the only one to have a tough time of it.” Isaac commented. “Lucius looked like he could handle himself pretty well. Was it really that bad?”
“Every single event he went to there were at least four vultures circling him. The worst part is that none of them have even been here before. The only one that has been here before, that I am willing to entertain as being my daughter-in-law, is Count Clarkson’s daughter. She is not even technically a noble as that title is not passed down hereditarily.” Sera went on. “Even so, she seemed like a sweet girl last we talked.”
“That was seven years ago.” Marie countered. “She barely even looked at Lucius at any of the events.”
“That is a great sign.” Sera said with a grin. “That means that she is not only after him because of his looks, like all of those wasps.”
Isaac laughed. “Which are they, wolves, vultures, or wasps?” He questioned.
“Yes!” Sera exclaimed. “All of the those and then some. I have not even gotten to piranhas, sharks, wyverns, termites, or harpies.”
“Pecurke, hive spiders, grave wraiths, and will-o-wisps.” Lenna added.
“Yes, and those too.” Sera agreed. “They are all… all… tramps.”
“Sera?!” Marie said with wide eyes like she had just heard something that she never thought she would. “Don’t you think that is going a bit far? Like, I would expect that from a Heidenbrug but never from you.”
“Oh pish, they deserve it for hanging all over my son like he is some prized bull.” Sera countered much to Isaac and Lenna’s amusement.
“Well, all ranting about the endless line of women attempting to saddle your son aside, we do actually have a reason to be here other than just your amazing tea.” Isaac changed the subject before Sera gave herself a stroke.
“Oh? Something good I hope.” Sera replied.
“It is. It is also something that we should get your husband for, after all, he is part of the reason it was even possible.” Isaac told her.
Sera leaned forwards in her seat. “Now I absolutely must know. What have you and my husband been doing behind my back?”