58th chapter : chattering .

After arriving late to the scene, The red mermaid members had taken everything in control in just a day. So unexpected events happened after that, it gave the red mermaid members their time to think about their next steps.

“I guess, I wasn’t expecting this to happen but where is Sam in the first place?”.

Emilis said out of curiosity as he saw everyone taking seats since Emilis had arrived.

“Sorry for being late!!”.

Sam said as he entered in a rush and so Hana came after him in rage, making Marco stop her with chains.

“What did you do this time?” Marco asked.

“We’ll talk about this later, so what did I miss!?” Sam responded, catching his breaths.

“Uhm, we were discussing the patrols stuff, and why no one told me that the eighth ranker Sam Lockhart is a member of red mermaid too!!”.

Elise answered him as she realized that just recently, although yesterday’s meeting made her notice that first.

“You’re that famous?” asked Marco.

Marco ignored Elise’s question as someone else responded to her. Sam smirked as an answer for Marco’s question though.

After that smug reply, everyone returned into discussing the task they had on their hands recently.

“That depends on things, I guess after seeing his smug face I’ll be the first one to go on patrols” Marco said, heaving a sigh.

“That settles it! but didn’t you say that you’re going to help me with the training?” Alex said as she looked at him going out.

“Cedric nii is gonna keep you company until I return.” answered Marco.

Marco went out on his own while the others turned to work on other tasks. It was that moment that seemed convenient for Arthur to move away from his seat.

“I’m going with Marco nii!!” Arthur said, happily rushing towards the door.

Arthur was about to go outside but Fabia stopped him somehow.

“You’re sticking around me kid!!”.

Fabia was forcing him to stay for some other reason, although she didn’t show it, she took a liking to him and to Sophie especially.

“As for me, Vanica san!”.

Emilis grinned as he took back his coat then he looked aside to see Iris standing next to Zack. Emilis didn’t jump to conclusions, since he knows well just like the others that she’s his girlfriend.

Therefore, Emilis ended up teasing him then doing introductions on that process too, which lead him to saying that he’ll take her as a member once she’s able to release her serment at least once.

After deciding that he’s going on the first patrol, Marco eventually had some other motives because of that weak presence that was roaming around the front door, rather than being able to enter. He took some steps away from the restaurant then went straight to where the presence was.

“You know, if you need something you just had to ask about it, not to stand around my house for the whole morning then follow me as if I can’t notice you, Maria Sfiel”

Marco said as he took off the cloak that was giving Maria the ability to hide.

“Fwueeh!! I thought I had my presence well hidden!!” she was startled because of Marco’s doing.

“So you need something from keeping an eye on me?” Marco asked.

Marco made her stand again as she wiped her clothes then took a deep breath clearing her throat along with fixing her stand and expressions.

“Deca san!! Please let me train with you!!”.

Maria raised her hand to him and bowed as she was talking seriously. Marco looked at her then looked behind her, to Rachel and Ralph who were also hiding somewhere else.

“Are you guys that desperate?” Marco said as he sighed, finding it awkward to say anything else.

“Yes I am!! I felt weak because I couldn’t protect one of my dear friends!! Please let me train with you!!”.

Maria raised her head as her eyes showed that she was determined on keeping that look. No determined reaction was given in return but for that brief moment, it was clear that Marco wasn’t going to make them give up on the idea of their training. He seemingly grinned in return for that fierce expression of determination.

“Seeing you do that means it’s either you’re father scolded you then hugged you while crying, just to show you that he loves you or you’re feeling obligated to be the one to protect them just like that idiot who’s not good in disguising or the girl that is stubbornly childish. I don’t own a training ground and I can’t help you, so see someone else and just because you thought being the classmate that knows my secret too, doesn’t back your reasons”

Marco said as he passed through them. Maria felt like it was not needed to speak any further but she didn’t want to surrender either, although for Marco it was just a moment of confrontation to what she actually wants instead of a shallow obsession over strength.

“What you said is true!! and because we were the only ones who knew about the euro society!! I thought that too!! But my reasons are as high as yours!! So please help me!!” Maria had a teary face while talking before she bowed down again.

“You’re really cold towards her, you know. It’s not that bad to help people that consider you as a friend”

Yuna said to him as she felt sorry for Maria’s state, Marco sighed then looked at Yuna being totally serious about what said.

“Just so you know, I don’t really think that your reasons are bad but that doesn’t back your way of doing it. Alex senpai was asking for help in the training and she’s doing it right now. My patrol consists of watching over the city to see if anything happens. I’ll be back after an hour, so you should get prepared with Alex senpai, it won’t be a training but it’ll be for you to be satisfied on your own strength”.

Marco responded then continued on his way. As she heard his answer Maria had a smile but the tears didn’t stop, she thanked him eventually.

“Don’t mention it, and take these two idiots with you too”.

Marco went straight for them, exposing both Ralph and Rachel ruthlessly, in accordance they complained which led to them being hit on the head for that response. Thus knowing his rudeness, Maria thought she gained a good friend.

After dealing with what he had, Marco went ahead on his patrol.

“you know, I thought you would just ignore her like what the rest did and go on your patrol”.

Sam said to start a conversation as he caught up with Marco who responded after some time too.

“She’s not that bad but she’s as childish as the others, and I owe her for being friendly with me too. So what happened there?” Marco replied, asking in return.

Sam looked at him with a complete pale poker face as the two sighed after that. Knowing Sam, Marco had already understood what happened during the time Sam visited Hana’s parents , Guren and Wellia.

“At first, they were quite eager it’s true, I wasn’t sure of that time but they said they won’t mind if it was me or you, I felt offended because they mentioned you however I kept my composure not to ruin the mood for them” Sam responded as the two looked at each other.

At that moment, the mutual gaze bore a small hint of anger, both took a leap to the other side getting hostile for what it looked from a different angle.

“I’m glad that you didn’t get anywhere with Hana, but that’s not fair for you to have what you have now!!” Sam said.

Because of that yelling, the people caught attention and were watching them.

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“As if you weren’t playing around overseas.”

Marco responded as the two were about to fight.

“Yeah I sure did!!”

Sam replied as they were finally going to start a tantrum. Therefore they ended up not starting the fight as a sudden old man appeared in between them.

“Seems like you’re doing good after all what happened, Marco kun!!” said Eyezar.

Eyezar was the old man that stopped them which looked like he was holding some bags on his back. Sam knows Eyezar because of the council, but wasn’t expecting that Marco knows him too, then he remembered that Eyezar was a friend of Marco’s grandfather too so he dropped the thought after that conclusion.

They ended up taking the bags from him, to help him go home.

“So you were hiding inside one of the five cities?” Marco asked him.

“Yeah!! It wasn’t pleasant to stay by one of my acquaintances’ houses for more than one night but I had to tough it out” Eyezar responded, shrugging his shoulders down.

“You’re giving the creeps, an old man with that way of talking” Marco said as he put the bags at the front of his door.

Sam was surprised, although he knew that Marco had a slight tongue.

“You know that Eyezar sama is an important figure in the council, right?” Sam asked, wondering what Marco was thinking.

“I didn’t know and I could care less. He’s still a creepy old elf that lived billions of years.” Marco answered, completely unfazed about it.

Eyezar didn’t notice Sam until he spoke as they don’t know each other well, and so Eyezar was also surprised by what Marco stated too while he ended up denying what he said to keep things safe for his own self.

After putting the bags for Eyezar right inside his house, Sam followed Marco again as the two were continuing to do the patrol.

“If you wanna ask about anything, now it is your time but I won’t really say why I’m living with Carla and her mother in my own house or how Sophie ended up here too, or how I ended up in red mermaid or even how I got my serment”.

Marco said, turning down most of what Sam was thinking to ask for quite a while now. He saw him dejected.

“You just dropped most of the questions that I wanted to know. Still Hana said that you didn’t awaken but more like re awakened, is this some dumb joke?” Sam responded, finding a question that wasn’t turned down.

“That wasn’t a joke, I told you that my family has a long lineage with the euro society, in a way or another”

Marco responded as they were looking around to see if anything happened or willing to happen. The two were quite bored to start engaging in conversations given their nature.

“I see I see, I don’t really get what you mean by re awakening if you couldn’t do a thing when we were kids” Sam said, wanting to know more.

Marco studied Sam’s reactions as well, he understood what his childhood friend was trying to do which ticked him off more, knowing that he was trying to gain the upper hand on this conversation by those questions he’s giving.

“I don’t remember a thing about my parent’s faces and my memories, past before when I met you. More or less, Arthur was able to use lightning from the moment he was born, it was the same for Sophie who can use euro particles to her own liking too. It means that I was incapable at some point” Marco responded.

That answer wasn’t what shocked Sam, about Marco being incapable, but he was shocked to hear Arthur can use lightning.

“You mean Arthur has a serment?” he asked, rushing for answers.

“Why do people keep saying that Arthur has a serment. He doesn’t and I can use something else than a serment too, and speaking of fortunate timing”

Marco responded as he spotted an explosion a little far from their location.

The two dashed with everything they had as they reached the police station.

“We have a police station!?!” both exclaimed at the same time.

“I thought this city is the calmest and lamest city in which it didn’t need any officers,” Sam said.

“That’s because we live in the calm part of the city I guess, and because no one knew about the euro society back then either, so most of the problems they encounter are probably daily tasks for them.”

The two were walking towards the station to see what happened as they saw an officer running for his life.

“What happened here?”.

Marco caught the officer then asked him however he was too frightened to speak.

“I!! I don’t know!! He just exploded out of the blue!! He has two big weapons too!!” answered the police officer. ,

Marco and Sam looked at each other as they heard the answer before they would see two more officers being thrown outside.

“Want a helping hand?”. Sam asked Marco who was stretching his arms and legs.

“No thank you and this is a good opportunity to show you what I talked about” Marco replied as they got a visual on the guy who did all that.

Marco stepped ahead as the people gathered around to watch.

“Hey shithead! you’re causing a ruckus here!!” Marco yelled out as he was looking around to see if there’s someone else beside him.

“No one!! dare to interrupt the time of my life!! Since the euro society is already out of the shadows then there's no need to keep my serment a secret!! I’m the one and only Raisen!!!” the guy growled the words out as he seemed to be one of the old generation holders.

Marco and Sam sighed as they didn’t expect that to be the first case they would be facing, an unknown middle aged man with a lame mohawk haircut on top of his head.

“Well, now I know that you’re a lunatic. You have five seconds to step down and surrender peacefully” Marco said before dodging a big euro bullet that Raisen shot at him.

Marco sighed as he kept his distance while Raisen was laughing out loud like the psycho he is. On a different side, Sam was enjoying the movie scene Marco is living in right now.

“Are you sure you don’t wanna release your serment!?” asked Sam.

Sam asked Marco as he meant to tease him about the situation. Marco exasperated as he looked towards Sam not giving Raisen any attention. Raisen felt like he was ignored, but he also saw it as a chance to try and kill Marco or someone else.

Therefore he tried, Raisen found himself smacked to a wall. Sam was surprised too as it was just a one hit by Marco’s wind thrust that finished the whole work.

“I’m impressed, but that joke of not using a serment is not really funny. You have a full armament serment?” Sam didn’t believe that fact after all.

“Don’t ignore me!!” Raisen roared, trying to get up.

“You know that I don’t joke about some kind of this stuff and no, my serment is this black sword here” Marco responded then went to tie up Raisen, finishing him with another punch.

“Yeah yeah, like hell I’m believing that” Sam said as the two looked at each other after Marco tied up Raisen for the officers.

The situation seemed calm. Both of them stood glaring at each other, waiting for any small indice of malice towards themselves.

“Even if I don’t know your current level or how strong you are I won’t lose to you” Marco said out of the blue.

“That’s clearly cute from your side. I’m an advanced B class, and as much as I checked your states you’re still an F class” replied Sam.

Sam was getting cocky as Marco didn’t mind what he wanted to mean with that reply too.

“And as far as I know, I wasn’t on the radar of the council for a long time after I got my serment. So without the festival nothing would clear my current class”.

Marco took a step to the back.

“heeh? you want to give it a go then?”.

Sam was talking over-confidently as he himself doesn't know yet about the training that all red mermaid members went through.

“We still have five minutes until the end of the patrol. Meet me in the training grounds”.

Marco responded as he turned back to go to his next destination but suddenly stopped walking as he saw a katana a millimeter away from his neck, it was Sam’s serment.

“And why not give it a shot right here right now?” Sam asked, calmly waiting for an answer.

“There’s people around. I don’t wanna kick your ass in front of all of them, that would be embarrassing for you, wouldn’t it?”.

Marco answered then went on his way, instantly vanishing from the sights. To the end of that dispute, Sam again was convinced that Marco is always releasing his serment and is a full armament type at what mattered the most for him to know.

After getting annoyed by Sam on purpose, both of them finished the patrol and went back to the restaurant.

“Master has not returned yet?” Marco asked Rebecca as he was washing his face in the kitchen’s sink.

“hmm. Yeah Emilis hasn’t returned yet”

Rebecca replied, tilting her head to the left in puzzlement. She was wondering why he was swiftly getting his stuff fixed like that.

“Marco!! It was nice of you to let the other kids join the training like that!! Keep it up and maybe you’ll have a chance you know!!”.

Tanya said, smiling as she was about to pat his shoulder but Marco passed through her, responding.

“Yeah sure, it wasn’t something I would really call nice”.

Thus his face didn’t show anything, his moves showed that he was angry about something clearly.

“What’s with him? Did you do something that would anger him?” Carla asked as she entered with some dishes.

“I don’t know but it seems something happened indeed?” Tanya responded.

“He is going to fight against Sam because they got furious with each other earlier in the patrols” Hana spoke as she appeared out of nowhere.

“You’re doing Marco’s thing again?” Carla was startled a little.

“Yeah, I don’t know but I saw the two of them getting all mad at each other in the police station. I guess it’s Sam’s fault for not believing that Marco can use wind witchcrafts and he was re awakened, not awakened like others” Hana was looking at the fridge while talking.

“You know a lot about Marco to say that he re awakened?” Melu stopped her from taking something as she asked.

Hana smiled at her although she lost the fruit she picked from the fridge.

“That’s what childhood friends are for you!! even when we were babies he used to be that calm!! It wasn’t cool! But he had his own charm!!”.

Hana said as she looked aside with a calm smile forgetting that most of them knew Marco just recently, unlike her.

Finding it intriguing, Carla asked.

“What do you mean, you were together since the day you were born?”.

Carla wanted to know more, as she saw that Hana knows something that no one other than her knows. Hana was startled too as she realized the fact that she let her tongue slip around them.

“Ahahaha!! What do you mean?!” she laughed it out “Anyway!! I wanna see how their fight would go! so if you are pleased I’ll go ahead!!” She rushed her way out to the training grounds.

“She just acted like she didn't know what she talked about, didn't she?” Xavier said as he was cooking calmly there not wanting to speak until now.

“As much as she’s a cheerful person, what she just did, I guess it's proof that she has something hidden, no? and how come we didn’t see her serment even now” Carla muttered those questions as she took some dishes that Melu prepared for her.

“Don’t think about it a lot for now and focus on working”.

Rebecca said, pushing Carla out of the kitchen as the five of them found it bizarre that until now, no one knows the slightest thing about Marco unlike Arthur or Hana, and with those sudden moments they felt from Hana, she too fell down the category of the mysteries they wanted to unfold sooner.

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