54th chapter : explaining the things
After getting everything to be alright, the palm city and its people had been relieved to be safe after spending three days in silence and fear from the monsters, not knowing what happened at all. And so the red mermaid had its punishment out of nowhere, for leaving the city to live in that terror.
Monday 25th August 19xx, around 11am in the morning.
“Mind explaining why you hit me too?”.
Marco asked as they all entered the restaurant to talk with Fabia and her girls, flabbergasted about her sudden appearance in front of them.
“It’s because you left the city to live in terror for three days and you know that the council won’t help you here!!” Fabia answered as she was about to slap Marco on the head again but Melu stopped her.
“Ahahaha, well now Fabia ma it’s not that bad since he did protect the city even if he wasn’t around, with that barrier thing!!” Melu tried to make things clear.
“And it’s kinda we went to get stronger too” Alice said, then ended up dodging a flying frying pan, headed towards her.
“You don’t need to hit them every time they try to speak, you know they’re not at fault, practically”.
Emilis said as they were all waiting for more answers to why she did hit them, given that the real reason why they went to the toss realm was because Emilis accepted Marco’s suggestion from the beginning.
“More or less, I came here to help so if you all fixed this in only a day then I guess I should praise you more, and Marco!!” Fabia said as she turned to him.
“Hai!!”.
Marco responded in a rush, knowing that something would happen if he spoke something wrong. Fabia looked at him then sighed,
“I guess there’s nothing else to speak about, only your hair but that’s your decision. More importantly!! you told me the next time you’d come to visit that you’ll bring your little sister!! Why didn’t you come at all!!” she said as she was patting Sophie’s head in joy.
The other girls who came with her grinned awkwardly at what she did and didn’t really have a thing to speak about. Eventually, Fabia was still an old woman who cherished little children.
After clearing the misunderstanding and everything related to it, Marco presented his siblings to Fabia and the rest of the girls along with Hana too. Fabia smiled at Arthur and Sophie as she treated them like her grandkids, onwards with it, Marco felt relieved that it went that way.
“Still, I’m surprised that they let out people from the big cities?” Emilis asked as he served her something to drink.
“Do I need to remind you that I’m one of the few who had good impressions with the some councilors. Of course, it was my hands who opened a door for me to reach here” she said, heaving a sigh.
“Glad to hear that Fabia ma!” Vanica said as she smiled.
After hearing a lot of things, Emilis had to explain to Fabia what happened considering that she was one of the holders that helped in rebuilding the red mermaid guild back in the day. While they were talking, the other members were helping in preparing the essentials in the restaurant so it would be open again at night.
It started to return back to the right path.
“I see, glad that you guys are all doing good!!” Tanya said as she patted Carla’s head.
“All of us are glad to see you around us too!!” Zack spoke happily,
“It seems like you guys got stronger than the last time huh!! wanna try and spar a little with us !?” Milize asked with a smile, knowing that everyone was thinking the same.
“Milize, don’t ask things that might hurt their pride!” Melu interjected after that as the red mermaid members looked at her.
They all smirked a devilish smile to Fabia’s girls.
“Is it a battle of five against five or one on one?” Alice asked on behalf of the rest.
Fifteen minutes later,
“Explain why we are doing this again?” Marco asked.
He knew that fighting the girls at this level is pretty much useless. Carla smiled at him as Alex responded,
“Because they think it’s still the same as back then, they love acting like our big sisters each turn they take”.
Marco sighed, knowing that all of them were determined on doing it, in addition that Emilis wasn’t going to stop the battle from happening either ways.
“Leave me outside of this, I have…”,
Marco spoke, therefore before finishing his words the chains blocked a sudden ice attack that was heading towards him,
“That was truly reckless of you to attack out of nowhere, Sam!”
Marco yelled as the red mermaid members were stunned, none of them was expecting an elemental attack from afar of their range, given that they sensed him approaching.
“You’re doing good!! for someone who just got awakened!!”.
Sam, Marco and Hana’s childhood friend yelled the words for Marco as he appeared after releasing his serment.
“Who’s that?” Carla asked as they all looked flabbergasted.
“That’s our childhood friend”, Hana responded as she was happy to see Sam as much as Marco was.
Sam was in a white uniform of the council as he was walking towards them, the fiery smile never left his face as he approached them slowly before rushing on.
“Hana!! Been a while!!” Sam said as he was running to hug her.
At that moment, Hana had a smiling face while heading towards him in the same way, therefore she knocked him down with a kick to the balls as her expression totally changed from happiness to anger. Marco whistled as both Hana and him were standing by Sam who was crying from the unbearable pain that Hana had just landed on him.
As Sam was crying, Arthur also got closer to him with a grin, kneeling close to his face. The rest were watching silently, fumbling at the sudden change of events.
“What did I do to deserve a hit in the balls?” Sam asked as he was still yawning in pain on the floor.
“You know that going out of the country then trying to act cool when you totally had to apologize about it, is the reason, right?” Arthur answered, keeping a smug face for a while.
Few seconds later, everyone returned to what they were doing as Sam fixed himself, sitting down on the ground and facing the view of the ocean ahead of the restaurant.
“What brings you here again?”,
Marco asked as he took a seat next to him along with Hana who was still pissed off at him. The three friends heard the chitchat of the others behind them.
“Again who’s that guy?”,
Miha asked as she was looking confused just like the others. While no one was going to answer the question, Emilis answered it after getting out of the restaurant with Vanica and Fabia.
“His name is Sam Lockhart, eighth rank in the council and one of the members here in red mermaid,” said Emilis.
The answer astonished them as Marco was also surprised about this sudden information since he never cared to search any leads about Sam’s whereabouts at all.
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“He’s as old as Marco and Hana chan but he was the youngest member to join after Carla’s entering so basically he’s an old member” Emilis continued, explaining old stuff later on.
“You’re jealous to hear that?” Sam looked at Marco, “I’m not like someone who awakened after this incident!” He tried to tease him.
“You do realize that he was talking with me on the phone back then from Mustfit right?” Emilis ruined Sam’s plan with what he said, making him go red from embarrassment.
Later on, the red mermaid members continued doing what they wanted to do, the atmosphere was calm as the breeze swept around the area.
“I see so that’s what happened, and I thought the council was getting their hopes high for something else” Sam said, looking down to the ground.
“I’m still surprised that you’re a councilor. Either way, aren’t you getting a lot of hatred for that?” Marco said as they felt like it was a long long time ago that they had a normal conversation.
“I’m actually getting a lot of hatred for that yeah but I don’t mind it since I’m one of the top ten councilors so no one would dare to talk about me, and my family name also plays a role I guess” Sam responded.
“That’s good for you…”.
Hana and Marco had a blank reaction as they replied to his words, the two felt like he was boasting about himself instead of replying.
Sam shrugged his shoulders, heaving a sigh as he saw that they were totally mad at him because he never intended to pay them a visit during the last years.
“Say, I wasn’t going to ask about it but who’s the little girl that has been clinging on to you all this time? Don’t tell me that she’s your daughter!!” Sam asked, cracking the silence.
“Yeah she is!!”.
Hana quickly responded as Marco flicked her on the forehead, answering properly after her
“You idiot, stay quiet. And you left six years ago, how am I supposed to give birth to a seven years old kid” Marco’s reply wasn’t normal in a certain way either.
Looking at Hana laughing, Sophie stepped out and got closer to Sam as she smiled at him.
“Hi!! I’m Sophie Deca!! Marco’s little sister” she smiled at him.
In that moment, Sam was surprised, he looked with a face clearly indicating he was too speechless to ask about whatever Sophie’s situation was. Marco had to reply as he answered.
“Don’t ask how and no, my parents didn’t return home, neither did my grandpa. Turns out that your family isn’t the only one with a lineage in the euro world”.
“I’ll stay speechless for a few days but I guess you’ll explain everything later, a biological one?” Sam responded as he patted Sophie’s head.
“That’s rude and yeah she’s from the same womb as me, are you glad I said that?” Marco responded as the three kept silent after that “By the way, what brought you here if you’re working with the council?” Marco asked him to break the silence again.
Sam looked at Marco for an instance before taking a small cup filled with juice that Sophie brought for him, he took a sip then replied.
“Actually I wasn’t planning on joining the council at first, but looking that my grandpa was waiting for something big from me I guess I had to meet his expectations for a while. I was a red mermaid member from the beginning so I kinda started to get used to master Emilis’ way of doing things, do what we want is kinda better and more loyal to the way we lived our lives with”.
Sam answered the question, finishing the cup of juice and patting Sophie’s head. Upon hearing his answer, Hana felt happy as she said,
“Then this means that you’re staying here!!!” She was putting her expectations high.
“I guess so, but since my grandfather and my parents too ignored my request, I took the keys of the house and came here alone. Expect me to stay around your house for a while.”
Sam cleared his intentions of any other work than being with red mermaid, that whole decision somehow patched up what the three of them were trying to fix this whole time. Hana at the same side felt so much joy that she hugged Sam tightly yet softly to show her happiness for him.
After hearing what Sam had in mind Marco sighed, answering the words of Sam earlier.
“Well, I’m not exactly going to let you stay but there’s a spare room next to Hana’s room so it’s ok for a while. After that you go and live inside your own house”.
Hana and Sam giggled at each other before thanking him as Marco felt calmness within his heart because of that, they were talking for a while about what they should do for the house furniture and other stuff like the electronics such as the TV or the oven for example. While talking Sam remembered something else that he didn’t mention and so he had to speak up,
“Oh right!! master!! the council decided that they’ll send some other councilors around!! I’m not sure but they said since the world is in a state of shut down with nothing to go on their way, A lot of councilors are being dispatched around the world to clear things up!!”.
Everyone heard him clear as Emilis sighed about that.
“I thought this city was off limits for the council, no?” Hana asked, looking at everyone being annoyed by what Sam said.
“More likely, since they know that there’s workers who are familiar with the city, they send them instead. I was on the list but since I was eight in rank, I pretty much said I’m going back to my guild”
Sam answered her question, smirking at her after that.
“I won’t say that I’m glad you’re back cause last time I remember we fought each other but welcome back home idiot”.
Marco said as he stood, reaching his hand to Sam along with Hana who did the same. Sam looked at them then chuckled in embarrassment, taking their hands to stand up.
“I’m sure glad that I came back too, idiots!!” Sam responded, taking a punch from Hana because of what he said, “That hurts so please don’t do it again and where are you going?”.
Sam asked as he saw Marco going on his own way.
“Alex senpai called for me so I need to go”, Marco responded, continuing to walk on his way.
“When did she call him? I didn’t see him pick up the phone though?”.
Sam mumbled as he saw that Marco acted strange for a second before going on his own and so Sophie smiled on her own too. From Sam’s perspective, he didn’t see Yuna who was accompanying Sophie and Marco who heard her statement before standing up too, it was going to be really problematic for them later to explain the things.
An hour earlier after Sam’s arrival,
“So! Who’s gonna start first!?” Tanya said as she was preparing herself to go first.
“Since you decided to all participate!! I can give it a shot too!! right!?” Arthur asked, stretching his arms and legs.
“Huh? That’s cute for Marco’s little brother but we can’t hit a child!!” answered Rebecca.
Rebecca was pushing him out of the scene as Arthur looked at her with a blank reaction. He didn’t like that at all.
“I believe it’s better to let him try actually!!” Xavier responded, laughing it out as he was waiting with the rest.
“Xavier’s right!! That kid is a monster on his own so you gotta not underestimate him!!” Alice added as she was the first one to step into the arena.
“Are you saying that this kid has a serment?!” Milize was looking closely at Arthur who had a smug face.
“That’s not exactly true but he can fight using lightning”.
Alex responded as Arthur showed them a little from his palm. Upon seeing what Arthur did, Fabia was surprised as she looked at Emilis and the rest chuckling awkwardly.
“You’re gonna get used to it, for now I guess I’ll go, master!!” Alex said as she was about to head somewhere.
“Where are you going?” Zack asked her.
“The principal of the school asked for a meeting to clarify the things for the teachers. We didn’t present ourselves at all as the members in the announcement so I’m gonna talk to him and get things done” Alex said while wearing her jacket.
“I guess that was expected looking at what happened until now. So who’s gonna start!!”.
Melu said, smiling at Arthur while pinching his nose a little as well as holding him from standing up. Alex shrugged her shoulders in exasperation at the fact that she turned down the fun to get the work done.
As Alex went on her way, Cedric accompanied her.
“Are you upset?” he asked as he saw her yawning in the middle of the walk.
“Not exactly but I guess it wasn’t prepared with a plan. I guess the council has finally sent someone to clear the problems here.”
Alex responded as she took the shortest way, feeling like running to arrive faster to her destination.
“I see, well I guess you’re gonna ruin that and take over the meeting?”.
Cedric smiled at her back as he saw that she liked the idea, getting her hopes high Alex felt like doing what Cedric said.
“By the way! How much does the council hate red mermaid?” Cedric asked as he was wondering about that for a while.
“Trust me with everything they got! they hate us to the bones” Alex responded as she reached the school, “Well, wish me luck …”
Alex said as she was trying to be optimistic but soon her cheerful face Turned into a pessimistic face the moment she saw the councilor that the council sent for the city.
“Oya!! Alex van!! in blood and flesh!! What a coincidence to meet you here!!”
The councilor said as she smirked at Alex who smiled back but the furious aura made the latter step a little to the back.
“Elise Beta, huh, I can’t say that I’m not happy to see you, little sister!! must be good to keep working with the council!!” Alex responded, keeping the smile knitted to her face.
Elise looked at her then responded with a plain simple smile again, the two were on high alert towards each other.
“Ah that’s right!! The payment is good and I’m living in luxury!! especially when I left the rotten red mermaid!!”.
The sudden reply was left on seen, as Alex didn’t want to answer the mockery of Elise who used to be a member of the red mermaid too. Just like Alex and the others, Elise was also one of the few orphans that lived in the old orphanage and a member that helped in the rebuilding but since the council was pressing on Emilis at that time, most of the orphans that were in red mermaid were forced to work in the council for at least six months.
And so this brings that, the council has taken most of the orphans on their side or made them leave the red mermaid on purpose leaving only Alice, Alex, Zack, Xavier and Carla to be the official members. Sending Elise to the palm city was like a mockery from the council to the guild red mermaid.
“Oh! miss Alex!! you’re finally here! sorry for calling you when you took a three months’ vacation” the principal greeted Alex and Elise on their way to the meeting room.
“Ah it’s ok, principal!! I’m glad that you remembered to call me! So let's go ahead. The sake of the children's teaching is on the line here!” Alex said as she entered the room first.
The principal looked at her as he felt her rage.
“Thank you for having me today too, I’m glad that the principal agreed on doing this meeting as soon as possible”.
Elise bowed to him as she entered after Alex and again he could feel the rage within Elise too. It was a scene of a dragon and tiger facing each other before Alex would take a seat and Elise would take one on the other side. Even a cough from the principal wasn’t enough to take the attention of the teachers, mostly because the vibration of the euro particles matched with the emotions that a holder releases.
The two were like veterans in front of the teachers who were newly awakened. It felt for the rest of them like they were in the hot springs before things went calm for the start of the meeting.
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