“Lev… way up!” A soft, tender voice whispered. “Wakey, wakey sleeping beauty!” The voice appeared again.

Davis slowly opened his eyes to a bright light that forced them shut. Sitting up, he quickly adjusted his gaze, opening them fully he was stunned by the sight before him.

The sky is as blue as the ocean's surface, and a field of tall grass and flowers dances to the wind. Davis noticed the tree above him, leaning against it with a drowsy yawn.

“Skye? K?” Davis asked as he rubbed his eyes.

Davis heard giggling, turning to the source of the voice Davis came face to face with a young woman, adorning a white and gold robe with a flower bracelet. Her golden hair flowed freely with the wind, and her bright green eyes and gentle smile helped amplify her ethereal beauty.

“The sky?” She asked, innocently turning her head to the sky. “It’s as beautiful as the one in the silver city!” She commented with a bright smile.

Turning back to Davis with an excited grin she urged. “Come on, Lev. Please, show me your tail again… pretty please?” She begged him with pleading eyes.

Davis was confused, caught between the strange location and the girl in front of him. “I’m sorry?” Davis exclaimed.

While Davis tried to make sense of the situation another person appeared carrying a pile of scrolls. “Lirael, leave Leviathan alone or he might bite you for real!” The newcomer said with a chuckle.

Davis looked at him closely, he was tall and dressed in a similar white and gold robe, with long brown hair, black pupils, and a strikingly graceful aura with each movement. But the thing that attracted Davis's attention the most was the three pair of wings, folding neatly behind him.

Lirael childishly protested. “But Raphael, his tail is so cute!”

Davis watched as Lirael ran after Raphael, the both of them were headed toward a small hut just a short distance from Davis’s location.

Davis finally stood up, he stretched his body and murmured to himself. “Another dream… is this a dream or K’s memory?” Davis took a few deep breaths before heading to the hut.

As Davis walked to the hut, he noticed the same surreal sensation, how the grass and wind felt on his body, the smelt of fresh air, and how the light felt. Entering the hut, Davis saw Raphael and Lirael standing by the table along with many angels with the same attire and a pair of wings on their backs.

Seeing their wings, Davis turned around and he too had wings on his back, six of them. “So, K’s an angel?” Davis thought to himself. “But why is…”

“Leviathan?” Raphael called out to Davis. “Hello? Are you still not fully awake?” Raphael asked with a smile, waving his hand around.

Everyone in the room turned towards Davis startling him a bit. “Oh no no no no! I’m alright—F-fully awake, haha” Davis urgently responded with an awkward laugh.

Raphael raised his brow. “Okay… Then why are you back there?” Raphael waved for Davis to come to the front.

Davis nodded and made his way to the table, the other angels around him slightly bowed at him and made way for him to pass through.

Lirael covered her mouth as she softly laughed at Davis’s surprised reaction. “You’re unnaturally talkative today, very reserved, Lev… Normally you would’ve either nodded or grunted as a response.”

Davis didn’t respond, he thought back to all the time he spent with K. “That K? Quiet?”.

Raphael smiled at Davis, clapping his hand suddenly he got the attention of everyone in the room. “Now that everyone is here, let’s begin our task, " he continued. Our main focus of the day is the other Pantheon…”

Lirael handed Davis a scroll, she then went to give everyone a scroll with their name on it.

“Metatron has sent these scrolls to us with the approval of the almighty. You will find your task written down for you… please do not let him down!” Raphael instructed with a respectful tone. “May you accomplish your task without any issues”

Davis saw K’s name on the scroll. Opening it, Davis squinted his eye with extreme focus. “What the?” he whispered under his breath.

The words in the scroll are completely blurry and seem to shake around uncontrollably. Some letters seem familiar to Davis but they look—wrong, as if written in reverse.

“Davis… Davis?” Davis subconsciously hears someone calling out to him, but his eyes are glued to the scroll, unable to move away. “Davis? Wakey, wakey sleeping beauty!” The voice appeared again.

All of sudden, Davis felt a sharp pain in his cheek, and his head abruptly turned to the side. Turning back, Davis saw K crouching in front of him with his usual grin, the cozy hut changed to an open area surrounded by trees. Davis was slapped back to reality by K.

“Look at that! Sleeping beauty finally woke up!” K giggles at Davis. “Did I wake you up?” K sarcastically asked with a smirk.

Davis responded with a yawn. “What do you think?”

K smiles brightly back. “I think it’s time for you to wake up my friend!”

After leaving the town with the Kelpie’s incident, Davis and Skye followed K’s direction as they traveled on foot for three days, to another town called “Falling Earth-Essence”, and are now camping just a few hours away from the town.

Davis rubbed his brows, looking around he couldn’t help but notice someone was missing. “Where is Skye?” Davis asked drowsily.

“Out hunting!” K replied instantly with a straight face.

Davis shook his head in surprise. “Alone?”

K laughed at his reaction. “Don’t worry, you think some wild kitty can even scratch Skye's fur? She’s a Fenrir after all!”

A rustle coming from the tree line caught their attention. “Speak of the Angel, she’s back” K jokingly pointed it out. “I told you she’ll be fine!”

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Skye emerged from the bush with a big bag of flowers and berries in her mouth. Tail-wagging playfully, she ran to K and leaned up onto him with both of her paws.

“Thank you for helping your uncle out, Skye! You’re such a good girl.” K complimented her, and scratching her behind the ear. He took the bag with a smile and inspected it inside. “You got them all, great!” K complimented again.

“What in the bag?” Davis questioned.

K smiled at the bag. “Ingredients” K gave Davis a short response.

Skye joined in. “Uncle K asked me to go pick flowers, and… a-a-a-and berries.” She joyously explained to Davis, jumping around him in playful glee.

K knelt on one knee next to the campfire. “It’s nothing groundbreaking! I simply requested Skye to help pick some eatable berries, and flowers for me so I could make some Syrup for my pancakes”

K then pulled out a large glass bottle from his spatial bag. Opening the bag, K started arranging the edible stuff from the nonedible one.

“Syrup? Why not buy some?” Davis asked again, his voice a lot clearer than before.

K continued sorting the barriers. “I like to do things myself, especially when it comes to what I eat” He continued. “Would you be a dearest as to help pack up our stuff, we’re heading into town shortly!”

“Sure, sure…” Davis complied with K’s request rather easily, he started by folding his bed. “Hey, K?” Davis asked, he spoke with hesitation. “Do you—No, have you always been this talkative, and cheery?”

“Hmmm?” K interest peeked, giggling to himself as he exhaled quietly. “I… invoked the fifth! Hehehe”

Davis looked at him with confusion. “Hah? What fifth?” He asked, his sleeping bag still in hand.

K poured sugars into the bottle then added the barriers, he repeated the process. “I invoked my right to remain silent, and I will speak when my lawyer is here!” He said with a firm and almost prideful expression.

“Please speak in a way that I can understand… please?” Davis asked again, with a half-softened and half-aggressive tone.

“Oh! Well, in that case…” K finished with his handmade Syrup and placed it back into his spatial bag. “No!” He answered with a bright smile.

Davis sighed deeply at K. “I give up!” He murmured as he walked past K to their bags of supplies. During the ordeal, Skye quietly watches them without understanding anything.

Trekking along the main road to the town, they didn’t speak to each other but rather kept quiet and enjoyed the silent whisper of nature around them and the sound of K’s humming along the way.

K suddenly stopped his humming and asked. “Come to think of it, Davis. How’s the Academy life?”

“Um, it’s great… I suppose!” Davis commented in an unsure tone. “I was busy… very busy!”

K chuckled at his answer. “Good, that must mean you’ve learned a lot so tell me, what is the best way to enchant your weapon?”

Davis pondered for a few long seconds. “By spreading your mana over your weapon surface to cover them” He answered.

K nodded to his answer. “Not bad, but then again that question is rather basic! Hahaha”

K’s eyes widen slightly. “We’re finally here!” He presented the town entrance to Davis and Skye with open arms. “Let’s go and see this town’s famous waterfall and its delightful perfume”

Without much discussion, Davis and Skye followed K into the town. It was early morning but the air permeated with the sweet scent of perfumes and fresh water from the waterfall at the center of the town.

“Ah, Falling Earth-Essence. a town that prides itself on its clear water, and magnificent perfumes!” K happily presented, he took a deep breath and then continued. “And sweet too!”

Davis and Skye followed him closely behind, taking in the scenery of the town. “With scenery like this, no wonder they were managed to attract so visitors from all over the Empire”

They continued forward through the town and reached a large bridge that connected both sides of the flowing stream of water. Many other visitors and travelers stopped to gaze at the tall waterfall.

They stopped midway through the bridge to admire its beauty. Davis leaned against the railing and sighed with a calm smile. “This… isn’t half bad!” He whispered under his breath.

“A town that builds around the waterfall, and uses its flowing river to create perfumes that are shipped out all over the Empire,” Davis said, his mind calculating the number. “Business must be booming for them!”

Davis took another deep breath and turned to K. “Hey, K. Why are we here again” Only to realize that both K and Skye had already left. David looked around confusingly and sighed. “Where did they go off to?”

He continued moving forward, his eyes shifting left and right to find them. After a few moments of walking, he found K waving at him with a smile on top of a restaurant’s veranda.

Davis waved back slightly before entering the restaurant, making his way up to K’s spot Davis noticed that despite the large amount of people on the street, there seemed to be fewer customers in the building.

“Ah, Davis my friend. I hope you enjoy the view! I picked a spot most suited for our taste” K said with a giggle, his eye having its usual mischievous glint.

Davis sat down at his table and leaned back against his chair. “Don’t you know that your constant disappearing trick is annoying?” He questioned with his arms crossed.

K chuckles loudly at him, his eyes lit up with amusement. “Of course I do, and I’m going keep on doing it too. But I’m sure you already knew that!”

“Yeah, I figured!” Davis shrugged and smirked. “You are insufferable to talk to sometimes!” He scoffed before turning to Skye who was leaning against the veranda’s railing, panting with her tail wagging around, unbothered by anything.

“Guilty as charged, my friend!” K leisurely admitted to Davis's remark. K leaned back onto his chair and hummed to the rhythm of the waterfall until their food arrived.

Davis saw K’s order and couldn’t help but ask. “You like steak that much?” He raised his brow while swirling his soup around slowly with a spoon.

K chuckled to himself while cutting up his steak. “Indeed, if any stranger were to offer to buy me a steak, I wouldn’t refuse to give it a taste even if it’s poison!” He took a small bite of the steak he cut and started tasting it aggressively.

“It’s a bit overcooked but it’ll do!” K smiles and grunts in amusement. He continued eating like an aristocrat with how careful and behaved he was.

Davis couldn’t help but laugh at the way he ate, he has seen K with his meal a few times, first was when K discussed his wager with Garrick Veltis while possessing his body, and second was when he was in his cat form when they had dinner with Rowan.

Seeing him so well-behaved is rather a sight to behold for Davis. All of a sudden, their attention was on a small group of knights who rushed through the crowd toward the north.

“Hmmm, wonder what they’re up to,” K asked when seeing them.

While they are pondering the restaurant’s waiter who came to deliver them their pot of tea answered. “Must’ve been the werewolf again”

This information instantly lit up K’s eye, he turned to the waiter with a grin and asked. “A werewolf you say?”

Davis from the side recognized K’s expression and chimed in. “Oh boy, not again!” He let out a sigh of annoyance.

K leaned on the table, using both his hands to support his chin as he teasingly asked the waiter. “My dear friend, would you mind sharing a few moments of your time here and sharing with us some more… information regarding this werewolf?”

The waiter shook his head and apologized to them. “I’m sorry Sir, but I wouldn’t want to spoil your appetite, and I have to be prepared for any other customer,” He said and was walking away when K asked him again.

“Really?” K chuckled, his hand repeatedly flicking a gold coin into the air with his thumb, he grinned and asked again. “Not even at the price of a gold coin?”

Before the coin returned to his hand again it was snatched mid-air by the waiter as he changed to try to laugh it off. “Of course not, Sir, I would never leave my customers hanging. I’ll tell you everything I know”

K turned to Davis and gave him a smirk and a wink before offering the waiter a chair, enthusiastically waiting to get the information that was worth his coin.