67 Chapter 67: Bed Time Story (1)

In a space between to places of reality a figure appeared, he drifted there for but a tenth of a nanosecond, and yet it felt to him like an eternity.

Already fleeting emotions dying away, all happiness falling off through the rivers of time, what was left was a deep and unending desolation. The ancientness clung to his body like a curse.

The figure stood a massive fifty kilometers, pure physical might radiated of its body and the infinite live force that would and could never run dry. Undying and never-ending that was his life, it had been for billions of years and would be for billions. Stars would be born and die out but he would not, gods died but he did not a galaxy was born and one was destroyed and yet he still stands.

The figure looked upwards as it stared at the space around it, his body shrank until it reached two meters. The desolation was retracted as well as the ancient aura, yet some things just could not be hidden, for he still had an ancient air upon him as his very flesh and blood as existed much longer than even the planet he was currently residing on.

He was wearing a pair of black sneakers and sweatpants with a black tank top all fitting his pitch-black hair that was flowing down his back almost reaching his ankles and his eyes that looked like two pitch-black orbs like they were a portal to the eternal and endless empty void.

With his transformation complete he faded back into reality, appearing in what seemed to be somebody's room, it was filled with all kinds of stuffed animals and the bedding looked like it was meant for a little girl.

Because it was...

After having looked around for a while Azfius stared down at the one who was holding his summoning token, the little girl was also staring back at him with her eyes wide open and her jaw almost hitting the ground.

After staring at each other for about five minutes the little girl composed herself before speaking in a formal tone.

"A pleasure to meet you, I am Kunou daughter of Yasaka leader of the yokai in Kyoto"

She said as she proudly puffed out her nonexistent chest. From what Azfius could tell the Half-pint was probably around five or six years old, she had cute little fox ears that came out of her long and beautiful golden hair and nine fox tails that appeared behind her back.

After waiting for a while and gaining no reaction from Azfius, to be honest, he didn't even move half an inch more look like he was breathing, Kunou became a bit restless as Azfius was still staring at her.

She of course had tried to stare back but she did not been last half a second when she stared into those dark eyes. It made her afraid when she looked at them so she quickly looked away.

Shifting her feet restlessly she looked around for anything that could save her from this awkward moment.

"HELP!"

A word suddenly rumbled as the entire room and probably the entire building shook under the words might. Poor Kunou lost her balance and fell to the ground as she stared up at Azfius in horror.

'What kind of voice is that!'

She screamed in her mind as she started at Azfius who to her annoyance was staring back at her with the same deadpan expression he had since he was summoned.

"Uhm...I..."

Bang*

The room the duo was in suddenly burst open as a figure ran inside.

"Kunou what happened...."

A beautiful and busty kitsune woman ran inside and asked Kunou a question but soon spotted Azfius causing her voice to die down.

With keen eyes the woman soon spotted the token in Kunou's hand and quickly put two and two together, she couldn't help but frown as she thought of the only possibility to explain this.

"Ar...Are you maybe the one Mr. Lambert spoke of uhm, Azfius was it?"

Yasaka the blond kitsune spoke carefully as she asked the unknown man a question. Having taken the time to study him she had to admit that he was probably the most handsome person she had ever seen, from head to toe his body looked like it was carved to perfection but the greatest of divine artisans.

She couldn't help but have a slight blush appear on her face at the thoughts she was having.

Azfias looked to Yasaka, then nodded slowly to confirm his identity before looking back at Kunou with much to the little girls delight a hint of facial expression appearing in the form of a single raised eyebrow.

"Kunou why did you use the token"

Yasaka said as she walked toward Kunou with a mad look on her face, her hand outstretched waiting for Kunou to hand the token to her, which the little girl did with a lowered head as she spoke with a low voice.

"Mom said that if I ever needed help I should put a bit of my mana into this token and somebody will be there to help me."

Yasaka's face soon changed mad to a worried one.

"what do you need help with, and why didn't you asked mom."

Kunou looked down at her toes with a red face as she spoke in an even lower voice.

"I-I-I wanted somebody to read me a bedtime story!"

After speaking Kunou ran to her bed and ducked under the bedsheets to hide out of embarrassment. Yasaka turned to Azfius with a helpless expression as she bowed to him.

"I am sorry for the trouble my daughter has caused you, would you let me make it up to you by letting me invite you to dinner?"

Yasaka asked as she stared at this stranger which Lambert praised as being strong enough to help her with any problems she had in the future especially if she needed a bit of extra fighting force.

Seeing as there was no negative outcome to getting closer to this person she decided it would be best to invite him to dinner and her daughter having summoned him without a valid reason left Yasaka somewhat nervous that she might have made a bad first impression.

Unfortunately, Yasaka was bund to be disappointed as Azfius slowly shook his head and took a step back disappearing into a rupture in space.

...

Back in Alex's room, Tosca had just started wandering what Alex was doing when he heard a weird sound, and looking at the source she found Alex sitting in his chair gently drinking his coffee while chuckling lightly at something he must have seen.