Meeting the Ulaspas family-2

After a journey of 12 days, Adui and Ben finally returned to Laverdale, as they returned, both of them said some pleasantries to each other, and then both went their separate ways. They did not want to hang out with each other anymore, especially Adui, he was pissed at his old friend and didn't want to see his face anymore.

When he reached home, he saw that most of his rooms were filled with different varieties of herbs. They were the plants from his herb garden that Gizelle had ordered to demolish, he had totally forgotten about them.

The herbs were in good condition, George had been taking good care of them. He went to each plant and inspected all of them for worms, after an hour of crafting and grafting, he finally made his way to his bed to have a good sleep.

For the past few days he had been traveling on the road and sleeping out in the wild, because of which his back was killing him, which is why the comfort of a familiar bed made him smile. While lying done, he looked at his tattoo once again. He had tried everything to clean that tattoo for the past few days, but it didn't even budge. The worst part was that he did not know what that tattoo meant.

He knew for sure that the tattoo appeared on the night he got the cube, which meant that they were connected somehow. The bothersome part was that if Ulaspas family found out about this, then he would be dead before he knew it.

Gloria tortured him mercilessly when he went inheritance hunting on their land, but if they found out about this, he could only imagine what they will do to him.

What is this cube? He couldn't help but ask himself, at first, he believed that this cube was some sort of toy, left behind by some kid from Ulaspas family, but after seeing the tattoo he had started to wonder whether this really was a toy. It could be an inheritance, but it was a very far-fetched notion.

The thought of that cube being an inheritance was exciting as well as scary, if it is indeed what he thought it is, then he had to hide it from everyone else, otherwise, he might as well forfeit his life.

KNOCK KNOCK

AARRGGH, he groaned. He was tired and wanted to rest a little bit, he was in no mood to entertain anyone right now.

KNOCK KNOCK

"I am coming!" he then lazily got up and went to the door. By the time he reached it, the person on the other side had knocked twice, which pissed him off.

Who is this mother fucker who wants to die today?

All of his anger vanished as he opened the door, behind which was a man, like a mountain he stood there, wearing brown armor, and his brown lifeless eyes stared at him as if judging him for his small stature.

Seeing the familiar knight standing on his doorstep almost gave him a heart attack, while the knight of the Ulaspas family stood there, without uttering a single word.

This is it. This is how I will die. He started having thoughts that they found out about the cube and they had sent him to kill him. But instead of swinging his sword or beating him up, the giant simply handed him a letter and then went away.

The letter was a pretty simple invitation, inviting for an evening tea session in the Gizelle's manor…

After tightly wrapping his hand with bandages and wearing something nice, he made his way to Gizelle's manor. He didn't want to meet them, but he had no choice but to go.

As he reached the manor, he was surprised to see changes that had occurred there. Unlike before, this time the manor didn't give him chills all over his body, the coldness that he felt the last time was now gone, and the mana around the manor was still very concentrated, but it was still bearable.

When he got to the gate of the manor, the brown knight let him go inside without any problems, the main door of the mansion was opened so he let himself in. The distinct smell of blood was still in the air, but it had lessened since the last time, there were some changes in the decoration of the manor, which was great considering he felt like he had entered a haunted house the last time he visited the place.

As it was considered rude to go inside someone's house without permission, he stood there for a minute thinking a maid would come and show him inside. But no one came, which was very surprising, the maids of the manor were all well-trained women, and they don't mistakes like this.

It was then he remembered during his last visit as well, he called out to head maid Martha, but she never came to see what the fuss was about.

Did Gizelle fire all her staff as well?

He felt a mana fluctuation towards his left, he turned, to see Sara standing, staring at him expressionlessly. Unlike before, she was wearing a leather combat suit and looked quite muscular than before. "You must be Adui Hampshire."

"Yes, milady. We have met before."

"You met my sister Sara. My name is Patrica" In the blink of an eye, she appeared beside him. "Everyone is waiting for you, let's go," she said while gently pushing him.

She led him to the sitting area which now looked like a courtroom. On a big platform was a big throne-like seat on which Kaisel was sitting, one step below him was the queen's chair which was empty for some reason, one more step below there were chairs that were occupied by Sara, Patrica, and Gizelle. He on the other hand sat on a stool facing them all.

Kaisel was the one to speak first. "I was very impressed by your feats, young mage,"

"Thank you, milord."

But then Kaisel slammed his hand on the handrest. "And then you tried to betray my trust." He said in a rather dejected tone. "There I was thinking about a reward that will be suitable for your work, and let me tell you, I found something that would have been a perfect reward for you. But then I heard that you snuck into my land to look for the inheritance of my family… Do you have something to say for yourself?"

He gulped some saliva and shifted uncomfortably on his stool "I am extremely sorry for what I did, milord. And I have been severely punished by Lady Gloria as well for committing this unthinkable act."

"So we have heard," Gizelle spoke with a smug smile, she seemed to be liking every single moment of this session.

"So what should we do with you now Adui? Should we reward you? Or kill you for your insolence?" Kaisel asked. He was at a loss for words, he didn't know what to say.

"Ladies, what do you think?" Kaisel asked.

"I say, we should give him to Andreas. He would know how to deal with him." Sara suggested. "Or you could give him to me. I can handle him." Patrica chimed in.

"We could feed him some Lunia worms. They would start eating from inside eventually making their way outside. He would die very slowly and would suffer as well. I think that would be a good punishment for him" Gizelle said.

It was a moment when he swore to kill Gizelle the first chance that he would get.