199 The Hero and the Royal Guard

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Inside Elrich's office, two men were seated across each other while having tea. This situation might have sounded to be a tranquil sight, but reality usually isn't that simple. The atmosphere was more tense than usual because news had arrived that the hero had successfully made it back to the capital after a sudden departure.

"Isn't the hero making us wait for him a little too much?" Julian; Julia's father and head of the king's guard impatiently tapped on the table.

He had been coming to the Eberbach residence for the past couple of days with the purpose of negotiating for Julia's said contract to the hero be voided. Of course, that was not the only reason he was here. With Sodina's arrival to the capital, it only meant that the people that were sent to take care of her had failed their mission.