69 Chess play with the old hag

"We're back." Zeolite said plainly, with his eyes closed. "Where is she?" He asked, looking for Ashley. "Still weird as always." Chiharu replied, staring at him. "I'm guessing she's at her seat?" Zeolite guessed, opening his tired eyes. "Yes and stop staring at me with those eyes. It feels like you're going to kill every single of us." Chiharu protested, doesn't like at how Zeolite's eyes is.

"Then cover your goddamned eyes if you don't want to look at mine." Zeolite scoffed as he walked past her, leaving her with a pissed expressions. "Why you…" She muttered quietly, ticked off at his rude attitudes.

"Are they good?" Hector asked, noticing the scary aura Chiharu emitted. "Not really." Arkus agreed, "Let's just hope they get along fine after this." Theresa said walking away from them, heading inside the plane. Hector look at Arkus, questioning him using his eyes motions, as Arkus replied with a shrug.

30 minutes passed, Ashley is already back to usual, not as dead as before. Theresa is counting their food supplies, while Hector are asleep soundly, not to loud, not to soft either, just normal. Celine is busy with her dagger, cleaning it until it looks like it was polished an hour ago.

"All ready?" Zeolite asked, looking for Chiharu's respond. "Ready." Chiharu replied while pressing a few buttons. "Good." Zeolite said and reached for the knobs above him, toggling it on. "Who's turn now?" He asked, without looking at her. "How should I know?" Chiharu said looking away.

Zeolite sighed, "Then…Me?" He asked, asking if she's good with his decisions. "Up to you." Chiharu said, not going to reveal her true intentions. "Fine." Zeolite groaned and rests his hands on the yoke.

Few hours has passed ever since they set off, half of them are asleep, since they got nothing much to do other than dozing off. The atmosphere was quiet in the cockpit, the faded engine sounds was heard, Chiharu's soft snores, while Zeolite remain quiet all the times, since he's able to controls his breathing pace.

"Why'd you brought me here?" Hector asked, standing in front of Iris who sat on the throne. "Important matter." She replied, opening her lazy crimson blood eyes and stares at him. "What's the matter you're talking about to be exact?" Hector asked once again, wanting a brief explanations on why she brought him here, her world.

Iris raised one of her brows, before dropping her serious attitudes. "I'm just bored!" She groaned like a child who wasn't allowed to play outside. "Seriously?" Hector asked, his face shows plain uninterest when it comes to matter with Iris.

"C'mon! Play with me!" She whined suddenly appearing in front of him, "Whoa! You've surprised me!" Hector yelped and stepped behind, due to surprised. "Sh*tty noble, play with me!" Iris demanded, while calling him with his nickname. "Play what?!" Hector shouted, getting terrified by this side of hers. "Chess." She smiled, bringing her hands out as a chessboard appeared above her hands. "Whoa! How'd you do that?! Amazing!" Hector shouted, amazed by her ability and scooted closer to her. "Hahaha! This is my world, I can do anything I wanted!" Iris laughed, completely the opposite of her when it comes to daily.

"Cool! What's more that you can do?" Hector asked, getting really interest at her ability. "It's limitless!" Iris laughed smugly, like an rich girl. Hector was about to asks more things, until she put her index finger in his lips, silencing him down, "Shh. Now, shall we play?" She smiled sweetly, and dragged his wrist.

After the two was in front of her throne, she stopped walking. And wait for her world to process what she wanted, a white table then appeared in front of them, along with two seat on each side. Iris put the chessboard she's holding above the table, as the chess pieces appeared after few seconds, neatly arranged.

"Which side?" She asked, offering him to pick side between white and black. "White." Hector replied, "As expected." Iris smirked and appeared at the black side. "Can you tell when you're gonna do that? That's surprised me!" Hector protested at Iris's sudden disappearance beside him. "Sorry not sorry~" Iris smiled innocently, as Hector sighed in defeat before walking to the seat that's is white side.

"How about…A little deal?" Iris asked, with her right forearm resting on the table edge, and her cheek resting on her palm. "And what's the deal?" He asked, leaning forward a bit. "Hmm…If you win…I can tell you a couple secret that I had with your father~" Iris said, kicking her legs back and forth. "What? Really?" Hector said, surprised by the deal. "Wait, wait. I'm not done." Iris said stopping him from talking.

"And if I win…Spend time with that brunette!" Iris smiled cheerfully, while clapping her hands. "What?!" Hector shouted, slamming his palm onto the table, as the chess pieces jumped a bit. "You don't want to know the secret? Fine by me." Iris shrugged, and look away from him. "Of course I want it! But why the heck did you want me to spend time with Theresa?!" Hector shouted, doesn't want to do more embarrassing moment with her.

"The way your relationship goes is interesting! Just like the one with your father and mother! It's just so interesting! It brought me thrilled, and I want it to happened again!" Iris said with full energy when she tells him the reasons. "Ugh! It was for the sake of us when it happened! Can't you choose something more, not embarrassing than that?" Hector said, trying to make her change her mind.

Iris shakes her head, and playfully rolled her tongue out, mocking him. "Damn you old hag!" Hector shouted, completely annoyed by her attitudes. "Would you do it or not? I promise I had an interesting secret about your father." Iris said, making him cannot declined the deal. "Let me think…" Hector grumbled and turned around, trying to think.

"Hurry, it's not like you got another chance to see me this kind, sh*tty noble." Iris said, started calling him by his ugly nickname that she uses. "Jeez, fine!" Hector shouted, raggedly turned around, pissed by iris's impatient behavior. "Yeay!" Iris cheered in victory. "Deal?" She asked, staring at him with her crimson blood eyes. "Deal…" Hector said with his eyes averted.

"You wanted to send me and my team to Land of God? Really? Damn, some guts you have there, Master." Akane said, impressed at how crazy his idea is. "I'm sorry. But there's something important you three had to take care in there. I was planning to send Hector and his team there before, but he was heading to Land of Wisdom." Master Fang apologies.

"Heh, you sure these amateur can handle the expertness in Land of God?" Akane scoffed, "I'm really sure they can." Master Fang nodded. "Confident, eh?" Akane said and chuckled lightly. "You're in or not? If yes then you shall depart tomorrow morning. If not then I'm going to search someone else to do it." Master Fang said, looking for her answer. "Hmph, on one conditions." Akane said, "And what is it?" Master Fang asked, looking at her.

"What's exactly the mission is? And how long me and the team stay there?" Akane asked, wanting an explanations on her department to Land of God. "Your mission will be revealed when you arrive there. I don't have the full detail, I can only say that this is important. And about how long you'll be staying there, it's around 1 week or so." Master Fang said, telling her what he have.

"Damn. So there will be someone in Land of God who will tell us the real mission is?" Akane asked, trying to dig a bit on the matter. "I supposed you can call it like that." Master Fang nodded. "Agh, this is troublesome…" Akane groaned ruffling her own hair. "Will I got any prize?" She asked, not going to do the mission if she got nothing. "Of course there will be a prize." Master Fang sighed at her hunger for prize.

"Nice. Is it big?" She asked again, want to make sure it's big enough. "Don't ask me…I'm not the one handing you the prize. I'm just searching for people that want to do the mission." Master Fang said, not in charge of the prize. "Tsk. Tomorrow morning then?" Akane said, making sure of the time to depart. "Yes, take the earliest department schedule." Master Fang nodded, answering her.

"One more down~" Iris sang as she knocks Hector's Knight and replace it with her Pawn. "Ugh…You're too good in this…" Hector hissed under his breath, trying to think a better strategy to bring her down. "Of course I'm good, who do you think am I?" Iris giggled softly. "Old hag." Hector replied, "You insolent sh*tty noble." Iris smiled ticked off at his answers.

Meanwhile somewhere in the middle of Kenryoku, there stood two cloaked person. "Did we really have to do it?" An heavy and low voice asked, "We cannot disobeyed Master Zosce order." The other person replied, with a high-pitched voice. The man stays quiet, deep in thoughts. "Besides, your daughter still going to have her life." The girl said, trying to calm the older men down. "But she won't like it either." The older men said, gritting his teeth and clenching his fists.