Time to Lose Your Virginity
Amidst all that chaos, there is one thing Byron didn't expect to hear. Goddess of Beauty's voice.
"Are you crazy? Kyron had been practicing magic and having combats ever since you're five."
Byron gave the people around him suspicious looks thinking they had heard her, but nothing seemed out of order.
As the patriarch continued to laugh uncontrollably at Byron's suggestion to fight Kyron, Byron answered Goddess of Beauty.
'I'm not crazy!'
Byron himself knew that fact. That Kyron was a strong opponent to face. He could not defeat him. However, his intention was not to defeat him. It was to remain at the battle ground for as long as he could. No! To not leave the battle ground at all. He wanted to prove that Kyron could not defeat him either.
How, he didn't know. He only trusted his bravery and battle experience back on earth.
Goddess of Beauty was not convinced.
"You're crazy! Kyron has a grudge toward you. Given a chance, Now that you're threatening to take the Flaming Princess from him, he's going to eliminate you."
'I thought you said you'll kill me if I don't get my name back. Why are you stopping me from getting it back? Isn't it death either way?'
He could not see her face, but when she took long to respond, he could guess what was written on it. Humiliation and disbelief.
Finally, she sighed and said.
"That's different."
'How? Did you change your mind?'
When she went silent, the patriarch was done laughing.
"Oh! Son, you really knew my teeth needed some medicine. That was too much dopamine."
Byron stared into his brown left eye, not wavering his expression.
"I was serious."
Waiting for the Patriach's answer, Byron asked Goddess of beauty if she knew any other way he could use to get his name.
"No! But don't worry! You just focus on your conversation with the Patriarch. I'll tell you if I get it."
That's what he did, noting something about the Blue Family.
The Patriach's hair was now grey, but had been silver, so was his and Kyron's. Even their eyes were the same colour.
'I already miss my emerald eyes back on earth. My black hair too.'
The Patriarch was seemingly shocked, or trying to pierce through Byron to know if he wasn't really possessed because the old geezer had took so long to respond to his remark.
After a few seconds, a reply came.
"You're only useless. Not a criminal to die of punches and kicks of your brother. Do you happen to have any other way to prove you're sane and strong?"
That's when Goddess of Beauty's help came in.
"Tell him you know where the Dungeon of Desire is located. That you can go bring a sapling and the soil to plant it into."
Her words unlocked Byron's other memories. The Patriach's brother went hunting one day and returned at the castle after two years, bringing seeds and saplings with him and the soil to plant them into. Only one seed survived and now it was the only apple tree with edible fruits around the world. It was one of the drumline castle's pillars of prosperity.
That guy said he had found a place he called Dungeon of Desires, and that there were more many edible plants and pure soil. Since everything was infected, this piqued Patriach's interest bad sent a group 30 people with his brother to bring more pure soil and plants, only to never see them again. It's been 8 years since that incident.
Byron understood that telling the Patriarch what the goddess of Beauty had just told him would make him look even more insane than show he was sane. However, he had no other choice.
"I know where the Dungeon of Desires is located. I can go, bring a..."
The Patriach didn't allow him to finish.
"I can't even slap you anymore. You have really went mad after living alone for years. I'm sorry I had to make you go through all those."
Before Byron could say anything about, the Patriarch turned around to leave Healing Hall.
"Madelene, take care of your son. He really needs a mother this time."
Madelene nodded her head and shifted her gaze at Byron, fear and concern written all over her round face.
Byron spared her a glance, offered her a reassuring smile and yelled at the patriarch.
"Why don't you give me chance and see?"
Not even turning around, the Patriarch replied, "Do whatever you want."
"Does that mean I'm allowed to leave the castle tomorrow to bring them then?"
This time, the Patriarch turned around to face him.
"I can't stop you from doing what you want. If it's death that you want, go greet him. You just know we love you."
Byron could tell the man was hurt. Who would not? His brother had been a good fighter. The 30 people he took with him were also strong and great warriors. But the harsh reality down the castle took their life. How could he not be hurt if his first son was taking himself into the death's maw?
'I'll prove all of you wrong!'
***
It was shocking to learn that his mom was a mute. No wonder she didn't let out even a sigh during his conversation with the Patriarch.
After the Patriarch left, his mother hugged him so tight that Byron almost suffocated. Kyron and Dahlia gave Byron and his mom strange looks and left with Knox. Gillian left to bring Byron's favorite dish, while his beautiful mom took out a book and a quill.
She wrote,
[Darling, how have you been?]
Byron offered her a smile and a thumbs up gesture. He then found in his memories that the woman could not speak but could listen.
"I have been good, mom!"
[Though Gillian updated me day after another, I really missed you. I wanted to come and hug you but couldn't.]
Byron wanted to ask her why, but didn't want to trouble the poor woman. He could see that she loved him.
[I wanted to kiss your forehead every day before you go to sleep but couldn't. I'm glad that you've decided to return.]
"I'm also glad to see you again, mom!"
The woman wrote and wrote, told him she knew he was not crazy, that she was worried and confused... she wrote and wrote.
Reading her words, Byron felt emotions he wasn't supposed to have. She was not his real mother, right?
'You fool, now she's your mother.'
'Yeah! That's right!'
Finally, the women whipped way her tears with the back of her hand, fed him as if he was an infant and finally kissed him on the forehead.
It was time to sleep and get ready for the tomorrow's expedition.
"Gillian, good night!"
"Good night, brother Byron!"
The auburn haired beauty left the room with plates and everything of that ilk, leaving alone Byron to settle in his bed and get ready to plummet into a deep slumber.
However, the Goddess of Beauty had something else in mind.
"Come here, we have something to take care of before you leave the cliffs."
With a confused smile, Byron asked, "Come where?"
"Into your Soul Sea."
"I mean, how?"
The goddess of Beauty directed him on how to enter his Soul Sea which he found not difficult. He only needed to focus, think of it and then find himself near a tranquil sea.
'I'm living a movie life,' he said to himself when he appeared in a place, so vast and calm, with only a sun and a sea with navigable shores.
'No! Anime life. I'm living anime life.'
A smile appeared on his face but had to push it aside to ask, "Where are you, Beauty Goddess?"
A portal appeared beside him.
"You have a portal in my Soul Sea?"
She said yes and told him to hurry up and enter the portal. That they needed time for the quest ahead and the expedition tomorrow.
Byron obeyed and entered the portal, only to find a beauty in her bath suit staring at him with her hazel eyes, filled with much much more lust and admiration... and mischief.
'What the fuck!'
Her naked skin was blinding like staring at snow on a sunny day, glowing gradually like a dying star. Only her long black hair didn't rhyme with her 'I'm white style.'
"I'm sorry it has to be this early. You're supposed to lose your virginity after acquiring your name. However, tomorrow you'll leave the castle. You have to learn a couple of things before you fall into those Venomous Beauties' claws. I mean, how do you plan to kill a Venomous Beauty if you cannot even quench her lust?"
Her words meant only one thing. Time to lose your virginity.
'Lose my virgi...'
'Damn it!'