Chapter 49: Heavenly Palace

When the monsters attacked and he was heavily wounded. Ali had a dream in which his wife and he had met, Kira was guiding him to the heavenly palace of their goddess.

Kira was wearing a white dress like the others.

"This is the heavenly palace I was talking about Al"

"So I'm dead..."

"No not yet, I'm watching you from afar. There are rules restricted here that we can't meddle with the living...But we can talk with our loved ones who are in between."

"In between?"

"In between, it means you're in the middle of death and life..."

"I see...then it's better if it would tilt to death..."

Kira pouted and held Ali's hands.

"Al, don't say that...I know I have left too early. I have caused you immense pain, but please don't give in to death. Igyeo is still waiting for you Al. Don't leave him."

"But...I want to be here with you, it's peaceful..."

"And leave our son alone? Igyeo is still a young child, if you leave him too soon then he will die..."

Ali looking at his wife felt safe. He glanced at the whole place, there were many, and Ali even saw some of his acquaintances who had lost their lives.

"It's safe here...Igyeo will be safe here, and our family could be together again.."

"Momma!"

Suddenly three small children rushed to Kira hugging her and jumping around and surrounding her.

"Now, settle down..."

The three children glanced at the man in front of them.

Ali glanced at the three children in front of him.

"They are-"

"Papa!!"

The three small children gathered around Ali hugging him.

"Wow, Papa is here!"

"Papa nice to meet you!"

"Papa, Papa! I, Jun, Ely, and Momma have been watching you, Papa!"

The three small children with their beaming smiles softened Ali's heart.

"They're our children, Igyeo's older siblings..."

"Ah..so they were here with you.."

"They are, they have been watching me from afar. When I entered through the heavenly gates, they were the ones who had greeted me alongside the goddess..."

Kira was carrying Jun, meanwhile, the two children were tugging her clothes.

"Papa! We heard what you said!"

"Yeah!"

The three children had angry pouts.

"Your planning on leaving our little brother out there?!"

"That's irresponsible of you papa!"

"Yeah! How could you leave our youngest little brother there? He needs you papa you cant just leave him!"

The three were pouting and scolding Ali.

"Papa you mustn't leave yet, what if some monster tries to attack him?"

"Yeah! What if the monster hurts Igyeo since you left him behind!"

"That's so irresponsible!"

The three once again chimed.

"But...if that does happen, he will be here with us. We can be a whole family again..."

Ali ruffled Jun's hair.

"You're being selfish papa"

"Yeah, selfish!"

"Your only thinking of what you want...Have you ever asked what Igyeo wants?"

Jun, Ely, and Vivi crossed their hands.

"Selfish!"

"Yeah, selfish!"

"That's not good papa! You're utterly selfish"

Ali was at a loss for words.

"Ok now, you three are right but you're being too hard on your papa. Now why don't you play with the other kids while Mama talks with Papa ok?"

"Ok!"

The three little children run off leaving Kira and Ali.

"Hon, we only have a few more minutes...You'll be back in the real world.."

"What? No! I want to stay here, Kira...."

"It's not your time yet, you will know when it's your time. But right now, you have to live for our son. Don't leave him..."

"No! Kira No! Please let me stay!"

"As I said, it's not your time..."

After that, Ali was woken up by Igyeo.

Now their village has merged with the wolf tribe.

Bang!

'Is it over?'

"Huff, Huff.."

Igyeo and Primo were both laying on the grass. Both were out of breath.

"Haha, I won..."

"No, you didn't...It was a tie..."

"Nope, I won..."

"You don't want to admit that it was a tie.."

Primo sat down looking at the exhausted Igyeo.

"Oi training with you is fun! Why don't we become training partners? We will spar every day here! What do you think?"

"I think I'll pass..."

"What come on?! Just say yes wuss!"

"Nope..."

Primo grumbled with a scowl on his face.

"By the way, you seem mad when I taunted you with your mother...Why are you mad though?"

"My mother's dead alright...I don't want you to talk to her like that. You're disrespecting her..."

Igyeo looked at the bright sky, he didn't have many memories of his mother. The only memory inside his head was when his mother would sing him to sleep.

"Oh, damn sorry..."

Igyeo glanced at Primo.

"Did you just apologize?"

"Yeah, hey I'm truly sorry for what I said. I didn't know that your mom was dead...sorry.."

"Wow..."

Primo who was flushing red glanced at the shocked expression on Igyeo's face.

"W-What the hell? Why do you seem shocked by what I said?"

"Well, I never thought that you would apologize...My first impression of you was a heartless muscle head...But strangely you have this kind of attitude. I also thought you were some kind of heartless jerk since you couldn't get the hint when I kept on repeating for you not to talk that way about my mother..."

"W-What?! Did you think of me as a heartless jerk?! That's too much!"

"Well anyone in my position would think the same..."

"Urghhhhh!!"

Ali watching the interaction between his son and the wolf tribe's son smiled.

'It's still a long way to go. But I'm glad that you now have great friends...'

Ali with one last glance left the two alone.

....

"Big brother your so kind.."

One of the small little children hugged Pan. Pan had fun playing with the children. Pan patted the child who hugged him with a smile.

"Now then why don't we play tag? I'll be the monster. But remember we can only play in the fields ok?"

"Ok!"

"Hurry run!"

"Wahhh big brother's going to get us!"

Pan acted as the big monster and started to catch the small children. Some of the children were already tagged but they kept on running away as if Pan was still the monster.

Lenta was watching the interaction between Pan and the children.

....

"Huff, Huff..."

"Terzo you won't have any breakthrough if you keep on resting like that. How many times have I told you even if you have depleted your magi keep on casting, that way your magi would increase..."

"Hah, but master truly I'm out of strength..."

Terzo was still learning from Diabo.

'He has a huge number of magi, the only problem he has is his control..'

"Just stand up, and let's continue.."

"Fine..."

....

The four grizzly Beastmen were still in the village. It was due to Marelda who wanted to slowly build a relationship with Callidus.

"Heok...The chief wants to take that man as his husband. Heok..."

"Wahh the past chief is going to kill us...."

Aaron was watching the two who were sobbing. He was also considering that one day his sister would have children. This further intensified Aaron's fear.

'I hate kids...Just imagine them following me everywhere I go. Without any rest and some peace...'

Aaron trembled to imagine such a scene. Aaron left the other two beastmen who were still crying nonstop.

After leaving the house though he bumped into a little girl.

"Ouch, I'm so sorry big brother!"

The girl touched her head and glanced at the boy in front of her. The boy was trembling and was looking at her with Deadshot eyes.

"Ah..I-I'm so sorry!!"

The girl runs away from Aaron.

Meanwhile, Aaron was still stuck in the same position shivering.

'What have I done? She must be hurt since she touched her head. I should have said sorry but my mouth wouldn't move. She must be scared of me, oh no what have I done? I want to hide!!!'

Aaron was a meek and timid boy, he had trouble talking with other children his age. If Aaron was in the modern world he would have been diagnosed with social anxiety.

The little girl came back with Pan. Pan glanced at the trembling Aaron who glanced at him. Pan felt shivers as Aaron walked closer to the two of them stiffly and with Deadshot eyes.

The little girl hid behind Pan.

"I'm....sorry..."

After saying those words, Aaron runs off with great speed.

The little girl and Pan heard what Aaron had said, although it was meek the two of them heard it.

The little girl wiped her tears as she glanced at the running figure of Aaron.

Meanwhile, Marelda and Callidus were both back inside the village. Marelda and Callidus had gathered many herbs and were currently walking back to Callidus's home.

'I can't believe it! A date! The goddess must have given me such an opportunity! Goddess thank you so much!!"

'Hmm, so that's how he created the herbs...'

Callidus was beyond happy. For the first time in his entire life, he never felt such immense joy aside from crafting items.