Scary

Damian who was currently being pushed by Irene who initiated the kiss was surprised by her action but returned the as well.

Soon both of them separated from each other and then stared at each other for a while. Suddenly Damian felt something and immediately moved his hand to block a punch to his gut.

He then looked down and saw Irene trying to punch him and looked back at her and saw her smiling.

He showed a wry smile and said, "My dear Irene why are you trying to hit me? Do you want to hurt this frail and weak lover of yours?"

Irene then snorted and said, "Frail and weak my ass and as for the punch, consider that as my way of showing love to my lover who left me here alone for a year. Do you even know how many people tried to court me for the time you were not here?"

Hearing that Damian just patted her head and said, "Sorry about that, I wanted to return back soon as well but I still required a bit more time to come back by your side. And regarding the people who tried to court you? Can you give me their information?".

Irene who was being patted by Damian hugged him and then looked up with a confused expression on her face and said, "I don't have any problems with that, but why do you want something like that?"

Damian just 'smiled' and said, "Oh, I just want to add some names in my people who 'accidentally' disappeared list." and continued to pat her head.

Irene who saw his 'smile' thought, 'He has become quite scary in the past year....But I don't care, Ahh~ he is finally back. Hehehehe he smell so nice." and thenstarted rubbing her face in his chest.

Damian who saw her acting like that chuckled but then realized that he still had some things to here and said, "More importantly, Irene did you recieved a letter from Adroelia?"

Hearing that Irene perked up and then turned serious and said, "Yeah, we got in the morning, I have already discussed about it with the ministers."

Damian just nodded with a smile on his face and said, "Oh, you discussed about it as well. So when are you going to give the reply."

Irene then furrowed her brows and said, "I am going to give my reply tomorrow that I am totally against the alliance with them."

Damian happily nodded his head but then realized something and said, ".....Huh, wait wait wait wait wait wait, why are you rejecting the alliance, aren't the terms already good enough?!?! What more do you all require?!?!"

Irene then nodded her head and said, "Of course the terms are more than good but they are asking me to marry me one of the higher ups from their kingdom. Do you want me to accept such an offer?"

Damian then said, "Of course I want you to accept that that's what I have been working on for the past whole year!!!"

Hearing that Irene looked at Damian in disbelief and then said, "You have been away from me for the past one year and when you come back you are saying that during the time that you were not present you were working as a wingsman to set me up with a higher up from another country?!?!"

Damian hearing that yelled, "LIKE HELL I WOULD DO THAT?!?! I AM TELLING YOU TO ACCEPT THIS BECAUSE THAT HIGHER UP IS ME THE MAGE HEAD IAN!!!!"

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Both Damian and Irene continued to state at each other for a while and then both of them said at the same time.

"YOU WERE THE ONE WHO SENT THAT LETTER?!?!"

"YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT I WAS THE ONE WHO SENT THAT LETTER!!!!!"

Both of them looked at each other with Disbelief and then Damian said, "Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, how come you didn't know that I was the one who sent that letter, I mean you should have already know by the message and the enchantments that it was me?"

Irene then said, "Umm, Hello we have not met for the past one year? How would have known that you learned how to use enchantments?"

Damian's brows twitched and he said, "Surely you jest, did you forget that we met 3 months ago and I gave you a letter directly, though I might be wearing a mask but I remember that I gave you letter in which I clearly wrote that I became the mage head in the Adroelia Kingdom and also about my plan on providing an alliance as a chance for the marriage. I even enclosed the whole letter with enchantments. You should have already understood that it was my letter."

Irene then shook her head and said, "No No No No No No, I haven't met you for the past one year at all, I didn't have any kind of letter like that. This is the first time that I have met you after you left. And what is with you joining the kingdom of Adroelia?"

Hearing that Damian said, "No I am totally sure that it was you whom I met and give that letter to, there is no one in this kingdom with red hair like you after all."

Irene then tried to remember if she had any recollection of the events about which Damian is talking to but even after straining herself, this much, she was not able to remember anything. But then as if she realised something she looked at Damian and said, "Did you come at Daytime or the night?"

Damian then crossed his arms and said, "I came in the evening."

Irene nodded and said, "Was I alone in the room when you came?"

Hearing that Damian nodded his head and said, "Yeah, you were alone and were drinking some kind of alcohol while sitting there."

Irene who heard his answer sighed and then massaged her forehead.

After calming down a bit she said, "No wonder I don't have any recollection of our meeting. You said that we met three months ago, right? You must have come on the day when I was secretly visiting the town for inspection during the evening. I had Zena... my maid take my place here in order to not cause suspicion that I left the castle and changed her appearance with magic. *sigh* you must have given that letter to her and she must have forgotten about it. When I returned back she was lying on the ground completely wasted after drinking too much. I don't think that she even remember that someone came by while I was gone. I will ask her later."

She then turned serious and asked, "More importantly how the hell are you the mage head of the Adroelia kingdom?"

Damian who heard his question, "Well it was not that difficult. I first sold some of the materials to gather some money, after which I applied for a trading pass and started making and selling High quality weapons which soon came in the view of the nobles. I then started taking orders from the nobles and then when I got the chance of meeting with the king I showed my Magical prowess to them by setting him up with a big ape like the one We fought before and then he asked me to become his court mage. From there I started giving my opinions in regards to various cases discussed in the court and them being reasonable got me to get on the good side of the old man(king). I became a reliable asset for him and from there the other ministers of the court and various nobles started forming connections with me since I was technically the right hand man of the king, and that's how I got most of them on my side, After that all was very simple, I just had to keep track of the allied kingdoms and the dragons and aim for a chance when Dragonof would be unable to refuse the deal, which I was going to use as a front for our marriage."

Damian then sighed and took a deep breath and said, "But looks like you don't even have any knowledge about my plan. It was good that I decided to visit you before you sent a reply to Adroelia and ruin my plan A."

Hearing that Irene remained silent for a while and digested all the information that she got. She then looked at him and asked, "But why did you choose Adroelia specifically? You could have chosen any of our allied kingdoms."

Damian then said, "Well my I chose Adroelia because of two reasons. It was because it was a neutral Kingdom and hence had no interference in terms of politics from other kingdoms, so I just had less difficulty in managing and gaining trust."

He then paused for a while and then said, "Now you must be thinking that I could have done the same with another kingdom which was your ally and doesn't have much interference from Dragonof. Yes, I was planning for the same as well, but someone ruined that and I ended up with Adroelia."

Hearing that Irene narrowed her eyes and said, "Someone ruined your plan. Who was it? Was it a country? Or just a single group?"

Damian just smiled and shook his head and said, "Neither of them, it was just a single person. A person who freely distributed dragon slayer magic to whoever it was compatible with, in all of the allied kingdoms of Dragonof as well and hence decreasing the overall value of powerfull mages."

Hearing that Irene's lips twitched and she averted her eyes.

Seeing that Damian chuckled and said, "You don't have to feel guilty. I am not blaming you, but the fact that you played a major part in changing my plans is true. A country which have abundance of powerful mages will give no mind to another powerful mage and hence will not get a higher rank in either nobility or court and thus my only choices were either Adroelia or the allied kingdoms. And Adroelia being the best choice was taken as the base for my plans, afterall a mage. who is not only strong himself, but can strengthen others as well and can make magic items like weapons and potions is very beneficial in a kingdom which is neither as rich as Dragonof nor have large forces as Dragonof. Take in mind I am not even including the dragons yet and the Adroelia still doesn't know about my transformation magic. So it was the best outcome."

Hearing that Irene's face turned into a frown and she said, "If I would have known that me giving away dragon slayer magic like that would result in you being so away from me then I wouldn't have did so in the first place." and just as she said that she recieved a chop on her head from Damian who then said, "Control your tongue. If someone heard you talking like that, then you would be criticized by your citizens for being a bad queen."

Irene then made a displeased face but still nodded her head but then a question came I her mind and she asked, "Umm.... you said that this was your plan A, right? Then does that mean that you have other plans as well?"

Damian just nodded his head and said, "Well I had many ways to marry you but in my opinion this was the.....safest."

Irene just looked at him with a dumbfounded expression because of the pause and then asked, "If you don't mind me asking, what were your other plans."

To which Damian just 'smiled' at her and said, "Well, you can say that it involved entering the castle without noticing and then turning into a giant and wrecking havoc here while some monsters from the forest would 'accidentally' be attacking the capital as they appeared out of 'no where'. But I was sure that you would have not liked that method..... Just so you know it was the least dangerous one except for the one I am using right now."

Irene then started at Damian who was looking back at her with a 'smile'on his face and thought, 'He really have become scary.'