Towards the front (5)

Mars took the twins into his arms with Lily on his right arm and Lee on his left arm and walked out of the empty warehouse and joined the others outside

"Lee, Lily! HAHAHA it's good to see you're alright!"

Chris greeted the twins loudly it seemed he had regained his vigor after puking in the warehouse Karen was still rather pale but still gave a wide smile when she saw the twins, Lily looked like she became embarrassed about the dirty rag she was wearing which Mars spotted

"hold on a second Lily"

Mars put both the twins down before he took off his sweater and pulled it down over Lily, it was of cause way too big for her as she was only 10 years old, so it looked more like a long dress as the sweater almost touched the ground but it was better then just wearing the dirty rag, Lee as a boy didn't seem to mind his current outfit as much as Lily and besides Mars had only worn one sweater so he was out of clothes to give anyway. seeing as the twins were wearing nothing on their feet Mars picked them up again and carried them in his arms

"let's go"

Mars and the rest of the group began walking back towards the mansion, on the way they attracted a lot of attention seeing as the group consisted of a elf, a half dragon and 2 snow fox beastmen twins, Mars of cause half ignored half basked in the stares he received meanwhile Chloe had a aloof expression on her face as if saying the rabble could do as they pleased while she admired Mars's bare upper body, soon the group returned to the mansion

"...how do you two want to deal with the lord?"

""the lord?""

"he's the one that had you kidnapped"

both of the thought for some time until Lee finally spoke

"...I think it's fine to leave him be"

"Lee?"

"sis he's just a pittyful man leave him and he will eventually self destruct"

"...okay I agree with Lee"

"if that what you want then it's fine"

while Mars felt it was a rather childish way to solve the problem he found it to be fine, after all they were children

'...although I really want to burn him alive, oh well the children have spoken'

"then let's go get the teacher and leave this place, any objections?"

no one spoke so Mars gave a nod

"then let's meet here again in 10 minutes"

Mars saw nods all around

"okay then"

Mars still carrying the twins walked into the mansion and eventually arrived at his own room and put down the twins on the floor before he walked into his room and quickly grabbed his luggage, put on another sweater and when he turned to leave the room again he saw that the twins were standing in the doorway looking at him

"what's wrong?"

"...can you help us pack?"

"...sure"

the faces of the twins lit up slightly before they each grabbed one of Mars's hands and began leading him to their room

'they have really gotten attached quickly...'

Mars followed the twins to their room and helped them pack their luggage and carried it out the mansion and loaded it into the sky carriage before he leaned his back against the sky carriage and gave a sigh

'...I really hope Gas falls over dead'

Mars was still a little sad about the whole 'leave him to self destruct' thing but what could he do?

'well I could just break the trust I have build with the twins and kill him anyway...'

while mentally discussing murder Mars had a blank look on his face while he watched the twins run around, they seemed to be playing tag and Lee was currently it

'nah, it's as Lee said he will eventually self destruct own his own... really wanted to incinerate him though'

as Mars was wondering if he could kill the lord without the twins finding out the rest of the group form the academy showed up with the vice principal in front that ran up and hugged the twins

"I'm so glad you're alright"

the vice principal held the twins tight for a few moments before she looked at Mars with gratitude in her eyes

"I'm glad you found them... what are we going to do with Gas?"

"Lee has decided to leave him alone"

"..I see well then let's leave, everybody get in the sky carriage we're leaving!"

meanwhile as the group form the academy and the 2 elvers were boarding the carriage Gas Fedeson was sitting in his office sweating while his mind raced this continued for a while until there was a knock on the door and a subordinate responsible for surveillance steeped into his office

"so what was it?"

"it was as we're feared the group form the academy that took back the beastmen twins..."

"....shit"

Gas hit his desk and frowned his brows

"where are they now?"

"that's... they left in their sky carriage a moment ago"

"WHAT!?"

"as I said, they left..."

Gas sank into his chair and breathed a sigh of relief before anger overtook him and he hit his desk again

"damn them how dare they threaten me! not only that they also ruined my plans to curry favor with the 8 heads..."

"yes really they deserve death..."

Gas thought for a moment before he suddenly stood up form his chair

"that's right they deserve death, so let's kill them!"

"but my lord how are we going to do that?"

"fetch my communicator I'm going to make a call to my cousin"

"yes my lord!"

the subordinate rose to his feet and ran out the room while Gas showed a furious smile on his ugly round face

"they are certainly all going to die!"

"hmm..?"

"what is it Mars?"

"...nothing I just had a bad feeling... never mind that tell me how we play this card game"

"okay so as I was saying---"

inside the sky carriage was a harmonious feeling as all of the group from the academy was preparing to play a card game as Karen explained the rules of the game to Mars that was the only one that didn't know how to play it, Adam was watching the clouds outside the window while Chloe was watching Mars as usual. the seating was also slightly different as the twins were seated on Mars's right and left while Chloe sat a little further away from Mars on his left with Adam sitting all the way out on the left against the opposite window

"so you got it now Mars?"

"yeah I think so... let's just try it"

the game went on and Mars got more and more depressed as he got beaten hard in the first half of the game only when he got encouragements from the twins by his side did he seem to lighten up a little and fight back, but he still lost in the end

'oh well...'

Mars gave a sigh and looked out the window on his right while he petted the twins on the head with both hands

'...wait is that..?'

Mars transformed his eyes and spotted what looked like a row of ballistas on a hilltop a few kilometers away

'weird...'

the ballistas were operated by a group of rough looking men that in all fairness looked like a bunch of bandits

'wait we're going that way..?'

Mars felt it weird that the sky carriage seemed to get closer and closer to the hilltop and closed his eyes to feel the odd in the air

'shit, we're being pulled by a wide range spell... this is bad'

Mars looked around the carriage and saw nobody else had noticed the anomaly, perhaps the driver of the sky carriage knew but he was in a isolated compartment

'we might still escape the pulling force that's affecting the carriage... but I need to make some perpetration first...'

the first thing Mars did was to take Lily that was sitting on his right and put her into his lap

"Mars?"

Lily became a little surprised and looked up at him with her big red eyes

"sorry I want to sit at the window for awhile is that okay?"

"it's fine..."

Mars moved over to the window before he sat down Lily on his left

'that's the first step...'

Mars looked out the window and focused on the group of bandits and their ballistas and spotted what looked like a mage in the middle of the group, the mage wore a robe and carried a staff which he held above his head

'so that's the one...'

Mars, having found the most likely source of the weird odd began to form a flame outside of the sky carriage that soon shaped into a flame lance

'just a little closer...'

Mars aimed the fire lance as the sky carriage got pulled closer the the hilltop

'now!'

Mars fired the fire lance towards the mage, the fire lance zoomed through the air but hit a magic barrier before it could strike down the mage at the same time the ballistas opened fire

"shit, INCOMING!"