A Beautiful Catastrophe - Book 1

Chapter 19 - The Ocean's Wish

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[Please note: This chapter is written in Grim Reaper's / Kai's POV - the day after his call with Senara]

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"Master, wake up," the voice of our butler woke me up.

I slowly opened my eyes and I'm immediately blinded by the sun's light. Ugh. I hate mornings. Why couldn't classes be in the afternoon or evening? I shut my eyes close again and rolled to the other side of bed.

The butler sighed. "Master, if you keep this up, you'll be late."

"That's fine. I'd still ace their exam even if I don't attend class," I lazily replied, waving my hands, signalling him to get out.

"But master—"

Ugh. He just won't stop. Now I understand why father put him as my personal butler. He's a persistent one.

"Ugh... just leave me alone," I commanded him with my eyes closed. I'm still very sleepy. I only managed to sleep near dawn and that was only 2 hours ago.

"You should really lessen playing games, master."

"I'm not just playing for the sake of playing."

"Yes, but still..." Blah-blah-blah.

Assessment is over. He's irritating for sure. I should ask my father to change my butler. He's as willful as my irritating sister. Why can't they just be polite and reserved? ... like Senara—she seemed pretty docile. Speaking of her, I wonder how she's doing.

"By the way master," the irritating butler rambled again, "you left your console open last night so I took the liberty to turn it off. But someone left you a message."

"Hm? Who?" I wondered, still with my eyes closed. Morning was truly my enemy.

"It was from a player named Senara Lee. I'm not quite sure how to address—him or her?"

I jolted up from bed as soon as I heard her name. It was odd since we haven't been friends for long but I'm somehow worrying for her. Her family's problem was no joke after all. I walked towards my playing couch and turned the game on to check the message.

"W-what the—Master, this is no time to play games!" Blah-blah-blah. Such a nag.

"I'm not turning this on if you remembered what she said," I turned to him. "Well, do you remember?"

"That's—my apologies, I didn't dare open the whole message."

"See?" I shrugged and shifted my focus on the TV screen.

Once loaded up, I went over my short friend list and unto the pings I received—a couple from those lazy guild assistants, lots of spams from the idiot trio, and there... just one message from Senara. I scrolled past the others and just read hers. Out of all the nonsense of the others, hers was most likely the only message with sense in it.

"Hi Grim Reaper! Thank you again for last night. I won't be playing Armageddon for a while but don't worry. I decided to spend more time with dad from now on... in case the worst happened. Anyway, enjoy playing! I'll be back as soon as I can," she said.

"Hmm... she's still not ok," I murmured to myself as I leaned back on the couch and looked up at the tall ceiling. I paused for a moment, deliberating what to do. "I'm technically still a teenager, too, so there's not much I can do."

"Indeed you are master, you're only sixteen," the blabbermouth butler interrupted my peaceful thinking. "But being young doesn't mean you can be—"