The White Hero (Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle)

Chapter 17: After Effects

(Y/N) and Krulcifer walk out of a carriage, as the former helps latter get out of the carriage. Krulcifer is seen with her light blue dress, as (Y/N) is seen in a formal black suit and with white gloves. Krulcifer links her arm around (Y/N)'s left arm, as the two walk towards the restaurant. (Y/N) pulls on his collar a bit, before Krulicfer looks at the boy with curiosity.

"Is there something wrong?" asks Krulcifer in a sweet voice.

(Y/N) shakes his head, before responding, "No! Everything is fine...I'm just not really a suit and tie person. Plus I think I'm getting weird looks considering I have one purple eye and my hair fades to white." He grabs a lock of his hair, looking at it for a while, as Krulcifer just smiles at him.

She caresses his cheek, before saying, "Well I would disagree. I think your new hair and your one purple eye complements you more. After all I want you to stand out, it lets all the ladies know your mine. Also don't worry about the suit and tie, you look handsome, so just deal with it for a little bit." She then whispers into (Y/N)'s ear, while using her hand to cover the side of her face, "Maybe I'll even give you a reward later."

The boy's face quickly turns red, as Krulcifer simply chuckles, much to (Y/N)'s embarrassment. Fortunately, (Y/N) was able to recompose himself, as the two walk in the restaurant. Alterize bows before them, while greeting them, "Thank you for coming here today. My Lady, and Master (Y/N)."

The three sit down at a table, as (Y/N) recalls all the events that happened or at least what he was told by Airi and Lux, since he passed out. The duel had happened one night ago and Queen Rai was able to cover up the fact that him and Lux were the 'Black and White Heroes'. Balzeride Kreutzer, the eldest son of the Four Great Noble Houses, had been thrown in prison and was severely injured, however none were fatal. Neither the duel, nor those involved, had been brought up to the public. They found out that without the permission of his father or his family, Balzeride had organized a private army of brigades, which he conducted illegal ruin expeditions and exerted political pressure in the shadows. Even with the influence of the Four Great Noble Houses, there would be no way to save him, from at the very least 5 years in prison. There was no horn flute found in his possession, but it still remains a fact that an Abyss was summoned before the ruins, and that it was nowhere to be found in the Academy's or even the Kingdom's data. Which means, it's very likely that the Abyss was controlled by a collaborator of Balzeride.

However, that wasn't what concerned us. What concerned us was my supposed new Divine Drag-Ride. Tathamet. After the battle, I woke up shortly after, which was unusual because after using Wyzex, it usually took me anywhere from 2 days to a week to recover. My injuries seemed to disappear and my Sword Device had changed colors. Wyzex's White and Gold colored armor was gone, being replaced with Tathamet's Black and Purple armor. Lisha, Noct, and Airi tried to figure out how Tathamet works, but were unable to do anything without my presence. When they tried to experiment without me, the Machine Dragon would not react. We were able to figure out that Tathamet built up energy from attacking and taking the attacks aimed at it to power up. It also had an ability which caused Drag-Rides in a certain distance to overheat. However, there was still so many questions that we couldn't yet answer. Its side affects, the amount of energy used to control it, the voice in the white room, the words of desire that was supposedly connected to this Drag-Ride, and the change of my physical appearance were among some of those unanswered questions.

Speaking about my appearance, when I first woke up, Airi handed me a mirror and showed my new appearance, which included my hair fading to a white color towards the tips and my left eye was now a dark purple. My new appearance did cause some stir in the school, however we were able to avoid questions with a couple of lies. Those lies being that I dyed my hair and my eye had always been purple, but I wore a blue contact to avoid attention. I'm still not quite sure how the students fell for the lie, but I'm not gonna question it either. After a couple days of experiments, the information on Tathamet was all gathered. We came to a decision that it might be too risky to use Tathamet regularly and I should save it to when I really needed it. I have a feeling that he might be able to tell me what this new Drag-Knight is..., but unfortunately I have no way of contacting him. Guess we're stuck at square one then...