Monarchs Celestia

Part 1: Chapter 9(Old)

Chapter 9

The End Before The Beginning 1

Hm? Why does my right cheek feel so nice and... wet?

*thud

I slowly opened my eyes and the first thing I saw was Sistine sitting down vertically looking out through the window or some sort. Vertically? Wait a minute, who's comfy lap am I on right now? And are we moving? After some short thinking, I decided to just close my eyes and enjoy my nap for now.

After a few moments, I decided to take a peek to see if anything had happened so far. And at the exact moment I was peeking, Sistine was looking and immediately shouted "Oh Andrew's awake! Andrew's awake!" while pointing at me like a kid who was so overly excited. I had no choice but to get up as it would be quite obvious that I'm enjoying myself on someone's lap. I was gonna play it off as I had just woken up but when I looked at whose lap I was sleeping on, I changed my mind. There was no way Tina was gonna buy my acting skills and it would probably end up with her not talking to me all day.

Hm? Why is she looking at her lap with such a disgusted expression on her face? And Sistine as well? I decided to take a look at Tina's lap and oh boy, there was a large drool mark on her maid outfit. No wonder why my right cheek felt wet.

"It seems you had a good sleep, Master Andrew," Tina said as she looked at me with a forced smile. Tina was pissed as her right eyebrow and cat ears would twitch.

"Oh uh yeah. It was umm a very nice sleep indeed." I said, nervously.

As Tina wiped off my drool on her maid outfit with a small handkerchief, I decided to look around. It would seem that we're in a carriage with lots of room. It wasn't quite as fancy as the one I rode so I assumed that it was a middle-class type carriage that could fit about 10 people inside. Which is a perfect vehicle for kidnapping. I looked through the window and saw nothing but an open field of what seemed to be wheat. After a few moments of looking, I decided to look at Tina who still had a disgusted look and asked her what happened after I was knocked out.

So to summarize what happened, after I got knocked out. Sistine and Tina were knocked out as well by someone. Tina wasn't able to recognize the person who knocked me out as they were wearing a hood. So they basically have no idea what happened in Ecriner town.

When Tina finally gained consciousness, I was unconscious on her lap and Sistine was across her unconscious as well. She then realized that we were on a carriage which meant that there was a coachman. She was planning on taking out the coach and making him talk but Sistine was waking. So Tina wasn't able to take over the carriage as she ended up calming Sistine instead. Plus the carriage was closed off so it would be quite hard to sneak up to the coachman without making a noise unless the person sneaking was some ninja from the hidden leaf village. (There's no such place in this world)

As Tina was telling me all this, I was having a hard time imagining Tina knocking out the coachman. At first glance, Tina doesn't look like the fighter type. In fact, she's the exact opposite. I thought at the time that she may have some secret skills I didn't know about.

After Tina calmed Sistine down, the coachman ended up looking through the slider that separates us and him. This pretty much ended Tina's plan of taking over the carriage. The coachman was the first one to talk and he looked and sounded scared. The coachman explained to Tina what happened and well it was pretty much useless. All Tina got was that the coachman suddenly got unconscious passengers and a hooded man told the coachman that if he doesn't deliver us to the Walts manor, he's gonna suffer. And so the coachman agreed because he's a pussy to ask any question.

So the only useful information I got from that was we're currently heading to the Walts Manor and of course Tina's secret skills.

"So... when are we arriving in the Walts Manor?" I asked. Being bored as I was only staring at some farms as the sun settles for the day.