The Demon King's Paladin

Intermission. Laura's Thoughts

Laura Buckley's Point of View

It's been 3 months since we were repelled by that group of demons with the purple knight. I've spent that time since training and diving into dungeons with my friends. We made good progress even without a Hero with us. It seems that Jessie has taken to training the Hero a lot more seriously compared to before. He refuses to even let the Hero fight any monsters until he feels the Hero is ready. During one of our raids on a dungeon for training, after defeating the boss of one of the floors. We were alerted on our way back that the King had requested our presence for a meeting.

" What do you think he wants, Laura?"

Ashley asked for my theory on why we were called. My answer was a simple one.

" Most likely he needs us to act like a party with the Hero again. Probably for some publicity if I had to guess."

The girls ruminated on my thoughts. Jaime was the first to respond.

" But why would he do something like that so soon? Only 3 months after such a big failure. For something he pushed for so hard in the public sphere? I mean, the entire reason he brought... The Hero with him, was to instill confidence in his invasion plan."

Jaime struggled to find a way to name the fool. But she brought up an interesting point, but I had a simple counter point.

" My conclusion comes from the fact that this is the first time he's sought us out since we reported about what happened that day."

" Speaking of that day, Laura, any luck with your contacting him?"

Lucy asked me about the problem I disliked the most.

" Well, it's complicated."

" What do you mean?"

Lucy and the girls looked at me with curiosity. Unfortunately, my report for them isn't amazing.

" Well, to start with, Agnus said that my technique is flawless now, but for some reason, I can't seem to contact him. I feel like I reach him, but it's like my voice, no, my intentions don't reach him."

" Why could that possibly be?"

Ashely asked why, no doubt she was disappointed in my answer. Now to explain what I've been dealing with the past 2 months.

" Well, I don't know why to be honest. All I can really say is that I keep trying to reach out, but he never hears me. And that's not the only thing that I find weird."

" What else has happened Laura?"

Jaime responded with a question of her own. I turned to her and began to explain this change that has me worried with this dream I've had.

" The scenery has changed."

" In what way?"

Lucy responded to me. At this point, we all had stopped walking to the throne room. I took a deep breath before trying to convey these things I've been seeing for the last 2 months.

" Well, John is still walking away from me. The purple horizon has gotten darker and looks as if it's slowly wrapping itself around him. To the point where I can hardly make John's figure out anymore."

" Is that it?"

" No."

Jaime wondered if that was the only problem. I wish it was.

" Before, the surroundings around him were white and didn't really have anything to define it. Now however, his surroundings have been filled in with a deep and dark green forest that threatens to swallow him whole. Yet John, no matter how much I yell, continues to march forward."