Saint || Alhaitham x M! Reader

Chapter 11 || idk what to name dis 🧍

(The writers block is gonna be the death of me. ALSO HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE 💃🕺🎉)

Alhaitham POV:

M/n ran off that day. No one saw him after he left with the Erimites, I knew he went back home, but everyone else was confused. "Alhaitham!" Someone shouted behind me just as I was grabbing my keys to open my front door. "Oh? Hello you two" I greeted Traveler and Paimon, but there faces were less than happy "Have you seen M/n? We were asking all around and no one saw him up till yesterday morning!" Ultimately, I have trust in these two, and I figured I would let them in on a little mission I've planned out for myself. "Yes." Paimon gasped and Aether's eyes widened. I invited them inside before anything else, and explained everything.

"Woah!" Is all Paimon could say. "So...he's an Eremite! Even worse, HE STOLE THE ARTIFACTS?!" Traveler pulled on her floating leg "Ow! Ok ok! I didn't mean to shout- sorry" she chuckled. "He said that he wasn't stealing it, but returning. And when the Eremites attacked, one of them said that someone was angry and something happened to the ruins, I suspect that that this person he's talking about is non other than King Deshret himself."

"WHAT!?"

"Oops- hehe..sorry" she corrected herself. "That...does make sense, those artifacts were personal belongs to King Deshret, maybe, somehow, his soul is still tied to them" Aether finally spoke up. "Precisely. I presume M/n went off to the desert. We need to find him"

"On it" - Aether

We met up with Cyno on the way there, both he and Candace were hunched over a table with files and papers "What's the matter?" I asked

"I assume you're all here because of M/n's disappearance? Were trying to track him down. The Erimites ran into Aru Village yesterday morning looking for him, and there was a woman who told Cyno something about him being a worshiper of King Deshret" Candace said. Just then Cyno took off his hat and inspected it. "Candace, it's known that you are a direct descendant of King Deshret, yet they said nothing to you"

"What could they want from him?"

"M/n left Sumeru City without any fuss, I won't say willingly though. From what I've collected, he's an Erimite. One with a high status and power to be able to order men who wouldn't dare bring their blades to him. The woman we fought, Cyno. Is most likely his sister, she's the one who took the artifacts, with M/n's help" the air became thick, with everything out on the table everyone silently processed it all.

"I don't blame him." Candace softly said, her eyes looking down at the table. "No one is to blame." I added

"The Akedemiya didn't know that his soul was still tied to those artifacts, now M/n has to seem like the bad guy to take it back, right now he's probably trying to return them before it too late!" Paimon shouted. "Right, then let's go" -Cyno