Parallel - A Virtual Reality.

V2. Chapter 20. Lord. (Part 2)

"It looks that Arapi has got even more power than we thought" I say out loud to the people that are besides me right now, Eliana, Peko and Zenith.

"Against such a Kingdom we will have to hold our own" Says Eliana thoughtful, Zenith and Peko are silent as they walk.

While walking we see many restrained soldiers that still seems to have fighting spirit left, they are a lot, but they haven't tried to escape. Without their weapons and handing their armor, the possibility of them dying by a couple of swings of the Barbarians is high, so they are being calm.

I was planning to execute their leader if he were to lie to me, but I was going to let them go after a while depending on their behavior and their work, but at that time when I spoke with him, I truly committed myself in executing them all...

I sigh to myself and gaze at our soldiers and group of friends that still seems to be celebrating the victory, I smile at that, walking to their place to speak with them along with Zenith and the others.

Arksen is the first to talk as he sees me approaching, a wide, silly grin plastered on his face "Hey Lord, how did it go?" He asks in a somewhat light tone that hides worry behind it

"It went fine" I tell him, and everyone look relieved at that

"But we will have to grow more if Arapi decides to move again, even so, I highly doubt it will be any time soon" Says Eliana seriously and I nod while she says that. I also doubt they will attack us again; their reputation fell along with Prinny Brigade's. The morale and reproach incited by the soldiers' family will also create a problem for them, after all they have lost roughly 30000 soldiers in trying to raid a single Village

"Yes, but now let's focus on rebuild and improve the village, we can also make some houses for ourselves" Says Isa as she tries to disperse the serious mood that is going on and we smile at that.

"We can take it easy... right?" Says Vladi while looking at us, especially Eliana who smiles a bit and answers.

"Yes, we can't continue like this, all tense. We also have to take care of these matters, so I might say that we can spend some time here and bring newbies... I would like a house around here too, we might make this place the main HQ of our Guild"

I smile at that and Zenith who stayed silent all this time raises his voice while looking at us "I will make a house too, we plan to settle here..." I turn to him and I spot something that surprises me along with everyone else.

Peko is blushing a bit as they are holding hands.

"Hoho~ so you have finally done it" I tell him with a mischievous smile, I thought this would happen, but not so soon.

"Congratulations~" We tell them as they get a bit bashful, we need to celebrate this!

We talk for a while asking them question about what happened to them, it seems after the battle, the one who stopped the frenzied Zenith was Peko, when he realized that she was in front of him, he hugged her tightly and couldn't resist his emotions anymore. The battle took a big toll on our bodies and mentality, so that might have helped in Zenith's 'breakthrough'.

I am truly glad about this, I was even planning something for them to get together after this matter is over and the others seemed to be thinking about that too.

After we finish talking and organizing some things with the Guild and the enemy soldiers, Eliana says

"Oh yeah, there is the matter of the interview, let's talk about it after our useless leader comes back"

'Useless, huh. You will have to work hard, Kagito' I smile while thinking of our leader.

As we finish for the day I log out and I see that there is quite a talk in the news about our battle...