"You sure its okay if I'm not here with you guys?" its unusual, but Luginas asks his vice-master and Mirma.
"Hmp! Even if you didn't become the guild master, we could still run this Guild either way!" Kahjita answers with snort and confidence. Luginas is only half-joking but she take it too seriously; enough for Luginas to smile widely after scratching his nose out of slight embarrassment
'So, this is what they called a vacation'
With that thought in mind, he look above the distant sky again and feeling euphoric. Its not bad to travel once in a while, away from his current home, right?
After then, he leaped at their normal carriage' roof and lied his back there. Others couldn't believe why he didn't enter inside but the Knights didn't retort at all. Afterall, they prefer it rather than if their princess is with another man inside the carriage. As for why they use a normal carriage. Well, of course, to lay low. . .they too, knows that many hostile people wanted their princess' death. ---But its not always laying in low is the best solution---
. . .And even if they don't want it, having an S Rank Adventurer with them and a guild master at that, is what made them comfortable. They only sigh in slight of relief, unworried thereafter.
This 4 is a Royal Knight, but not enough to compare to a 'true' Royal Knight. So they genuinely happy when they heard that a guild master would escort their princess with them.
Lying his body above the carriage, Luginas realize they departed as the carriage started to move forward. And with few wave of his hands towards his two trusted(?) ladies. He started to yawn and listless body to rest.
"Its been ages since then, huh. . ." Luginas then look above the azure sky filtered by cloud and the brightened daylight.
Slowly, his life as an Adventurer--not a fake one before become the Guild Master. flashes of memories started to flow like a steady current, playing inside his head.
As a man who didn't grow with his childhood friends, as a man who didn't feel what it means to be a child; cry, laugh and enjoy it to their hearts content--theres no such a thing inside the head of Luginas. Rather, there's no such memory. . .
Instead--what he has is a memory of an endless slaughter, an endless killing, to live or to die. Without any choice, the small and little one not even in his teens, didn't stop paving his own path and later become the slaughterhouse. The unlimited killworks so best to describe. Wherever and whenever he went. What follows his trail is only but a sea of blood coming from the monsters he killed, from Goblins to Oni, and to Dragons. . .From people who tricked him, tried to kill him and even his brethren killers. He didn't let a single one alive. . .His hands is full but dripping blood no matter how hard he tried to cleanse them. . .
And because he knows what it means to lose someone just because of senseless killing, he never kill an innocent one. . .Still. . .he brings justice yet brings chaos and catastrophe of the same coin.
Changing ones identity for how many times for a reason that he himself lose track of his own sense of time. And until he met a friend--who, for the first time he trusted the most.
Become an Adventurer in the end, and now. . .
"Why's that? am I going to die now?" Luginas mutters and open his eyes. Of all the memory he should remember while daydreaming, why is it the memory he isn't fond of? Shaking his head. He sighed heavily.
"G-guild master" The Knight, Elle, carried by her strong looking white steed, came forward before him and called. Snapped Luginas back from his daydream. Although she hated it because she's not qualified as an adventure, she didn't hate Luginas. Or so think she is.
With determined eye, she then said a word, "Is it possible to become your student then? I'm sure you're aware. I'm not suited at using Magick. I used chantless which is useless--"
"--chantless isn't useless. You should be happy that you're gifted" Luginas cut her word with his answer, "Others instead would envy of you, you don't know?"
But she rebut, "My mother whose renowned magician herself tells me so. . .I'm not suited as a Magician, that's why I'm focus on my swordsmanship, and I realize, you knew why I have such traits. . .you knew, right?" gripping her rein harder. She's eager to know the answer
Hearing her words, Luginas sighed yet again. Not only she has a heart of a true Knight, she's also a sharp one and actually put them all to mind of what he says, once.
"Yeah? but why would I tell you? not many people knows how ones trait was manifested" Impassive, he answers and close his eyes again.
Of course, Luginas knows it very well. If you live long enough, you will inevitably knows how things works even if you didn't wanted to, even if you try not to. The same thing why he didn't interfere from the current events of this world. He done enough, he already change this world enough, upside down at that. He bring peace, bring catastrophe for all he care, for all he knows. And for the current tick of time. He care less. But--
"But don't even try to cross the border of death" He muttered and started to dip into his dreamworld again. . .as for Elle, he didn't even bother answering her question.