"Heh?! You just let Chris chan go to Null Dimension alone? What are you even thinking? From what I know, his health condition isn't that good as well." said Maria, in a slightly anxious tone.
"Well... Don't need to worry that much I guess, the Black Cross quarter is there, so he should be fine." said Sky, a bit awkward when talking about Black Cross.
"Yeah, true. Terence has no issue with Chris-chan." said Maria, which caused Sky to be even more awkward.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meanwhile, Null Dimension, Black Cross quarter. Dark Prince is preparing a pot of black tea while Sal is tidying up the table at the lounge area. Athena looks at those two with a curious look, she is oblivious of why they are doing this.
"Te-chan, Sal-kun, why are you doing these? And where is Rei-chama?" Athena asked. "We are having an important guest, and Her Highness is leading Him here now." said Sal, and Dark Prince nodded.
A moment later. A man that wore a half siamese cat mask arrived at the quarter, accompanied by Rei who is holding and leaning on his right arm. In his hand, is a white stripe cat with an injured front right paw that is bandaged neatly. Both Dark Prince and Sal kneeled down and bowed to him, while Athena goes "Hei-chan!" and gave him a fly hug attack from the side. He did not stop her as both of his hands are occupied. And yes, that man is the King of the almighty Kingdom.
"Athena, please behave." said Sal while pulling Athena away from the man.
"Your Majesty, have a seat here. I had prepared some high-quality black tea for You, My Lord." said Dark Prince while humbly led the King to the sofa at the lounge area before poured out a nice cup of black tea to a white jade teacup.
The King take a sip of the tea before turned his eyes to Dark Prince.
"You make better tea than Satoshi." said the King.
"I'm glad you like it, My Lord." said Dark Prince.
"Anyway, Terence, as I have informed you, I have a quest for the young people around you... Hmm? Where's that new boy you have? The one as your assistant?" the King asked.
"You mean Xenoo? I had him to run some errand for me, he should be back soon, My Lord." said Dark Prince.
Suddenly...
"Master Dark Prince! I had bought back the chocolate brownie and ice cream as you had instructed! Damn it, it's really cold outside, who the hell would eat ice cream in winter?" Xenoo stepped into the room while shouting really loud, he did not realize that the King of the almighty Kingdom is in there.
Sal pulled him back a bit.
"Sal, why are you pulling me?" Xenoo asked, still unaware of the King.
"You are as energetic as always huh? Xenoo." said the King before taking another sip of the black tea.
"Eh? This voice sounds familiar... Ah! Your Majesty!" Xenoo quickly kneeled down and bow the King.
"My Lord, you changed your mask again? I can't recognize you." said Xenoo.
"Haha. Let me explain the quest in detail for you." said the King, yes, he ignored Xenoo...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A short while later, Afterworld.
Sal, Athena, and Xenoo are walking on an open street filled with mist and wisp, the atmosphere is quite dim and sorrowful as usual, there are some slightly decomposed living dead strolling aimlessly around the open area beside them. Sal looked around, he didn't see any signs of any person that is in charge of the place.
"This is weird, His Majesty said that he had informed Master Enma about our arrival, there should be someone who would be greeting us and lead us to the Palace, but I see no sign of the Mujous, and not even those horse and cow can be seen." said Sal, a bit confused.
"Maybe we could go to the Palace by ourselves." Xenoo suggested.
"Unfortunately you can't, the Palace is currently been sealed for a certain reason, as for the Mujous, they are currently having a 'lesson' regarding of the rudeness and the mistake they made months ago." said a man with glasses that suddenly walked out of the thick mist, that's Hangan, a high ranked official in the Afterworld as well as Enma's personal assistant, if you had forgotten about him.
"Good day, Sir Hangan. We are from the Black Cross, a sub quarter of the Kingdom, we are following the order of the King to look for a fallen angel in this Afterworld." said Sal who is wearing his wolf mask, with a polite and formal tone.
Athena is hiding behind of Sal and Xenoo as she is a bit scared of Hangan.
"Yes, I'm aware about that, I'm here to lead you to my office on Enma-sama's command since the Palace is close." said Hangan before leading the three of them into the deep mist.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Black Cross quarter. The King had removed his mask but we will pretend that we can't see his face. He is currently having some random talks with Dark Prince.
"You still hates him even after all these years?" the King asked.
"I'm merciful enough not to take any action on him, but what he had done doesn't deserve to be forgiven. I believe if you switched roles with me you will be the same as me, Your Majesty. I still remembered how angry you were that time when you found out what he did." said Dark Prince who had now seated on another sofa.
"True, indeed, I'm definitely not sainted enough to just let it go, what he had done is just too unacceptable." said the King.
"I remembered about that moment as well, Your Majesty. That time you almost fainted due to extreme anger but you never tell me what happened, so I had been quite oblivious about it." said Rei before cutting a small piece of brownie and covered it in chocolate sauce and ice cream.
"Your Highness, that incident is too dirty for your ears, so it's good for you to stay oblivious about it." said Dark Prince.
"Yes, it's just as he said." said the King.
"I see... Nevermind I guess. Your Majesty... Say 'ahh'." Rei reached that piece of brownie to the King's mouth.
"Rei... This is not a good time to do this." said the King, rather awkward. Rei ignored what he said and continues what she is doing, the King has no choice but to eat that piece of brownie that is fed by Rei.
"Uh... Your Majesty, please at least give a warning about this PDA, I can at least turn away." said Dark Prince, really awkward.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX