Ella's father wasn't a big fan of Helkep, well at least not now. For a long time he was trying to cancel his daughter's engagement with Helkep but as if she was hypnotized she kept refusing to cancel her engagement.
He had even forced Helkep to cancel the engagement but what trick his daughter played, only God knows, her mother had refused to cancel the engagement.
His wife was playing mute, he couldn't bear to ask his daughter and get ignored. So the only one that remained whom he could use to take some of his anger out was Helkep. Hence the enmity he had for Helkep.
His daughter had forced him to get herself admitted in the same academy as his useless son-in-law who he felt disgusted to think about.
To get his daughter out of the academy, he had asked Mopil, who is Helkep's father, to get his son to convince his daughter to leave the academy. Mopil had accepted it but he knew better then to believe that everything would be so smooth-sailing.
Stein thought as he sat in his office which was on the Wloan planet, the planet right next to the planet of Jona.
"Sir you have been sitting and worrying about Miss Elula the whole night. You haven't even looked through one of the files, I think you should stop worrying so much and get some rest." There was a pile of files on the desk in front of Stein.
But he was too occupied with his thoughts that he had completely ignored them, his secretary had gotten tired of standing and doing nothing so he faked some concern and spoke with a caring voice.
Stein sighed helplessly and got up and said, "Postpone all the meetings today." Saying this Stein with his slim but fit body left.
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On planet Jona, Helkep was currently inside a car and heading towards his home. He had successfully managed to ditch Noil and Ella. He was wondering how his father was going to force him to convince Ella today.
"Young master! The master is very busy, I don't think you should keep him waiting." The person sitting on the driver seat, who was telepathically driving the car said.
"No warp" Helkep calmly rejected, the driver had tried to use warp before as well but Helkep had stopped him before as well. The driver could only shake his head and continue to drive silently.
Helkep wasn't short on time and he enjoyed seeing the lifeless buildings passing by. It helped to calm his nerves, which always remained extra calm.
Even without using warp the car's own speed was brilliant. It didn't even take an hour before Helkep found himself in front of the main entrance.
He walked towards the gate and the guard seeing him bowed due to it being his job and opened the gate. Helkep calmly walked inside.
When he walked through the long path and arrived in front of the main building. The guard stationed at the gate saw him and opened the side gate while bowing.
Helkep walked inside the house and the first thing he saw was a girl sitting on the sofa while chewing some candy.
The girl had silky dark blue hair and light blue eyes. With skin as white as snow. She was an enchanting beauty. She seemed to contain some maturity even though she was only 15. She was Alisha, Helkep's younger sister.
Seeing Helkep a smile formed on her pretty face which quickly faded, replaced by an angry expression, without a doubt she was still angry at him.
Helkep shook his head wearily before telling the butler who was standing right besides the door to go and tell his father about his arrival.
The butler gave a bow before taking his leave. The butler was feeling a weird feeling from Helkep, he even forget to curse his useless young master like usual.
Helkep after dazing off for a second came and sat next to Alisha. Alisha coldly snorted and moved away from him.
Helkep looked at his sister, looking away from him and asked after some time, "How is your school going?"
Alisha remained quiet for sometime before answering him, "...Fine."
"Aren't your scores going down due to skipping a month of classes?" Helkep asked, his sister wasn't someone who was useless like him after all.
"...What was my position in the last years tests?" Alisha asked while staring at Helkep's blank face.
"...678."Helkep replied after a moment.
"Out of how many students in total?" Alisha asked again, not satisfied with the answer.
"...Out of 10,000." Alisha raised her eyebrow, clearly not expecting Helkep to remember.
"...Then why are you worried, one month is nothing for me." Alisha calmly said with a tingle of pride in her voice.
In her mind she added a few more words, 'And besides I am your sister, of course I would be a genius. Just like... you.' Sadness took over her pretty blue eyes.
Soon a woman with blue hair like the ocean reaching down to her waist, with pretty gem like blue eyes and jade like skin and oval shaped face came down from the stairs. She was Elina, Helkep's mother.
Seeing Helkep sitting besides Alisha a smile formed on her pretty face. She came in front of Helkep and opened her arms, waiting for her son to give her a hug.
Helkep seeing his mother like this, swiftly looked away, completely ignoring his earnestly waiting mother.
After a little while and seeing his mother not moving an inch from her position, he... sighed and got up.
As he walked towards her, the memories of his childhood flashed by, '...How long has it been? Since someone has... hugged me like this?'
"How are you? And you didn't bring Ella with you." Helkep's mother smiled and asked. Her eyes were shinning when she looked at Helkep and hidden behind these sparkling eyes was shock, she was shocked beyond compare, her son had finally accepted... her hug.
"I didn't like the idea of bringing trouble with me. Where is father?" Helkep calmly replied, already having ignored the long lost memories.
Elina chuckled and replied, "Mopil is inside his room, waiting for you."
Helkep nodded and motioned his mother to lead the way. Alisha seeing them leaving also got up and walked behind them.
"Helkep what do you think? Will Ella do as you say?" Elina asked as they three made their way up through the stairs.
"...You will soon see." Hearing his answer Alisha shook her head with a weary smile, she knew exactly what her friend was like.
Elina also understood and cautioned Helkep, "Try to not act rude in front of your father."
"I am rude?" Helkep asked with a tilted head, Elina seeing his big eyes, looking at her, shook her head in denial.
"No! You aren't rude my dear." Elina had a bitter expression as she thought, 'How can someone who doesn't understand others be rude? Rude... understanding that the other person isn't liking the way you talk with them and understanding that someone isn't liking your behaviors and you continue doing them in front of him is what is rude. But... someone who doesn't even know what he himself likes and what he hates... how can he... know that what he is doing is wrong? How can he be rude when he doesn't even understand happiness and sadness?'
Elina shook the thoughts off and opened the door in front of her. She walked inside and the brother and the sister followed behind her.
Inside Mopil was sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed, while sipping on some blue liquid.
Seeing Helkep he put the cup down and looked at him for a second. Sometime passed with him just staring at him before he calmly said, "Come here."
Helkep did as he was asked, as there were three sofas neatly arranged around a small round table, he sat on the one on Mopil's right side.
"Ella is attending your academy?" Mopil asked as he poured the same thing he was drinking in another cup and placed it in front of Helkep.
Helkep blankly stared at the cup presented in front of him before replying, "Yes."
"She forced her father to enrol her in your academy." Mopil said as he sipped the blue liquid.
"I see." Helkep played with the cup as he replied.
"Her father wants you to try to get her to leave the academy." Mopil glanced at Helkep who was looking around the room.
"That's impossible." Just as Mopil was about to ask why, he saw Helkep making a call with his out-dated watch.
After the call connected, an excited voice spoke from the other side, "Is this a dream? This is one isn't it! Or maybe you dialled the wrong number. Hmm! Wh- -"
Helkep cut short Ella's stupid drama and said, "I want you to leave the academy."
"The weather is so pretty today, don't you think so?" Ella spoke as if she didn't hear his words.
"You say that and you are sitting inside your room." Helkep shook his head.
"How did you know!?" Ella exclaimed as they weren't having a video call but an audio call, she truly didn't know how he guessed it.
"Sigh! I need you leave the academy." Helkep ignored Ella and once again asked for the reason he had called her.
"Sigh! Do you know that your friend was pestering me the whole time after you left?" Ella spoke as if she had been wronged. Elina's ear pricked up when she heard the word friend.
"I want to- -" Ella cut short Helkep's words, getting her sweet revenge.
"Hey! Do you kn- -"
Beep Beep! The sound indicated that the call had been disconnected.
Ella in her room couldn't help but laugh gleefully after a while.
Helkep calmly sipped the blue liquid in the cup and looked around the room, as he hadn't seen it for... who knows how long.
"I see. I will tell her father that she has no intention of leaving, to the point that she isn't even listening to you." Mopil after a while nodded and said this.
"Stay the night, you can leave tomorrow." Mopil said as he placed the empty cup on the green coloured glass table.
"No. I will manage to attend a few classes if I leave quickly." Helkep finished the content and placed the glass on the table.
Mopil after a while nodded and Helkep got up and left. Before leaving, he managed to catch Alisha making a pitiful face while looking at him. He shook his head and left.
Elina stared at Helkep, as he left through the door she thought, 'He has… changed. My intuition was right. Something about him has… changed. He seemed more… bold and… HE MADE A FRIEND!?' Clearly she was most shocked about him having made a new friend then anything else.
Mopil was also thinking about his son, 'Why was he so… quick today? He even seemed daring and decisive today. It was like he had planned the whole conversation from the start and… he would have never rejected me before. But above all else… why did I feel as if… he was releasing an aura?' Mopil continued to think, he was so lost that he missed a small detail, he had served Helkep himself.
But… the only reason he had served Helkep the blue liquid was because he was intrigued by the aura he had felt from him, that was the only reason after all he was someone who wouldn't even serve himself.
Alisha was also lost in thought, 'Brother… I WILL NEVER TALK TO YOU AGAIN!!'
The said brother was walking towards a DC shop. He hadn't used the portal in his house.
As he was walking he was suddenly stunned, what made him stunned was a person in a black robe who was cautiously liking around while moving.
But the person's cautiousness wasn't what stunned him but who the person was, it was Shila. The priest of the Filler party.
'She survived!?' Helkep asked himself as he unknowingly started following her.
'Yes! She had managed to escape to the previous floor. It's quite possible that she might have managed to survive. But what is she currently doing?' Helkep felt his senses warning him about something and he decided to follow after her.
After walking for sometime she entered into an alley. After sometime, Helkep crossed the road and made his way inside the alley.
The alley was quite dark and tight as it was located between two very tall buildings.
Helkep could hardly make out what was inside. After pondering for sometime he decided to go in.
The alley got tighter and darker the more further he went. After walking for sometime and not finding Shila anywhere he decided that it was time to give up.
But when he took a step back, he felt as if his foot had touched nothing.
As he was feeling troubled for not being able to sense his leg, he also started feeling as if he was falling.
Or maybe he indeed was falling. Eventually he felt his whole body was flying or maybe it was falling.
It was hundreds of times weirder than using a portal or the teleportation circle.
But he was hardly feeling any discomfort and the tiny amount he was feeling, it was due to him being unable to sense his body.
Suddenly he felt as if he had fallen down, his mind was spinning and there was darkness covering his eyes so he couldn't really tell.
Slowly as he got over the feeling, he found himself standing, perfectly fine.
The only thing amiss was the foreign surroundings. He was in a dark place with the only source of light being the torches hanging on the walls.
He started inspecting his new surroundings, there was a wall above him but it was very high up, he hardly noticed it.
There were strange and unusual markings on the wall, with large scratch marks every where.
"Gahhh!" Suddenly he heard a strange sound behind him. He looked back and to his surprise… it was a monster.
'A monster!? …Is this a dungeon!?' Helkep looked at the monster and thought of something unexpected.
Not letting him digest the news, the monster started charging towards him.
Helkep blankly looked at the monster and thought, 'This truly is a dungeon, isn't it?'