Arriving inside, they put their luggage back in their room but before that, they noticed a woman in the living room.
"Who is she?" Asked hayato out of curiosity.
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Lux's attention immediately focused on the woman who's watching on the tv thoughtfully after hearing hayato's voice.
At this time, Mei appeared behind them and spoke: "Oh, this must be your first time seeing her"
"Who is she?" Asked lux.
"Well, let me introduce her to you," she said as she walks past them before calling the woman.
Mei told her to introduce herself to her sons after arriving next to her. The woman immediately turn back to see her sons and made a smile at them upon seeing them.
She instantly stood and walk in front of them as she greets and introduced herself with a smile. "Hello, my name is Aria. I'm your mom's friend"
"..."
"Ok" said hayato and lux with no emotions after hearing her introduction.
Smack... Smack...
Mei instantly smacked both hayato and lux after hearing their replies with no emotion. "If you do that again to my friend, you won't be getting your monthly allowance"
"Okay fine"- hayato and lux while rubbing their heads.
" I'm Hayato Arcadia. Nice to meet you"
"I'm lux Arcadia and I'm always getting robbed by the person behind me whenever-" lux wants to say something but before he could, he was smacked in the head.
"That's what you get for calling me a thief"- mei with killing intent.
Aria made an awkward smile upon seeing the scene in front of her. " okay, nice to meet you too"
Everyone went to the living room to discuss some topics related to the tasks that is being requested by her friend.
Aria smiled while sitting as she stares at lux and Hayato's face without hiding it from others.
Mei noticed her attention on the two and grins: "it seems that your problem has been cured"
"Eh, of course not" Aria immediately denied as she was embarrassed after getting exposed in front of other people.
Mei smirked and said: "then what is it? Everyone knows what you thinking."
Aria blushed before saying: "your sons are just cute"
"Heh... Is that so? Well, if you want them I can sell them for you at 1000000000 gold each" Mei tried to make her blush more just to expose her true desires.
And of course, she didn't take the bite by changing the topic. "Let's just talk about my request"
Mei didn't go any further about talking some trivial things since its only a waste of time, The important things that they should talk about are her request that she talks about earlier and things that are related to it.
After talking about some important things, Mei decided to send lux with her to fulfill her request after realizing how dangerous her request is.
Lux who heard their conversation found it ridiculous. 'Why the fuck would she send a minor just to solve someone's problem.'
Even Aria was dumbfounded upon hearing her statement and denied it immediately since she doesn't want them to be involved with this. "Sorry but, I have to decline your help. I understand why your doing this but, involving a minor like him here would only get the situation worse"
Currently, Aria is a 34 years old top actress and she is currently part of the five most popular actresses in the world who achieved many rewards and great things from being an actress at the same time for being one of the most beautiful ladies in the world that's why it's natural if her life is in danger since many people are after her, even Lux would not be surprised if she died tomorrow after getting assassinated.
Hearing her reply, Mei got annoyed and says: "hey, I think you're overestimating this guy here. Did you know that this kid that your talking about has killed an A-rank monster when he was 8 years old"
Mei confidently told her this and was shocked upon hearing it. Normally she would not believe this kind of statement but, she's talking with a person who doesn't like joking around when it comes to serious matters, also, she is talking with her senpai here. The person who taught her how to become an actress. That's why her respect and trust for her are unimaginable because if it weren't for that, she might have never come this far without her teachings.
Meanwhile, Lux on the background is cheering for her to decline it, but after exposing his secret easily like that, lux face sank.
Lux sighed. 'I guess there's no other choice'
"...."- hayato remained silent while seeing how desperate his brother was, to decline the request.
Aria remained silent as she looked at lux full of doubts. Originally, she came here to seek help from her since her popularity amongst people with strong family backgrounds is vast. She thought that maybe she can help her by introducing her to those people, but who would think that she would introduce her son to help her.
Seeing her reaction, Mei starts speaking: " think about it twice, not only did I revealed a top-secret that only our family should know I also introduced a person who's capable of defending you"
"Also, did you think you can escape here with your new information that you got from me intact?" She added with an intimidating look.
Felling the gaze, she once again looked at lux thoughtfully before making a decision. What her senior said is true no matter how much she trusts you, there are still some things that they need to hide, thus knowing this kind of information might be the cause of breaking their relationship.
Aria made a flustered look before agreeing with her. "Fine, but no one should know his identity and I will send you a letter regarding the date of assassination"
Mei made a cheerful smile, it means more money to come. "So, how much is the reward?"
"Well, it depends on his contribution" aria sighed. 'So her target is the reward that's why she recommended him. Well, I just hope he is strong enough to fight them'
Hearing that, Mei looked at lux and starts cracking her fist with killing intent. "You know what to do right?"
Lux sweets intensely while hearing the cracking sounds of a fist with killing intent.
*sighed, I need to know about the reasons behind this first, maybe I can get any information about the culprit.
"So, Uhm, this might be a sensitive question but, can you explain more about your situation" lux questioned her to get a piece of information.
Aria nodded. Since he is assigned to be her bodyguard from now on, it's only natural for her to explain more details."honestly, I don't know how it comes to this but I will explain everything I know from now on"
Lux nodded and starts listening to her seriously.
"For me, everything that happened last month was going smoothly. My husband is an S-rank hunter from a well-known family, because of that everything till now, no trouble came in my way but, not until that letter was sent to me."
"Letter?" Lux was surprised upon hearing this and guessed the contents of this letter correctly.
Aria nodded before explaining more details. "The letter that was sent to me was a death note that contains the date of assassination. I immediately reported this to my husband but, even he would not be much of a help since it was stated that the person who's going to assassinate me is a member of a dark organization called Black Moon."
'Black moon? Never heard of that' thought lux.
"Black Moon is an evil organization that consists of more than 1000 S-Rank hunters and some of them are in Challenger-Rank, and their motives for creating such organization is to rule the world under their commands." Aria explained the details about the enemy their facing with.
Everyone who heard that was stunned after hearing her explanation. An organization with thousands of S-Rank is enough to destroy a nation easily, what's more, is that they have challenger rank members in their organization not only that, it also means that there are members from S-rank to F- rank, and S+Rank to Challenger Rank. People who reached challenger rank are called the mightiest and the strongest hunter. These hunters are the only ones who are capable of fighting monsters and raiding a dungeon from Legendary-Rank to Dv-Rank, and the fact that these guys are members of this organization means that they are now capable of invading the entire world.
Seeing their reactions, Aria couldn't help but speak: "that's why I don't think your help can help us-"
"Ha ha ha ha" lux laughed heuristically before standing up.
Aria's words were cut upon hearing lux laughs."what is so funny about that?"
Lux stood up and said: "there's no need to hear the rest, just tell me when" as he took his luggage with him and walks towards his room leaving everyone in the living room.
Seeing his brother away, hayato did not remain in the living room and starts taking his luggage and bowed before going to his room.
Aria wanted to stop them but she was already too late. "At least tell me the meaning of that"
Mei made a bitter smile upon seeing lux reaction. "There's no need to worry about that"
Aria was confused." what do you mean?"
Mei closed her eyes and opens them before saying this with a grin in the end: "as his parents who raised him when he was a baby, I know what exactly his thoughts are. Right now, he's probably thrilled to meet with these people. The excitement of fighting such a strong opponent"
Inside the room, Lux stood in front of the window and observed the scene while raining heavily as a loud sound of thunder can be heard above the entire city.
"Challenger rank huh, Interesting" said lux with a cold smirk.