" KING AINE!!" there was no response.
"AINE!!"
"... Yes Keith." it was an unfamiliar voice.In that brief span of time, he had changed.
"How are you able to fly this my king?" Keith was clinging to Aine's right hand as they flew out of Zerin in mere hours.
"Keith---at what distance is the empire from Zerin?" Aine asked while viewing the surrounding area.
"It's - - - - - very closer to them than you'd think," Keith spoke in a tone filled with grave peril.
"So that near - - - huh!!" Aine only replied in a bored tone.
"Let's go back sire---don't you---"
Keith spoke but he was quickly interrupted.
"Care about the girls," Aine finished his question for him.
"Exactly," Keith spoke while sighing.
"I do - - but first? " Aine spoke expressionlessly as his eyes turned to a shade of white violet.
"But first?" Keith probed further.
"Let's extinguish the flames of hatred sent our way," it was tone that couldn't show if the young king was happy or sad about the entire mess.
"If - - -" Keith thought about it for a matter of seconds.
"If that's what his majesty desires - - - I shall fight alongside you," Keith declared.
"Are you okay with fighting your own people?"
Keith was a Croter after all.
"Your Majesty - - - those people are even worse than the demons of Zerin," he gritted his teeth as he remembered how a mob of Croters so mercilessly killed his pregnant mother, his only family that was left.
"I'll kill each and every single one of them for you--Keith," Aine spoke as he camly observed Keith whose eyes had turned blood red.
"Thank you for your kindness----My Liege," Keith's eyes turned back to their normal shade.
"For now---don't use those powers yet - - Keith," he so camly ordered his dear friend and underling.
"Yes---My King!!" Keith spoke with a glint of determination in his eyes.
"Look there - - - we have reached our final destination," Aine gazed at the inner gates of Vartila with white violet eyes.
'It only took us seven - eight hours to travel out of an entire Imperial Capital. "
" The next goal is - - - " Aine continued.
He didn't know why, but in that moment Keith remembered the pledge Aine made when he was crowned king.
' I will save our world-- even by my lonesome.'
" Infiltrate the Empire of Crote. "