The rest of the school day way uneventful for any of them, renjiro slept through most of his classes and tried striking conversations with oberon who continued to ignore him, the bell finally rang and renjiro let out a sigh of relief.
He grabbed his bag and walked out of the class waiting for lyra and Melora to be done with their conversation with some of lyra's friends, they later joined him and they walked out the academy gates, there were a few more vehicles than usual parked in front of the academy gates, renjiro already knew that the arrangement was a consequence of the unfortunate encounter they had in the morning while heading to the academy.
They pretended not to mind the security detail and entered into their vehicle, and started it. Immediately the vehicle came alive, a hologram of elysia popped up startling Melora who was not used to the surprise of having a hologram pop up in your face.
''this was prerecorded. I am aware of the unfortunate events that transpired this morning and I have sent a few of my guards to offer protection and act as a deterrent to other miscreants. When you get back we will talk more on this lyra, goodbye'' the hologram of elysia concluded before shutting down.
''would you be heading to my family castle along with me and melora'' lyra asked considering that he might want to be present when she had the discussion with her mother about what happened with the pirates.
''I don't think so, I am so tired right now I could sleep for day. I am sure whatever is discussed, I would hear about it from you''
''you claim to be tired yet I saw you sleep through each and every class'' Melora said with a smirk but renjiro ignored her and faced the window, his action eliciting a smile from lyra and a glare from Melora.
The vehicle came to a stop in front of the the Thornfield family castle and renjiro jumped down, waving goodbye to lyra who nodded in reply before the vehicle shot away towards her family castle.
The guards opened the castle doors and he stepped in , he was having a hard time remembering if the guards in front of the door a few minutes ago were the same ones he saw in the morning before he left for the academy.
He went towards caelia's room and pushed open the doors, hoping to see that she had regained her consciousness and was no longer bedridden, when he arrived at her door he saw that there were a lot of guards standing int the corridor leading to her room and alaric himself stood guard in front of her room. The greeted him cheerfully and he returned their greeting in kind, wondering the reason for their improved mood.
He pushed the doors open and saw that Finnegan was still there wearing the same clothes he had been putting on the night before and elysandra was also there, renjiro walked towards the bed and noticed that caelia's eyes were still shut but the tubes connected to her body had reduced considerably.
When he came before her, her eyes fluttered open and she smiled upon recognizing him, spreading her arms open for a hug which renjiro happily obliged.
''how are you, are you doing better now?'' renjiro asked, her color was good and she looked as healthy as always
''yes I should be on my feet in a few hours'' she replied with a smile and her eyes began to feel heavy again, after a few seconds loud snores filled the room, renjiro took that as his cue to leave.
He left the caelia's room and walked back to his own room, with the thought of cleaning up and getting some rest.
''why did she lie to him'' Finnegan asked elysandra
''did you expect her to tell her only son that she felt like all her cells were on fire?''
Elysandra took out a machine and scanned caelia's body nodding in satisfaction at what she saw. ''from what I can see the foreign energy has stopped eating at her body and energy and has decided to merge with her, from my calculations it should take about five to twelve hours''
Renjiro barged into his room and took off his clothes, with no idea that myoko was in the bathroom trying to set up a bath for him before he could come into the room, he pushed open the bathroom door and stepped into it, screaming in shock and falling on his ass when he saw her.
''what are you doing here'' renjiro asked in shock, completely forgetting that myoko was the one who always prepared his bath.
''sorry young master'' she muttered with a blush and dashed out of the bathroom.
''she has seen my goods I guess it's only fair I see hers'' he thought to himself knowing that the opportunity to do that might never present itself.
*shadowdusk castle*
Lyra had cleaned up and put on a blue gown that complemented her hair and eyes, she was about heading to the dining area to get food when her door banged open and elysia walked in with little Isolde in her arms.
''lyra!'' little Isolde squealed, stretching out her arms for lyra to carry her
''I am aware of everything that transpired but can you tell me about if from your point of view''
Lyra told elysia about everything that transpired leaving nothing out, while little Isolde ran around keeping herself busy with whatever she found to be interesting.
''why didn't you kill them off'' elysia asked confused as to why her daughter would let the criminals live
''I didn't sense any killing intent from them and I didn't want to expose Melora to such things, I just thought they were nothing but petty thieves who liked to talk big''
Elysia nodded in acceptance she was aware of the present location of the pirates and hadn't decided on what to do with them but after listening to lyra's opinion she had decided to let them live.