"O-ow.."
I groaned softly as my only good eye blinked open, several hours had passed since the battle between me and Nageyama, my aching jaw made it clear to me. Don't go getting all cocky or next time you might lose your life. Luckily I had no teeth knocked out after that punch.
I felt like I was moving although I laid on my back, and truly I was. Raising my upper body swiftly I found myself on a bed in a small room with a bunker, by my left was a small window and out the window I could see mass volumes of water, I couldn't see anything beyond the water, no land, no buildings. Turns out I was in a ship that left harbor hours ago.
I had bandages wrapped tightly around my face, whoever put it on me had to be someone truly wicked, he or she tied it so tight it felt like blood had stopped circulating through my head.
"Tch..damn it."
"Lame."
I turned my head around instantly to face the voice that my ears picked up and I found Helena sitting on a chair right next to a table. After all I told her about becoming one of the greatest mages in all of Elvesmore, all I had to show for it was a bandaged face.
"You did this!?"
I exclaimed, my face was hurting and I couldn't tell if it was as a result of the Thermal-Cryo fist or the tightness of the bandage on my face. Helena crossed her arms underneath her chest, after all her boobs were too big to cross her arms over. Her hands carried her boobs upwards and the mere sight of it alone made me forget about the pain.
It was back to square one again only this time, it was her arms instead of vines.
"I've been wondering Xavier."
She paused with the assumption I was going to say something, she was wrong.
"Xavier?"
She turned her sights towards me and her eyes met with my perverted face which focused all it's gaze at her chest. I stared at her boobs and was so focused on it like I was a sniper scope aiming at it's target.
"Pervert!"
And there she goes again calling her savior a pervert, excluding the fact that I lost to Nageyama. I took care of the four men that were with him, so even though Helena was the one who saved me. Reducing the numbers of assailants made it possible for her to haul my carcass onboard this ship so technically, I'm still the hero.
We managed to escape Mysthaven but the battle was far from over. The only ship available for departure during this time was the ship that has the Silvershade kingdom as it's destination, this information was well known to Nageyama giving him an idea of our whereabouts.
"I've been meaning to ask, what happened to your right eye?"
The perverted look on my face dropped instantly, that was a question which always reminded me of my dark and gloomy past, I moved past it. I had friends, allies and rivals who always took my mind off it. My overgrown hair always covered my right eye so it was hard to notice the vertical scar carved on my right eye.
However Helena managed to discover it when she tended to my injuries.
"O-oh that? just a battle scar. Getting out of an intense battle with only a scar makes a true mage hehehe."
I chuckled slightly, Helena could tell I was lying. For one my mood changed the second she asked the question and I also hesitated a bit before I could answer. Judging by my reaction, she realized it wasn't something I was comfortable talking about.
"And yet you escaped with a semi-broken face? a true mage my ass."
"What did you just say!?"
She laughed softly, and she was right I did have a semi-broken face. But that was my jaws being dislocated from Nageyama's fist. She adjusted them back while I was still unconscious and that was a good call. Heaven knows I'd use those titties as compensation if she tried adjusting them back when I regained consciousness.
"Damn you..."
I laid my back down on the bed, travelling from Mysthaven to the Silvershade kingdom was at least a 15 hours journey and that meant we'll be here for a while. Recuperating was the best option I had till we arrived at our destination.
"You never answered my question Helena, why were those men after you? especially Nageyama of Tendon Seis."
She couldn't keep it a secret anymore, I've already been hurt badly trying to protect her from them so I deserved to know the truth. She faced me completely with her hands placed on her laps.
"Hmph."
She let out a gentle sigh.
"Two weeks ago before I ever met you, a small group of men hunted me down for a reason unknown to me, at least it was until now. I managed to escape but nowhere was safe anymore. I always wanted to leave Mysthaven but the fear of being apprehended while onboard the ship prevented me from doing so."
Not to be rude but a backstory wasn't necessary, why is it that everytime you ask a woman for information she gives you more than she's supposed to? well we do need to kill time so why not.
"Heaven's Paradice."
"Heh?"
The story went sideways in an instant, guess it's not only battles that had shortcomings.
"The heaven's paradice, it's a magical artifact that has been passed down from generations to generations in my bloodline. Now it has been passed down to me."
A magical artifact? so that was what Nageyama was after so badly he could kill for it. Well he is nicknamed the executioner of Tendon Seis so I think the killing is a regular thing in his case.
"Why is he after the artifact?"
I had to know, if an ancient artifact that has been passed down for generations like some kind of sacred treasure is been sought-after especially by a dark guild. It has bad news written all over it.
"I don't know...it hasn't been sought-after before so no one knows what he plans to do with it."
"Well where is it?"
I asked out of curiosity, if Tendon Seis was after this heaven's paradice. We needed to safeguard it to prevent Tendon Seis from getting their little paws on it.
"I can't tell you."
Well that was shocking.
"What!? Why!?"
"Because I have no reason to disclose the location of my family's sacred treasure that has been passed down for generations...to a pervert."
That was an unexpected turn of event, Helena was already an interesting woman since she resisted my magical hands, but to think it'd escalate to this point. I gotta up my game.