After breakfast Elise and I left the dinner hall leaving Emily in the care of her grandparents " see it didn't go so bad" Elise said to me I just rolled my eyes " wait tell we tell them you won't be staying here anymore " Elise pulled me close " let's not worry about that right now we have something to do" I nodded as I teleported us away to the old empire's capital
After appearing just outside the city Elise and I looked and were shocked to see so many beastmen moving around this time as free people there were even some humans moving about too we made our way to the castle at the gates some beastmen guards stopped us " you can let then through " a voice behind them said
Looking up I saw it was kana " haven't seen you guys in a while hope everything's good " Elise quickly side eyed me " now it is can we speak to Wolfgar its pretty important " kana raised her eyebrow at us before letting it go
" of course you guys are always welcome here"
Kana led us inside the castle to a council chamber wolfgar was inside with a few others when he saw us come in he smiled
" welcome it's nice to see you guys are ok " Elise and I smiled back at him " you too in fact it seems you have been doing great " Elise said while looking around
Wolfgar laughed " I tried to have everyone hold a vote for the next ruler but they didn't want anyone but me so here I am " Elise nodded " that's good honestly I wouldn't want anyone else either "
We talked with Wolfgar for a little bit before getting to the point " Hmmm " wolfgar though for a second " I'll do it I won't leave you guys if you need me not after what you have done plus we may be family some day "
Elise and I bowed " thank you we appreciate you doing this favor " wolfgar smiled as he looked at one of the beastmen present " get some soldiers ready to sail to the elven kingdom as quickly as possible " the beastmen bowed quickly before leaving
wolfgar looked back at us" I will ask that should I have need of you and you're strength you come in return for this " Elise nodded " of course I would even if you didn't do this Emily would never forgive me if I didn't " we talked for a little bit before wolfgar has to deal with some things for the empire so we had to leave we spent some time with kana telling her how Selena has been before teleporting back to the palace and went to find Emily She was in the garden with her grandmother
" I remember when you ran through this garden exploring every inch of it " the queen said to Elise as they watched me walk around with Emily on my shoulders " do you remember the imaginary friend you ran around with you were so cute I enjoyed just watching you wander around in excitement talking to yourself "
Elise blushed " mom stop I don't even remember all that " the queen chucked before sighing lightly looking at Emily " now it's your child that is exploring the garden the time really flies " Elise looked at her mother
" thank you for accepting Emily it means a lot to us " the queen smiled " of course dear beside you know the test I did doesn't lie and I can see the love you two have for her I don't care if she wings on her back or pink scales on parts of her body she is mygranddaughter I'll love her like one "lise's eyes got a little wet hugging her mom before going back to watching Emily and I
they stayed like that for a bit " wolfgar will send soldiers to help with the strain put on the kingdom " the queen nods " good that will help take some stress from your father so he can have a easier time accepting this "
Elise took a deep breath before looking at her mother " I'm going to be leaving with him back to the Dwarven kingdom " the smiled at her daughter but there is a bit of sadness in her eyes " I thought you would do something like that the bird has to leave the nest at some point you should go before your father gets back "
Elise hugged her mother tearing up as they both said there love for one another before Elise stood up coming over to me " you ready " I nodded while Emily pouted " don't worry my little dragon we will visit again soon " I looked over at Liam who was not to far away focusing on a insect while in his floating chair
" no I have been working on something so I will stay if that ok your majesty " Liam asked looking at the queen " of course I'm not going to kick you or your mother out your welcome here "Elise and I smiled " I guess we'll be leaving the can you tell James to meet us with everyone one else when they come back " the queen nodded " I will you three stay safe"
Elise hugged me with Emily in between us as I closed my eyes teleport us to the mansion
" welcome back " a goblin maid welcomed us back not long after we appeared I swear they keep popping out of nowhere " thank you anything going on " I asked her
she shook her head " no nothing has really happened though it seems some of the people may leave soon they have been talking a lot to each other "
I nodded " that's fine make sure anyone who leaves gets at least hundred gold coins to start a new life and have someone follow them to make sure they find somewhere safe" the maid bowed " as you wish my king " she left After that going back into the mansion
I looked over at Elise" is there anything you want to do " she thought for a minute " I would like to look around it has been a bit since I have come to the Dwarven kingdom " Emily shot her hand up " can I come to I haven't got a chance to look around yet"
Elise gave me a dirty look before looking at Emily " yes you can let's go your father can lead us around " Elise emphasized the word father I sighed at this she won't let this go anytime soon I can't really blame her
As we were about to leave a group of children came running over four girls and two boys " Emily come play with us we were waiting for you to come back to play together " Emily's eyes sparkled as she looked at Elise and I " go ahead if you want to " Emily hugged us before running off with the kids smiling and laughing Elise laid her head on my shoulder smiling
looking over at her I noticed she had one of the stones that fell when Emily was 'born' a lighting bolt frozen in time encased in ice around her neck " when did you get that " I asked her pointing at it Elise was confused because catching on to what I was talking about
She rubbed the stone gently " after you left I had one of them made into a necklace so I always had a piece of you guys close to my heart " smiling not sure what to say i kissed her " it seems we aren't so different " Elise flicked my head
" sure but some of us handle things better then others " I shook my head " I apologized for it already " she kissed me " and your going to keep apologizing for it because what you did wasn't only horrible for Emily and i but also yourself "
Elise took my hand as we started walking around the places I knew about which wasn't a lot but we still looked around " you rose up the ranks pretty fast there aren't a lot of top A ranked hunters less so for S rank and your close to breaking through thats impressive" Elise said after I told her what I have been doing to make some money
I suddenly felt a tingling down my spine from the way Elise started looking at me " though I don't like you threw yourself head first into danger possibly leaving our daughter without her father "
she looked away from me taking a breath " take me to the adventurers guild I want to see what it's like here " I was sweating a little bit she is scary in her mama bear mode if I didn't know better I feel like I would be very hurt right now
I nod and take Elise hand leading her to the adventurers guild along the way I noticed a stand selling some flowers I went over and bought a bundle of flowers I knew Elise liked before handing them to her
" Elise I know what I have done has hurt you and I can never be more sorry for it there are no words to properly express my remorse but I swear I'll never leave you again us until the end my love " Elise took the flowers looking at them then me before leaning towards me putting her forehead to mine
" you make it hard to stay mad at you sometimes "