Emil slowly followed behind Rein's back, seeing his figure now retreating slowly to their camp, he is afraid that his mood is ruined after that bastard Bernard asked such a sensitive question. Finally, they arrived on their main camp. Rein just sits down in silence while Emil asked him in concern.
"Are you okay my lord, I think that bastard is asking that deliberately"
"I am okay"
Facing towards Emil that standing there awkwardly, he just then asked him directly,
"Aren't you curious to know what happen those days too Emil?"
"Why did I suddenly became insane and kill both of them?"
Saying that, he sought for Emil reaction, but seems like Emil is ready with his answer.
"To be honest, I am curious, but it's not my priority to ask such private matters to you my lord"
"When the time came, I am sure my lord will be willingly share those matters"
"But worry not my lord, my loyalty and servitude will not change just because of the thing in your past"
"Maybe, they have done something that makes the young lord to take such extreme action"
Hearing his honest opinion, he is just glad that Emil is someone who really understands his predicament and problems, and he surely will not betray those trust,
"One day, I will surely tell you Emil, when the time is right and I am ready"
"For sure my lord, there's no need to rush, as we have more urgent matter to focus right now.
As he say that, both of them ignore the awkwardness and begin to strategically thinks of their next action regarding the exploration.
After few hours of sharing each others opinion on how could they thread more safely and successfully in their mission, they retire for the day.
.....
Morning have arrived, wheb the sun is settings on the east, everyone on the Neixx Empire is busy, especially the Golden stallion Camp and Rein Fresh camp.
Before parting for a period of 3 months, they have once again gathered, both the exploration camp are now ready to depart, The golden stallion camp seems to be excited to do their mission, while on the other side, Rein Fresh camp was are not so eager for the sudden plan execution.
Balud slowly walks towards Rein that is busy giving instructions to his troops,
"Young Rein this is the extra supplies that I have prepared for you camp"
Hearing that, Rein faced towards him and express his gratitude,
"Many thanks, Captain Balud" he smiled while giving him a salute,
"There's no need for salutation Rein, you are also a captain"
"By the way, I apologized for my suborrdinates unruly behaviour yesterday, picking such sensitive matter for you"
Rein just made a hand gesture indicating that he is okay with it, then Balud just then go back to his troops while wishing Rein good luck in his mission on the eastern side.
While Rein was ready to depart to his destination, a red fiery hair have suddenly halted his actions which made him wonder,
"Owh Grace, what's the matter?"
When he says this, the one that mentioned just stare at him annoyingly,
"Aren't you forgetting something Rein"
But Rein remains oblivious just shrugged his heads in confusement, which made the girl grimaced more,
"I have said yesterday right, I'll ask several of my mages to join you, did you just forget or pretend to forget?"
Hearing such thing, Rein just scratched his cheeks, actually he remember but considering the tense atmosphere yesterday, he thought, she will retract her assistance but seems like she is more understanding and reliable than he thought,
"Anyway this are the 5 mages that are going to assist you on the mission" Grace say while pointing and introducing each and one of the mages to Rein, after that she just suddenly reprimand him,
"Take care of them okay, if not, I'll hunt you down and punish you"
"Yes Grace, I'll be sure to take care of them just how I take care of Emil" he said jokingly
Just as they were finishing their conversations, they are suddenly being interrupted with laugh and warm conversations between their vice captain, which is quite intimate for some reason, while seeing that, Grace just grinned while Rein just shrugged it off,
"It's been only a day, and they are already acting like a lovebird that cannot be separated"
"What can I say, it's good to be young"
Hearing such respond from a young man, made Grace chuckle a bit, aren't him young too, pretending to be adult while he is just 17years old, seeing their vice captain still talking and conversing, Grace just cut off their words with her remarks,
"Hey, that's enough both of you, we don't want to delay this any longer"
"What are you guys now, a lover that cannot be separated?"
Hearing Grace remarks, both shilling and Emil just blush in red while taking quite a distance from each other, while refuting her words and say their dissatisfaction uniformly,
"No!!"
"no!!"
Then, few minutes late, Rein and Emil begin to depart, before mounting his horse, once again Grace come up to him, while patting his heads with her soft palm, she says
"Don't die there Rein, you need to return those mages to this big sister okay"
"For sure Grace, by the way I am not a child anymore, that seeks a patting" He say while raising his eyebrow in annoyance but Grace just chuckle seeing that,
Soon, galloping sounds of a horse could be heard moving towards the eastern side, while soldiers foots are sounding, echoing through every corner of the forest, seeing his back slowly fading inside the forest, Grace just mutter,
'i believe in you, show me what you got Rein'
It's a normal parting and concern from a member of the camp to each other, but someone seems like to be interpreted it different, Bernard was standing at the hidden corner watching every interactions between Rein and Grace, which made him question and fisted up in anger,
'why did you still care for that criminal'
'i hope that bastard will die soon' he say with anger while going back to Golden stallion camp, as this camp will only depart on the evening unlike Reins camp that needed to depart early so they can reach a safe settlement.
....
'Huh' 'huuh' 'Huh
A young man could be seen blocking and holding off a sharp intrepid leg from an insect like monster, he is currently struggling because this monster is too feral and continuously attacking him,
It is not only him, but all the other soldiers are also fighting rigorously, as they was just arriving the the indicated settlement, they are ambushed and attacked. Now all of them are in predicament, just as the insect try to bit his necks, swiftly Rein takes a short dagger from his waist and stabbed it's eyes, when it's fall back screeching in pain, without any delay he slash those monster vertically, splitting it into two part,
When, he just finish killing two or three monster, from the corner of his eyes he sees Emil fighting like a beast, just a two consecutive slash from his hands could obliterated 5 to 6 monster similar to the one that he just killed, he just realised that his vice captain are stronger than he thought,
After cleaning up and killing all the monster lurking near the settlement, all of the soldiers in the camp can now breath a sigh of relief and gasp for an air, all seems to be exhausted and Rein is not excluded, Sitting at the corner of they camp, Emil slowly comes towards him passing water pouch to Rein, while Rein drink and gulped the cold water. He seems to be satisfied while Emil just asked him in concern,
"Are you okay my lord?"
"Yes, I can still fight for 1 hour at maximum"
"That's good to know"
"Seems like this mission is harder than I thought, "
"Most likely young lord"
As they both resting and waits, slowly night arrive without any more attacking from the monster, although seems safe, they remain vigilant and rest properly while waiting for the next day to came.