Room Discussion

(Denzel's POV):

It was already past dinner that I had reminded Gayle, Lester, and Jay who is Robin's friend to come to the meeting room after eating. I was waiting for them along with Lilith so that I can kill some time.

"It's nice that they're reunited right?" - Lilith

"Yep, I didn't expect Gayle to have a twin. But I'm having my eyes on Lester for some reason."

"Eh? For some reason?" - Lilith

I explained the problem to Lilith in which she listened in quite well.

"So I'm thinking of having family members stay in a single room. This is basically making sure that nothing bad will be happening in the palace. I will have to separate the beds or it depends if they're fine with being together in a single bed."

"The beds in the lower floors aren't small right? Pretty sure you made all rooms have a bed that can fit three people." - Lilith

"Yep, this is just in case when residents here are couples or family members. It's just to make sure everything runs smoothly. I do have a rule regarding invading rooms at night."

"What kind of rule?" - Lilith

"Discussing something at night must occur outside private rooms unless the room is shared."

After some time, the three that I mentioned had finally arrived in the room.

"Good evening Denzel..." - Gayle

"Ah, good evening..." - Jay

He's courteous, I wonder what kind of behavior Gayle's twin would have.

"Good evening." - Lester

"Sit down."

I told them to take a seat for the time being as I begin the discussion. I should make this quick since I have to work on the Stardust Claymore for Robin.

"You three might know what I'm about to say so, got any guesses?"

"Regarding the rooms?" - Lester

"Yep, I will prioritize family members to share a room here. Lester, you should understand. The twins have separated for mostly a year? So you should know that you'll be moving to another room."

"But then!" - Lester

"Shut it Lester, he has spoken already." - Jay

I like this kid Robin had, I wonder what kind of abilities he holds.

I thought about Jay's current capabilities and he seems to be a skillful person in multiple manners.

"Unless you have complaints about palace rules here I'm more than willing to move your stuff outside the palace and occupy the houses down there."

"A-Alright then..." - Lester

I dropped a major amount of pressure towards Lester and he seems to have remembered something pretty scary. Lilith is here watching over the entire discussion as a witness.

The twins were smiling but stayed silent. Lester showed that he's frustrated without even having any effort of hiding it.

"Lilith, if you don't mind can you relay that to Bella and the others?"

"Got it." - Lilith

Lilith left the room to notify the female camp about the rule. I stayed back while trying to level everything well.

"So Jay, I think you'll have Gayle to give you and your group a tour of the palace. You pretty much got the most rooms well right Gayle?"

"Ah! Umm..." - Gayle

"Seems like you don't, well it'll be fine. Lilith will be watching over to assist you on that."

"A-Alright..." - Gayle

After some time, the discussion pretty much dissipated. At that point, I cut the discussion by finalizing the rooms used. I helped out Lester to move all his stuff to the new room which is just right next to them.

(Later: Jay's POV):

"Kaede... We're finally back..."

"Mhm..." - Gayle

"I wonder if it's alright for us to stay in this palace..."

"I think... It's fine..." - Gayle

While thinking about how grateful I am to both Robin and Denzel I started to remember about Kaede apologizing to Denzel earlier.

"Kaede..."

"Hmm?" - Gayle

"What happened to Denzel?"

"Ah... It's a little long..." - Gayle

"It's alright, you can tell me."

"Well... It started with Rika... She was Denzel's lover..." - Gayle

I continued to listen in to the entire story for a long time. There were lots of major things that occurred but it seems like Denzel didn't break indiscriminately.

"Because I was slow... I couldn't stop Rika... She stabbed him, with a knife filled with miasma..." - Gayle

"Miasma? From a black type character?"

It seems like Denzel was mentally damaged not from the miasma but something else... Kaede said that she read his mind and actually saw something that involves his past.

"I wonder though, how much did he go through to become a higher up at Asylum just like that?"

"He's most likely... The heartful one... Everyone's strength..." - Gayle

"Heartful?"

"Kind... Accepting... Helpful... Caring..." - Gayle

"You see quite a bit in him huh... I should be wary..."

"Why?" - Gayle

I know well that she's going to read my mind but I have a hunch where Kaede likes Denzel at some level.

I should maintain wariness at many cases since there's already Lester who is acting like a man-child for some reason. Though Denzel seems like a more reliable person when it comes to taking care of his residents. I think that he's pushing himself too hard to ensure everyone's wellness.

"Nevertheless... Getting betrayed so easily? Is this why he's sharp now?"

"Mhm... He's trying to recover... He's scary... When he fights..." - Gayle

"Scary?"

I had a hunch like that since Robin did mention about Denzel eliminating groups of enemies despite having ice element. His capabilities of acting like a mage and a fighter at the same time like Robin is something that we shouldn't try to deal with.

"Have you managed to see him fight head on against someone?"

"Mhm... Chrominus..." - Gayle

"Chr!?"

He fought against Chrominus alone which is actually one of the strongest players in this game. He's known for the perfect dodges due to his ability called Glitchy Process and his clones that far surpass many groups.

"He fought... Chrominus, and two clones..." - Gayle

If I remember correctly, our group did manage to fight against him once. We managed to escape to a safezone at the nick of time. We were heavily damaged in that battle and almost died while scouting against their faction.

"It looked... Beautiful... You should see... Soon enough..." - Gayle

"Alright then, shall we sleep?"

"Sure..." - Gayle

"Good night Kaede..."

"Good night..." - Gayle

(In the meantime: Terrence's POV):

I'm glad that everything's finally done. I was honestly about to lose my sanity due to Gayle and Lester flirting everyday. Aside from that, Gayle would try to beat me up in the dojo and Lester would just laugh.

"I'm glad everything's over..." - Grace

"Yeah... How was the trip?"

"It was really scary... We fought against multiple dangerous bosses with having almost no air to breathe..." - Grace

"Damn, seems like you had a long stretch. It's great that you managed to come back here though. This time, as a full resident."

"Yeah, now we can sleep together just like this." - Grace

Both of us are currently lying down on the bed talking about our adventures here and there.

"It was pretty rough on the desert... We had to collect ore for Gayle's usage since she will be relying on her stuff. It was getting difficult when we had to maintain two Mystics..."

"Really? It was pretty rough trying to manage the three of them without Robin's lessons. So I was pretty grateful to have him teach me some things about leading the team." - Grace

"Really? Considering how I saw Denzel's side then we could feel pretty safe here in their group."

"Yeah... Robin said that I should try to learn more from the other leaders and not just with him..." - Grace

"Want me to come with you? I did get some short lessons from Denzel so he pretty much made me fare decently against Gayle. It's still a loss though..."

"Pfft... She's going to read your mind so it will be difficult to fight against her..." - Grace

"Yeah, seeing how much damage she dealt to Robin in the dueling. It took Robin to use the new weapon just to shut her down completely. Do you think he was holding back there?"

"Mhm... He holds back for everyone. I also managed to deal quite a nice amount of damage on him in the duels." - Grace

"I see, I wonder what it's like to fight against Denzel? He's pretty much scary when enraged."

"Why though?" - Grace

"Well, the strongest residents almost died... Even with their perfect coordination, Gayle and Lester even helped out on shutting him down but of course. There's too many things to handle since his traitor of a lover copies the skills of most of them and use it against our side."

"Betrayed?" - Grace

"It's a long story, but I will say that it's pretty sad when the owner who is a very kind person break down into rage due to a traitor..."

"What do you think of the owner here?" - Grace

"Well, I can say that he is a great person, or a great friend. He teaches everyone things so that they would be able to fight well in all kinds of situations. He's extremely detailed and would spoil everyone to the point he'd give them a weapon. The one he gave Gayle made her extremely scary."

"Yeah... That scythe was pretty big, and it looked quite beautiful too." - Grace

"It utilizes mana absorption to the best of it and made her into a dueling monster. I don't think I have seen her use her mystic skills after she got that scary weapon."

"It was made by Denzel right? Should we make a weapon request soon?" - Grace

"Let's do it all together, with everyone. Though I don't want to clog his schedule like that."

"Yeah, shall we sleep?" - Grace

"Sure, good night!"

"Goodnight Terrence, love you..." - Grace

"Love you too."

Both of us immediately went to sleep in a peaceful and calming manner. I didn't think of anything but to take care of Grace from now on since he have reunited officially.

I'm glad everything's over...