Ch 22

After following Higgs for a while Lucoa and I were brought deep into the castle and then into one of its many rooms.

When we entered the room I saw three couches facing each other with Latifa sitting on one of them along with Moffle and Isuzu while another had a man and woman I haven't seen before, I can only guess they are the King and Queen of Castle Town.

Seeing two of the three couches taken Lucoa and I sat down at the only vacant couch left while Higgs moved behind the King and Queen.

Once Lucoa and I sat down the first person to speak was the King, Souichirou Sakurada.

"Greetings, I'm Souichirou Sakurada, Latifa's older brother. I first like to thank you two for offering your help to my little sister and it may be rude to ask you this upfront but why are you helping her." Souichirou

Hearing him I thought he all right to be on guard as the last unknown person to help Latifa turned out to be an evil wizard and here I am a mage, a magical being that is known to become crazy or evil even when their Madness isn't triggered, so it's reasonable to be on guard so I answered him honestly to not make any misunderstandings.

"I originally wanted to help her as I wanted to study the ritual magic on her body and try to recreate it but without its flaws. As I'm a mage that's specializing in ritual magic, I also thought it would be of great help in my study of ritual magic by studying the magic on her body as it's a ritual I haven't seen before. But now I want to help her as I truly want to help her, and as for Lucoa it's because I asked her to help Latifa." Shouta

Hearing my answer King Souichirou looked at me for a bit and turned to Lucoa to see her validate my claims by nodding her head as she wouldn't have help Latifa unless she needed to.

King Souichirou hearing why we want to help Latifa nodded his head before speaking once more.

"I see then I would like to thank you once again, and I hope you can take care of Latifa's problem as quickly as possible." Souichirou

Hearing him I agreed with solving Latifa's problem as quickly as possible as I don't like the idea of her being connected to that evil wizard any longer.

Turning to Lucoa she just smiled and got up before walking to Latifa and putting her hand on her head.

Once Lucoa put her hand on Latifa's head she turned to look at everyone in the room before talking to me.

"Shouta baby, what do you want me to do with the connection to the evil wizard. Do you want me to cut it as is or make him face a huge backlash?" Lucoa

Hearing Lucoa I wanted to tell her the second opinion but Latifa spoke up before me.

"If it's okay can you just cut off the connection as is?" Latifa

Hearing her I felt she was letting the evil wizard go easily and King Souichirou seemed to agree as he was the next one to speak up.

"Latifa, are you sure you want to end it like this. That man took so many years of your life and who knows how many people he has wronged even as we speak." Souichirou

Hearing her brother's words Latifa closed her eyes and seemed to be contemplated her choice before speaking to Lucoa once more.

"Lady Lucoa, can you give us that man's location through the connection?" Latifa

"Sure, I can do that but is that all?" Lucoa

Hearing Lucoa I said something before Latifa can say any more.

"Yeah, can you get rid of his magic?" Shouta

Hearing what I said after a bit Latifa nodded her head in agreement with my decision on cutting off the evil wizard magic.

Lucoa seeing Latifa agree with my addition she nodded her head before generally moving her magic into Latifa's body breaking the magic that's affecting her while also healing her body.

After a while of waiting nervously, Lucoa finally removed her hand from Latifa's head before speaking to us.

"It's done and it seems that evil wizard, well ex-wizard, is inside the city, he seems to be hiding in plain sight. Pass me a paper and pen, I'll draw how he looks like and where he is at this moment." Lucoa

Hearing Lucoa words Higgs took out a pin and a small notebook from his pocket before handing them to Lucoa while King Souichirou took out his phone and started to call people preparing for capturing the evil wizard while waiting for Lucoa to be done with drawing the picture and address.

After Lucoa was done with the notebook King Souichirou quickly took a picture of the page that had the face of the evil wizard before sending it along with an address to some of his people.

Once King Souichirou finished sending the messages to his people he started to smile while turning to Latifa and her group before speaking to them.

"Little sister, it's done Takaya Kurisu, that poor excuse of a man, will finally face justice." Souichirou

Seeing him like this it seems a huge burden was finally lifted off his shoulders.

After hearing his words Latifa, Moffle, and Isuzu all smiled but they stopped smiling as Latifa started to cry after it finally hit her that she's truly free now from her curse and now she can live her life.

Seeing her like this I felt helping her was one of the best things I did, well I did nothing much other than asking Lucoa to help her, and I'm happy I did.

Looking at Lucoa I felt I needed to reward her for helping Latifa.

Lucoa feeling me looking at her smiled at me before walking back to my side to hold my hand as she started to watch the scene in front of her.

After a bit more crying Latifa finally stopped and King Souichirou got a message on his phone before he spoke once more with more good news.

"He's been captured and he's in custody. It seems he wasn't expecting us to capture him and tried to resist using magic but thanks to Lucoa he just looked like lunatic yelling weird words at my men during the capture. It also seems he was planning something agent Latifa and some other people when my man captured him so now we have new evidence to use agents him." Souichirou

Hearing the good news of the evil wizard, Takaya Kurisu, captured Moffle seemed to think of something before walking to King Souichirou and whisper something to him before the king nodded his head in agreement.

After King Souichirou agreed to whatever Moffle ask for Moffle left the room while King Souichirou used his phone once more to message someone.

Seeing their actions I got curious about what happened so I asked King Souichirou about it.

"Where's Moffle going, Your Majesty Souichirou?" Shouta

Hearing my questions everyone turned their action to us and looked at King Souichirou for an answer to my question.

King Souichirou seeing all the eyes on him answered us a little awkwardly.

"I allowed Uncle Moffle to see Takaya Kurisu but don't worry knowing Uncle Moffle I had some guards on standby if something happens. After all, we can't have Takaya Kurisu go to court all battered up because Uncle Moffle can't hold in his rage." Souichirou

Hearing what happened I lost interest but King Souichirou wife seemed to be upset with him for agreeing to Moffle request.

As the two were having their lovers spat Lucoa and I went to Latifa and Isuzu to talk to them.

"So, what will you do next Latifa, you're no longer curse and your eyesight will slowly recover. The whole world is open to you now and the only bad thing I can think of is your fever stuck looking like a 14-year-old." Shouta

Hearing my question Latifa stayed quiet for a bit but answer me never the less.

"I'm going to restart my schooling and try to get a degree in business management so in the future to run Amagi Brilliant Park to the fullest of my ability. But until then I'm going to look for a temporary manager for the park that will help revive the park while I'm going back to school." Latifa

Hearing Latifa's plans I felt like I should help her as I can see the intense drive in her eyes.

I can't manage the park for her but that doesn't mean I don't know someone who can.

Opening my phone I looked up one of my favorite anime characters to see if he existed in this world and to my surprise he does.

After finding him I put down my phone and made plans to visit him later.

Once I put away my phone I looked at Latifa and started to talk to her.

"Latifa I found you a good candidate for your temporary manager. I'll bring him in a week or two." Shouta

Hearing that I found her a candidate for her temporary manager Latifa was happy seeing how brightly she smiled at me.

After telling her about a possible temporary manager we continue to talk until I noticed the time and had to excuse myself as Lucoa and I needed to return home.

After telling Lucoa we need to go home she opened a portal to the front of my house and seeing the portal I asked her a question as I remember something on the fly.

"Why didn't you open a portal to here when we left Coffee Angel earlier today. We could have saved some money if you did that." Shouta

"You didn't ask plus the bus fare is cheap so why does it matter. Also, if anyone has the right to complain about paying pointless travel fees it should be Kobayashi, she never asks Tohru to open a portal to her work for her. But I guess Tohru never reminds her as if she did Kobayashi wouldn't ride her from time to time." Lucoa

Hearing Lucoa I had to agree with her and I'm not going to tell Kobayashi about the portal cheat to save money as I don't know how Tohru will take it as I'm taking away ... I don't know what to call it but I'll say alone time with Kobayashi.

Think about it do dragons get turned on by someone riding them.

Looking at Lucoa I asked her before we go through the portal.

"Lucoa, do dragons get turned on when people ride them?" Shouta

"Shouta baby, that's a silly question, I think you should know the answers to that already, or do you want to figure out the answer again tonight." Lucoa

"I don't mean it like that and I would love to but I'm asking you if someone rides a dragon, like those dragon knights, will the dragon get turned on." Shouta

"Oh, that ... I guess some do, as most dragons are prideful and letting someone ride them can be seen as a disgrace, so if one of these dragons lets someone ride them and enjoy it they should be considered to have a BDSM fetish in the dragon community." Lucoa

"Then does that mean Tohru has a BDSM fetish?" Shouta

"Hugh, I guess it does, and I can be considered to have a BDSM fetish too seeing how much I enjoy you riding me, fufu." Lucoa

Hearing Lucoa I'm getting horny but before I can start teasing her back Latifa's voice came to my ears.

"What's a BDSM fetish and can I ride Lucoa as well. From what I read in my diary the last dragon employee I hired didn't let me ride him despite me wanting to ride him so badly." Latifa

Hearing Latifa's questions I didn't know what to say and looked at Lucoa for help.

Lucoa seeing my hopeful eyes asking for help just looked at Latifa and said something that almost made me trip.

"BDSM fetish is something adults who love each other do for fun, you can ask your sister-in-law for more information. As for riding me, I'm sorry but I'm Shouta personal dragon, I'm not letting anyone besides Shouta ride me." Lucoa

Hearing Lucoa Latifa was a little disappointed but gave up in the end as she doesn't want to force Lucoa to do anything.

After seeing how Lucoa dealt with the situation I felt a little helpless and wanting to cheer Latifa up a little I promised her to come to the park next week if nothing happens before entering the portal Lucoa made to return home.

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Notes:

Takaya Kurisu is the main villain of Amagi Brilliant Park: Light Novel/Anime