Chapter 19: Surprise (1)

3rd person's POV

A certain hooded girl was running and then she goes to a dark alley. After going through the alley she entered a pub, she walked towards the girl in the counter.

"One Sleeping Foam Beer and a room." She said quietly enough for the girl in the counter to hear.

The girl in the counter gave a foamy drink and a key to the girl. The girl went upstairs with the key in her hand and entered a room with the same number as the key she was holding.

After opening the room she locked it carefully. There, inside the small room is only a table and a 2 chairs with a man already sitting on one of the seats.

"So what information did you bring?" The man that is already sitting on the chair asked.

"The Snake has been found, he is now with his old lover." The hooded girl said.

"Sigh~ that kid is still sticking to that guy even now huh."

"What about the Zodiacs and the others?" The hooded girl asked.

"Mother is awakened that's why the Zodiacs and the others are now back in the Flow of Souls." The man said.

"Sigh~ that's a relief. May their souls reincarnate safely and live a happy life on their new life." The hooded girl prayed.

"Oh right! When are we going back to the old village?" The hooded girl asked.

"It will be in three days so ready all the kids to travel." The man said.

"Okay! Did you already said this to the other branch?" The hooded girl asked.

"Yes, we already had a meeting and we will be traveling in three days."

"Hm hm~ let's surprise mother HAHAHAHA!!!" The hooded girl grin and laughingly said.

Meanwhile~

On the Abandoned Forest where the bits and pieces of the Mepa Kingdom were is now cleaned up thanks to Leona and Tim working together with Aki.

They cut up the trees where the old road was built and then they build a new brick road.

The road was finished after only 2 days and the whole orphanage was now renovated. They added new buildings like a dorm room and a library. The books comes from the stocks that Aki bought before his gift from Crea was taken away.

Some of the books are from his modern life like agricultural books, comics, novels and many more. While the others are the books that was from this world, Dominilia, that he missed after he died and the other books are those that he already had in his past but got burned, lost or got ripped before and after the war.

After working for hours they called it a day and decided to rest. It was still afternoon, so Aki decided to make some snacks for Leona and Tim.

Leona and Tim was now alone in the living room, silence and awkwardness covered the whole room, Tim wants to say something but he swallowed it back to his stomach when he saw Leona's death glare.

"Didn't I say that you go back to where you came from?" Leona said in an annoyed tone.

"But didn't I say that I will court you?" Tim said back to Leona.

"You know? Your so annoying!"

"I'm going to annoy you forever if your not going to accept me."

"Then die you stupid f*ck–"

Before Leona got to finish her speech, she was pulled in the arm and was suddenly kissed in the lips by Tim.

"Don't say too much profanities or else you will get an ugly face." Tim said teasing Leona.

Leona felt heat rising into her face as she feels Tim's breath.

Then suddenly the ambiguous atmosphere in the room suddenly disappeared when they heard a voice.

"Ahem! My darlings, there are plenty rooms in the orphanage, find one and do your business there. The living room is not a room for private businesses." Aki smilingly said while bringing down the snacks in the table.

Leona pushed away Tim and run to Aki. "It's not what you think mother!"

"Uh huh~ here are some snacks and refreshments, eat first before doing your business later fufufu~" Aki teasingly said.

Leona became red from head to toe. "Mother! We're not in that kind of relationship!"

Having a thick face, Tim butted in, "But sooner or later we'll be~."

"Fufufu~ then I want ten grandchildren~." Aki jokingly said.

A cunning smile was shown on Tim's face. "Of course mother, hehehe~."

Leona felt flustered as her mother and her so-called enemy, team up together to tease her. "Mo-mother! I will not marry this shameless bastard!"

"Okay~, okay~ But I will wait for 10 grandchildren to come~ HAHAHA!!!" Aki said teasing Leona.

"Mother!" Leona shouted in annoyance then she pouted.

Tim and Aki looked at Leona's pouting face and then they looked at each other. "HAHAHA!!!"

"I can't believe that my own mother will sell me to this black hearted guy." Leona said and then she run to her own room in embarrassment.

After teasing Leona, Aki excuse himself to Tim and made his way to his own room to take a little nap.

Aki woke up and it's already dark outside. Aki look at the clock in his room to see that it was already 7 pm, Aki got out of bed and fixed his hair then he left his room and went to the kitchen to cook for dinner.

Aki can't let Leona cook because she is like her twin brother Leon. They both cook things with their beast fire but the things that got cooked from them looks amazing but the taste is terrible. He asked them once as to why do they use their own beast fire just to cook instead of using the magic stove and they said that it was for nourishing the food with their own mana. Since then Aki never let Leon and Leona cook using their own beast fire.

As Aki made his way to the kitchen, he smelled something delicious being cooked then he heard some voices in the kitchen.

"Okay then, put the now cooked dish in the plate. There we go!" A man's voice said.

'It was Tim' Aki thought, then he rushed to the kitchen to see Tim laying the plates and the utensils for eating while Leona was putting the dishes in the dinner table.

"Oh Mother your already up! I was about to call you but now that you are here take a sit and let's eat." Leona said.

Aki took a sit and was surprised by the dishes in the table. "Did you cook all of this?" Aki asked Leona.

"Nope! This guy here helped me since he knew that I use my beast fire at cooking." Leona said as she pointed at Tim.

Aki took a bite form the the dish near him. "Mmm~ Its yummy!"

"I know right! my cooking skills are now growing! heheh." Leona said pridefully.

"Without MY help your food will taste like a cat soaked in rain water." Tim added.

"Yeah right! Don't pay attention to that guy, let's just eat mother!" Leona said annoyingly.

Tim and Aki laughed and then they continued eating until the dishes were all gone and cleaned up.