Prelude to change 2.204

After the Denatus and the auction, the three great families prepared to plunge into the dungeon. The streets were still adorned and with painted murals. In the streets wooden dolls with a spear were sold, others with a bow and arrow and, finally, a sword and shield, symbolizing Jason, Odysseus, and Achilles, respectively.

Only Viggo, walking at noon through the streets of Orario with his father, felt a strange feeling in the air. Today was the day of departure, people were happy and headed to the Hera family mansion to watch the parade of Orario's top adventurers. It was almost a military parade where Captain Jason and his two brothers would advance on horseback through the streets while the rest of the adventurers of the Hera family followed them.

Viggo raised his face to the sky, it was blue and clear. Then he looked ahead, at the streets and the people who were advancing. Some men and women went with their children by the hand or on their shoulders. Then Viggo looked to the left side and first saw his father, the tall elf with long white hair advancing at his same speed. Then came the rest of the people who passed by him and the commercial premises. When he reached a corner, he saw a long alley, from where more people of all races came to go north of Orario and go to see the march of the Hera family.

-What's going on, boy?- asked Kain -Any problems?-

-No father- Viggo replied as they went -it's just that something feels strange-

-Your instincts?-

Viggo nodded, Kain gave him a hug and messed up his red hair like his mother's. Then both moved away and advanced in parallel. They arrived in front of the tower of Babel but did not approach. Viggo stared at the huge tubular construction made of stone that seemed to touch the sky. However, neither he nor Kain approached and skirted it to continue north.

As they went into the northern area, the group of people who went to see the parade of the Hera family increased. There was so much crowding that when they came within a thousand meters of the entrance of the Hera family mansion, it was impossible to continue approaching.

-Come on, over here- Kain said, jumping onto a concrete pillar at the entrance gate to a two-story mansion.

-I understand- Viggo replied and jumped onto another concrete pillar as people crowded into the street stared at them. Kain jumped onto the roof of the huge two-story mansion, heard a complaint from an elderly man, but kept moving until he reached the edge of the roof and jumped into the next house. Viggo did the same, trying to imitate the subtlety with which his father moved. They were able to advance more than nine hundred meters, but when they reached the street surrounding the grounds of Hera's mansion, they were stopped. There was a thirty-meter-wide street, but it was packed with people waiting to see the adventurers.

-I miss Rosewisse right now- Viggo said.

-Boy, don't say that, if your wife listens to you, she'll feel like a horse- Kain said.

-I'm just saying it because Father is here but thinking about it. Father has never done a magic that replicates something like wings-

-Well, it's not that easy to mimic the biological function of wings. However, in another place where I lived long ago, I never needed it. To travel, travel as everyone else would and when I did not want to travel, I used portals that connected one end of the planet with another-

-That sounds incredibly convenient!- shouted Viggo, the people who were in the street heard his scream and turned around to look at him.

-No way, we're going to must jump and break something- Kain said as he saw more and more eyes turned toward them. He lowered from the roof to a concrete pillar in the fence that separated the property from the house. Together he forced himself on his foot and made a jump that shattered the top of the pillar. Debris flew backwards and fell inside the property. So, it doesn't affect people, but they still got scared and stepped aside. Viggo took advantage of jumping from the roof to the pillar of the street fence and did the same. In that way, both fell into the grounds of the Hera family and many people outside, complained.

At the same time that they passed the bars of the Hera family mansion, some guards approached. Level four adventurers equipped with armor and swords to fight in the forest surrounding the mansion. However, seeing that they were Kain and Viggo, they relaxed and only warned them not to do that.

Kain and Viggo walked through the inner grounds of the mansion, covered in trees so that those on the street could not see inside. The land was covered with a manicured grass and cut to the same level. The bushes were pruned, with geometric figures even though no one would look at them inside the forest. There were also squirrels and birds, a perfect place to wander around. The only drawback is that in the mansion of the Hera family only adventurers lived.

-Back to what we talked about- said Kain -a teleportation circle is convenient, but you don't need it, boy-

-Why?- asked Viggo -if it's as convenient as it sounds, we'd travel to this mansion in seconds-

-Boy, I already told you; I traveled like the rest of the people and used the transfer circle to connect one part of the world with the other. It wasn't a toy; it was a necessity. Also, considering your situation, it would not be convenient for your mother's mansion to be connected to Hera's mansion, right?-

Viggo thought of Scheherezade and Jason. She told Viggo that for the past few months Jason had been attentive and friendly, but that at some point he became possessive and daring. To the point that he offered to take her somewhere else, to live a life just the two of us. Scheherezade told Jason she didn't want such a thing and made it clear to him immediately. Jason insisted and became like all the nobles who came to buy jewelry at Hera's shop, wanting to buy jewelry for Scheherezade to agree to a date or something else. To which she refused from beginning to end. Scheherezade was a woman who understood men well, the nobles would do nothing to her even if she accepted the jewels and refused any kind of proposal. She worked for Hera, and no one would dare to offend her. However, Jason was a level 9 adventurer and captain of the family, so she refused everything. For several months Jason tried to force his way, either by getting the rest of the workers out of the jewelry store, leaving him alone with Scheherezade, or by going to Hephaestus' mansion to see Scheherezade. So Scheherezade conversed with Hera, and she spoke for Scheherezade, but it seems that Jason did not understand a "no" for an answer.

-Don't worry, boy- Kain said -while I don't find it right on Jason's part, I can't tell you it's wrong. That is the price for having such a beautiful woman as a wife. For example, I told you some time ago that I had a wife named Catherine. She was beautiful, very gifted, just like your wife- Kain gave a chuck and Viggo laughed the same way. Kain continued -she was someone you could get along with. The two of us looked more like friends than a married couple. The fact is that his willingness and ability to drink got her a lot of friends. Many of them fell in love, but she rejected them. They shouted at her that I was a bad man, that I was a prisoner and that they would give her a better life. Fucking losers...- said Kain with some annoyance -the important thing about this whole story is that always, no matter what, there will be men who chase beautiful women. And the other thing is that, if you know that she loves you, you must give her confidence. Finally, if you discover that trust was betrayed, you turn the page, you go your side, and she goes for hers. It's a bit like lending money. If you lend money to someone and they don't pay it back, the loss isn't that great. Since that means that the other person is not trustworthy and with that betrayal, he lost any opportunity with you. Only a fool would trust again a person who already let him down. The healthiest thing is to separate and go your own way-

Viggo took a deep breath, thought of Sakura and Ana, Tsubaki, Semiramis and Scheherezade. There was also Rosewisse, who stood out not only for her beauty, but for her skill with magic and her beautiful wings. That caused a discomfort in his stomach.

On the other hand, Kain instead of comforting his son, gave a giggle and Viggo looked at him with resentment -quiet, boy, nothing belongs to us- he said -I'm not telling you not to strive to preserve your relationship with your wives, but you don't need to go crazy either. They are things that happen and as life progresses, you will realize that things are not as terrible as they seem-

-I hope so father- Viggo said in a discouraged tone of voice.

-That, the ideal, from my point of view as a parent and as the person who educated all of you, is that you do not fight. That's what I'd like, but Scheherezade is your wife, Viggo. You must decide how to act. I don't think the answer to this situation is violence, but the heart is hard to control. When you love, you don't own your emotions.

-What would you do?-

-I would sit down and talk to him, explain how uncomfortable the situation is and if he doesn't want to understand with words, I would fix his face with fists to see if that corrects him. I don't know, there are so many ways to fix things, but you must understand that if the other person doesn't give up, it's impossible for them to solve things peacefully, do you think that Scheherazade has given Jason a chance or is she dissatisfied with the relationship have with you?-

-I didn't believe it, we get along, she worries about me every time something happens to me. We have good compatibility, if you know what I mean. Well, there is the fact that she likes to provoke me by accepting the jewels of the nobles. Every day she leaves them in a chest on my nightstand-

-She is warning you, without warning- Kain replied with an awkward smile.

-I think so- Viggo replied with the same uncomfortable smile-it's a "pay attention to me and treat me with love. There are many men lining up and asking for a chance." The other day I reached my limit and asked her to stop receiving gifts. To which she accepted, but she asked me to be the one who made and gave her jewelry-

-Boy, where did you go? I had met beautiful and capricious women, but never such a capricious one-

-I think so, for now, but I don't know what will happen in the future-

-The only advice I can give you is to continue as far as you can. When things are no longer enough, the healthiest thing would be for both to continue their way-

-Every time you say it, I think it will be like that. Seduction and trust may not be enough-

-Well, right now you're not showing much confidence- Kain said -I'm just talking about a hypothetical case. Just in case. However, you must be sure that things will work out with you. The important thing is to change, who stays stuck at the same point in his life, becomes boring, fearful and unattractive. That means you can't be the same Viggo forever. You seek to improve, grow and maybe that gives you what it takes to catch the interest of your wife. In the end, it's all about whether you're interesting as a person or not-

-Become an interesting man-

-Yes-

-And how do you achieve that?-

Kain chuckled and replied -good question, I don't know, maybe finding the balance between what you want to do and what you want to keep for yourself. Life is more complex than magic or fighting. To begin with, there is no goal beyond what you set for yourself-