Chapter 16: Unreasonable Negligence

The sun shined brightly into the field as two figures flew at fast speeds making sharp turns and twists in the air as they dodged the birds that is peacefully flying and enjoyed themselves in once again conquering the skies together and spreading their love into the heavens for the first time in two hundred years.

Every turns was sharp and cannot be perceived by normal people, the two figures dive headfirst into the ground making the land become visible at a fast rate startling and horrifying the herbivores that feeds on the hill's grasses as the two figures abruptly made a curve upwards and once again dispersed the clouds above the sky only leaving a destroyed hill in the ground, however the two culprits, in which is me and Guinevere are already nowhere to be seen as we saw two gigantic castles in the middle of both cities known as the twin capital of Valentine as we momentarily stopped in the top of the airspace of the Vampire and Devil Country and adore its majesty.

Wind blew and dripped into our face and bodies making our clothes flutter about in the air and also making our landing look more majestic as we carefully landed on the Verdana of my sister's palace and I immediately was tackled by Igraine who have a cute smile but not entirely, because of the whites of her eyes being black in color and her pupils in a vertical slit.

But she's still my daughter so I also hugged her with my left hand and then patted her head with my right.

"Father, you're back! Finally! So, when will you train me!? Argh! If only I have studied wind magic then I have outran Juliet yesterday!"

She clenched her fist and then exclaimed, she looked like an athlete who got defeated in a gold medal match as I looked at her with locked brows, well Igraine is a person who doesn't want any conflict and is really shy before so seeing her right now having an outburst because she can't outrun a person is really new to me.

"Oh, that's right, you still suck at magic even though you have become confident huh? Well, I will train you soon, busy days are still here."

"Eh... So playboys are also busy doing something other than pumping their seeds to women huh, I don't know."

"Hey, don't call your father a playboy in front of him."

We chatted like that while Guinevere and my sister made formalities to each other, they bowed lightly as they pulled both sides of the hems of their dresses and then bent their right knee forward and then put their left foot five inches away in the back of their right foot as they say exchanged.

"I am back, sister-in-law-sama."(Guinevere)

"I am happy to see you again, sister-in-law." (Eris)

They then smiled an elegant one after that, well you might call the exchange faked, but hey, that's formalities, so it will really sound overly polite to be true. And they two have the sense of obligation about formalities so yeah, they will always be like that.

After that, we came for a grand lunch that was prepared by my sister because her favorite niece is back, there are several dishes and it came like a flood because Igraine is a glutton and my Elder Sister is a doting aunt.

Well, after we make dinner, I started to make moves now. For what? Well, for taking care of the spies of the seven rulers, in short making a search and kill operation of all the spies in this Kingdom, though it will not yield results yet because I only have two assassins.

I decided on this operation because of my move of going inside Camelot and stealing Guinevere to the forces of Tyrfing. The Rulers will sure be alert about this, furthermore any Ruler except Selaphiel doesn't have a way to know that Igraine is not yet dead, meaning they also want to find her whereabouts, but because of their stupid law they cannot investigate things too well on their own so they will have to increase their spies. Now, will I alert them if I dispose of their spies? Of course they will be alerted.

But that's why I liked it, that way I can freely go around places and not be restrained by that stupid rule that I didn't even have the chance to have an opinion and my movements will not be restricted and will be more free anymore.

If their spies suddenly disappeared they will sure to renege the ruler they made themselves, and that idiotic restrictions will be lifted at last.

Plus I got annoyed when a spy vouyered on me and Guinevere having sex in Camelot yesterday.

I ordered Ophiuchus and Vega for this mission, Altair is not suitable for this stealth and precision designed missions because she is loud and will not think twice (most of the time) before acting, so only the two of them can do this missions now. The spies of the Rulers are spread out throughout the Kingdom having marks in the target map of Ophiuchus, there are no spies in the castle because they will die on the spot if I discovered them, and also because of the enchantment of the palace that will release illusions to elude the intruders and the one who enchanted this place is the one and only Vanir, my first wife so it's impossible to go out of this palace with scouting, spying or assassination as a goal.

Soon enough, because of this factors the spies gave up on infiltrating the palace and I can assure that because of my lie direction ability, they just dispersed around the castle.

Hm, well anyway, so after a few briefing they went out of their way to kill some stupid brats whom call themselves spies.

Now we wait for those idiots to freak out.

I hope they won't get insane after their communication network from Valentine got cut off.

After that, I then started to walk out of my office and look for my room.

Just as you might have guessed, I will talk to that lady that was used as a gift for me. But don't misunderstand, I will not anything to her, well, not right now atleast. I may be someone who have many kinks in my body but, I do still have enough restraint to not touch a person who have her whole emotional health on the verge of collapse.(if not already collapsed)

I may be a womanizer, but I am not a jerk, quite hypocritical but you get my point, I will not touch her for now and will just ask her why did she accepted an impossible Assassination attempt and will give her the chance to either go back to Camelot or stay here.

Thinking about those things, I went into my room to see a lady in a shrimp like position. The lady have white color hair that reaches her shoulder, she have her bangs completely covering her empty white eyes as she folded both of her knees and then hugged it with both of her arms while having her emotionless face that is devoid of any emotion and life look at me for a while an then go back staring at nothingness.

She have a simple dress that showcases the long cleavage of her enormous breast, she also have slender waist and have a black colored great sword in her foot.

She wore her white dress, yeah a dress, a normal one and not a battle dress or combat gown, a dress that have a little enchantment so that it won't rip when she moved at high speeds or when she move around doing acrobatics I presume. She's not even prepared in terms of equipment...

I entered my room saying nothing and walked slowly towards her and then sat beside her, I also folded my arms with my bent knees as I imitated her making her looked puzzled for a second but got emotionless the other second.

However, I patiently waiter for her to say a word, I know she will be weirded out but who cares, like I said I will comfort her so it's fine this way.

She slowly but surely started to make side glances towards me in which I ignored so that she won't stop, I would like to talk to her so this is a good progress I say.

"Uhm... Why are you... Like... Here with me..."

She finally looked at me straight in the face but with still dispirited voice that seem to fade every words she mutter. I also looked at her for a moment and then once again looked at my front.

"Well, I have nothing to do, so I want to listen to your story or if you don't want anyone to know it, atleast have someone who will share my boredom. You see, my wife is currently strolling around with my daughter and my sister will kill me if I disturbed her, so I have no one to talk to."

Her eyes momentarily regained its light as it widened for a small fraction of a second upon hearing my words but then disappeared realizing herself showing emotions, but she now have her head resting on her knees while completely tilted in my direction.

"Uhm..."

"I... Am from a noble family..."

Wait it worked earlier than expected.

I see, it seems like she doesn't have any emotional support right now that she just trusted someone she didn't even have any idea who, because she want someone to support her and it doesn't matter who, she just really wants someone to listen to her, to be with her.

How pitiful.

To make someone resort for something like trusting a person she met three minutes ago.

I will make sure to get her, her sweet revenge.

The story goes on like this, well I said it's a story but it was really holed and inconsistent.

Like she was from the Mondragon noble family and her full name is Juliet Mondragon IV the second daughter of the Mondragon family a former family in the era of Arthur Pendragon and is the second most powerful family in the far southern vassal nations of Tyrfing basically having a chokehold in the economy and military of the far south, well atleast of the empire.

Like hell they can challenge Valentine.

Going back, she was neglected, that's it, that's her story, she was neglected because of the reason she doesn't know. She is doing her best and is the top of her class but still neglected, she have an exceptional natural speed (like Altair but Altair have natural strength), but was ignored causing her to not be able to use her talent properly because no one bothered to train her.

No matter what she do she can't get her parent's attention, she tried to be mischievous, she tried to be rebellious, she tried to be sweet and she tried to be diligent, however none of her effort worked. This negligence caused her to be so timid, shy and unconfident, well Igraine and her are quite similar except for the fact that Igraine is not neglected.

She was on the verge of giving up but suddenly Igraine came into her life making her have motivation again as Igraine offered her to deliver the finishing blow to me, she asked permission to her father of course, and seem to receive a response: "You will be the heir if you succeeded in killing that wretched Devil."

Her father have bright smile on his face making Juliet become extremely happy as she thought that she is finally recognized by her father without seeing the bigger picture.

Her father wants her dead that's why he is smiling when he heard Juliet saying things like that, he knew that no human in the planet except their former magistrate and the Knight of the God Slaying Flames (Nakano Hiroshi) can even imagine to kill me, not even my own daughter can.

That's what her realization now is and right now, her whole emotional health finally collapsed as she can't take it anymore. I mean, her father want her dead.

Her father whom she wants attention from doesn't even need or want her to exist in the first place.

"But why?"

I looked at her and asked her the most confusing question after my three hundred years of life, why? Why is she neglected in the first place and why did the leader of her family want her dead?

I cannot understand and I have to personally investigate and dive into this matter, why? Because making my subordinate investigate into this matter means I am mixing up professional and private affairs and I don't want that.

"... Why...."

She just muttered as some tears can be seen in the left corner of her two white colored eyes as she tried to find an answer but cannot find or even come up with one.

"I see... That's quite tragic and I can't honestly completely sympathize with you because I am not a neglected son, but I do know one thing..."

I stood up from the bed in which both of us are sitting and then put my right hand into her head an then patted her white colored hair, her eyes became completely wide and she looked at me with complete confusion, I can also see her cheeks have a faint rose color on it.

"You don't have to work so hard anymore."

I smiled faintly as she still looked at me with eyes that will soon come out of its sockets, it must be her first time having her head patted.

I will be sure to do this often in the future.

I immediately stopped about five seconds later and then went out of the room with: "If you don't want to go out of my room to eat, the maid will get you something to eat. I will also ask you to go to one of the room adjacent to my room."

In which she gave a nod while having her legs not folded and she now is sitting in a proper posture, well that's progress I guess.

I also didn't want her to go back to Camelot anymore that's why I didn't offered that option, I will not let a person who have relatives that want her dead to go back to her family, even if I have to force her to stay.

Well, good thing it didn't went in that direction.

[3rd Person POV]

Juliet looked at the leaving figure of Loki at the door, she just stared at his back without saying a word.

As he finally left the vicinity, she touched her head that was patted by Loki just a while ago and then closed her eyes as tears slowly drifted out of her eyes.

It is the first time she felt this way, and from a person she just met a few minutes ago not less.

"His hand... Feels so warm..."