Chapter 42: Libra of the Scales

The breeze of the wind kissed our cheeks and caressed our hairs as the hems of our clothes fluttered about left and right as if to dance with the flow of the sky's breezeful music.

Birds flew beside us, some are normal ones having sizes just as big as Leon's eyes and some are bigger, as big as Leon's whole length wingspan wise, they are not afraid of a gigantic Lion flying in the sky, a place in which they are supposed to rule as if they already knew and was confident that a visitor will know their manners and they can teach them one if they don't know how to behave properly.

Well, if that is what they are thinking, then they will either be beaten into a pulp  or become a dinner specially requested by the Second Prince of Valentine.

I just looked at the birds who are leisurely flying beside Leon, Leon of course is not using his full speed, that would not be good for us that is riding in top of his back. He doesn't seem to mind the birds and just ignored them for the most part, though he will steal glances at the big ones and the big ones will glance at him too and they will once again ignore each other.

Eh... What was that? Some kind of gesture of acknowledgment?

Must be so, and not like I care nor do I have any interest in prying on a beast's life.

Thinking so, I suddenly saw two palaces both obsidian in color in the center of two cities both are bustling and hustling in the middle of a busy afternoon. Yup, you guessed it right, after a few hours of flying around the sky in quite a leisurely manner than before, we finally reached my country, Valentine.

The moment we arrived at the top of the airspace of the twin city, all citizen in the two cities stopped their works and cheered my name. (They sure love to chant my name huh?) Apart from my name, as they saw a lady who have a body that have a upper half of a human and a lower half that of a spider, they also started to sing the name of my wife.

After all, some of this people are people who lived two hundred years ago and while some are just awed to see a historical person in the flesh with their two eyes, either way, they are happy and is celebrating the successful endeavor of their Prince  saving his friend (though they didn't know that I saved my friend and just saw me departing for her forest). I just stared at them and made a brief look at Arachne who have a faint smile on her face that is slightly being covered of her super long hair so she looks like someone plotting something, plus her laugh sounds "Uhehehe~" so yeah, she is like a witch.

I immediately dispersed the crowed in our designated landing site, a few meters away in front of my palace.

As we landed, I immediately flew out of his back and guided Arachne to properly and safely land with my hand, after that the remaining three also went out of Leon's gigantic back.

"Thank you Leon."

Virgo made a smile and patted the nose of Leon, Leon was startled but just remained silent all the while Virgo patted his nose. Well isn't this a warming scene.

Though I do not have any time for this, honestly, because I have many things to do and I don't want to wait until tomorrow, because surely, the earliest time a dragon flying around the sky can appear is tomorrow, I know that  it is unlikely to prepare for a long scouting mission in such a short span after those people learned about me saving Idun that means me or us (my sister and I) gaining a strong ally.

But hey, not like being early is a bad thing, and if I started to move when their scouts or spies are already at full blast, then my movements will be detected immediately.

One have to remember that every Ruler have  a super spy/assassin like Ophiuchus in their side and they can surely escape the scope of the scouting ability of Ophiuchus, atleast to a certain extent. But don't misunderstand, I am not in a rush and also not in a race of time, it's just that from this moment on I will have to control an entire situation so I have to prepare my allies and my Kingdom for my plans.

First I need to fortify the military department and make them have a war time alert like preparedness, though I would say that they have a pretty good discipline even now, it is far from enough if we are talking about protecting the nation against the subordinates of that human birdie (Lucifer) or other people in the Seven Rulers, so I have to have them be beaten to soldiers that can wage wars with angels even if they are just in land.

Second, I also need to change the training patterns and regimes of the military intelligence division, this division is incharge of peace time scouting, internal information security and wartime assassination. So why the fuck are they so weak now that even one of their elites like Vega didn't even know how to use his fists and can only swing a knife around?

They will be wasting the superior physical strenght of the Vampire and Devil races if they just let themselves become the traditional sneak attack assassins. Well their training regime will just add martial arts and direct hand to hand combat and given that they got the foundation the moment they are born to make a great physical fighter, well I think they will not have any troubles in this new addition of mine.

The martial arts are conventional martial arts found in books and only Vega have the opportunity to learn from Libra.

Well, now do you understand why am I in such a hurry and didn't wait a day when I ordered this things? Yes, you're right (if you ever bothered to guess it in the first place), those reforms I will be doing is in a military scale, meaning that it will be implemented not just on an individual but to hundred of thousands of them, meaning it will take time, half a year the shortest and who knows what time is the longest, my sister and I have high standards and they are quite the devoted soldiers so they will not be satisfied as long as they didn't met our expectations.

In short it will take a long time and I have to  get a grip of the situation outside Valentine so I have to have them prepare even without my watch.

Thinking of those, I immediately looked for Chris and ordered him to look for Vega. After a while, they arrived and... I must say that Vega's always angry looking face looks a lot calmer now, after all the two of them are training and Chris tries his best to wipe out the anger issues of Vega.

Well, not that calm yet, but hey, progress takes time.

"Well isn't that nice..."

I let out my thoughts and accidentally spoke it out loud, everyone looked at me with confused face, all of them are in my back because of the master subordinate relationship of us but I can tell that they are all looking at me.

"Huh?"

All of them went and asked at the same time in which I just shrugged of with "nothing, nothing." as the two maids in front of my office opened the door for me, I immediately bowed my head a little in acknowledgment and walked inside, after which I sat down in my seat.

All of them, except Arachne who made the back of my seat her place and placed his two hands in my head overlapping with each other and made her head rest in her hands, positioned themselves in the side of the table in a vertical line manner facing each other but having their eyes avert and in attention to me.

All of them looked at me and Arachne simultaneously and didn't say anything, of course they won't, who knows what will happen to them if they did. HAHA!

Anyway, I immediately looked at Libra and I must say.... Idun also got influenced by light novels huh?

Libra have the look of a shoujo manga delinquents, those men who will say "Strip" to a beautiful woman they saw without even introducing themselves. As for me I introduce myself first before I make them strip so its all good.... Wait, I got railed off topic.

Going back, Libra have golden hair that covers the two sides of his forehead but leave the middle portion exposed, he also have golden eyes that overlaps with his  bangs a little bit and a musculature of a perfect martial artist, muscular but not burly, slim yet not skin and bones. Libra's body surely have muscles completely packed and compacted perfectly to not make his body like a dilf retaining his agility while not sacrificing his power.

He have a jacket that have long hems reaching his feet and just a little above the ground that is buttoned up and have bandages in the both of his hands covering up to the middle part of the lower portion of his arms that have the symbol he represents, the scales in it.

Yup, he is the, all so cliche delinquent in mangas and Light Novels that I can pick up ten books in my shelf right at my back that have a character of the same appearance as him, that is really  amusing unlike Virgo who have just pink hair and eyes and a maid outfit, not amusing at all.

I mean, she is not a battle maid you know? Those maid who brandishes a war hammer around but a mage, so her appearance is somewhat misleading.

I am not really interested in her so Idun have an assurance that she will still be Virgo the Maiden after she came back to her forest or nation... Maybe... Who knows.

Anyway, I immediately introduced Vega and Libra towards each other as they made an awkward bow facing one another... Oh, I see, so I have to make them break their ice.

"Ahem... Well, now that you already know each other, I decided to make the two of you stroll around the city in order to break the ice between the two of you. You will be introduced to the sceneries by Chris, your training will start tomorrow. This ice breaker will also include the two girls."

I looked around at all of them and maid a little long eye contact with Chris, he immediately understood my meaning and nodded slightly with his ever so gentle smile, and looked at the group.

"Let's go?"

All of them is awkward towards each other and they stammered as they replied.

"Y-yes!"

And so, all of them neatly went out of the office leaving only Arachne and me. I heaved a sigh and waited for the situation report of Chris later this day, after all I can't have those people still awkward tomorrow so I have to make sure that all of them are already friends and close by the end of this day, I also have some threesome to do with Guinevere and Arachne, though that can wait a little after this day or two.

And so hours later it is already night, Arachne was fetched by Guinevere and they leave me alone in the office, so I read books until Chris reported the situation of the four and luckily or as expected should I say?

They immediately became close to each other, first of all, Altair is not particularly strangers with Virgo and Libra so she basically became the anchor between the three to break the ice, at first they are just silently staring at each other, but because of the ever so cheerful personality of Altair, they immediately went drinking.

It seem like Virgo defeated the four of them in the drinking party that Chris have some strands of his hair spiking upwards and his forehead have some veins popping out of it. Oh shit, he's holding  a grudge...

Before he exploded in this place, I immediately gave him a "Good job" compliment and immediately sent him off.

After which, I summoned a maid and ordered her to look for Igraine, for her father have something to say.