Chapter 43: Concealed Worries

After some time of waiting, a maid immediately entered the room. She have shining eyes together with rose colored cheeks and seem to be expecting something about her being ordered to come alone in my office.

Now, who the hell said that I will be doing something to her when I ordered her to be here? Don't be like that, I might actually do what she is expecting!

Anyway, I immediately reverted my thoughts and imagination of seeing the maid in front of me naked as I immediately stated my order, I also didn't forget my serious look as for her to not misunderstand the reason she is being summoned, bed is bed and work is work.

"Please, call my daughter, if she's asleep, wake her up, just be careful or you will disappear, literally."

A long silence engulfed the room and the shining eyes of the maid immediately turned empty as if being deprived of any hope in her life and her brimming smile disappeared on her face. I just raised my brow and looked at her.

"What?"

"E-eh!? N-nothing! Your will shall be done!"

Her face turned red as she stammered and ran towards the exit of my office in haste with a "WAAAAH...!"  sound while she is getting out of the room. If only the matter is not serious then there will be a new addition into my harem... Too bad.

In any case, I stopped thinking about those things as I saw a lady with the whites of her eyes turned black and have pupils in a vertical slit. Her eyes looks like the Devil (the biblical one) went and walked into the mortal plane to look for souls to be tormented, however she wears pajamas that looks like a teenager that just went out of a pajama party with her friends.

"Papa... What do you want, I almost deleted the maid..."

Papa she said... Ahem, she have a murky eyes that seem to be the eyes of a person that got forcibly woken up from a very good sleep that gave her  a very good dream.

"Wake up."

I used a little bit of my power and jolted Igraine awake, she made a little quiver as shock of electricity went into her whole body and swept away any ounce of her sleepiness. She now have her usual confident eyes and confident smile and if I don't know that she's a very respectful person towards her parents, then I will misunderstand her gaze as her looking at me like I am the inferior one here.

Seeing that she is already in full attention, I immediately went and discussed my reason of me demanding her presence in my office.

"Well, I promised to train you myself right? I am planning on fulfilling that  promise tomorrow, be sure to be ready and wear training clothes okay? The said clothes will be prepared by the tailor."

My tone is casual just like how I usually talk with my wives, after all, she is my daughter and she have the rights to talk with me in the same level, atleast to a certain extent. Igraine already attends the Valentine Magic Academy and as expected she became one of the top students of her year level and I would say that I am quite impressed despite her shortcomings and despite her competitors being also exceptionally talented people.

To be expected of Loki-Sama's daughter, I bet that's what people are chanting if they saw her acing her exams.

With this statement of mine, she immediately perked up and made a wide smile, she leaned her body towards me slightly and put the both of her hands in front of the desk.

"Really!? Really!?"

Where did that confident smile have gone to? Why is it only a smile of a cheeky brat is visible?

"Yeah..."

I can only awkwardly smile as I see her gleefully hop around as she is exiting my office. Seeing her being like that, I can only leave a sigh. What unfounded confidence.

Well, no calling it unfounded is kind of an exaggeration, after all, she can erase someone in existence as long as that someone is at the same or below the threshold of power as her, and as you can expect, if a child of the Devil King is to be compared to other people, most of them will automatically lose in a genetecal level. And plus, her competitors at the time that I was gone are race that are inferior than her Devil Heritage, so, naturally, no one except her mother can compete with her at that time.

Well, now, don't  get the wrong idea, It is not like I am blaming her for being weak, or not so strong despite her potential that was  imprinted on her the moment she was born. Remember that I am absent and not present when Igraine started to train more seriously and learn more than what the basics are, and her mother also is someone who have power that cannot be controlled so easily even by herself that she  sacrificed any kind of skills beside martial arts and her Bloodline magic itself.

Meaning that only people that cannot activate and polish her potential are the ones available to be her "mentor" that it was a very miraculous thing that she didn't disowned the both of us. Maybe because she understood our situation, one is sealed because of a war and one is so powerful that she have to fight in a deserted area or she'll destroy things she didn't want to destroy or she really just wants to prove herself to me that she became blind of her own shortcomings.

Either way, she is suffering so much more than her fierce and terrifying eyes can tell or how confident she acts.

Well now that I am here, there is nothing to worry about. You also don't have to worry about me not being so good at teaching, my subordinate and my child are two different matters, in short, I will be  making a blatant display of favoritism, and I am not ashamed of it.

Saying so, I made a letter addressing the commander in chief of the military and the Secretary of Intelligence to make the arrangements that I mention a while earlier to happen, note that the Military Department refers to the whole Military force, from generals, soldiers, military doctors, military cooks and etc. and "military" just refers to the warriors and generals themselves. In short the militants.

After thirty minutes or so, I finally finished the letter and said: "Ophiuchus." upon saying those words, the usual purple blur appeared and Ophiuchus who is just tying up her hair was seen in the spot in which the blur disappeared.

"You look disheveled."

I handed out the letters to her after she finally finished tying her hair. She picked the two letters up while combing her forelocks with the fingers of her other hand.

"Well, it's our anniversary."

I looked at Ophiuchus and made a little smile in front of her as I placed my chin on my palm and made my elbow rest on the table.

"So you got piped huh."

I nodded and approved to her husband in acknowledgment, he seem to be the type who can go on from night to afternoon the next day. That means his wife's always satisfied huh, more so his wife is full of stamina, that was really impressive.

"Shut it... Anyway, the clerk of your sister is in the front door of you palace, With the message from your sister 'The Queen asks the presence of the Second Prince.'"

I stared at her a little as she continued to comb her hair, this time the part that is in the ponytail is being combed, I immediately stood right up.

"Okay, I will be right there. Disperse."

She made a nod and the purple blur appeared once again, and just like that our resident shinobi is gone and I am alone in my room again. Now what should I do before going to my sister's city... No, I am actually already done for the day and there is actually another thing that I have to do but I guess it can wait for tomorrow or the other day, I am in a hurry but the "thing" I will be doing is just in this place and not really large scale and slow paced like the other two or three that I just did a little while earlier. It's not even something that should be shown to kids (wink wink, nudge nudge)

Thinking so, I immediately stood up and went out of my office and because I don't feel like walking in the streets right now, because going down the gate of my palace is a goddamn pain, I went into my verdana and spread my mana made bat wings.

I flapped it a few times before taking off, I glided in the night sky quite leisurely, after all the city of my sister is just around the corner of my city, plus I am flying so I will get there in time. And as I was thinking about that, I am already at the airspace of the palace of my sister who is waiting in the verdana, she saw me for a moment and looked at me in the eye, she didn't say anything but just went inside the palace prompting me to immediately go inside and follow after her.

What? Is the reason for my summon serious?

With a somewhat unsettled heart that is still thinking about why did my sister personally asked for my presence, I descended and landed with my two feet gently touching the floor of her Verdana, I didn't stayed put or waited for anyone to give me a signal and immediately went inside. My sister have some things to discuss and based on the atmosphere, it is quite serious and even though I cannot think of anything other than the other rulers attacking Valentine or the other powers outside of our circle  making moves against us.

But then again, it is still unlikely, because after all, except for the fact that their is technically no hero for humanity and the Archangel takes up that role so that the human race will stay as an official race and making her the sixth and the seventh Ruler at the same time, all of us  are already wide and awake.

So why will they make a move?

I am pondering about this, racking my brain that doesn't easily gets confused. Without knowing, that my worries are unfounded.

Some of the maids bowed in my presence and of course that includes the soldiers too, after a while of walking from corridors to corridors, me and my sister reached her throne room, the throne of the Vampire Princess and at the same time, the Royal throne of Valentine.

There I saw my sister sitting on her throne, she have her head sitting on the knuckles of her hands that have its elbow rested on the side of the throne while her other hand was resting on the other side while its index finger is tapping on the armrest audibly, her parasol that serves as her weapon is in the side of the armrest and her eyes are closed as her face have a complicated look.

Who knows how did she positioned herself that fast.

"Onee-sama...?"

I walked two steps as I tried to pry and make her splurge the reason of her worried look, however she didn't say anything and just stood right up, heaving a huge breathe, my sister slowly went down of her throne as the clacking sounds of her heels is getting closer, the distance between the two of us also started to dwindle until she is already in front of me.

"Lower your head..."

She waved her hand and spoke those words in order to gesture me to do so what she just said, her face is still conflicted but I already know what she will do, later on, pats of hands can be felt on top of my head, my sister, whom I didn't see smile for a while displayed a relieved one in front of me as she continued to pat my head.

"Welcome back."

She didn't say anything after that and just continued to pat my head, a warm smile appeared on my lips as I once again felt that I became the little brother after hundred of years, after all, the moment we became the rulers of this place, formalities became our norm and we feel like our brother and sister relationship became a Lord-Lady one and lost its former intimacy.

Seeing that my sister still cares about me, I can only feel happy.

"Yes, I'm back."

After all, we are siblings first, before we are Rulers.