Chapter 8- Let the celebrations begin

The moon was already in the sky and along with it stars were already beginning to shine in the sky of the country, the group has already made their way towards the hotel where they will sleep of course none of them were tired but they just left their bags there and continued towards Vlad's mansion.

The city streets were decorated for the event, and the six magicians who made their way to the destination managed to lose concentration when each, in turn, wanted to buy something at the stalls set up for the event, luckily for Rean the streets were crowded with people and he was not identified by them and managed to buy gifts for his friends and another special gift for Asuna.

Bill who noticed the gift that Rean put in his pocket began to tease him, "mmm, little Romeo found the love of his life", he smirked at Rean but this time he wasn't about to let people tease him, "yes I did, and no one will take that away from me," Rean's words came from the bottom of his heart and everyone who heard them believed him because that's who he is.

After some time, the gang reached Vlad's mansion.

"God, this place is huge", This sentence came out of everyone's mouths at the same time while they felt the level of differences between them and the nobility, although some of them lived in the capital they were never allowed to enter the area where the houses of nobility were located, the six magicians showed the certificate given to them from Terry that permitted them to enter the place.

Inside the mansion, the head of the servants was waiting for them and asked them to follow him, as they made their way together with the head of the servants they noticed that the preparations for the wedding continued, and the servants and maids were cleaning and decorations.

When the head of the servants stopped in front of a large fancy door, he turned to them and asked them to come in and that his master was waiting for their arrival, the six entered the room where Vlad was sitting, his meeting room was decorated in gold and with a window that looked out onto a private courtyard.

"Welcome friends and thank you for agreeing to come here", Vlad spread his hand and fingers to express kindness he suddenly stopped when he saw Rean and immediately recognized him as the new hero of the country's inhabitants, "You are, this student it is a great honor to meet you" Vlad surprised everyone they didn't expect him to act like that, and Rean who was speechless just smiled while he put his hand on his head.

He and his chief of security began to explain to them about the security points of where they would be placed, "Listen to me nothing my name is Dan and I am the head of security here so if you see anything suspicious let me know immediately", Dan was a very intimidating man, he was an army veteran who loved the military haircut and left it even after he left and became the new chief of security here, all of them kept asking about everything they needed to know and after a while,

Vlad invited his servants into the room who brought food to his room for everyone and while Bill spoke with Vlad's chief of security Dan together they divided the six into couples as soon as they got to Rean everyone looked towards the window while some stood between Vlad and the window, out of nowhere someone landed in the yard and from the smoke Rean could see a blond man whose eyes were red like blood before he could attack that person, he was stopped in his place by Bill.

"Rean wait, he is one of us, even though his entrance was inappropriate, he is the seventh group member that Terry told us about him his name is Arthur", as Arthur entered the room through the window whispers began in the room everyone knew the warrior of the port city everyone except Rean who needed Mary's help to get to know him.

Arthur looked in every direction in the room to see his teammates and on the way ignored Dan's lecture about not being allowed to break into the mansion like this.

The one who broke the confusion in the room was Bill.

"Impressive entrance Arthur, but you don't think it's not the place and time to make such an entrance?", Bill who noticed that Arthur looked at him with a piercing look in an attempt to identify him With an embarrassed look, Bill introduced himself as the leader of the team.

But the person with the blond hair only cared about one person in the room and he walked towards him while again ignoring the rest of the people in the room, he went to Rean and looked at him with a facial expression that said more than a hundred words.

"You and I against each other let's see who's stronger", These are the thoughts that went through Rean's head while he looked into the eyes of Arthur who smiled as a sign of understanding, and Dan who got tired of Arthur's behavior decided to grab Arthur's shoulder and turn him around to turn to him, "When I'm talking to you answer me I don't care who you are and how your father is", Dan was boiling with anger.

And Arthur also decided to pay attention to him, "And who are you?", He made Dan go crazy the veins in his head swelled and he would have exploded on him if the rest hadn't calmed him down, "Come on man do you have a reason to act like that", Paul said while holding Dan who tried to murder Arthur.

"Yeah what's the deal with it and how did you even get here so quickly from the capital", Mary joined the questions while she also tried to prevent murder, The commotion in the room continued and the room was filled with curses towards Dan and Arthur, of course, that the commotion was between the two of them and the rest just watched speechlessly, the two continued to quarrel until Vlad got tired of it.

"It's enough for you two mature people, I expect more from you", Dan was surprised by the fact that his boss showed this level of anger for the first time since he began working under him, he realized that maybe he exaggerated a bit with his reaction and decided to leave Arthur and continue the briefing as usual maybe Arthur won't admit it but he was also a bit afraid of the surprising anger that Vlad showed he never saw a noble man with such a frightening look.

The blond just like Dan also decided to relax and pleasantly stop the conversation between them, he turned to Mary, "Just so you know that getting to this city from the air is faster than arriving in a carriage", Arthur smiled while the others began to take a drop of sweat off their heads.

Rean didn't take his eyes off Arthur something he was different he wasn't like noblemen from the capital, he didn't care what people think of him, and out of nowhere the two once again locked their eyes with each other, but this time it felt like they were both in the room alone and Rean felt he had to fight it and to beat the opponent who is in front of him needless to say that Arthur also felt it deep inside him, he finally found a worthy opponent who could make him reach the limits of his power.

The duo who so much wanted to fight each other would have to wait for Dan who continued the division of roles to the wedding, from where he was stopped, after a few minutes each observation post and security on the estate was filled up by the security guards recruited by Vlad and Dan, and by the magicians recruited by the guild.

The seven magicians who were divided into teams of two eventually had to decide who would be the magician to team up with Dan and it would have been better if it wasn't Arthur, So after a short thought, Rean was chosen to be the one who would be together with Dan while they walked around the crowd looking for any suspicious thing, the rest of the teams were: Mary and Amy, Paul and Sam, and the last team were Arthur and Bill.

The seven came out of Vlad's office they made their way through the mansion as Dan led the way while explaining to them how much they thought about studying the structure of the place to the core, You could feel the sadness in the air and the group knew it would take at least a whole day to study the mansion and memorizing it will take at least another half a day at best luckily Dan notices it, and he decided to let them go out of their way and told them to come back tomorrow.

When they got out of there and made their way back to the hotel this time with Arthur a fancy carriage whose windows were open passed by them.

"Great", Sam opened his mouth, "it's looked like more people with a stick in the ass came here", The rest just nodded their heads in silent agreement without noticing Paul who had a sagging face from the moment he saw the person sitting inside the carriage he was immersed in his thoughts while biting his lower lip.

At least two hours have passed since they left Vlad's house and the team decided to spend some time at the fair that was set up in the city for the wedding, It took each of the gang some time, but they noticed Paul's strange behavior and Bill as the leader of the group wanted to talk to him about it in the room, but if the fact that in Paul's room there was also Sam and Rean who will sleep there, he decided to let them both take care of the new problem that arose out of confidence in his teammates as their leader.

Inside the hotel already the lights went out in all the rooms except in one room where Paul and Sam were, Paul was sitting on his bed with no intention of falling asleep any time soon and his lower lip was already starting to bleed from the fact that he bit her too much.

Sam may have been a genius when it came to nature but in small talk, he was pretty shaky and embarrassed if they weren't related to the topics he likes he wouldn't be able to communicate, he has mired in a problem, on the one hand, his teammate was in a strange and stressed mood but on the other hand, he did not know what to say, after much deliberation, he decided to stay on his bed and wait for Rean to come back from the shower.

The silence in the room was nerve-wracking it felt to Sam as if time had stopped on purpose, he occasionally raised his head towards Paul who stayed in the same position he was before, he wanted, Sam wanted to say something to calm him down but he was stuck he didn't know what to say but he started trying, he closed his eyes and gathered courage, he opened his mouth.

"Pu-", He stopped at his words when he heard the door open and saw Rean enter with a towel in his hands that he used to dry his head Sam would never say it but when Rean entered the room his soul jumped with happiness, and if the two had looked at him, they would have seen the man with his face full of relief and joy.

Insecurity is not a word found in the lexicon of the 18-year-old when he entered the room, he made his way towards Paul's bed and knelt in front of him.

"You feel good?", Paul just raised his head in the direction of the boy with the dark blue hair, "What exactly did you see in that carriage that made you change your mood so quickly? you know whoever was there?."

Paul took a deep breath and began to tell the two about his past.

"It all started 14 years ago when I was 19 years old and the eldest child of the ancient Wolf family...", Their eyes opened like a shutter when they heard this famous name, and Sam, who until now had been moderate and quiet, jumped out of bed to Paul.

"What the hell are you talking about this Wolf family, how does it even make sense?, I heard that their eldest son died...", Sam came out of his madness at the hands of Rean, "Breathe a moment I'm pretty sure he was going to explain about the situation".

"But Rean", Sam was as thirsty for an answer as a man looking for water in the desert, when the atmosphere in the room calmed down Paul continued his story.

"Anyway as I said I am the eldest son of the Wolf family as well as Sam as you see I am alive, my death was forged by my family and other nobles' families as part of a conspiracy to oust me as the heir to one of the largest families and the oldest that served under the king directly."

In contrast to Rin Sam's anti-climatic response, he was blown away by most of the information he had just absorbed.

"God, what's going on here, are you serious, why they would do such a thing." he continued with his words while Rean and Paul just hoped that no one would hear him it took him a while to calm down when he realized he would get answers like this, as soon as he stopped talking the first thing he heard was the sigh of relief from his roommates.

At the same time that Paul decided to answer Sam, Rin was in conversation with himself.

"The five families that make up the crown", he murmured to himself, "I remember the old man once explained to me about them, on the crown of the king and queen consisting of five diamonds symbolizing the five families that helped the first king establish the kingdom and thus gained prestigious status under the king forever, The Wolf family is one of them but about 14 years ago their eldest son died in a mysterious cause and the story was quickly covered by all five families and by the royal family."

The boy began to be filled with rage when he remembered the story and began to perceive what had happened there, but he stopped when he heard Paul calls his name, "Rean, as I told Sam all my life changed on this day at the Academy when I saved a student who was in my class from a monster who suddenly attacked, my right hand was torn out of place and in its place they attached an artificial hand to me," Paul rolled up his sleeve and showed his friends the connection of his hand as tears began to run from his eyes.

"This hand disrupted the flow of mana in my body and I couldn't use magic like I used to, and overnight I began to be an object of ridicule among all the big families, rumors began to spread throughout the houses of the nobility and the king together with the other five heads of the houses decided that I was incompetent to inherit my father and unfortunately my family took it a step further and expelled me into exile, they were so ashamed of me"

Paul went back to biting his lip when suddenly the two grabbed his shoulders he raised his head and looked at them, it was Sam who opened his mouth.

"You are an amazing person and these incompetent people had no idea what they missed they did not deserve recognition and you should and you have to trust us more, right we met a few days ago but we will not leave you behind to deal with these things alone."

Rean shook his head in agreement, Paul felt as if a rock had come down from his heart and got up towards the window.

"Anyway my parents", he said in quotes, "there were not in the carriage but my ex-sister Natasha was".

Rean, who was already well versed in the subject of nobility and saw that Sam did not understand why only she came, turned to him, "It is not surprising that only she came at these kinds of parties parents always send their child to strengthen relationships with other nobles and who will find a match for themselves with good families," Rean looked at Paul and continued in a somewhat sad tone.

And consider the situation of your family and Natasha is the one who will inherit your father in a few years, so it is quite understandable that she came here alone."

Surprised by Rean's extensive information, Paul wanted to answer his words but was interrupted by Sam.

"Rean, I'm pretty sure no one will want to marry this woman and certainly not with this terrible family", He joined his hand and began to blush when he realized that the two were looking at him with a wondering look.

The duo began to laugh at this reaction of the beloved nature lover and only after a few minutes of confusion on his part he joined them, the two days before the wedding passed quickly, and here came the special day when everyone hoped it would also be calm, the evening arrived and the whole estate was lit up The decorations and fireworks were big and beautiful, after all, Vanessa is the only daughter of the excited Vlad.

The guests had already arrived and entered only after a serious security check when everyone had already entered, Vlad welcomed them.

"Welcome everyone, I don't have an impressive speech I only have one thing to say Let the celebrations begin".