Chapter 46: First Impression

Perseus POV

"You 2 aren't talking and flirting with each other as much as I thought." Ruka commented

"Duh, not in public, he's 15, if I can wait all this time flirting only at home for 3 years isn't that bad." Leilah replied

I hate physical contact and this woman really loves to mess with my private space by usually hogging my arm all day. At least wait till I sleep where I no longer care as much. But I'll excuse her since she said it's been really long since she have physical contact other in dreams, so she's abusing that excuse till the limit.

Though one thing for sure, after picking up the black rose, there is this weird fricking black rose tattoo on my arm...my moms are going to kill me if they see it. 'It's that girl, she's the bad influence.' is going to be their most likely response. In the culture of the people up there, killing and hunting at a young age is fine, but tattoos are not their thing.

Below the black rose just looks like a weird scribble, let me pose real quick for the paragraph comment. Leilah said it represents the movement of souls.

Eriksen or whatever this main kingdom is called is pretty much the same as Zoris except for the fact that every type of food and drinks are served hot or warm. There is snow everywhere, it's really hard to see everything since we actually came at a bad time.

We then went into a small family diner for an early today, we ordered a lot of food since Leilah, like me, is also a glutton. But as we were waiting for the food...

"Wait...I recognize you." A voice said as he intrude in our vip room(which we paid extra for) when the waiter left it not completely shut.

"You're the blue rose guardian, right?." I turned to see a guy with 2 more knights in white plating armor accompanying him.

He's a pale guy about 2-3 years older than me, 174cm tall, he got light gray hair and bright orange eyes. he wears this formal suit that has a crest of the head of this gold and white snow owl.

I recognize the snow owl crest, it's from the church of the winter god.. based on his looks and the respect he's given plus the security he has, I think I recognize this guy from the adoption ceremony all those years back, I heard the rumors surrounding this guy to be able to become the next pope and live to rise into a saint status.

"Who are you again?"

"I'm Terrence Eriksen." he introduced himself and turned to Ruka "A pleasure to meet you, milady. And you too, the lord of the blue rose."

"Should I call you by 'your holiness'?"

"I'm still just a regular fighter bishop, I haven't reached a title that deserving yet."

"So, your grace? Or your highness since you're adopted by the royal family?"

"I would rather you treat me as an equal, our rank are about the same, Perseus Silver, why are you here? Shouldn't you be at Zoris helping with the rebuilding efforts at Zoris? I've heard you participated in a fight with the previous demon lord."

"I contributed 10% at best so I don't see why I should be proud, he no longer has his full power, it's not like he was going to last, he prepared to die anyway, I basically did nothing since he's gonna die either way."

"I've heard you also saved the lives more than a hundred people."

"Stop trying to make me look like a good guy here, so what do ya want?"

"Just the honor of greeting a future powerful figure." he chuckled "Does your group need me to arrange escorts and give you a tour?"

"No need." Ruka answered "We're just here to explore things on our own since it's more fun that way, we plan to stay about only a week more, we'll explore just a bit before we go back, we'll come here another day to fully explore it, this is nothing but a short trip."

"I see, well, I apologize for my disturbance, enjoy your meal, I'll pay for it as a welcome gift, so please take your time and you can leave without worry." he then left the room and I overheard him telling the waiter that he'll pay for our meals no matter how much we order.

"Weird guy, too positive and nice for his own good."

"Positivity and optimism is always weird to you." Ruka commented

"Well we might have to pull the heist tonight, it won't be long till nobles know that we're here, it'll look suspicious that we leave right after we steal from the Marquis, because it is already known that Sheela didn't honor her promise and the karma was getting attacked by a person who was after her life. We'll pull it off tonight and leave at the same time."

"Well I'm here now." Leilah chimed in "It'll be easier with my powers too."

"Sure, worst case scenario, we'll be locked up and it's not like it'll be my first time attempting a jailbreak."

"Your life sure is interesting, you know. I remember the first time I've met you."

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*Flashback*

Leilah usually scour the other world to find her future lord, the one who will inherit the power of the strongest rose, and she would attach herself into someone's dreams. Usually ones who are on the edge of death, or those who meet it a lot of time.

Old, young, sick, physically healthy...everyone goes through tough times, and she would spend time getting to know them and judge them whether they were worthy.

But one day she stumbled upon him, a boy wearing scrubs. He just ignored her entirely and imagined a scenery. it was a green hill with a tree atop of it, he just laid down in the shade and imagined the scenery causing a small breeze to cool him down while he closed his eyes and relaxed.