Might kingdom

What she will do right now... I'm more concerned if I can't sleep this day than anything. My back hurt a lot. Then I feel her hand on my back.

Arhi : *Pushing my backbone from the neck to the bottom. "Hold on a second. I'll check your bone."

Hmmm... She tried to message me, I guess. Well, at least I can relax a bit.

Arhi : *Placing hand below my neck. "Ok follow what I said, deep breath." then I do what she said. "Then, release slowly." then I release it. *She pushes my backbone after my last breath came out.

Grel : *Crack "Uuhff..." That actually feels good.

Arhi : *Playing hand more way to the bottom. "Now do it again." then I do the same thing as before.

Grel : *Crack. What is this feeling? it's felt, the hurt is just gone. *Blessed expression.

Then she is doing a message to my back.

Grel : This is good... I never thought... She's... good.

She keeps messaging after a moment.

Arhi : "Seems like his sleeping right now." looking at my face. Then smiled.

Time skipped. It's already night. It's completely dark because the lamp hasn't turned on yet.

Grel : "Hmmm... where am I?" Then I remembered we were actually in might kingdom. "Hmmm, someone touching my stomach." Then I tried to look back. Oh, it's Arhi , with a drooling mouth, and weirdly smiling. I don't know what she's dreaming but dude, I'm getting concerned at this point. Hah... I shouldn't sleep with her as expected. Then I wake up from the bed, stretching my back and my hand. And turned on the lamp.

Grel : "Hufft... It feels good." *Moving my body part to the right and left. "I never felt like this before. I never know she can do a good message like this." Then I felt hungry, we haven't eaten yet after arriving here. I should wake her up and find some food. *Looking back at her drooling face.

Grel : "Hoy..." *Pinching her cheek. "Wake up." She actually wakes up pretty fast.

Arhi : *Slowly opening her eyes. "Huuh... What?"

Grel : "You not hungry?" She is looking at me for a moment. then wake up, nodding to me.

Time skipped on the street. We walk together toward some of the tavern nearby. We are walking in and there's the sound of *Clingcling. It's the same bell used inside our rented inn before. Inside, there are many people around eating. We went to the shopkeeper to order some food.

Shopkeeper: "Ah welcome, what do you want to order?" *Looking at me after cleaning the dishes. "Ow, isn't the young prince from bulwark kingdom? and young queen from the rose kingdom? what an honor to meet you again." He gives us a tooth smile while holding a glass and wiping it.

Grel : "Yeah, can I have this one." While pointing to the menu on the table. "And a big portion of rise please."

Shopkeeper: "Sure, any drink?"

Grel : "I'll have a glass of water please."

Shopkeeper: "Sure. What about the young queen."

Arhi : "I'll have this one please."

Shopkeeper: "We already run out of the ingredients young queen."

Arhi : "What? Then this one please."

Shopkeeper: "We don't have that one as well young queen, please come back in the morning."

Arhi : "What?! Then what should I order here?!" We both laughed.

Shopkeeper: "Ahahaha..." *His mouth is wide open while laughing. Then a girl came from the right side. She's looking kind of old.

*A girl: "Hey stop it!" *Pinching his right ear. "She's a young queen, it's the different guest."

Shopkeeper: "Ayayayay... Sorry - sorry, It's just a joke..." Then she stopped pinching. "Ayyy..." He is holding his right ear.

*A girl: "I'm really sorry for my husband's attitude." She bows to her. "It's because he likes to make fun of the guest. I didn't know the young queen was here before. Right? Young prince?" She suddenly looked at me. Of course, I quickly turn my head to the left and pretend I didn't laugh.

Grel : "Yes... right..." I don't know what she means, I'll just say yes. She's scary.

Rosa: "Ahh that's fine Mrs. I didn't mad because of it really."

Shopkeeper lady: "Ah please call me Melin young queen, I cannot be called like that." She actually blushes after getting called Mrs.

Arhi : "No I can't" While they are both talking, I and her wife looked at them both. "$%&*$%&*$%&*"

Me and shopkeeper mind: "This will never end."

Time skipped. We both finally have a sit on an empty seat on the second floor. I see Arhi face very happy at some point, and she also hums.

Grel : "Did you have fun here?" Then she reacted very fast.

Arhi : "Yes! Mrs. Melin is really humble." *Then she looks at the roof, kind of imagining something. "I don't know but I can talk with her forever." Her expression is really happy.

So, this is what most men said when they get married, there will be another problem.

Grel : "How about Mr. Kim?" Then suddenly her expression changed. Not happy.

Arhi : "... So that's Mr. Kim... No."

She's saying it with a pouting mouth. Then Mrs. Melin came to our seat bringing our order to our table.

Melin: "Here's the order, please let me know if you need something else." She smiles at us.

Arhi : "Thank you, mam." Her expression was back again to a full smile.

Grel : "Thank you." I smile at her and help her arrange the dishes on our table.

Melin: "No problem, please enjoy your meal." Then she is going downstairs leaving us.

After a moment, we start to eat.

Grel : "You know the reason I bring you here?"

Arhi : *While chewing. "It's delicious?"

Grel : "Well if we talk about the price and food quality then this place is the best."

Arhi : "It's actually delicious, I don't know what liquid they put it in here, but I'll go there again for sure."

Huh? Liquid? Did she ever try to cook before?

Grel : "Ummm... Actually, there's another reason." Then I explained it start when I was a kid, in the middle of studying in my kingdom. Inside the class, there is a lot of shield user, but also there's some non-shield user. The reason why the kingdom was named Bulwark, Arhi , and Might is the majority of the users themselves. The teacher explains how our body and power work, and how God chooses us and blesses us the power. I was enthusiastic and write every important thing on my note. The power we have always depends on our family as our biological father and mother. At first, I didn't think about it too much, until one day, after I graduated from middle school, and tried to go to the academic school, where all the young people from three kingdoms can gather here to have to spar, for our experience on the fight. And that time I was the only shield user from the Bulwark family attending here to sparring. I'm about to change dresses after finishing sparring, and three men are talking, and I heard their conversation.

Men one: "Do you see young lady Fasmel ?"

Men two: "Yea, She's so cool with their claymore." *Note: Claymore is the same as a heavy sword. "I have never seen might kingdom using Claymore before."

Men three: "It's actually from her father you know, but he never shows it in public about it."

Men one: "Yea, I feel very lucky to be born in might family." *While showing his sword.

Men three: "Yea glad we didn't come from the Bulwark family. Like what's it's used? The history of war itself never mentions how great the Bulwark family is, except their only final power."

Men two: "Yea, it's sucks. I don't even want to train if I was born into a bulwark family."

Then three of them laughed. Not knowing there's a Bulwark family behind him. It's crushing my energy and soul. Also, that's the first time I found the reason people from the Bulwark family, as shield users rarely spar here. Why I'm protecting people I don't like? Why I'm protecting people I don't even know? Why... I'd become a shield user...

Since that time, I've still sparring. Everyone around has improved in speed, and power they have. People who train their masculinity become more powerful. People who train their weapon skills become faster. However, their power can be boosted with the weapon they had. And the only improvement I have is defense. People around there talk about how proud they are. People will always look at who is the most powerful person as their hero who will save their kingdom and family. And act like the shield user was never exist.

The short story, I came to this tavern for the first time and tried to order some food. Mr. Kim looks into my eyes and he says I look like nothing but a weak shield user. At first, it gives me more sadness in my soul, but then Mr. Kim landed his hand on my shoulder and invited me to be sparring with him and promise me he can teach me how to use my shield like a hero. And he gives me a toothy smile.

*Going back to the main scene.

Grel : "And from that day, I got a reason and understand how to fight and protect people."

Arhi : "Hmmm... Who is Mr. Kim? Can he even fight? isn't he a shopkeeper here?"

Grel : *I'm giving small laugh to her. "You will be surprised who is he, so I'll just not say it anyways."

And it leaves Arhi with confusion and curiosity about Mr. Kim.

Arhi : "People will only see the current situation they saw, and that's normal you know." *She gives a serious expression. "And I can tell you straight away, not all the people like that. And about the shield user, how about the other army in your kingdom?"

Grel : "My father said while I'm still at the mansion when he asks me to spar and train there too." Then flashback to the dinner scene.

~Elric : "You should go to the Might Kingdom and spar with Fasmel later." The scene changed right in front of my father's mouth. "I know you've been through many things. I'm also a shield user, and part of me is also a human. You will understand it later." He gives a proud smile.~

Grel : "That's what he said to me."

Arhi : "Hmmm → ↑..." with a flat expression.

Grel : "You want to join the sparring?"

Arhi : "Hmmm → I'll pass. I'll just watch from the above arena because this is actually your spar event with Fasmel and your father asked for it. And also, I personally don't like the arena space in here you know."

She's right, the design of Might arena for sparring is set up for their power and speed. It looks all the same as the other 3 arenas from each kingdom. The arena is designed with a circle shape. There's a circle where the player fights below, and a tall wall surrounding the circle. And the top of the wall, people can sit and watch the player fighting. But in the player circle space in the might kingdom arena, it's way smaller than the other 3 kingdoms. It's had a hard time for bow users to sparring here. They design it because the majority of the users from the might kingdom is the sword user. But it still looks very big.

Time skipped to the inn. Arhi is already sleeping and I'm just going back from the bathroom after washing myself from sweat because I'm doing a push-up workout like usual.

Grel : *Wiping my face with a towel. "Did I just sleep with her again?" Maybe this is a good opportunity for me this week. *Then I snapped back to a reality check. "Right, this is just the beginning." While looking outside the windows beside the bed.

I open up the window and try to relax looking at the night city with streetlights. I'm already 21, and 10 years left of war prediction will occur again. My father already experienced war twice before. He said it's really nothing fun about it, that's why he keeps training my muscle after I hit 18 years old. Then after a moment, I decided to close the windows and take sleep since it was already late at night.