Young Mistress of Hal Family

 Soon, Ryker and his group arrive in a room with some tables and chairs in it, no doubt the waiting room Solance mentioned.

 "Here esteemed guests. Please wait here until the young master finished his meeting with the master. In the mean time, I shall procure you some refreshment. You must be quite famished,"

 While the last part is untrue, due to them being cultivators, they did not mind having something to snack on while they wait for no doubt a very long meeting.

-x-

 It took merely 5 minutes for the first batch of snacks and drinks to arrive and 2 minutes for them to finish it all of. The servant merely looked at their empty dishes before going to get another batch.

As he was about to exit the room, he spot a figure in white slowly running towards him.

 "Rolo!" the servant knew of the presence of the other party but did not expect her to come here, to the waiting room nonetheless.

 "What it is young mistress?" he asked the young lady. The young lady looked at the most powerful servant of the Hal Family and bluntly asked,

 "When did we receive guests?" the question was answered with a genial smile by the older man.

 "Just now. Our family did owe them something," the young lady furrowed her brows at the statement.

 "Owe them? Why would we owe them?" she asked, looking at the servant questioningly. 

 "That is for you to find out from the master and second master. For now, I will do my job as the servant of the Hal Family," the man was about to leave when he heard the young mistress talking, 

 "How about I take a look at this guests of ours then?"

-x-

 Ryker was trying one of the dishes, pastries if he heard the servant right when the powerful servant entered the room with a young woman in tow.

 Ryker gave the woman a glance. Even a single glance is enough to tell him the young woman is a beauty. With her snow white hair cascading behind her back like a waterfall, her blue eyes, slightly brighter than Miriam's but no less beautiful, and a curvy figure, even though her upper part is lacking in certain asset.

 As for the young woman, she not so discretely looked at the assortment of people in the waiting room. She could see 4 women sitting next to a very handsome young man. His striking hair and eyes struck a chord in her heart, causing it beat quickly for some reason.

 Though, her impression of him did lowered slightly due to the amount of women around him, 'Is he a womanizer father warned me about?'

 For some reason, Ryker feel like his face was tarnished and could not know where the feeling come from. Nevertheless, he wait for the servant to introduce them to the newcomer.

 "Esteemed guests, this is the young mistress of the Hal Family, Shuri Hal. Young mistress, this is our guests, Mr. Ryker, Ms. Ina, Ms. Era, Ms. Miriam, and Ms. Mashia," he introduced them to one another.

 "Hello, welcome to the Hal Estate. It is surprising to see guests today due to certain reason," if Ryker had to guess, judging by the slight flinch of the servant, the reason is related to the young master who is meeting with his father at the moment.

 "Really, that is surprising. Would Ms. Shuri would like to join in while we wait for someone to finish their meeting?" he asked the white-haired young woman.

 Who, while surprised by how casual the young man treated her, did wish for a good distraction, especially when she knew her cousin likely perish during his trip outside. Alas,

 "Thank you for the invitation, but I have something I need to do," she politely declined, seeing as she would be having a lesson on dancing after this.

 "Oh, what a pity. Oh well, we co-" Ryker was cut off by the opening of the door, where a young man with white hair soon come into the room.

 "Hello Ryker, my father would like to me- Shuri!?" Solance asked in shocked, not expecting her younger cousin by 2 years to be in the same room as his saviour.

 As for the young woman herself, her mind freeze, surprised to see the cousin she thought to be dead to be very alive and in front of her. So, when she finally comprehend that what she see is unlikely to be a hallucination created by her mind, she did only one thing she could.

 "Brother!" she yelled, ramming into the older man and sending them both sprawling on the ground. Solance let out a "hurghf!" as he landed, the sudden action of her cousin both surprising and not. After all, he knew how active and sudden this cousin of his could be.

 "You're alive!" 'Oh, right. From what father told me, he thought I was dead as well after having gone missing for nearly 2 weeks,' he thought absentmindedly while patting the head of Shuri, who was still crying her heart out.

 While the two cousin have their moments, the servant decided to back off, leaving the other 5 who cannot leave the room due to the said cousin blocking their paths.

 A plea for help was sent to the old servant but he continued his exit, ignoring their unspoken cries for help, and leaving the 5 to watch the two cousins hugging.

-x-

 After a while, they separated, Shuri's eyes still a little red from crying.

 "How?" she finally ask, able to retain some of her thought now after bawling like a child.

 "I was attacked, before I was saved by the group in front of you," he pointed towards Ryker and the others. "If not for them, I would have died,"

 Shuri turned towards the 5 before without a word, leap towards them and giving them one of her largest hug.

 "Thank you, thank you, thank you, than..." as streams of gratitude escape the white-haired woman, Ryker stiffened, feeling her small but still there breast pressing against his chest.

 At the moment, he want to do nothing but pushed her away but have no desire to stop the young woman from saying her thanks to them, at least until a certain point.

 Thankfully, the flow of thanks began to dry up as the young woman released them from her tight hug. While he want to tell her not to do it again, the beaming smile make him reconsider. What he did not reconsider is the fact he want to pummel the white-haired man besides the young woman, who merely bask in their discomfort.

 "Right," Solance finally remembered, "My father wish to meet you,"