Otherworld Adventure

There were decorations of all sorts and the two could see the citizens celebrating the kingdom"s founding. He even saw some curious beastkin roaming around the streets with people from the Kingdom"s Council guiding them.

Many of the people who saw the beastkin were naturally intrigued and they honestly couldn"t believe that there existed another race other than humans. There was no discrimination against them and everyone was more curious about them instead.

"Woah, Cecil, look! I-Is that an elf?!"

"Oh, well technically that is an elf, but to be more precise, that"s a halfling. An elf who interbred with a beastkin"s descendent."

"Doesn"t matter, that"s still an elf!"

"..."

"Hey, isn"t that the Coppernium"s Young Master? Is he talking to a dwarf?"

"Jeez, Matt, you seriously have to get a grip. Don"t be so surprised by them. You"re going to become the crown prince, at least show a little dignity. Just a heads up, but you might meet a dragonkin later. Don"t embarra.s.s yourself."

"Dragonkin? Ah, you mean someone like Yuna? Well, I won"t be so surprised then."

"..."

Cecil shook his head while chuckling at his brother. He then used his Mana Sense and scoured the city for his father"s presence. Once he locked onto Kaiser, he immediately grabbed Matheus and said, "Matt, we"ll be jumping over to father now. He"s in the city"s culinary district. Ah, c.r.a.p...we didn"t have you shower before coming here..."

"Tsk, that"s because you were so hasty. Now what"re we gonna do? I don"t think I should go meet with anyone important looking like this..."

"Well, your clothes are alright. At least you"re presenting yourself as someone who knows his ways around the world and not some pompous heir. One sec, I"ll go get Lucia. She"ll just use Cleanse and you"ll be all set."

Cecil didn"t wait for his brother"s reply before he used Blink to jump over to Lucia. His wife had just finished handing over Cecilia to Luca and was just about to go back to the family"s estate.

"Lulu!"

"Cel? What"s up? Weren"t we supposed to meet back at the estate? Also, I noticed that there are more beastkin here...what gives?"

"Well, after the first experimental batch. We had more beastkin come through the gate. Eli"s also here you know."

"What?! She is?!"

"Yup, I think I sensed her mana signature over with father. Father must be showing her around the city."

"Let"s go then!"

"Wait a bit. I need you to come with me and use Cleanse on Matheus."

"...I bet you rushed him and didn"t even let him shower or prepare himself..."

"Well... sort of..."

"Ah, nevermind, let"s go. We don"t want to keep him waiting."

Cecil took Lucia"s hand and the two disappeared from where they were standing. Lucia had actually forgotten about Cecilia who was now standing there at the entrance of Luca"s office not knowing what to do.

"Oh dear... it seems I was left behind..."

Luca, who was standing next to her, only shook his head in exasperation.

"Tsk, those two just left this girl to me. What the h.e.l.l..."

Seeing that Cecilia didn"t know what to do or where to go, Luca suggested that she remained at his office until someone picks her up. In any case, he had already sent someone to deal with Cecilia"s men who were currently waiting at the clearing near the mountain pa.s.s"s walls.

*****

Back on the rooftop where Cecil had left Matheus, he and Lucia immediately appeared and the girl quickly cast Cleanse on Matheus.

He felt refreshed after the spell was cast on him. It was a strange feeling, like he had just come out of a nice cold shower.

"Wow, now that was pleasant."

"Enough of that, straighten up your clothes, we"re going to jump over to them now."

"Alright, alright."

"Let"s go Cel!"

The two grabbed onto Cecil and he used Blink to jump over to his father"s present location. Kaiser was currently leading his group back to the city center. His group had already finished their tour around the city.

When the three suddenly appeared in front of Kaiser"s group, he was startled for a moment before seeing that it was only his son.

"Cecil, you"re back. I see that you"ve brought Matheus back with you as well."

"Yeah, it took us a while to find them...however he"s not the only one I brought back. Matty has a lover now," Cecil playfully said.

"Shut it, Cecil. You can embarra.s.s me anytime you want but not right now please."

"Sure, sure~"

Cecil then turned his attention to the dragonkin girl who was standing not far behind from Kaiser.

"Yo, Eli, what"s up?"

"Oh my, is this really how you greet an old friend, Leader?"

"Heh," Cecil smirked when he heard that old t.i.tle of his. He stepped forward and was about to shake her hand but suddenly he was pushed away.

"Eli, how are you?!" Lucia happily exclaimed as she pulled her friend into a hug.

"L-Lulu? Haha, I didn"t see you earlier! I"m doing great! What about you?" Elizabeth replied.

"Ugh...you didn"t have to do that, Lulu," Cecil quipped up while rubbing his side.

His wife had forcefully pushed him away just so that she would be the first one to hug her best friend.

"Sorry, but she"s my best friend so I get first dibs~"

"..."

Everyone else that saw the exchange was rather surprised. They didn"t think that Cecil would be closely acquainted with the Anglaria Kingdom"s representative. They all heard that she was a princess from the beastkin kingdom so they didn"t expect Cecil to be so close with her. What more, his wife, Lucia, seemed to share a very close relationship with the young woman.

There was also another thing everyone picked up, Elizabeth had just called Cecil "leader" earlier, many were naturally interested by what she meant by that. She was the princess of a kingdom so how could Cecil be her "leader" or superior?

The ones most astonished by this were naturally the people from Elizabeth"s group. The next Sword Saintess of their kingdom had actually called someone her leader. Back in the kingdom, she was known to be quite the adamant young lady and wouldn"t even yield to her brother and her father.

After Lucia and Elizabeth got a good look at each other, they both agreed to arrange a more private meeting later once the latter had some free time later.

"Well, it sure is strange to find out that our Leader was actually the prince of a human kingdom," Elizabeth said after she turned her attention back to Cecil.

"Yeah, who knew, right?" A rough voice said from behind Elizabeth.

When Cecil turned to look behind the girl, he finally noticed the large silhouette that was standing behind her.

"Holy s.h.i.t! Ainz, is that you?!"

"Wahahaha! It sure is bud, how ya doing Cecil? Or should I call you Leader like before?"

"Oof, you know that you guys never called me that so much. If I recall correctly, you guys mostly called me demon or something."

"Oh, you even remembered that?"

"I keep grudges you know, no matter how small," Cecil replied with a smirk.

"Hahaha!" Ainz stepped forward and b.u.mped fists with Cecil.

The dragonkin was much different from back then. He had grown so huge in the time they had not seen each other. Ainz was towering over him in height and the young man was even a head taller than his father, Kaiser.

It was quite shocking because back then, after Cecil had experience his growth spurt, the two were rather similar in height, but now? Ainz had left Cecil behind in the dust.

"...Honestly, I can"t see you as a mage anymore, Ainz...you look more like a warrior or knight..."

"Haha, I think we should catch up later. Eli and I still have some business with your father," Ainz said.

"Sure, we"ll see you later then. Hey, dad, you can bring them over to the estate later after you"re done with your business!"

"Alright. Well, we should hurry things up on our end. Your mother is already harping on about starting your homecoming banquet. So this is quite nice since even your friends from afar are present to attend it."

"I guess it"s time I go and face Serilla"s mom... alright, I"ll see you guys later," Cecil said before he jumped into the air and disappeared in a flash.

"...and there he goes. Coming and going as he pleases..." Elizabeth said as he eyed the spot in the air where Cecil was before disappearing.

"Well, at least we know that some things haven"t changed!" Ainz quipped up joyfully.

"Eli, Ainz, I"ll get going too alright? Honestly, I didn"t expect to see you here Ainz...though it"d be better if you didn"t come..."

"Hey! I heard that!"

"Pfft, glad to know that some things haven"t changed, right?"

"Hmph, like how you"re still a brat despite being married?!"

"Hah, says Eli"s manslave~"

"W-why you!"

"I"ll be going now, see ya! Bye-bye Eli!" Lucia said before she opened up a Misty Gate and hopped through it.

"..."

"...d.a.m.n, Cecil influenced that girl way too much. She"s now copying him!" Ainz said in exasperation.

"Ainz, you do know that even if you two fought, she"d still win 11 times out of 10, right?"

"..."

"Haha, it"s so good to see those two again. It"s been 4 years or so, right?"

"Yeah, 4 or 5 I think. But shouldn"t we have told him about that?"

"...We"ll talk about it with him later. For now, let"s finish our business with his father and their kingdom."

"Okay."

After Cecil and Lucia left, Kaiser continued leading the group towards the city center. He was naturally curious about the relationship Elizabeth had with his son and daughter-in-law so he asked about it.

When he got the answer, he felt quite proud. His son was actually the top ranking student in the Anglaria Kingdom"s Magic Academy, even though he still hadn"t graduated because technically, he had just left the kingdom without any prior information and was thus listed as an academy dropout.

The party that he had created, the Little Kings, was well renowned in the Anglaria Kingdom and the current leader, Elizabeth Arks, had always kept mentioning about the party"s true leader and founder, Cecil Silvaria.

The group of people that had accompanied Elizabeth, there were some that was a part of the Little Kings, so when they saw the young man from earlier who didn"t seem too remarkable other than the fact that he was quite good looking, they were a little bit peeved because they didn"t want to acknowledge the fact that a mere human was the one who had created the strongest party in all of Anglaria Kingdom.

They couldn"t be sure whether the founder was actually stronger than the current leader. If they had anything to say then it would be the fact that during Cecil"s time, the party wasn"t as well-known as they were now.

You couldn"t argue much if you were just comparing accomplishments since Elizabeth had been leading the party much longer than Cecil had. She also expanded the party to the point where there were 50 people in it, every one of these party members were certified experts that Elizabeth and the original kings had put to the test.

They were rather pensive at the moment but knowing that they"d be meeting Cecil later, they"d be able to ascertain whether or not the human was actually worth their respect.