Free Web NovelChapter 26: Brewing Troubles (2)
A heavy air filled the meeting room of the Reinvelt Knights. The captain of the knights, Sir Dumas, sat at the head.
"What is the deal then, sir?" asked Keith. "What did the Duke say?"
"We have received orders to not perform any duties for the time being," Sir Dumas let out a heavy, long sigh as he said those words. "The Reinvelt Knights are to stand down and allow the CEF to continue any and all investigation necessary right now."
"Does that mean we don’t have to work for them either?" Leaning back in her chair, Lady Rachel placed her feet on the table. Dumas nodded, and the knights all pumped their fists. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com
At least the fucking CEF bastards were off their backs.
"But there’s no way we can stand down," Keith said again. Everyone in the room agreed with him immediately, they all agreed upon the reason too. It was at that very moment, the door to the meeting room opened again.
In stepped a girl with long black hair. Her shoulders drooped low and her eyes were tired, she looked as if her soul had left her body and now she was just a moving husk, a zombie in human skin. Even a prisoner would look happier.
"Nea..." Sir Dumas spoke up first. "You are here? You take rest today—"
"Captain," Nea spoke up. Her eyes slowly rising up. "I can’t take any rest. Not anytime soon."
She gulped, her eyes were filling up.
It was just a short romance. A fling, a summer fling. Sure, it was the first one she had ever experienced, and the two times they had met were thrilling and enjoyable, but what did she know of the guy anyway?
She didn’t know much at all.
Yet.
Nea couldn’t sit still.
Whether it was love, or a sense of loss, a kind of messiah complex, or just her duty as a knight being misplaced, misfiring.
It didn’t matter to her. She was up all night thinking it through, and she came to the same conclusion each time.
That this wouldn’t fly.
Axel... whatever he was, she couldn’t let him be taken away by that monster.
The justification didn’t matter.
"I will get that monster. That demon or whatever it is," Nea said. "I came to ask for a longer leave."
Dumas looked into Nea’s eyes then smiled.
"Actually, I am not here to ask," Nea said, her voice a little hoarse. "I am going to take the leave and get that fucking monster."
"Nea," Dumas stood up. "Your leave is granted."
"Hah..." Nea sighed. "I thought you would stop me or something, saying CEF this or that."
"Nope," the knights smiled. "Actually, we have all been grounded too," said Rachel this time.
"Huh?"
"That’s right. You heard it. We don’t have to work for the CEF, but we don’t have to work at all actually."
Dumas and Keith were grinning. They both put their IDs down on the table and stretched their hands, and the other knights stood up too.
"Where should we start looking from?"
"I think some of us should follow those CEF bastards regardless."
"It’s Nea’s boyfriend after all, how can we just sit!"
"I don’t get it...?" Nea asked, her eyes shaking.
"What’s there to understand?" Dumas asked. "We’re all taking a leave. We’ll get that monster, wreck it up, then bring your boyfriend back. Whoa, is it me, or did that line go hard?"
Keith shook his head at his bosses words.
They were all of the same opinion.
The Reinvelt Knights, out of commission, but not out of the game.
