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[At the headquarters of the church]

[Saintess Rumia point of view]

This should go here, and this should go there

The red hair saintess hum as she sorted out all the paperwork that she have to complete by the end of this week, when a knock can be heard

"This is the noble from Estel that would like to meet you, O Saintess" [Servant]

"Ah thank you, you may leave,and as for you" [Saintess Rumia]

The servant quickly leave, leaving behind the nicely trim good looking, gentleman noble from Estel with the Saintess

"It's been quite a while Sir Ceanu Reaves" [Saintess Rumia]

"It is, plus, nice to see you finally all grown up" [Ceanu Reaves]

"Still on the hunt for talent I suppose?" [Saintess Rumia]

"That, as well as..." [Ceanu Reaves]

The noble discuss about what have been happening lately

"I see. So there's a possibility that the two traitors of Demon Kingdom corporate with The True Beastman Group. This is bad..." [Saintess Rumia]

"Not to mention we still haven't received any clue regarding the Achalasia Externa group" [Ceanu Reaves]

"Well, about that..." [Saintess Rumia]

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I went a little bit overboard, no, it's by a lot. Now that I have calmed down, I guess the king is being overly nice to me

(I will decide your punishment later, for now, you're under house arrest! Bring him to THAT room!) [King Estel]

This is the room that Diana and I got scolded by the king the other day, during the incident with the idiot noble son. Guess another scolding is already underway.

Khamishah has been asked by the king to be the neutral figure, as to assist the king on handling out fair judgement upon the Duchess and the church. As for the ten, let just said they're pale when they heard I will get punished.

~Knock~

"Nobody here" [Ash]

"A ghost!?" [Singa]

"Grandpa Claude?" [Savel]

"For someone under a house arrest, you sure are happy" [Diana]

The King, Diana and Qis, Khamishah, and those ten enter the room. Well, not only them, Flinar, Erinmorlin, the two guild master is also here as well

"Kid... you might want to get out first, or else you will get scolded by a certain blonde princess" [Ash]

"EHH!!!" [Other]

"I won't! Not to you guys at least!" [Diana]

"Charlotte, save me" [Ash]

"Right!" [Charlotte]

Charlotte come and hug me, and with that

"What is with that smirk! And Charlotte, move, don't do that!" [Diana]

"Don't bully her!" [Ash]

"Bully bully" [Charlotte]

"Sigh... calm down, we just come to have a talk with you" [King Estel]

"Hmm... where are Bond and the other?" [Ash]

Pretty sure I saw them as well

"They're currently planning on moving out from the orphanage, so I ask one of the estate agent to help them settle in" [Gizzere]

"They will live together? Aren't they going to..." [Ash]

"I told them... that your search for their families bore no results. They will still go to Kiserre to search for them, but Bond have decided to take live here taking care of other three" [Khamishah]

"I see... are they fine?" [Ash]

"..." [Other]

"Understood" [Ash]

A stupid question to ask, but I can't help myself to ask nonetheless. Am I too late? Can I do any better to save their families. What can I do to help them?

"Right, how about we all have a seat first, like I said, there's something I would like to talk to all of you here" [King Estel]

"The kid?" [Ash]

"Bladel, Yefefiah if you would" [Qis]

""Yes!!"" [Bladel, Yefefiah]

"NO CHARLOTTE!" [Ash]

"Brother Ash..." [Charlotte]

"Quit playing around!" [Qis]

"Charlotte, there's a fresh chocolate banana cake in the kitchen, it's mine but you could take it" [Diana]

"Bye-bye Brother Ash" [Charlotte]

I lost, to a chocolate banana cake

"Save some for Lara and Nara at least" [Ash]

""Lara and Nara??"" [Kara, Mara]

"Your new siblings. They're waiting at home" [Ash]

""Can we go and meet them now!!"" [Kara, Mara]

"Eat first and then you can go with The Valkyrie" [Diana]

""Alright!!"" [Kara, Mara]

"As you wish" [Bladel]

They sure are excited, especially Kara and Mara here, knowing that they will be another pair of twin waiting at home

And now, for the scolding...

"I won't. Mrs Saga here have knocked some sense back into you, I hope that should be enough" [King Estel]

"Right... sorry. But, to tell you the truth, I still feel like I haven't rampaged enough" [Ash]

"You don't learn a single lesson aren't you!" [Ram]

"Kidding, but what's the result? And what punishment await me?" [Ash]

"Well..." [King Estel]

1) The Duchess will be stripped from her power, but not from her rank. Therefore, she doesn't have any power to command her own army to be deployed, as well as losing her position in the castle

2) Those from the church will be exile from the country

"Eeh... if you can imprisoned them, at least I can get more information out of them!" [Ash]

"True, but knowing them, they will only create more trouble" [King Estel]

"Alaric, can't you assassinate them for me?" [Ash]

""Alaric??"" [Ram, Gizzere]

~Glare~

"Joking" [Ash]

"Pretty sure you aren't" [Khamishah]

"Sigh... guess the information we got from Kiserre should do, for now" [Ash]

"And lastly..." [King Estel]

3) Ash, house arrest for one month

"I am grateful but, what do you want in return?" [Ash]

"Ash!" [Khamishah]

"From me, nothing." [King Estel]

"Well, from you but not from her..." [Ash]

"Oh my, you do know me" [Diana]

I have a bad feeling about this

"Let see, work under me will you" [Diana]

"Rejected" [Ash]

"Listen first will you!" [Diana]

"I don't want to go out anymore! Who knew what will happen to them the next time!" [Ash]

"Just listen! Your job will only be a freelancer" [Diana]

"Huh?" [Ash]

"First, you do realize that they are more and more guard and knight that have been nice around you, aren't you?" [Diana]

"I do, and they seem indebted to you" [Ash]

"That's because I replaced them with the corrupted one, slowly replacing those knight that's constantly buying favour from other noble" [Diana]

"And?" [Ash]

"Well, there is also the fact that they are more and more younger and talented people gathering around, mainly thanks to Sir Ceanu Reaves effort to help us rebuild the kingdom from the nobles clutches" [Diana]

"Ceanu Reaves?" [Ash]

"He's the first born of the Duke house. The very same one where one of the son harassed Alice, as well as the Duchess that attack the orphanage" [Qis]

"And Flinar, Erinmorlin and Lisa are few examples of people getting recruited by him" [Gizzere]

"Really?" [Ash]

"It's true" [Erinmorlin]

"Well, I am reluctant at first, but there's an elf saying, you need to pull the weed and plant a tree both at the same time" [Flinar]

"Huh... I can guess what Diana wanted me to do from that saying" [Ash]

It's a pretty straightforward saying, you need to churn out the weed (evil) and plant a seed (good) at the same time, then only the tree will grow

"So, what exactly do you want me to do? If like usual , it mean taking care of the orphanage as well as the community around it?" [Ash]

"That and some other minor business like school etc. But, we will talk in private about that afterward" [Diana]

So basically I am one of the seeds that she planted. Could it be, that she have predicted this the moment she gave us the mansion... scary...

"I see... and if I don't accept it?" [Ash]

"Who knows?" [Diana]

"Is that a threat?" [Ash]

"Maybe?" [Diana]

"Sigh... fine. Plus, not like I can be defeated by all of you when The Saga is away" [Ash]

"As..." [Khamishah]

"Glad to have you then!" [Diana]

"Hey! I don't remember agreeing!" [Ash]

"Now then, to our next agenda!" [Diana]

"Just wait a minute!" [Ash]