Chapter 18. Pfft

Pfft

Cough cough cough

Angel and Samuel coughed and spat out the food they were eating. “What did you say?”

“Mommy, daddy, I want to go to Naturelle.” Arthur repeated.

“But, why son, why not Lumiere? It’s so much closer.” Samuel asked. Lumiere was in their own country whereas it’d take a month of traveling to get to Naturelle across the continent.

“I want to learn more about my eyes, Shellys got good eyes, the Pope has good eyes, mommy, daddy you both have good eyes, I want good eyes.” Arthur began to ramble on about eyes.

“But you can learn about your eyes at Lumiere, you don’t need to go to Naturelle for it.” Samuel replied. Both Lumiere and Naturelle had departments for Exotics with teachers capable of teaching anything about their physical and mental energy.

“But Naturelle has all the eye people, I wanna make sure I have good eyes.”

Arthur’s childish yet stubborn response left the two flabbergasted. What could they say? He wanted to go to Naturelle, and it is indeed better in terms of mental energy and understanding the human eyes.

“No.” Angel stepped in.

“But mom!—”

“No. We’re not going to be talking about Lumiere or Naturelle right now, enrollment isn’t for 3 more months I’ll give you a month to think hard about it and if you still want to go to Naturelle, I’ll think about it.” Angel stated bluntly. Her reply left no room for discussion Arthur could only lean over to Boss and whisper. “Can’t you do something?”

“What do you want me to do?” Boss replied with a mouthful of food.

“I don’t know, something, use your powers to convince them.” Arthur continued to whisper.

Samuel and Angel could only shake their head at Arthur’s attempt. As Exotics. enhanced perception is a given for someone of their caliber. Everything Arthur whispered was clearly heard by the two.

“You know, they can hear you right?” Boss pointed his fork at the father, mother duo looking over at them. Boss’ comment made Arthur yelp in surprised as he slowly crept his head to glance at his parents nodding their head to Boss’ statement.

“I was uh, just kidding mommy and daddy I knew you two could hear me the whole time.” Arthur tried to laugh it off. The expression on his parents were unamused as the delicious dinner they had, became an awkward silent one.

Arthur downed the entire plate of food he had down in a few bites and raced off to his room excusing himself from the awkward silence he caused. Once Arthur and Barkie was gone Samuel was the first to break the silence. “Ahaha, you’re not going to actually do anything to us, right?” Samuel glanced at Boss who was chewing his food.

“Maybe.” Boss replied. His response caused Samuel to freeze in place for a short moment before getting elbowed by Angel for asking such a ridiculous question.

“Ahaha.” Samuel tried to laugh it off as the dinner became awkward once more. The same as Arthur Samuel ate the entirety of his plate and ran out of the door leaving Boss, Angel, Shelly, Michael and Julie left.

“I’m not kidding, I might try to convince you two.” Boss broke the silence as he ate, this caused Angel to furrow her brows and contemplate on whether she should find a way to get rid of Boss.

“Why?”

“The Pope”

“Fuck the Pope.”

Angel’s profanity towards the Pope made Michael and Julie spit out their food. Shock could be seen in their eyes as they’ve never heard someone say such words before.

“What do you mean?” Shelly asked. Since she was unconscious, she didn’t know what happened between the two and Angel’s responses wouldn’t get them anywhere.

“The Pope asked me to be a bodyguard for these two.” Boss pointed at the Michael and Julie who were wiping away the food on their face. He continued “And I agreed as long as you and Arthur go too.”

“I’m still confused. Why does you guarding Michael and Julie, have to do with Arthur and Shelly here?” Angel asked.

“Cause I’m going where Arthur and Shelly is going, and I agreed to take M and J to the Tillowisk Empire, so it has to be Naturelle.” Boss explained.

His explanation left much to be desired because Angel knew if she didn’t allow them to go Boss would just take them there.

Angel could only furrow her brow and contemplate on what to do. By the time dinner was over and the plates were being carried away by a maid of theirs, no one had spoken.

“You’re going to keep them safe right?” Angel asked.

“Mm, they won’t die.” Boss replied.

Hi response enraged Angel as she recalled what happened to Arthur and Shelly less than a week ago. Without a single sound or notice an enormous icicle flew straight at Boss impaling him to the wall behind.

“Boss!” Shelly gasped at what just occurred.

“I’ll go talk to my husband about it.” Angel abruptly left the room after impaling Boss leaving Shelly shocked as she rushed towards Boss.

“Gah, that woman she’s like ice and fire. Now this one has a freaking hole too. Oh well~ at least it’s better than plummeting from the sky.” Boss calm reply made Shelly jump away from him. A single tap on the icicle and with a flick of his sleeve Boss gracefully landed on the ground leaving only a hole in the wall from where the icicle went through.

Even after seeing it again Michael and Julie were still as shocked as the first after seeing Boss show no wounds on his body.

“Are you God?” Michael absentmindedly asked before covering his own mouth. This had to be a miracle for a child to survive two fatal attacks from Angel.

“Ahaha, no I am not.” Boss laughed as he tidied himself. He continued “I’m an immortal.”

Everyone’s jaw was dropped on the floor at Boss’ comment.

“You can’t die?” Shelly asked. She was interested in hearing about this.

“Well, it’s not that I can’t die, it’s just going to be really, really, really hard to kill me.” Boss emphasized, he continued “I’m the King of the Universe, ya know.”

“Riiiiight” Shelly rolled her eyes before walking out of the room.

“I am, I am, I am!” Boss threw a childish tantrum.

“I am the King of the Universe, right Michael?” Boss sniffed as he asked Michael.

“Uh, sure”

“You don’t believe me?”

“We believe you.” Michael stated as he pulled Julie and ran away, escaping into their own room leaving Boss alone at the dinner table.

…

The door to Samuel’s office opened up as Benjamin walked in. “Are they done eating?” Samuel asked Benjamin, he was too shy to walk out the door.

“Yeah” Benjamin replied before handing an envelope over to Samuel.

“What’s this?”

“Urgent report from Zeldova,”

Samuel gave a serious expression as he tore open the envelope and began reading the content within. His brows furrowed as it as his face became graver. After finishing the report, he handed it back to Benjamin.

“Sir?”

“We’ll do nothing.”

“Alright.”

Benjamin lit the report on fire and left the room. Samuel sat there in silence as he thought about what he just read.

“King Baroque, you’re going too far.” He muttered before shaking his head and exiting the room.

Samuel went straight to sleep before Angel could arrive to discuss the issue with Boss. Knowing her husband only sleeps early when something is troubling his mind, she decided to talk about it the next day.

Meanwhile, Boss barged straight into Arthur’s room after being left stranded at the dinner table.

“Boss!” Arthur exclaimed upon Boss’ entry.

“Why’re you here? Don’t tell me you convinced my parents to go to Naturelle?” Arthur asked.

“Uh no.” Boss didn’t want to say everyone left him at the dinner table, so he decided to find some company.

“Oh, then why are you here?” Arthur said dejectedly. A sour expression could be seen on his face.

“Can’t come by and see if you’re doing okay? You’ve been asleep for four days ya know.”

“I’m fine.” Arthur replied not willing to talk to Boss tonight.

“Now, don’t be like that, tomorrow, I’ll convince Angel and Samuel to allow for you to go to Naturelle. In fact, you, me, Shelly and the other two will go too!” Boss tried to convince Arthur.

“You mean it?”

“Yeah!”

“Cool! I’ll go pack up right now, here help me out.” Arthur replied as he started tossing articles of clothes from his closet at Boss.

The snowman made of clothes shook loose as everything fell around him, “Hm? These aren’t the normal Galafray clothes, why’re you bringing these?”

“Enemy country, duh stupid. C’mon Boss we’re allies of Zeldova and they are from the Empire, if I walk around with our normal clothes everyone would target us.” Arthur continued to toss clothes at Boss.

“I’m not stupid. You are.” Boss grumbled out of Arthur’s range of hearing as he started folding the clothes thrown at him making a neater pile beside him.

Evening turned into night with Arthur and Boss packing up clothes along with other things Arthur wanted to bring. Once Boss and Arthur finished packing Arthur’s stuff, they went over to Shelly’s room to let her know about what Boss was going to do.

However, she didn’t let them enter. So, Arthur could only whisper to her next to the door about Boss’ plan to convince Angel and Samuel. After saying goodbye, they left to their respective room. Shelly didn’t let them in as she was already packing up, and there are things boys shouldn’t see or touch in a girl’s room.

Morning came and went as the kids decided to head out to Town and explore the entirety before they had to go. They managed to finish visiting the remaining places they haven’t been to by lunch.

Once it was lunchtime Arthur began to nudge at Boss telling him to hurry up and convince his parents. However, before Boss could even say anything to threaten Samuel, the man of the house stood up and locked eye contact with Arthur.

“Son, you said yesterday you wanted to go to Naturelle, yes?” Samuel asked with a serious expression.

“Yes, daddy” Arthur politely answered, the serious look his father was giving out scared him a little.

“Will you work hard, and try your best?”

“Yes, I will.” Arthur nodded his head.

“Alright, you’re going to Naturelle.” Samuel’s agreement shocked Angel as she didn’t even get a chance to talk about it with him yet.

“Thank you, daddy! Wait, what about Shelly and Boss?”

“They’re going too”

“Yay, thank you~”

The lunch ended in a shocking fashion as Samuel gave Arthur consent to head to the Tillowisk Empire and enroll in the school of Naturelle.

“Thank you, Boss!” Arthur exclaimed after they entered Arthur’s room.

“Ahaha, don’t mention it.” Boss scratched his head embarrassingly. He didn’t even do anything yet.

“How’d you do it? When did you talk to my dad? Did you sneak into his room?” Arthur barraged Boss with question.

“Ahaha, it’s a secret.” Boss continued to not explain. Shelly could only inwardly shake her head at this as she was there when Boss convinced Angel. She assumed Angel talked to Samuel after what Boss had said and decided to agree.

After everyone was gone from the table Angel looked at her husband. “What made you change your mind?” She asked.

Sigh

“It’s nothing serious, I just changed my mind that’s all.” Samuel replied.

“You just changed your mind and didn’t even talk to me about it?” The temperature within the room started to cool down as frost began to cover his entire body.

“You’re going to tell me, because I didn’t punish you yet for going out with Benjamin and enjoying lunch while our son was still unconscious.” Angel’s words immediately scared Samuel shitless. Crap did Benjamin squeal on me?

“Uh.”

Wham!

Samuel flew into the side of the wall.

“Wrong answer.”