It was soon late afternoon; Ian's legs have finally recovered. Standing up he walked back to the city entrance before cautiously returning to the imperial castle. Ian did not have to worry about missing work. The king was THAT unorganized when it came to the work within the castle, it was no wonder the princess wanted to take the throne. Not that she was any smarter of course

Crawling back into his room, he slumped onto the bed. Sighing he started to make plans to avoid the two little shits called the hero's sisters.

"A formation would be the simplest and most practical solution, problem is I have to set another formation over their eyes so I can become invisible to them. Also, if someone is seen talking to me said person will seem crazy in their eyes. I will have to adopt a highly unsociable persona and avoid conversation." Ian thought

Waiting until nighttime Ian prepared to sneak into the two women's rooms to place the formations. Concealing his existence Ian walked towards the hero's chambers, soon he approached Kaitlyn's door. Slowly opening the door, he glanced inside to see, nothing. The room was devoid of people. Rushing to Catharine's door he slowly opened it to peer inside to see the same scene.

Cringing, he knew only one other place they could be at this time of night, James's room. After approaching James's door Ian heard moaning inside

Blanking he was completely at a loss "Ok, I was not planning on helping their incestuous relationship bloom. The blade is going too easy on this bastard" Ian thought angrily

Still, Ian could not abandon his mission just yet. Clenching his teeth, he edged into the room, trying to approach the bed without looking. Soon however he had to look, as he could not place the formation otherwise. The pain he endured to see this scene was 100 times worse than him breaking his legs, actually he would rather break his legs than be in this room. It would be a decent excuse to avoid completing this objective

Looking at the bed he was obviously disturbed. A fuck ton of sweat, skin, sheets and blood is all he saw

"Hold the fuck up those two were virgins!? Shit seeing their personality's I thought they would be more promiscuous" Ian thought

"Wait, wait, WAIT is... is that a rubber duck?" Seeing the rubber duck being used in their "fun" Ian quickly raised his hands and backed away

After seeing so much he had already finished the formation. Thankfully he did not need direct contact, or else he would achieve a whole new level of fun which he felt HIGHLY unnessesary. Ian turning to leave the room, saw the sin blade sitting on a table in the corner of the room.

Stopping his endeavor to the exit, he walked toward it he pressing his finger onto the blade, placing an amplification formation. This was to allow the blade to corrupt James faster. After all Ian did not plan on this "lovely" family relationship to last long.

Laughing silently Ian left the lovebirds to their own devices and inevitable demise

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The next day Ian woke up and looked at his schedule, guard duty as usual what a shocker. Wearing his guard uniform Ian walked down his guard path as per usual. That is, until he witnessed something delightfully unusual. Spring Baker, the little girl whose mother he blasted to cloud 9 was working as a maid in the castle. When Ian mentioned her as "a little girl" she was actually around 14 – 16 years old. Clearly old enough to work as a maid.

The only reason why Ian noticed Spring was because of one thing. She was staring quite intently at him, to a degree that was obviously beyond normal "staring". Stopping he turned to look back at her.

"You have a problem?" He asked with his new "antisocial" persona

"N-no it's just you look similar to someone I'm looking for" she replied hurriedly

"And am I the person you're looking for?"

"M-maybe"

Ian silently stared at her

"Answer the question am I, Jackson the person you're looking for. Otherwise you are wasting my time"

"Jackson" She muttered under her breath

"Come again?"

"Ah! No, you're not who I'm looking for, sorry for wasting your time" After finishing this she ran off down the hall

"She's quite intuitive for a kid" Ian thought before continuing down his assigned guard route

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Spring continued to run down hall to the kitchen to help with the cooking. After reaching the kitchen she helped peel potatoes, apples and what not. However, her mind was in another place

"Could it be him, his stature and face are similar to what the guards outside my house described" Spring thought

She was both excited and scared, if she had found her mother's murder what would she do? But if she accused the man named Jackson of murder and he was innocent, she could potentially ruin his life. After all who wants an accused murder to work in the imperial castle

Stuck between her moral compass, Poor Spring Baker was at a loss

Ignorant to Spring Bakers dilemma, her mother's murderer continued down the halls of the castle with boredom.

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Ian was really getting tired of being Jackson, however until Spring Baker accuses someone of murder he must wait. After all, why waste an opportunity for fun? Patience is a virtue after all.

Over the next few days, James behavior became colder and colder. Both his sisters were now looking at him worriedly. Obviously, his attitude towards them had changed dramatically, the sisters were both worrying if they had done something wrong

Looking in the training yard Ian witnessed James's attitude towards his sisters "Yea, pissing me off is what you did wrong you little shits" Ian thought happily seeing the two girls despair

Walking down his guard route Ian heard some interesting news

King Kin had sent a declaration of war to the demons, in actuality he never sent the declaration, but it was a publicity thing.

War between the humans and demons was about to begin