As Clad, Lylia, and Adonis made their way back to his room, they unexpectedly ran into Jill, waiting for him in front of his room door.
?
"Jill, what are you doing here?"
"I have something to tell you three, but it needs to be in private."
The three looked at each other before looking back at Jill.
"Let's go inside ."
As the four sat in Clad's dark room, Jill sighed and rubbed her face with her hand from her forehead to her mouth before starting the conversation.
"I have a meeting to attend to."
"Is it the meeting of factions?" Lylia asked her out of curiosity.
"How do you..." Jill let out, surprised by the fact that Lylia knew about this.
"Oh yea we heard from Swan about it," Clad said.
"Great, then I won't have to talk for that much."
"What do you mean?" he replied.
"I'll be the one going there this year, as a representative."
...
"..Really?" Clad said
"Yes, he said that I need to be ready for more political events as the next head of the Darkheid family."
"And I need guards."
The room was silent for a few seconds, as the three had an idea of what was coming next but let her say it on her own.
"I need you guys to be my guards for this event."
"... I knew it.." Clad said as he put his hand on his face.
A year went by, and nothing major happened, other than some wars being put on hold due to the faction meeting and Lylia deciding to stay behind in Namska because she didn't feel like being part of the event for reasons she didn't want to say. The three were preparing themselves for the meeting, clothing themselves in clothes of "higher quality" than their usual, at least, for Clad and Adonis.
Clad and Adonis were in a well-decorated room waiting for Jill to finish putting their clothes on. They were wearing black suits with each having a silver badge on it, with Adonis's suit being striped and Clad's having a more royalty-like design and a silver chain coming out of a pocket on his chest, showing each other's different artistic tastes.
"I knew women took long to get ready, but god damn it's been 40 minutes!" Adonis said as he was getting bored with waiting for her.
"Well, she is going to represent her entire family." Clad calmly replied.
"...Right."
Meanwhile, Jill sat in front of a mirror. She felt uncomfortable in the clothes she was wearing, and she felt stressed because of the upcoming event, but she knew she had to keep it together.
Sigh..
"I hope everything goes well in the meeting..." Jill said before walking out of the changing room.
"Alright, I'm done!" The woman spoke loudly as the two looked at her white, red, and gold dress with silver jewelry, and she let her white hair down, complementing her overall already beautiful appearance. The two were left speechless.
"What? Do I look stupid or something?"
"No, you look really great," Clad said while giving her a thumbs up.
"Thank you..." Jill said as she lightly blushed due to Clad's compliment.
"Now, well, let's get to this meeting, shall we?" Adonis said as he and Clad followed Jill out of the changing room to the meeting room, where many unfamiliar faces were seen.
-VOL 2 END-