Chapter 177 - Black Sorcery!

"How will we exactly use the Wagons to hide her? They will be full with Cargo. I'm reminding you  if you forgot!" That's the part that Confused Commander Alia the most, she is sure that Isabel can't fit in these small Wagons. She would have to crawl into a ball and would for sure have a sore neck for weeks after they get this task over with.

"They won't be until you reach Silver Kingdom! When you are there I suppose you will need to figure out how to make space for her. Or you can move at night." Although Wagons his best idea, he didn't yet think this plan deeper so at the moment he is just throwing around ideas until one seems reasonable enough to do, they need to think of this in detail before they start this journey.

Moving at night? Hmm... that doesn't sound like a good idea at all, to Commander Alia at least. "Don't you think that it would be both tiring for the unit to move at night. Apart from that it would raise a lot of suspicion." She is comfortable with the Unit's battle Arsenal, but it doesn't mean that she wants to send them knee deep into trouble.

"Screw moving in the night then I suppose." Scratching his head in stress, trying to figure out a solution to this issue. It needs to be tackled now or it can turn out to be quite a problem later on. He added a moment after. "Look. You will have two Wagons from the start. Plus King Zar will lend you a few more Wagons in Pameres Kingdom. I doubt that you will fill all the Wagons on Silver Kingdom. Manage to spare a Wagon for her, or at least a small portion of the Wagon. Considering her physique, she will get comfortable easily." At this point, it feels like this problem got terminated. They found a solution! But more trouble arose in this fine cold day, cute trouble to be exact.

This time bad for him, he tends to use his hands a lot when he is talking, he does it almost subconsciously. So when he described the "physique" part, he used his hands to describe a sand clock form. Isabel understood it's base meaning, but not enough to get what he actually meant. She thought for the worst in a flash! Due to her misunderstanding, the inevitable followed after! She lightly smacked Woldemir behind the head!

This isn't a favourable position to be in for any man. But it didn't matter, even the Guards who witnessed such a reaction were forced to hold in their laughter. They just rolled their tongues around their teeth or faced the other direction to avoid showing any form of disrespect towards the Grand Master. Some on the other hand, understood Woldemir and his patience with a root of good intend, so they didn't bother to mock.

As for how Woldemir would react to this given situation, it's simple to guess. He reacted to it kindly! He would never hit or disrespect a Woman in any way, especially for situations like this. There isn't even a bit of egoism in his heart, he would only react badly if he had a Sword his neck. He shares almost the same thought about behaviour towards acting up men. Let's say he is a bit tougher with them since the Guards for example have a big responsibility to put up with. If the Kingdom one day is under attack, the Platoon can't risk having undisciplined Jesters messing up the order.

At least Eric picked up that special characteristic perk. Until now Eric barely even looked at Commander Alia out of shyness. Which says a lot because she hugs him a lot. Having an itch about what Isabel might of misunderstood, she dashed to explain what Woldemir really meant. She explained it in her own language of course, Isabel is far from learning Woldemir's Ignite language. "No no no. He didn't mean anything like that! He described you as strong!"

Seeing that she is clearly in the wrong here, she answered with a low tone. "Oh. I guess I misunderstood." As she rubbed the back of her head in embarrassment. Afterwards, she actually touched him without an intend of smacking for the first time since he met him about 5 months ago! 

Well, she didn't know how to apologize even with a translator present. So she just grabbed Woldemir's Shoulder and nodded her head down. I guess that's her best form of an apology, but this time Woldemir was able to see her cheeks boiling with a red blush, but he wasn't exactly sure why.

He of course didn't comment upon her reaction. He got smacked when he didn't say anything bad. Imagine if he teased her! Instead, he felt his feet sinking deeper in the snow thanks to the added weight on his Shoulder. Literal added weight to his Shoulder!

But his pride for once, didn't let him flinch even for an inch even though he was ready to collapse. He really wanted to stand as a strong unbreakable figure in front of the entire unit, especially her. He just took it, the upper body exercises he worked on throughout his life helped him not fall down in the snow and face inevitable embarrassment.

As for Isabel, she didn't intend to sink the man. She just didn't know how to react. Lucky for her, Woldemir understood her perfectly after he gave it a bit more thought of what's happening here after he got the chance to worry about his Shoulder, less. She doesn't know how to properly react, not to mention giving a proper apology. Well at least, her form of an apology is more than pure. Woldemir understood her unique character.

Getting that cute situation over with, he turned his attention towards Commander Alia and made a little request. Best described, he let out a burden too. "I won't be there, but I trust you with keeping Eric under control. He tends to get angry sometimes!"

Confident about her abilities to control this teenager at least, she smirked before replying. "Oh don't worry. He would never go against what I ask him to do!"

A bit concerned about that fact but yet happy, he replied with an eyebrow raised and his head pulled back a little in shock. "I'm not quite sure how that's possible, I've been trying for 15 years. But if it works, use it! Just be careful with his feelings, the boy is sensitive."

"Don't worry. I never intend to hurt our sweet little King."

"Who are you calling sweet?" Walked in Eric with Mogranius behind too, with no intend to be rude even if his tone sounded like it.

"Let me show you what I mean." Glanced Commander Alia towards Woldemir with confidence and approached Eric like a weasel with an evil plan, pulled him in for a hug after!

All Eric could do at the moment, was remain frozen because of the hug, with his arms straight downwards, not even able to fully hug back even though he wanted too. He tends to get uncontrollably shy towards Commander Alia, no matter how many times she hugged him so far. He will always remain shy, at this point with so many men around he also felt a little embarrassed.

"Interesting Sorcery." Expressed Woldemir. "I never would have thought that this works." Afterwards he approached Commander Alia and observed how she tightened Eric around her unbreakable grip to form a hug. And joined in from the side!

As in, he joined the hug! He knew that Commander Alia is past overreacting if she got touched around the shoulders for example because of a hug from the side. She wouldn't nearly over react even if Woldemir gave a full hug to her only come to think of it. She sees him as a town hero in Lan Zhe, here too. Plus she portrays him as quite honorable, each odd is on Woldemir's favour. "I should of used this technique years ago." Joked Woldemir and with a pure intend he added. "Family feels nice." Well, that proves Commander Alia's rush of thoughts right, Woldemir has no impure intentions.

Mogranius saw no shame in joining as well, so he didn't waste a second. He joined the hug on Commander Alia's other side, he knew for sure that she felt comfortable with it. She was way too comfortable a couple of days ago, a hug feels little now but damn it is almost as effective.

Afterwards Woldemir turned his glance towards Isabel and gestured for her to join the hug as he swiftly repeated. "Please come join." His intentions here were pure as well, he sees Isabel as family. He shares quite a few memories with her even though a quarter of them are head smackings.

To everyone's surprise, the unthinkable happened! Isabel joined the hug! I repeat! Isabel joined the hug! She covered all of them with a hug and was happy to be able to touch Woldemir's shoulders even though she would never admit to that fact. Her cheeks were red but she hid it above their heads and lifted them a foot above the ground!