Chapter 50 - 『What A Day』

Since he had already given the Heaven's Feather to Fluder, Jack left the gathering of the awards to the rest of Foresight while he headed back to the manor.

With his beloved Arche in his arms, Jack transversed through the city streets of Arwintar. Her knees draped over his right arm and his left arm supporting her back and head. He smiled watching her sleep.

He chose to walk, because teleportation wasn't as time consuming, and the moment they were home it was unlikely they'd be alone. Not that they were alone now. Aura and Mare were both walking on either side of him, using magic to remain unseen by those around them.

The familiar sounds echoed in her ears. She flexed her eyelids as she curled up a bit in his arms. Her hands grasping at his chest. "Mmm..." Letting out a soft groan without opening her mouth, Arche didn't wake up at all. It was likely the sounds were making her head hurt, or were simply disturbing her dreams.

Jack simply remained smiling as if he were watching a baby toss and turn, before coming to a stop. Over his shoulder he could sense someone watching. A shady fella in a hood and leather outfit.

He was pretty sure he was some sort of goon. He had been following them for a while now, he and the twins had already noticed him for some time.

"He's still there..." Jack muttered quietly to himself, before looking to the sky above them.

"Who do you think he is, Jack-oniisama?" Aura she glared over her shoulder towards the man who seemed to be stalking the supreme being. "He should know his place."

Mare didn't say much at all, but his eyes were tracing over the stranger as he had one hand pinching onto Jack's pant leg. Being separated didn't feel like a good idea, spite the fact that both of the elves could use their powers to escape or return to Nazarick.

With his passive character appraisal at work, he was quickly able to figure out that the person who had been following them, was indeed somehow related to the Furt family crisis.

The money lender who had been collecting money in order to pay off the evergrowing debt.

"Aura, hold onto your big brother, would you?" Jack made a simple comment playfully, though that was just covering up for the disappointment of his walk being cut relatively short.

Vanishing from sight, Jack teleported from where he was once visible.

The man who was watching, was stunned at this, the sudden disappearance of the Girl who was paying off her parent's debt up until yesterday was gone. "What the hell…?" Stepping out into the street, he looked around, and saw no one. Even as he looked towards the roof tops, there was no one.

"The bitch left her parents… She better still be paying or we'll find her and take her sisters as compensation..." The man grumbled, "And a piece of her heaven too," snorting at the idea of getting his hands on the young lass he went to turn and walk back into the alley.

Jack resurfaced in the foyer of the home, glancing towards the closed door of the front. A slight frown across his lips as danger still lurked in the city after eliminating the fools who had taken up residence in this house.

Now there were the loan sharks he had to deal with. Not that it was really a problem, the only thing he couldn't do was wipe out everyone in the city.

While it was something he had the power to do, it wasn't recommended. He already destroyed one City, just because they were targeting a single man and killed countless villagers in the Re-Estize Kingdom alone to draw him out into the open. Then proceeded to kill at least four more before he arrived in Carne.

Jack through the Knight and the leader of the Sunlit Scripture, also found that the nation committed genocide against other species. He didn't like the idea of it, though he also wasn't looking too far into the big picture either, or really caring.

If the nation hadn't been bringing down the higher species, humanity would have returned to extinction. Though he was also rather curious of why they didn't focus on destroying the Exclave if that was the case.

There was plenty of Beastmen living in there, burning it would be easy, wouldn't it? Especially with the Black Scripture who could've wiped the floor with them. At least that is what he assumed.

Or could it be that the Platinum Dragon Lord was stopping that as well? Was there a balance he had yet to see here despite all the information he had accumulated from people?

Jack would let out a quiet sigh as he would begin to leave the foyer, making his way into the halls. He could hear the giggling upstairs as the girls were all playing together.

Following behind him was Aura and Mare, having dropped their invisibility for the time being since there was no real threat. No one was around or conscious they didn't want seeing them.

So as Jack entered the uninhabited room which was his, he walked over to the bed and rested her on the soft sheets which had been freshly cleaned. As he looked around, it seemed that the servants were doing their jobs.

Jack couldn't help but smile at this before going over to the door and closing it, locking it with a fifth tier magic ward that kept anyone he didn't want in the room, out.

His eyes then shifted to the twins who were wandering around the room. Looking it over.

It was clear that Aura was a bit disappointed as she folded her hands behind her head and looked over him. "You have a better bedroom at home," Aura giggled a bit as she made the observation outloud.

"And I can just teleport back there whenever I want to and sleep there," Jack responded with a sly tone, walking over and ruffling her head.

Mare smiled seeing the attention his sister was getting before looking towards Arche who rolled over on the bed. He tilted his head to the side slightly and walked over to the edge of the bed. Peering at her.

The height of the bed was about at Mare's neck, making it so that everything at eye vision, was laying flat on the bed. So his eyes were going straight up her legs.

His face immediately turned a light red the moment he realized where he was looking and turned away on his heel.

"Mare?" Aura blinked and looked over at her brother curiously, "Are you okay?" She asked with that gleeful smile of hers across her lips, marching on over to her pushover of a brother.

Mare glanced over and nodded, "Y-yes sis… I'm fine," he'd smile assuringly at his older twin sister before looking to Jack. His face was becoming a bit redder than before.

"Oh?" Jack's eyes took into calculation the height of the bed, Mare's position and Arche's position on the bed. A dull look appeared across his face, before he just shrugged it off.

It was hard to get mad at Mare, it was unlikely the little guy glanced on purpose. That and despite the fact the little man was seventy six years old, it was hard to perceive him as anything but a child.

Now thinking back, it was probably the same way with half-elf from the Slain Theocracy.

This made him sigh slightly as he remembered he still had the head in his item box. He was going to resurrect her eventually, he knew that. He had a perfect use for her too, as the Elves considered heterochromia to be a trait exclusively of Royalty.

The twins and the young woman, it put all the cards he needed to take care over the Kingdom. The question was though, when would be a good time with that Dragon flying about.

He wasn't going to drop what he was doing just to fight a dragon. Not unless one thing lead to another, perhaps that was the true reason behind not wanting to go to the Slane Theocracy in order to covertly steal whatever artifacts may be left behind.

Even though he was pretty sure he and Demiurge were able to take most if not all of the useful items.

"You guys can head back now, before anyone sees. I'll let you know the next time I leave the manor," Jack informed them as he placed a hand on their heads, messing with their hair, something that helped him think a bit.

"Are you sure you want us to leave?" Aura looked up at him as she could see the look on his face. It was a look of contemplation, deep thought.

Jack only smiled at them, "If you're here when she wakes up, It's going to be hard to explain."

"Pfff... No it's not," Aura quipped with a witty tone, a chuckle and wave of dismissal.

"S-sis..." Mare hesitantly rested a hand on his sister's shoulder. "Lets give Jack some alone time and come back later."