As Laharl walked down the lane, he saw there was quite a larger number of senators compared to his Universe. As he sat in the chair in the middle of the court, he looked around at the diffrent senators who were talking amongst themselves, including Adell. He sighed as he leaned back on his chair, staring into the ceiling, thinking about this whole situation Adell told them about, back at his house the other day.
"What would we have to do?" Laharl asked, raising an eyebrow at Adell's statement. If Laharl was sure about one thing, it's that there would always be a catch to something easy.
"You're going to need the senate's permission. They have portal masters who know the location of everywhere in the known Universe. But you'll only get access if they allow it." Adell replied, causing Laharl to moan.
"Why does it always have to be the senate?!" He said with an annoyed expression on his face. Adell just closed his eyes.
"Well it's not like we got any choice in the matter. We're going to need someone who can..." Adell said, before Laharl interrupted.
"Woah woah woah, wait a minute. 'We'? Whoever said you were coming along?!" Laharl shouted, glaring at Adell. "This is between me and Baal, no one else!" As Laharl said this, Flonne and Etna gave him a short glare.
"Eh hem!" They said simultaneously.
Laharl grunted a bit before he replied. "And these two..." he said, irritated. Adell bammed the table with the palm of his hands.
"Look, if He's after Rozalin, that gives me a reason to go too. Besides, I became a senator too unless you forgot! So if you want to get an assembly together, much less get at least one person's agreement in the voting, I don't think you got much of a choice." Adell said, glaring back at Laharl. The two of them just continued looking at each other for about a minute before Laharl finally made a decision.
"Fine!" Laharl shouted in anger. "But if you get in our way, don't expect me to hold back an attack just because you're in the way!"
"Likewise." Adell replied.
"Say, where are you guys going to be for your stay?" Hanako asked, trying to change the subject before a fight broke out between Adell and Laharl. Laharl shot a nervous looked as he just thought of this.
"Uhh...well..." He started, trying to think of something. Seeing Laharl in thought, Rozalin smiled a bit as she came up with a suggestion.
"Why don't you stay with us?" She suggested. Adell and Laharl looked at her shocked at this suggestion.
"What?!" They both stammered at the same time. Adell replied seperately to add something to his statement.
"You've got to be kidding, you want them to stay with us?!"
"Ohh c'mon, it's just for a few days. Besides, you do owe it to at least Etna for helping us in the past." Rozalin replied. Adell grunted a bit as he went into thought. As much as he hated Laharl, he knew that she was right about Etna helping them in the past, but on a scale, he hated Laharl even more. "Ohh, c'mon hon." Rozalin said, leaning on his shoulders. Laharl smikred a bit as he heard that. If there was Adell didn't like being called since they were married, it's being called hon.
"Fine, but only if you stop calling me that." Adell replied, with much displeasure.
"Etna sleeps with me!" Hanako yelled quickly, raising her hand in joy.
"Then I get Flonne." Taro said quickly after.
"And Rozalin is with me, of course." Adell said, looking at Rozalin with a bit of a smile. Everyone had a place to sleep, except for Laharl who had a problem with this.
"Huh? Then where the hell am I suppose to sleep?" He asked, a bit angerily.
A few minutes later, Rozalin set the covers on the couch in their house. "There we go." Rozalin said, with a bit of a smile. Laharl just looked at it with disgust.
"There is NO way, an Overlord like me, is going to sleep on a stupid couch." Laharl said as he opened the front door. "I'm taking my chances outside." He said as he left, slamming the door behind him, causing some of the things inside the house to shake a bit.
"Rude much?" Adell said, a bit angered.
"Ah, that's how he always is." Etna said, seeing how Adell got angery.
"Does he ever change?" Adell asked, hoping a bit.
"Na, but you get used to it you barely notice." Etna said, a bit disoppointedly. As the rest laughed a bit, Adell opened the front door.
"Where are you going Adell?" Flonne asked.
"I gotta go get everything ready for the meeting; it's going to take me forever to get them to even have it." He said with a bit of a smile. "Don't worry; I should be able to get it set up by tommorow." He said as he closed the door.
"Well, I guess the rest of us should be turning in." Rozalin said, stretching her back a bit.
"Say Rozalin?" Flonne asked.
"Hmm? What is it?"
"When is the baby expected?" She asked curiously. Rozalin just chuckled a bit to herself.
"Well actually, it's expected sometime this week." She replied, causing Etna and Flonne to gasp a bit.
"Oh wow! Is it a boy or a girl?" Flonne asked a bit excitedly.
"We don't know yet, we'll just have to wait." Rozalin said as she went into her room. "Goodnight." She said, as she closed the door. Flonne started to wonder something as she kept thinking about Rozalin.
"Say Etna?" Flonne started.
"What?" Etna replied.
"How long was I asleep for?"
"Uhh..." Etna started, a bit nervous. "Oh you know, about a few days, weeks...a month... a year or two..." Etna said, rubbing the back of her head. Flonne gasped at this.
"Almost a year?!" Flonne stammered.
"Yeah...and before you ask, Laharl didn't technically wait for you for a full year, but he did sleep in there on the chair for the past year." She said with a bit of a smile, trying to cheer Flonne up. Flonne just sighed as she just slowly accepted this.
"C'mon Etna!" Hanako said a bit excitedly, pulling her arm and practically dragging her to her room.
"W-Wait..." Etna said, trying hard to just stay to on her feet keeping up.
"C'mon Flonne." Taro said, holding her hand. Flonne just giggled as they walked to Taro's room.
Back outside, as Adell looked around at the sleeping town, he stared up at the full moon he saw. He wondered to himself about all the stuff that happened, wondering what would result of it. As he looked, he heard Laharl's voice from the top of Adell's roof.
"You're worried about her, aren't you?" Laharl said, causing Adell to turn around surprised. He saw Laharl laying on his back, both his hands behind his head, looking at the sky.
"Yeah, I guess." Adell replied. "What about you?" He asked a bit curious.
"Rozalin, no. Flonne..." He didn't finish saying what his thoughts were. "Where are you going anyway?"
"To the assembly. It's going to take forever for me to even get them to agree to having the meeting, much less vote for you." Adell said as he turned around and started walking, before he stopped a few seconds later. "...Laharl?"
"What?"
"...Is Baal really after Rozalin, or her other soul? Or someone else?" Laharl just closed his eyes,
"Ahh the hell I know, I'm going to get some sleep." He said as he started snoring. Adell just continued walking.
As the sun rose, morning came. As Flonne yawned, she accidently woke up Taro as she got out of the bed Taro shared with her. She realized this as she heard him yawn.
"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you." She said, apologizing.
"No, it's ok, I was going to get up in a few minutes anyway." Taro said, rubbing his eyes. Both their noses started to sniff as they caught the scent of food coming from the kitchen.
"Smells like breakfast." Flonne said happily as she walked out the room, with Taro behind her. They saw Rozalin cooking eggs and waffles as they saw the table was already set. "It smells wonderful!" Flonne said, complementing. Rozalin just smiled.
"Thanks." She replied. As Flonne and Taro sat at the large wooden table, they heard Etna yawning as she came out of Hanako's room.
"Morning Etna, did you sleep well?"
"I slept like a charm." She said as she walked to the table. They then heard Hanako's footsteps as she walked through the door.
"Well I didn't!" She yelled a bit. "Etna made me sleep on the floor!" She said angrily, sitting near Flonne, away from Etna.
"Etna!" Flonne yelled a bit.
"Hey, she's my pupil, remember? She's gotta do what the master tells her too."
"But it's her room."
"Her stuff is mine, duh." Etna said, leaning on the chair. Flonne saw Hanako stretching a bit and yawning.
"The floor was freezing; you didn't even give me covers or a pillow to sleep on! I practically got no sleep at all!" Hanako yelled a bit, mostly because of being grumpy.
"You can sleep on my bed after breakfast Han." Rozalin said, as she brought the food over. Hanako just giggled, a little bit happy.
"Thanks."
"Say, where's Laharl?" Flonne asked, curious.
"The assembly called him early this morning, so he left."
"Oh..." Flonne said, a bit surprised. "He must really be serious about this." Flonne thought to herself.
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Back at the assembly, what felt for over an hour, Laharl was starting to lose patients as the assembly took forever. Right when he was about to shout for them to hurry up, he saw the senates ready to speak
"Ok, all votes?" A senator said. One by one, each senator said yeah and nae continuously. It was hard who to tell if it would pass or not. Finally, after much voting, and base of influence, the voting ended.
"Ok, what's the decision?" Laharl asked, a bit irritated, mostly because of the wait and never getting breakfast.
"The results have been entered. The decision is........"
