"May I know why you are here, young lady?" As you recall, Ogon no Ou's clansman is called the rabbits. So indeed , who was talking now is one of the rabbit.
"I'm here to talk to Ogon no Ou-sama. Daikaku Kokujoji-sama." The small girl in front of the rabbit stated monotonously. Her face is deep red, maybe because the awkwardness the situation is to the girl.
"May you elaborate your excuse more? I can't just let you met the king that easily, young lady." The rabbit replied calmly.
"... I'm here to be the vassal, no, the clansman of Adolf K. Weismann-sama, Shirogane no ou-sama. I at least need to confirm and ask for the possibility to Ogon no Ou-sama , from the information I got." She said, with trembling monotone voice.
"Very well, I'll tell the king now. I can't assure you one hundredth percent. The result all based on the King's answer."
"That's very well understandable." The small girl nod, and unexpectedly bowed deeply to the rabbit. " I thank you for all your kindness of your pure heart to helped me this far. I'm honored."
The rabbit smiled awkwardly, shocked enough to be speechless by the attitude the little girl made. He utterly nodded and rushed to inform the Gold King.
The answer from the gold king made the girl sighed in relief. She smiled for the first time, and nodded as the rabbit offered to escort her to the King's room.
"Come in." A deep voice answered as the door was knocked.
The rabbit opened the door gracefully and closed it right after the girl has fully inside the room.
"So, as my clansman told me, you want to become the clansman of the Shirogane no Ou, Adolf K. Weismann?" The old man stated, asking for confirmation.
"Yes, your highness. I, Natha Mizune, inwardly ask for the honor to serve Shirogane no Ou-sama, Adolf K. Weismann-sama." She said in complete politeness.
"I see... well, tell me what you can do."
Well, that caught her off guard.
"A-Ah.. I.. I can cook... and I'm a fast learner.. We-well, I'm ready for any job the King will asked me to do. I vowed to myself to do it even if my life in the line." She stuttered nervously, her stoic face changed directly to blushing beet root state.
"Well, well... Not bad.. Considering Weismann have quitely said that he needed a babysitter..." Daikaku said , breathing deeply. " Now, the thing to do is waiting for his confirmation. I can't assure you for his answer, Natha Mizune-kun."
"Y-yes." She replies awkwardly.
Daikaku smiled and called the Shirogane no Ou right away. Natha nervously waited just to have Daikaku's smile and a nodded. As if she receive the signal, she smiled in return , as Daikaku told her to follow him to the landing space for Himmelreich.
The Himmelreich's door gracefully opened wide, as if welcoming Daikaku and the candid-want-to-be-clansman a little steps behind.
Daikaku lead Natha to Weismann's room, and to be there only to get warm welcoming signature smile for the immortal king.
"Lieutenant, long time no meet! How are you? Your hair now is getting light colored~ Oh, oh, is this small girl beside you , is the candid you told me on the phone? How old is she? And-" Adolf's babbling wont end if only not for the old Lieutenant's words of the wise.
"Weismann, despite your age , your attitude still conquered with teenager. I'm fine , thank you, if you didn't recognize what did my message for yesterday told you about my health. And yes, this girl beside me wants to be your clansman, even though I don't understand her perspective for wanting to be your clansman , as you're just an fool, Weismann."
Adolf just chuckled in dismay, and took a sight on the young girl. "So, what's your name? Introduce yourself is much better than let myself guessing on your profile."
"A-Ah.. Yes, with the honor for you, Shirogane no Ou-sama." The girl stuttered in awkwardness. "I'm called Natha Mizune, I'm 15 in the age. My birthday is on 25 December, and my horoscope is Capricorn. My blood type is A."
"I see.. you really a no-nonsense type aren't you." Adolf chuckled in amusement. "So, yes, I accept her to be my clansman then, Lieutenant. I'll test her my self if it is needed."
"Hm... how is his state now, Doctor?"
"Ah.. Mizune-sama.. I apologize, but his state is not yet better than last time. But his internal organs didn't have a serious damage. It's a relieving fact to us, we hope this means a good thing , Mizune-sama." The young doctor stated with a smile to the short young lady in front of him.
"Hn. That's good. I hope you keep on working." Natha said to the doctor and leaves.
"So.. how was it?"
Natha stopped as she heard that voice. "Lia.." She whispered, and turned to face the speaker. " He's not really in the state I could call as 'fine' though. But his internal organ is safe, for now." She said , still in her monotone voice.
"I see, that isn't a bad news, Yuki Onna." Lia chuckled as she pressed on Natha's nick name when she's in her work costume.
"Stop calling me like that, Oujo-san." Natha snickered in annoyance, still kept on her stoic mask and turned to another way and walked.
"Ups.. don't be such a grumpy , Natha~" Lia stated childishly. "Wait for me. I want to met the blue clan as well."
"Don't be such a butt-head, Lia. You're annoying." Natha stated.
"Bad Natha, your mouth isn't polite, especially to your best friend here~" Lia snickered and grinned.
"..."
"Geez.. Your attitude is just very .. stoic now.. If you're in a different outfit, your outcome is different, geez."
"Lia, shut it before it kills you."
"Right.."
"Shut up."
"Natha~ your first job is to cook for me!" Adolf chimed childishly, provoking the girl with his smiles.
"Sure, right away, my King." Natha said, and with that she dashed to the kitchen.
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A good 2 hour has past, now Adolf K. Weismann is very hungry, until the grumbling voice from his stomach was loud enough to be heard.
"Natha-chan, how many hours left before it's ready?" Adolf whines , holding his stomach in the scene.
"Almost ready.. Don't enter the dinner room first, sire!" The squeaky small sweet voice was heard, just to make Adolf smiled and chuckled in the process.
Before long, a knock was heard much to Adolf's relief.
"It's ready." The small clumsy girl whispered, but enough to make the immortal King heard what she said.
Adolf smiled and walked with the girl to the Dinner room only to gaped widely there.
Adolf wanders around the table, amused to see the dishes performed beautifully and gracefully there. All the dishes shows their delicacy and it's really mouth-watering.
"Wow.. you really are a good chef, Natha-chan!" Adolf complimented in amused tone.
"... Thank you.."
"Excuse us.. are you all awake yet?" Natha greeted while knocking on the Scepter 4's hospital room, hoping for an answer from behind the door.
"Yes we are. Please come in." A light baritone voice answer.
Without further complications , Natha and Lia went in the room politely.
"Munakata Reisi-sama, Ao no Ou. How are you feelings?" Natha asked politely.
"Very well better." Reisi said calmly.
"Uh.. Natha?" A soft whispered from the rabbit girl caught Natha's attention. "Yes Lia?" She answered with the samesoft whisper. "Um.. The Scepter 4's members are making me uneasy.." Lia conquered, making Natha to took notice to her surroundings.
Oh, yes. All the Scepter 4's clansman are standing shifty , as if they are meant to attacked the two girls as they got the signal.
Munakata Reisi also taken a notice and gestured his man and Awashima to stopped.
"I'm sorry for the discomfort." Natha bows in apology.
"No, it was me to apologies to you, Natha Mizune, the President of Cryteia Project, the allies and controller for the Weismann power user. Your nickname is... Yuki Onna, Shirogane Hime and Niji no Usagi." Reisi stated completely distinguished Natha's identity.
"Yes, Munakata Reisi, the 4th King a.k.a Ao no Ou-sama, the leader for Scepter 4." Natha sated calmly and sighed. "It looks like nothing to worry with you and your clansman. Only the boy named Fushimi Saruhiko. It seems he's not in a good state. He's bringing too much stress for his body liking."
"And how is Fushimi now, Natha Mizune?" Awashima asked in demanding tone with her composed gesture.
"With his condition, he's preferred to have his own room beside your room. He's sleeping soundlessly now, the medics told me, he'll be fine if he rest for a few days."
"Thank you for the information, Natha-san." Reisi softly said to Natha, and the girl replied with a nod, and she gestured for allowance to leave.
Reisi nodded and the two girls left speechlessly.
"Natha-chan, it's time for me to train you~" Adolf chimed while poking the girl on the cheek making the girl flinch within his touches.
"Very well, my King. What should I do to pleased you?"
"Ah.. As stoic as you can always be, eh? Now, please jump for a hundredth times!" Adolf said and smiled.
"Eh?... That's too embarrassing.." Natha mumbled.
"No it's not! Just jump, oh, and pushed your legs to the ground hard, okay?"
Even though her face looked very annoyed, the small girl did it anyways.
With the sky-window of the Himmelreich opened, the girl jumped as high as 40 feets, making her to scream in fear as the gravity pulls her down.
Adolf welcoming hand greeted her body, in result , the girl was being carried bridal style way by the immortal king. The girl blushes and jumped down gracefully, nodded in thankful way to the king.
"Good job! Now jump another ninety nine times!" The King chimed with his signature smile.
The scene only make him recieve a terror look from his only clansman.
"You are kidding me..."
"Where will we go now, Natha?" Lia asked in cheerful way.
"To the two clansman of Weismann-sama's room." Natha replied almost in no-emotion way.
"Owh.. I see.." Lia conquered and smiled, taking steps cheerfully , trying to catch up with her partner who is 10 steps farther than her.
Not for long , the two has reached the lift, and both of them walk inside in no time. Natha pressed on the 4th floor button, and the lift closed immediately and goes up to the 4th level.
As the lift doors opened, the two ladies went out and take a quick steps to the destination. Natha stopped as the room was in front of her, and she knocked softly on the metallic surface. "Excuse us, are you awake?"
"Yes, please come in." A gentle voice replied.
Natha opened the door softly before she remember something. She jolted in surprise and immediately looked at Lia, with the look that said 'I-need-to-go-now-please-do-it-for-me' before dashed out until she's no where to be seen.
Lia just sighed in annoyance and entered the room awkwardly.
"Well... Hello.. My name is Lia Usagine and I'm the first Queen in the Cryteia Project , and I.." With that her voice trailed of as her face blushed red .
"I'm Yatogami Kuroh,the co-, no, the clansman of the first king, Adolf K. Weismann. And the girl who is still sleeping here is Neko." The black haired samurai said politely and smiled. "If I may know, where were we? And what time is this?"
"Oh, well we are in the Hospital at Tokyo, and the time now is-"
Criet...
Lia's replied soft squeaking sound of the opening door, revealing Natha with a big luxurious and delicious looking cake on her hand. Lia quickly opened the rest for Natha to get in, and Natha nodded in thankful way to Lia and putted the cake on the table beside Kuroh.
"It's 5 January.. on 8 pm.. uh.. Happy birthday?" Natha stated softly , her face is as red as a just cooked lobster.
Kuroh stunned and look at the cake in surprising way, then smiled gracefully. "Thank you, Natha-chan. Long time we didn't met, yet you still remember my birthday." He replied gently and patted Natha's head softly, earning her blushes more.
And who left is Lia who is stunned by the scene in front of her. "Wait.. you both know each other?"
"Is Isana Yashiro is awake yet?" A black haired girl with poker face and a modern mini kimono said to the doctor in charge in the hospital room she was in.
"Yes, Olivia (Orivira)-sama. Isana Yashiro is awaken now." The doctor said and the let the girl go further to the room, to find a certain fool-faced white haired teenager who lied weakly on his hospital bed.
"... Yo, Shiro." Kurona, the girl stated monotonously.
"Yo!" Shiro replied rather cheerfully. "How is it?"
"How is it? What do you mean?" Kurona replied , clearly confused.
"How is your kind doing?" Shiro said it again, with a longer sentence.
"Don't say that I'm a human, Shiro. Because I'm not one, and never be. I don't want to anyway. I don't want to be the same as the creature who throw us away." Kurona flinched in annoyance. " And for your information, the mankind is still as usual. If you meant by my kinds is Natha-tan, Lia, Shiro , and the others, well, I guess the answer is no different. We're just in our normal state."
Shiro chuckled as he heard Kurona's first reply in dismay , and smiled in comforting way as he heard the second reply.
"That's great to hear. So where are they?"
" Natha-tan and Lia is checking on others, Shiro stayed at the mansion for safety." Kurona answered.
"I see... Oh, and how is Kuroh and Neko? They are alright right?"
To be continued...
