I'm back! I intend to pay up my debt... These babies had been sleeping and waiting for so long to be uploaded but bcz of my laziness, I kept procrastinating. New chapter!

Our lovely cold but sweet mother- I mean, Brother! Our cold but sweet and caring brother! Grisia's icy brother as well second mother, the mom of the cold, cruel-hearted faction- Ice Knight!

Ecilan Ice! Give a round of applause for this sweet iced rolls! Clap! Clap! Clap!

Yum~

Chapter 10...?: Sweet Feeling.

His steps are elegant and quiet. Like a feather, threading carefully down the hall like he's not actually touching the ground. His blue robe made graceful swishing motion as he moved.

Grisia furrowed his brows stressfully as he stared at his notes.

Strawberry : 4 silver ducats (seasonings and advices)

Roland: 1 silver and 4 copper ducats (Teacher Neo's fault)

Deatheo: 23 silver ducats and 7 copper ducats (Is he stupid? Or he didn't intend to pay up?)

Lesus: 5 copper ducats (black tea)

Grisia sighed and flipped to another page, his headache.

Neo Sun: 10 Gold ducats.

Grisia paused and smiled bitterly. Neo had accidentally damaged one of the expensive marble pillar in the temple and Pope had asked Grisia to collect the debt. How on earth Grisia supposed to ask?

Neo refuse to pay would be a light outcome. But what if he decides to not let Grisia go? Regret would be too late by then.

"It must've been because I learnt the advanced water spell too fast. So what if I only needed one look while he took three entire months to master it? Tsk, Envy is such a terrible atribute," Grisia mumbled in complain and store the note back.

Just as the blonde beauty looked down to store the note, a light haired boy suddenly emmerged from a turn, seemingly in a hurry.

"Ah!" The light haired boy exclaimed as he quickly skidded back. His exclamation also jolted Grisia in surprise, making him took a step back.

Azure-sky eyes met icy-blue ones, in a second, both boys nursed back their expressions. Solemn and detached, Grisia stared blankly. Cold and aloof, the other boy also returned the stare.

Grisia observed this young kid, about his age, and a bit taller than he is. But quickly, Grisia's gaze is focused to the tray in the boy's hand, a full cheesecake emitting a very sweet scent prompting Grisia to drop his Pope facade. "Hello there," Grisia smiled slightly, firstly, greet the owner.

The other boy's lips twitched a bit in an attempt to smile back, but for a split milisecond, he seemed to be against it and kept his lips in a thin straight line. "It's a blueberry cheesecake," he answered shortly.

"Woah, that looks delicious," Grisia praised and smoothly get himself a slice, "Can I try?"

The boy blinked, "That's..." He wanted to stop Grisia and Grisia paused.

What? I can't have it? Well, too late! It's mine now! Grisia showed a loss expression, "I can't? But, I already took a slice, it's a waste and not a good manner to put it back... So, I'll just take it- Goodbye!" A slice of cheesecake in hands, Grisia made a dash out of the Church's neutral ground, back to the Sanctuary of Light, his home turf.

"Wait-! That's too..." Ecilan Ice held up his hands but the blonde beauty already took off, with a slice of stolen cheesecake. "That's too sweet," Ecialn finished vainly.

Ecilan furrowed his brows in concern as he looked down on the remaining cheesecake in his hands. This is a failed attempt of a cheesecake, Ecilan had accidentally poured too much sugar in it. If you bite on it, you can only taste sugary sugar taste. Even girls wouldn't like it. But because Ecilan hates to waste the most, he'll finish this cheesecake with liters of waters later. He never expect one-sixth of it would be stolen.

Ecilan blinked back to the direction where that beautiful person just gone to, and winced. 'She wouldn't like it.'

"Why are you back here?" Pope demanded as his beloved but annoying student skidded into his office and slamme the door gracefully. "Have you asked the Sun Knight for his debt yet?"

"No," Grisia answered blandly and took a saucer from a nearby display cabinet and cleaned it with basic water spell, before putting the cheesecake in his hands on it.

"What is that?" Pope put down his feather-pen to squint at the item Grisia brought back.

"Blueberry cheesecake," slightly muffled answer sounded whilst Grisia is busy licking his fingers and searching for a fork.

"Cheesecake? Where from?" As he's talking Pope is already before the cheesecake, though not as fanatic as his student, Pope also likes sweets.

"Some boy my age, maybe a cook apprentice?" Grisia found his fork and turned around, "Teacher! What are you doing, that is mine!" Grisia cried out.

"Blegh!" Pope stuck out his tongue and looked at the cheesecake in offense, "Apprentice indeed, if a cook baked this bad, I would fired them a long time ago! Too sweet! Are they mistaking sugar for flour? What a waste of ingridients and money!" Pope complained indignantly as he hurried to gulp down his chamomile tea to wash down the itching sweetness.

"It's perfect!" On the other hand, when Grisia tried it, he immadiately had a blissful expression on. "We should recruit this guy!" Grisia took more bites and sighed dreamily.

"Little beauty, your taste is really heavy," Pope mocked and rolled his eyes at his student's unique tastebud.

"Little kid wouldn't understand," Grisia ridiculed back and Pope's eyes twitched.

"You're twelve, on what basis you called me 'kid' hm?" Pope sneered coldly.

"Your cute baby face," Grisia stuck out his tongue.

"I see you've been spending a lot of times with that bastard Sun, huh?" Pope hissed.

"Not as much as you," Grisia shrugged.

"Damn that Sun! How dare he corrupted my kid!" Pope cursed as he scrambled off to deduct Neo's salary.

"Lan, what took you so long?" Eller asked his student coldly and Ecilan hastily dropped his slight smile, before his smile could be seen

"I'm sorry, teacher," Ecilan apologized and putted down a tray of cookies on the table.

"Yes, teacher," Ecilan nodded sullenly a he putted down the failed cheesecake on the very far corner of the table. Seeing the cheesecake, Ecilan almost smiled again, recalling that golden haired beauty that almost run into him earlier. Yes, that's the reason Ecilan slipped and smiled just now. He wonders what kind of face that beauty made upon tasting the very sweet cheesecake.

Ecilan grimaced slighly. Perhaps... That beauty would hate him for giving her such a disaster. "Teacher," Turning around, Ecilan called out.

"What?" Eller raised his eyes to expressionlessly stared at Ecilan in askance.

"Which kind of departement that has robe with a hood as the uniform?" Ecilan asked earnestly, he should make something and apologize to that girl.

"Robe? Hood?" Eller blinked.

"Yes, it's a beautiful kind of robe. I met someone wearing that and I accidentally bumped into them, I'd like to apologise later. Do you know anyone like that, and.. They're blond," Ecilan explained.

"Blonde? Robe? Aah, I see, the only one with such beautiful robe with a hood and blonde, he's certainly the Pope in-training," Eller snapped his finger and nodded.

"Pope in-training?" Ecilan is dumbstruck.

"Yeah, at long last, we finally got a new Pope," Eller nodded solemnly. "Moreover with such superior look, tsk, we're really blessed," Eller generously praised. "Though, it's hilarious how Sun is still insisting for him to be his back-up knight."

"Back-up knight?" Ecilan parroted in somewhat disbelieving tone.

"Yeah, tsk, Who knows how many strayed teaching that Sun had secretely taught that cute boy. Luckily, Pope snatched the boy and Sun chose the current Young Sun to be his student. That boy has a talent to be despicable like Sun," once he talk, he'll ramble, that's how the 37th Ice Knight is. There's a reason why 36th Ice Knight forbade his student to talk more than five words in public.

Because five words are the key to unlock the other words.

"Boy?" Ecilan stared in disbelief.

"Yeah! I also almost don't believe that he's a boy, such a pretty face, if he stranded to the Ice Knight selection years ago, I would have pulled him. No offense Lan, you're cute and handsome in your own right, but that boy is simply otherworldly," Eller commented.

"Yes, teacher," Ecilan nodded and turned around to let out a strange expression.

Ecilan's first love is very short-lived.

"Lan, where's the grape wine?" Eller asked and Ecilan jumped.

"Tha-that's... I... I forgot," Ecilan winced.

Eller frowned, "If you forgot, then you forgot. Don't stutter, you're not the Earth Knight. Forget it," Eller stood up, "Let's just go together to ask Sun for it," Eller took Ecilan's hand and walked out to go to Neo's room.

Upon reaching Neo's room, Ellar had long let go of Ecilan's had in favor to talk and discuss about wine with Neo. The two is so serious and into it that they ignore their surrounding.

"Ecilan," A voice greeted and Ecilan saw Roland walking towards him with a serious smile on his face. Though, it's hardly a could be counted as a smile.

"Roland," Ecilan's lips twitched before he maintained his expressionless face again.

"Here for some grape wine again?" Roland nodded and looked at Eller who is talking to his teacher.

"En," Ecilan nodded and peered at the basket in Roland's hand.

Roland noticed his gaze and looked down, "You want some?" Roland offered as he opened the cloth which covering the basket to reveal bunch of lolipops and sweets, most were strawberry and blueberry flavoured.

"No, it's fine," Ecilan shook his head. So Roland likes strawberry and blueberry? Maybe, I can make some cake with those flavours for him later... Thinking thus' Ecilan couldn't help but to smile in excitement. His sudden smile even made Roland blinked in surprise.

"Lan!" Eller's voice suddenly snapped and Ecilan jumped in fright. Turning around, he looked at his teacher's angry face. "You're smiling again! How many times I have to tell you to not smile?!" Eller scolded angrily.

"I..." Ecilan stuttered.

Out of habit, Roland stepped up, "Teacher Ice, it's not brother Ecilan's fault. It's mine," Roland immadiately took the blame even if he's not completely clear about the problem.

"No, Young Sun. It's not yours," Eller waved him off and turned towards Ecilan, "It's not that hard, I didn't ask you to be insanely prodiguous, just don't smile. I just told you not to smile, but you immediately violated my orders! Why are you such a disobedient child? Is it that hard not to smile? From today onwards, you are not allowed to enter the kitchen until you learn not to smile!" Eller scolded.

"Why can't I smile?" Ecilan finally could not help but say emotionally, "If I face people with an unpleasant expression, won't they be unhappy? Maybe they will hate me! Then I will have one less friend!"

When he heard the rare emotional response from Ecilan, Eller was speechless. This child was never one to disobey his elders, so why was he so rebellious today? Also, it was impossible to refute the things he had said…

Unlike Eller, however, Roland immadiately spoke up, "Ecilan, calm down..." However, soon Roland found it hard to continue as Ecilan's light blue eyes filled with liquid that Roland is very familiar to.

Ecilan's eyes filled with tears, and he tried his best to prevent them from flowing down. However, he simply could not resist it anymore, so he quickly brush off Roland's comforting hands, "I'm sorry," After that, he hurriedly turned around and ran away.

"Lan!"

"Ecilan!"

"What is going on? Ice, did you bully your student?!"

When he heard the shout, Ecilan stopped for a moment, but he did not turn back. Instead, he ran away quickly, because his face was already covered in tears.

Not wanting to have Roland finding him if he hides in his room, Ecilan ran out and hide near the Pond of Light, in the deserted part of it. So embrassing, he actually cried in font of his peer, what should he do if Roland felt distaste about him after this? Roland must have hated him for being so weak and crying over such a minor details.

Not to mention Roland, Ecilan is even more afraid for his teacher's reaction. What should he do? Don't mention cry, an Ice Knight shouldn't even smile! His teacher might been really disappointed in him.

What if he get replaced?

Then, does it mean he has to say goodbye to the friends he made in the temple? His peers?

"Uuuh... Waaawaa, I wanna go home, I want to become a baker," The more he thought about it, the more depressed he become, so Ecilan could only cry some more to let out the stress in his heart.

"Why are you crying? You seem so sad," A soft familiar voice asked and Ecilan stiffened.

Hastily wiping off his tears, Ecilan looked up to see his broken first love that he just met this afternoon, "Pope in-training," Ecilan immadiately blurted out in greetings with his hoarse voice.

Grisia scanned the handsome albeit messy boy in front of him, "So you know me, I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch your name," Grisia tucked a stray strand of his golden hair behind his ear.

"I'm Ecilan, Ecilan Ice," Ecilan introduced himself simply and blanked as Grisia took the initiative to grab and shook his hand.

"I'm Grisia," Grisia returned the introduction. "So, you're the Ice Knight in-training. No wonder you have this icy aura around you," Grisia smiled and peered at Ecilan with expectant eyes.

Ecilan blushed a bit and once again wiped his cheeks dry with his sleeve, "En," Ecilan nodded.

Understanding that Ecilan doesn't want to talk about the thing that made him sad, Grisia instead asked about his ultimate goal, "Do you have any more?"

"Huh?" Ecilan stared blankly at Grisia.

With a very eager look on his face, Grisia asked, "Do you have any more cake?"

"… All of it is with Teacher." Speaking about his teacher, Ecilan's mood dampened back.

"What?! That cake just now was huge! Does he plan to eat it all by himself?" Grisia hated the fact that he can't snatch the Ice Knight in-training to be his personal baker. Sir Ice Knight is really lucky...

Ecilan had no idea what was going on, but he still replied, "No, that cake is too sweet. Teacher might not eat it."

"He won't eat it?" Shocked, Grisia exclaimed, "But that cake is so delicious! If he's not going to eat it, then is it going to be thrown away? What a pity! No, no, it can't be thrown away!"

Ecilan was still in a confused state, but Grisia grabbed him in one movement and was about to drag him away in a quest to take back the delicious cake

"Come on, let's go look for the Ice Knight and get the cake back!"

What?! Stunned, Ecilan protested, "W-Wait a minute…" but it was too late as Grisia quickly pulled him onto his feet and dragged him away.

On the way there, they gathered so much attention, as a knight in-training walking with the Pope in-training in Holy Temple is a very rare sight. One of them is the icy, expressionless Ice Knight in-training, while the other one is the solemn and detached Pope in-training.

The things that flashed in their head is... Where's the Sun Knight in-training? Weren't usually it was him who hung around the Pope in-training the most? But alas, no one dared to ask and simply greeted them as they passed.

Feeling tired of always maintaining his straight, aloof and detached posture, as well the slow and mellow pace of their walks, Grisia turned to look at Ecilan who seems to be doing better and finally asked, "Ecilan, why were you crying just now?"

Surprised over the sudden question, Ecilan looked down, "I… I just suddenly felt that I am not suited to be the Ice Knight."

"Oh? Then what do you want to be?"

"I originally wanted to be the best baker in the city."

"Ooooh! No wonder you're so good at making bread and cakes!" Grisia approved Ecilan's dream. Too bad it can't be realised or else Grisia would be his number one costumer. Oh well, he's Grisia's brother now, which is even better.

"I'm not; that was my first time baking a cake. I even made it too sweet…" Ecilan could not resist asking, "Don't you think that the cake was too sweet?"

"No, I don't! And it can still be a little sweeter… Hmm? Isn't that your teacher?"

Ecilan turned his head to look. Indeed, the Ice Knight was currently standing at a balcony next to the corridor. He was not alone, as the Judgment Knight was also there.

Grisia's eyes litted up as he saw the two grown-up Holy Knights seemed to be in. A deep discussion, what a luck! Gossip source! Let's try to eavesdrop on them. Grisia held Ecilan's hand and crept stealthily to the window closest to the balcony.

A little bewildered, Ecilan asked, "Weren't you searching for Teacher?"

"I am! But first, let's eavesdrop on their conversation!" This might be some good gossip that he could share with Ceo.

Why do we have to eavesdrop on their conversation first… Isn't eavesdropping wrong? Just when he was thinking of correcting Grisia, he heard a voice from the balcony.

"Did I really make a mistake? Maybe I shouldn't have chosen Ecilan, as he was not one of the children who came for the selection."

Ecilan jumped in shock. Was Teacher… regretting choosing him?

B-But, he was already doing his best to adapt to his new identity, and was working very hard to become the Ice Knight. He even felt that practicing swordplay was extremely fun, and he had become familiar with many of the holy knights…

Feeling his eyes get a little warm, Ecilan turned his head around and started to walk away. However, Grisia suddenly grabbed his hand. No matter how much he struggled, Grisia would not let him go.

Ecilan glared at him even though in his heart he felt a bit guilty for doing so. Red, angry and devastated light blue eyes clashed with Grisia's calm sky-coloured ones. They both stared down at each other, no side want to back down.

Once again, they heard the Ice Knight's voice coming from the balcony. He said, "But I really don't want to choose a child who looked very cold right from the beginning! And Ecilan is such a good child! He is caring, respects his elders, and even knows how to bake bread!"

Ecilan froze and stopped struggling to escape.

They heard the low voice of Judgment Knight, who said, "You're right. If I were you, I would also have chosen him, as he is a good child. But there's no need for you to rush Ecilan's training to match the Ice Knight's 'expected' personality, since he's only been the young Ice Knight for slightly less than two years."

"But…" The Ice Knight's voice was filled with frustration as he said, "You should know that recently, a lot of people have been talking about replacing the young Stone Knight. Remarks from those who object to the young Sun Knight, who was too expressionless, have also surfaced. If Lan doesn't learn to be expressionless, what am I going to do when the wave of comments about replacing him comes?"

Chasel said plainly, "Don't worry, Neo will not allow the person he has chosen to be replaced. You should know what his personality is like. If he's not willing to replace his student, then no one can force him to do so."

Grisia lowly snorted, try to replace Roland, not only Neo, Grisia would also make his move to make them regret it!

"Besides, the young Pope is also not following the rule to distance himself from young Sun. He also got some protest, but I don't think the Pope would let anyone replace him."

Still somewhat worried, Eller said, "What about the young Stone Knight?"

"If we replace one person, it forms a precedent to replace a second person. Therefore, Neo and Pope will definitely not allow the young Stone Knight to be replaced, because that will give them problems."

Grisia certainly will make problems.

On hearing this, Eller felt much calmer. Since Neo wouldn't allow the young Stone Knight to be replaced, then he also most definitely would not let Ecilan be replaced. With Neo's support, you could be certain that things would be much easier. Because everyone knew that once Neo had made his decision, he would persist to the very end regardless of whether it was correct or not… Even when forcing people to do things, he would never give up until the end.

"Then I can relax and train Ecilan slowly. Also, I should give him more time to go to the kitchen… The cake he made this time was way too sweet! His cooking skill still has much room for improvement! Sigh, I really want to eat it but it is too sweet to eat…"

Hearing the explainations to all of his unspoken questions, Ecilan formed an understanding for all of his teacher's stern teachings and scoldings, Ecilan looked up at Grisia, who smiled at him.

"So Sir Ice chose you because you can bake?" Grisia tilted his head and asked with hushed voice. Ecilan's lips twitched in amusement.

"At first, he said he chose me because I'm good looking," Ecilan said honestly as he prepared the ingridients to make Grisia another batch of blueberry cake. He still remembered the recipe and how he made the first one.

"I see, that's indeed the most important aspect," Grisia replied solemnly as he took a cookie by the counter, that Ecilan had prepared to entertain Grisia whilst waiting, and bite on it and can't resist to snatch three or more pieces. "I mean, all boys in Sun Knight selection were all ridiculously good looking."

"I can see. Roland and you are both extremely good looking," Ecilan honestly admitted.

Grisia's eyes curiously peered as Ecilan mixed the batter, "En... We were both nominated as two most handsome candidates," Grisia nodded. "Dropping that, you look like a professional in baking?" Grisia remarked as he pointed to Ecilan's meticulous mix of dough.

"Not really," Ecilan looked down and blushed a bit as he quickly placed the mix into the heated oven.

"Why did you become the Ice Knight?" Grisia then asked as he smoothly place the 12th cookie into his mouth and quickly munch on it, "I remember you said you want to be a baker?"

"Um, I was just passing to deliver some bread, but teacher saw me and dragged me to declare I'm his successor," Ecilan relucantly admitted and Grisia almost choked.

"How unresponsible! Even more so than Sir Sun who chose Roland because he just want to see a Sun Knight who made his own hairdye!" Grisia blurted out as he grabbed a glass of milk by the counter. "Also even more unresponsible than Sir Storm who chose Deatheo after he saw him kicking a bully in the crotch!" Grisia added again.

Ecilan's sweat dropped as he heard those. He chose to stay silent and mixed the creams, making sure to use more sugar.

Grisia had long finished the cookie in the plate and boredly supported his chin on his palm, "Then, do you ever regret to be the Ice Knight?" Grisia questioned.

Ecilan froze and looked down on the cream he's making. "No..." Ecilan shook his head.

"Why not?" Grisia tilted his head.

"Because... I have my teacher here, my peers, the future 38th Holy Knights, the uncles from my teacher's platoon, aunties from the kitchen, nice sisters from Sanctuary of Light. I have so many things here..." Ecilan looked up and pondered. "Even though I can't smile anymore, I'll do it. Teacher had done so much for me already, so I'll try my best," Ecilan vowed quietly.

Grisia smiled, "Why are you even so concerned over smile? I have a friend who is not really fond of it," Grisia rolled his eyes as he recalled Roland.

"Because... If I don't smile, won't people hate me? If they hate me, won't I have one less friend?" Ecilan expressed.

"Nonsense, the first time we met, you didn't smile, but I sought you out and see you as a friend," Grisia said. "It doesn't matter if you smile or not. What's more important is whether you're sincere or not. You're the Ice Knight, you have no need to please anyone."

"Then, what about you, Grisia? You looked like a cheerful boy, don't you feel repressed to act solemn and detached like a grown up?" Ecilan suddenly asked as he realized that Grisia's predicament is similiar to his.

Grisia blinked, "Me? I'm flexible. Anyways, it's just acting all solemn, detached and forgiving. It's just a little pretense in exchange for twelve brothers, for me, it's a very good deal!" Grisia laughed happily after he said 'twelve brothers' like it was very important and dear for him.

"Twelve brothers?" Ecilan turned to stare at Grisia.

"Yeah, the future Twelve Holy Knights are my brothers, you're also one," Grisia pointed out. "So far, Aside for Roland, I've met Strawberry, Lesus, and Deatheo," Grisia listed off. Ecilan nodded in response, forget that he didn't recognize half of those names.

"I see."

"You're willing to be my brother right? If you won't, I would continue to pester you!" Grisia threatened, however, that threat is not scary at all.

Ecilan smiled at Grisia, soft and genuine, "Brother," that word alone is already a solid answer.

A brilliant and beautiful smile appeared in Grisia's fair face, "Great! Just remember, you can still smile in front of your brothers in private," Grisia winked and patted Ecilan's shoulder.

Ecilan shook his head, "I think I'll repress it more, or else, I'll still be used to smile. Losing the right to smile in exchange for twelve brothers is also a very good deal for me."

Grisia's eyes widened before he snorted in pleasant amusement, "That is fine too," Grisia supported Ecilan's choice respectfully. "A bond of brotherhood won't falter just because smile is not present, if not, I would have severe my relationship with Roland a long time ago."

"The most important thing that you needed is all here," Grisia patted Ecilan's chest, right over his heart. Ecilan touched that place and feels warm as his problems slowly resolving themselves.

"And the sweets, don't forget the sweets," Grisia suddenly added as he solemnly stared at the oven.

"It would be ready in a while," Ecilan patted Grisia's head and Grisia didn't reject te gesture. Sensing no rejection, Ecilan's eyes softened 'Father, looks like, I found my reason to bake...'

"Grisia... Thank you," Ecilan whispered quietly and Grisia looked up.

"It's no problem, Wastelan!" Grisia smiled.

Ecilan blinked rapidly, "Grisia... My name is Ecilan."

"Didn't that what I just said?"

Ecilan suddenly remembered 'Strawberry' and 'Deatheo' from Grisia's list of brothers and shook his head helplessly. It seems like his new little brother is a playful kind.

*Bonus: Roland*

1)

"Roland! Roland! Where's that limited edition of strawberry and blueberry sweet pack that you promised me to buy?" I slowly looked back to see the angry face of my blonde bestfriend, who looks so close throwin a tantrum.

"I'm sorry, The last time I gone there, it had been sold out. Lately, I was too busy, so I didn't check it out again yet," I explained patiently to the impatient future Pope.

"How could it sold out? Don't lie to me, when was the last time you checked? Strawberry said, there are so many packs when he went past by for a mission, yesterday!" Grisia crossed his arms, expectantly looking at me.

"It was... A month ago?" I answered hesitantly. Or was it five weeks ago?

"Roland," Grisia stomped his feet. "Don't tell me the last time you checked was the first time you gone there with money?" Grisia gritted his pearly white teeth in frustration. To be honest, I always wondered how he could maintain such white teeth, not to mention his natural rosy lips.

And technically, it's not just his money. There are some portion of mine too, but then again, I once declared that my money is his too, so it's useless to protest now, "... Yes."

"You..." Grisia is speechless, "That's it, if you don't bring me that limited package today, I'll... I'll ignore you for a week!" With that, Grisia gracefully flicked his wide sleeve and stomped away.

Horrified, I dropped my sword and ran back to my room to get the money and ran as fast as I could to finish the quest. Even if a Death Knight suddenly appeared to get in my way, nothing could stop me to get that limited strawberry-blueberry sweet package!

2)

"Lan!"

"Ecilan!" I cried out as I was about to start running to chase after the Young Ice Knight, however, to my horror, the basket in my hand tilted and some of the sweets fell down as I tried to run. I immadiately froze, my mind going haywire as I'm torn to chase after my Ice Knight brother or got ignored by my closest Pope brother.

"What's going on?! Ice, did you bully you student?!" My teacher yelled, however, upon seeing various sweets on the floor, he hollered, "Did you bully my student too?!"

"I don't dare!" Sir Ice cried out.

However, I didn't acknowledge them as I threw myself onto the floor, barely managing to look graceful, as I frantically gathered the sweets back, making sure that they're all still clean and edible. I can only hope that Ecilan is gonna be alright, because seriously, I'm truly helpless and can't help him right now. Not with Grisia's threat. This package have to arrive at Grisia today, or else, I can only mourn to Lesus, who most probably gonna lecture me about the importance of promise whilst drinking black tea from Grisia. Smugly.

As I gathered the last sweet, I pondered for a while, what would Grisia do? Chase or...?

"You two! What are you doing, fighting in the corridor?!" As I pondered, Sir Judgement had appeared and scolded my teacher and Sir Ice. In the end, even if I want to chase after Ecilan, it's already too late.

And that's how the little Pope met his Ice Knight brother and also how the little Sun Knight have to go around the church to find little Pope with pink-blue basket in arms.

Next! We have... Err... Where's the draft book for the next chap again...? Anyways, See you!