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Chapter 47 – Unfading Light Of The Lake
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Isolde opened her eyes and sat up, to find not only Veronica and Elizabeth, but also Hawk and Morgan near her bed "huh? I am...".
Hawk inquired "do you remember what happened?".
Isolde tilted her head "what do you mean by that, Hawk? Did I do something wrong when I just slept?".
Three women in front of her exchanged glances. Just like what Nel Hativa and Tristan told them, seemed like this Isolde was still 'Isolde Marianna' who unawakened (Isolde was only temporarily awakened) and her memory wasn't influenced by the memories of her past lives.
Yet.
Just not yet.
"at least, your fever has broken", Elizabeth hummed approvingly as she leaned her forehead into hers before straightening her body, gently asking "how do you feel?".
"really, I'm fine already, princess", Isolde moved to get out of her bead, indicating she was too tired to stay longer in the bed "but I wonder what's the commotion outside?".
They heard someone (one of Dawn Roar's members) shouted from outside "but it doesn't explain at all about what happened ten years ago!".
Veronica rubbed her temples and sighed, suddenly having a headache "man, I know this may happen but seriously, should we take care of it ourselves?".
When the four women and a pig came out of the Boar Hat's tavern, Isolde was rather surprised to see they were no longer on the outskirt of the woods like they had, but instead near the lake where they had more guests and they looked like they were about to have the little feast here, despite the high tension. Before Veronica, Morgan, Elizabeth and Hawk went to check on Isolde after Tristan had brought her to the bed, Veronica had asked Griamore to stay with the Dawn Roar and explained everything to them in order to prevent the commotion between the Dawn Roar with Seven Deadly Sins and their Juniors (not to mention they also still had the Fay Queen and pseudo-Death-God here, what a strange bunch they had here).
"if you're wondering about what happened here, they have been arguing like this for over a half hours and I've gotten bored of shouts and yells", Tristina sat on top of Hawk's body, feeling all over the pink piggy's body and surprisingly all protests died down when Tristina caressed the certain sensitive spots behind Hawk's ears and around its neck "and Ban hasn't finished cooking yet. It smells good".
Hawk perked, lifting one of his ears "I agree on you at that, Tina!".
"woah... so tense. What happened as long as I was sleeping?", Isolde tripped on the process and about to fell forward "ah!".
"woah, dear. Be careful", Tristan was quick to catch her. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her up "how do you feel?".
Slipping her bangs behind her ears, Isolde blushed and waved her hands, stuttering "ah... thank you...".
Tristan frowned "good, but why did you keep your distance with me like this?".
"Lancelot said you don't forget what you did to her to make her sleeping just now, do you?", Lily translated after Lancelot (still in his Alicorn form) whined that more sounded like snickering before she eyeing Tristan suspiciously, arms crossed before her chest "what did you do to her this time?".
Tristan flattened "please don't interrogate me as if I always do something as I please to her".
Lily simply tilted her head with innocence expression "because in fact, yes, you did".
"argh, stop it, you sounded more like father that way, you know?", Tristan rubbed the bridge of his nose before pointedly sending glare to Lancelot who whined like he laughed "and don't laugh, you brat".
"anyway, why did Lancelot not turn back to human form?", Morgan said with concern, only to earn the silence from her lover-turned-into-Alicorn who averted his eyes from her "and I feel like he's avoiding me".
"well, well, well, we have a lot of things that needed to be cleared here", Meliodas pointed out, tilting his head. They indeed had a lot of things that needed to be cleared with so it was supririsng them when the Captain of the Seven Deadly Sins instead appointed Nel Hativa "so I leave it to you, Neiva".
Nel Hativa dropped at that before yelling in protest "wait! Why me?".
Because seriously, how messed up the things here already?
They needed to clarify what happened to Elias (from how King and Ban demanded Nel Hativa and Lily to explain what happened to Elias when the said-Fay-Prince decided to shut his mouth and hide behind Lily just like a cowering child who hid behind his mother).
They still needed to clarify what happened to Dawn Roar members about what happened to princesses (Elizabeth and Veronica) and Griamore, the son of Great Holy Knight who supposed to be on their side instead of with the criminals (although Griamore already told them about what happened on Vaizel and hence, it was the main reason of why they decided to join the Sins, Dawn Roar still persisted considering what happened in the Capital 10 years ago).
They needed to figure out about what should they do with Jericho who was still tied up neatly (because how the hell they let her go when there was a chance that she could report this to her superior).
They needed to clarify what Nel Hativa's relationship with Gowther till she had the very same magic with the doll.
Not to mention they still needed to clarify the mess around the Juniors (the problem between Lancelot and Morgan about his transformation, also the problem between Tristan and Isolde about whether the latter had fully awakened or not yet).
"because you're great organizer, just like Merlin. Also, if we want to proof that we're innocence, you and Lancelot are the ones who can give the proof to them", Meliodas tilted his head "not to mention of all incidents we needed to clarify here and now, surprisingly you accidentally were there or have the connection with it".
"geez, fine, fine. It's unlike I can refuse your request, Mel", Nel Hativa scratched the back of her head. Not that she was mind, it was just annoying because she had to clear this mess. Looking to the tensed King and Ban, Nel Hativa shrugged "okay, I think we need to clarify what happened to Elias first".
Lily helped her to explain on this. About 20 years ago, the Enchanted Woods was attacked by someone. Unfortunately, Lily was heavily pregnant and she was giving birth, so she had no choice but to wait on the safe place with Nel Hativa and Silky who helped the confinement, and Spriggan as their bodyguard. They didn't know who, Dahlia didn't tell Lily who and he hadn't the chance to tell her on his last breath. Dahlia led the troops to stop their enemy, whoever this person was, but he lost and he died on Lily's embrace. What was left to her that time, was only the obligation as the Queen to rule over her Clan and their son, Oberon.
Nel Hativa decided to handle it from now because she had a hunch feeling that Lily would cry if she went on "after the members of Fay Clan brought back Dahlia to the Enchanted Woods, I went to chase find the one who attacked the Enchanted Woods, helped by him".
"in fact, you forcefully tagged me along with you", Tristan lifted his hands in surrender when Nel Hativa lifted her thumb pointing him. After Nel Hativa smacked his head, Tristan clarified "and that was when we passed the Fairy King's Forest. We saw the Fairy King's Forest was burned and frankly, we felt the familiar presence—".
"—that came from the Red Demon, precisely from the one who attacked the Fairy King's Forest", Nel Hativa pointed to Elias "we found him when he fell off of the tree, dying and on the verge of his death door with his body was sliced into two. I caught his upper body".
Tristan casually said "and I caught his lower body. She said she still could save him but we had to do it on safer place, so I teleported us to the Enchanted Woods".
Nel Hativa added her explanation to King's confusion "about the transformation on your little brother's body, the necrosis happened mostly on his torso so yes, I had to replace some part of his body with the ones I've got from the corpse of Fay Clan members, it's included the part where the wings grew up from his back connected to his spine. Before you ask, no, we can't get rid of his wings, nor it will change into ordinary Fairy's wings".
Elizabeth lifted her hand "um, Lady Neiva... by you mean that you replaced it...".
Nel Hativa showed the needle and threads on her hands "obviously, I sew his body into one".
King and Ban flinched before they cringed internally, both lifted their hands in surrender "stop, we get it".
Nel Hativa, Lily and Tristan explained about Elias' amnesia state thus Lily adopted him. King bowed his head in front of Lily and gave his greatest gratitude to the Fay Queen for adopt, raise and take care of Elias for these 20 years. Also, King did the same to Tristan and Nel Hativa for saving his little brother. Ban did the same to Lily, Nel Hativa and Tristan with less polite manners, but Ban really meant it that he was truly grateful to them for what they did to save Elias, despite who or what they were.
"and to think you are Fairy King Dahlia's wife...", King knew the story from his predecessors about how Second Fairy King Dahlia decided to ascend down the throne to another Fairy as next Fairy King and left the Fairy King's Forest for the sake of the woman he loved. If he were Dahlia, King would do everything for Diane's sake so King truly understood, especially looking at Lily "no wonder he chose you over everything... he must have loved you so much".
Lily blinked at that but she smiled brightly after that "...thank you, King Harlequin".
King felt Deja Vu now, he felt like Lily's smile was similar with someone he knew, but who?
Next, to clean the mess between them with the Dawn Roar.
It turned out to the heated conversation (argue, in fact) between the Seven Deadly Sins with Dawn Roar (only between Gowther with the Dawn Roar members though, mostly with Simon and Slader after Ban, King, Meliodas and Diane told them what they knew that day) while the Junior Sins decided to watch and observe for a while. Slader pointed out that they, Dawn Roar, were the replacement of Seven Deadly Sins with intention to make the Sins feeling offended or 'know their place' sort-of so when Gowther shook his hands and said how 'they should get along well and nice to meet them', mentioning something about Dawn Roar being their Juniors between the lines, the other Sins laughed it off, even Nel Hativa and the Junior Sins laughed it off (Lily gracefully and politely tried to hold back her laughter, though). Dawn Roar wasn't amused though, even Slader lost his calm and pulled Gowther on the collar, lifting him off of the ground. King and Diane were about to stop them and Ban was about to have good fight with them, but Meliodas lifted his hand, telling them to watch and observe.
Surprisingly, it was Nel Hativa who moved to help Gowther. She simply snapped her fingers and as she carried Gowther, Slader and all members of Dawn Roar were flying on the air with chains neatly tied their body.
"I've been listening and I have had enough", Nel Hativa glared, putting down Gowther on the ground gently "control yourself or I will, Dawn Roar".
Slader was the only one who remained calm when the others frantically tried to freed themselves from these chains "if we didn't know better, we'd say that you're just making a threat".
Nel Hativa smirked lopsided "well, do you humans...".
Simon cut her off "do we what?".
Nel Hativa snarled, her fingers wiggling to tighten the chains "...know and do better than us?".
"Neiva, enough", Meliodas shook his head "put them down".
Nel Hativa looked down to him "why should I?".
"put. Them. Down", Meliodas sternly ordered "don't make me repeat it for thrice".
Nel Hativa smiled devilishly "...I'd like to see what you're gonna do to force me".
"Aunt Neiva, please put them down", Lily put her hand on her shoulder and shook her head "we can't talk properly when you tied them up like this".
Elizabeth asked the same to her as she stood behind Lily. Nel Hativa glanced to Elizabeth and Lily back and forth.
"like mother like daughter, huh?", sighing heavily, Nel Hativa calmed down "...fine".
After Nel Hativa put them down, Meliodas grumbled "when it was me, you challenged me but when it was her, you immediately become obedient".
"oh, come on, Mel. Lily is the best girl and I was the one who raise her after her parent's demise", Nel Hativa hugged Lily and smiled lovingly "how could I say no to my gorgeous, kind-hearted, graceful, charming and beautiful adopted daughter?".
Lily blushed "Aunt, stop it. You are my godmother, yes, but you make me embarrassed now".
"pampered children as always", Meliodas chuckled, he knew Nel Hativa always pampered his kids with Elizabeth "only an advice from me, she alone is enough to kill you all here, so better to not make her your enemy. Even I don't want to make her as my enemy of all people".
King, Diane and Ban exchanged glances. Just like Veronica and Griamore did. Elizabeth wondered in her heart, what was relationship between Nel Hativa and Meliodas actually? As for the Junior Sins (to be more precise, Meliodas and Elizabeth's kids) who knew what kind of relationship between Meliodas and Nel Hativa, they decided to shut their mouth this time. Also, what was Nel Hativa's relationship with Gowther till she reacted like that when Slader threatened Gowther?
Lily pointed out and broke them all out of reverie "remember what my husband said before he left?".
"find the truth through the help from the water with unfading light of the lake who have been keeping every memory", King recalled "right?".
Meliodas explained about his son's ability in his Alicorn form and Nel Hativa's ability as Death God "Dahlia referred to the magic water of Avalon which connected with Lancelot. Although temporarily, Lancelot was raised by The Lady Of The Lake and made a pact to united with Alicorn thus he earned the power from Alicorn. One of it, he can use the Memory of Water who can show the memory from the living. For Neiva, as Death God, she has the privilege to collect and see the memory of the dead, or more known as Life Record of the dead, the record of someone as long as they're alive. If we combine these abilities of them...".
Elizabeth gasped and clapped her hands "we can see what happened 10 years ago and we can proof you and the Sins are innocence, Sir Meliodas!".
Hawk shouted in disbelief "then why don't you do it from the first place!".
"idiot", Meliodas stomped on Hawk's nose "Lancelot has to change his human form into his Alicorn form beforehand, just like Neiva has to change into her Death God form. Do you think how Morgan would feel and react over it when she saw him change into this form?".
Looking to Lancelot who still averted his eyes from her, Morgan forcefully cupped his cheeks and with a vein on her head, she smiled threateningly "I believe we have a LOT of things that we needed to clear about after this, right?".
When Lancelot sweatdropped, both Meliodas and Tristan snickered but it was Tristan who mentioned out "I can see you will be the hen-pecked husband".
"say the one who actually the hen-pecked husband", Lily translated "that's what he said".
Back to the business, after little wrestling between Lancelot and Tristan which stopped by Meliodas who smacked their head, Nel Hativa and Lancelot combined their ability "Garden Of Avalon".
Both Nel Hativa and Lancelot spread their wings, different kind of wings, bat-like Demon's wings for Nel Hativa and angel-like white-feathered wings for Lancelot. Water and feathers started surrounding them and Lancelot warned them to focus on which memories and moments they wanted to see because these water and feathers itself sometimes could reveal their memories randomly, with or without their consent especially if those memories were meant to long-forgotten, one that buried deeply or the strong, painful memory.
Sure enough, they saw several memories randomly, like Slader's memory when he was asked by King Baltra to be one of his subordinates, Ban's memory of his childhood when he lost his little sister, King's memory when he was captured after he killed Helbram, Diane's memory when she lost Matrona but they startled when they heard the sound of someone barged into the room from the side. It was memory of someone who looked exactly like Nel Hativa, to the point they thought she was her siblings.
"you are the worst mother I've ever known! Not only abandon me and neglect me, but you also put this cursed spell on me!", long straight red-haired golden-eyed girl approached Lilith, she looked young with her roundish face, pudgy cheeks and slightly round-shaped wider eyes, perhaps around Elizabeth's age, with tainted and broken innocence etched on her face "how could you do this to me, mother!".
"it's not my fault that you've born as my daughter, or what? Do you want to blame me? Because your unrequited love is ended as forbidden love, you want to find someone to blame with and then what? Do you blame me now because you think it's my fault that you've born as my daughter?", without a hint of guilt, Lilith haughtily remarked and touched her chin "if you want to find someone to blame with, then it's not me, but your biological father, Sophia".
"you let other person to raise me and you put the cursed spell on me so I will never disobey you and I can become your tool to take your revenge on the Demon King for what he did to my aunt, your sister and you said you're not at fault?", Sophia hissed and swatted Lilith's hand "you have me specifically for revenge on Demon King and you make me into the living weapon. Actually... what am I to you, mother? Am I only your tool?".
Lilith coldly smirked "and what if I said yes? Do you have a problem with it?".
At that, Sophia bit back coldly "I should have known better... You do not fit to be a mother, at all. You only care about yourself, you selfish damned woman".
Sophia ran to outside and they heard someone exclaiming from behind "Sophia, wait!".
On the hallway of place that looked like a fort, they saw Meliodas running on the hall to chase after Sophia under the snow. Meliodas caught her and carried her over his shoulder before they went back to where they had come from.
Sophia wriggled in vain on his iron grip "put me down, you jerk!".
"what is it? fight with your mother again?", Meliodas put her down on the fence once she calmed down. After he listened to her patiently, Meliodas grabbed her hands and leaned his forehead to hers "I promise I'll protect you and I'll not let you feel lonely".
"as my brother?", Sophia pushed Meliodas hardly before spreading her wings "no, I don't want to!".
Ignoring Meliodas' cry, Sophia went flying far away from that place. Still on the same place, they were older next moments they saw them. Well, only Sophia, she wore princess-like dress.
Meliodas wore sleeveless white robe and gloves, he told her remorsefully although his bangs masking his expression "forgive me".
"what for, Meliodas? Don't you dare to think that I'm suffering because of you, ever", tightening her red muffler around her round-shouldered torso, she hardened her expression and kept her stoic face as she stood with her back facing him "it's not your fault. The fault is on my mother and your father, after all. They are the worst kind of parent and they are the ones who make us, their children, to suffer. What they care about is only their reputation and themselves. Nothing we can do with it".
"because I know I only will add your suffering", Meliodas took both her hands and leaned his forehead on hers like they did several years ago "I don't ask you to understand my choice, that's why I apologize".
"you stupid, I understand. Thank you very much for your offer, to ever considering and asking to come with you, but someone has to stay here after you leave. Not to mention this is the only place that I can call as home where I still have a family who is waiting for me", lifting her face, only then they startled to see how Sophia looked exactly like Nel Hativa, only had different colors of their hair and eyes. She smiled sadly with understanding "if you feel guilty for leaving, then just please, grant my final wish... be happy with her, older brother".
When the others looked confused with these memories, Nel Hativa cursed inwardly "just go to the event 10 years ago, dammit".
They saw the movement of water around them turned more stable and the feathers disappeared. There, they saw what happened between Margaret and Gwen, started from how they saw the main culprit, the real murderers of Great Holy Knight and what happened to them afterwards. Elizabeth and Veronica felt the urge to see their oldest sister after they knew what happened to Margaret and Gilthunder. They also wanted to see Gwen more after they saw what truly happened to Gwen that day 10 years ago. After Gwen fell off to the abyss, what they saw afterwards... it was not something they really expected, ever.
In the middle of her pain as she was buried under the debris of fallen rocks, Gwen reached out her hand forward and choked, blood flowing out of the corner of her mouth and covering her head "mom... dad...".
Not only Meliodas and the princesses, but also the other Sins who wanted nothing but to save her.
They heard someone singing as she approached Gwen, slowly emerged from the darkness "hush, child~ darkness will rise from the deep and carry you down into sleep, child~".
Nel Hativa stiffened at that "...are you kidding me?".
Meliodas held back the urge to stand in between Gwen and the one who approached her because he knew this was just projection of the past and nothing they could do here but to watch "no! Stay away from her!".
When the figure in front of Gwen snapped her fingers, the rocks that buried her body just now floated on the air and she helped Gwen out of the rocks that trapped her. Looking up, Gwen croaked "who are you? Why did you save me?".
"my name is Lilith. I... well, you can tell that I'm your grandmother, because the wife of your biological grandfather is my sister. Plus, I'm also the Mistress of your biological grandfather so you could say—", Lilith reached out her hand and as her hand that touched Gwen's wounds shining, Gwen's wounds started to heal "—that your biological father is sort-of my step son, considering I was the one who raised your father after my sister passed away when she gave birth your biological father. So yes, of course I will save you because I need you to live".
Gwen slowly blinked her unique eyes, sleepily mumbling as her pain started to change into numbness "my... parent?".
"poor girl. You don't even know who is your parent? The gemstone of your necklace that Leodegrance said as your birth-stone, if you see it carefully, there's a Crest inside it, the Crest of both your biological mother and your biological father's family", Lilith told her as she still healed her to the point her wounds were no longer endanger her life "I wonder, when the time has come for the upcoming Holy War to break, which one you will be? The guiding hand of Light or the bloodline of Darkness? After all, you have both Sides".
After kissing Gwen's forehead, Lilith called a Banshee from the Necropolis to lead her way to Merlin and Tristan. Lilith reached out her hands to the side and smirked as miasma emanating from her body "now, I bet they will not mind if I just kill these filthy humans who dare to hurt my grand-daughter".
Lilith followed Gwen ever since that time. Merlin realized it and she confronted her mother on the night before they left Isthar.
Lilith protested "care to tell me why should I not be allowed to see my grand-daughter?".
Merlin refused to let Lilith meet with Gwen "do you think I forgot what happened to Sophia?".
The scenes changed into the last battlefield where Dahlia gravely injured and died. The one who killed Dahlia was no one but Lilith who just escaped from Purgatory.
Lily cried as she carrying the wriggled baby-Oberon on her arms "you idiot, how dare you leave me alone with this child...".
Tristan stood beside her, patting her head "you're not alone, Lily. You still have your son".
"you even lost your daughters, other than your wife", Lily sniffed as she leaning her head on the crook of his neck, crying silently "how could you let it go and going through it? How could you be this strong, Triss?".
"no, you're wrong. I'm never letting it go. I'm not strong at all. I was just lucky, for having my family who strengthen me", Tristan intertwined his fingers in between her knuckles, pointing to Oberon on her arms "now, it's time for you to think about it. Think, for who and what reason you should live. I believe your husband and our parent will want that".
Around that time, Tristan and Nel Hativa brought Elias to her and Lily had more reasons to live, for the people of her Clan, for her sons and her family.
After the scenes stopped and they went back to normal place, Elias looked up to her when Lily started crying "Lily...".
Lily covered her face "sorry... I still haven't able to... when it came to Dahlia's last moment... I shouldn't have to cry this easily as the Queen...".
Elias wiped her tears. Meliodas moved to sit beside Lily before patting her head and letting her to lean on his shoulder.
Elizabeth was concerned, she offered the dry handkerchief to Lily "before a Queen, you are a woman. I think it's alright to cry, because it must have been hurt for you, to lose the man you loved".
Elizabeth was surprised when the Fay Queen hugged her instead. After Lily silently buried her crying face on the crook of her neck, Elizabeth only smiled and hugged her, patting her head.
Nel Hativa sighed and noted to herself "...I gotta do the exorcism to li'l Gwen in case that old hag still clung into her".
Meliodas waved his hands "Neiva, calm down. You should have known about your mother better than anyone".
"instead because I'm her daughter, Mel, I know my mother. Yes, she will not harm children physically despite the fact that she is a flighty bitch but I doubt she saved li'l Gwen without ulterior motive. Should I remind you of what happened to Sophia?", Nel Hativa grumbled, indirectly pointing out about the fact that Meliodas was the one who should have worried more "besides shouldn't you be worried more about her?".
Considering the fact that Guinevere was his firstborn daughter, he should have to, but he trusted Merlin "since Merlin took a great care of her, I believe she will be okay".
Veronica demanded "where is Gwen?".
Nel Hativa glanced to Meliodas "Merlin told you, did she not?".
Meliodas knew Gwen's real identity and he had known all too well about princess Guinevere who had been taken care under King Uther Pendragon's court, so yeah, he knew Gwen's doing well and he knew the others didn't know about it "more or less, I figured out what happened to her and I can't wait to see her again".
Now the Dawn Roar had known the truth, they had calmed down thankfully but they fell deadly silent. Good, at least they wouldn't try to kill any of the Sins and with this, Lancelot could go back to human form. Speaking of which, Morgan knew this was normal considering it was the first time for her to see this transformation of him "wait, how about Lancelot?".
"oh, don't worry, Lady. He will go back into his human form eventually. To change into this form of his, he needs two conditions. First, he only can use this ability when it's rain or there's a source of water nearby. Second, in case there's no water source nearby nor it's rain, he will need to use his own blood, only several droplets that he has to smear on Arondight. As long as it's needed when he wanted it, he can go back to his human form", Tristan reassured that yes, Lancelot would go back to his human form without any difficulties, but when the white smoke along with 'POP' sound, Tristan just realized that he was late to give the most important part before Tristan quickly covered Isolde's eyes for the sake of her innocence "but naked".
Isolde blushed, remembering of what happened that night on the bedroom when she saw Lancelot's transformation in order to heal Tristan "thank you for your consideration, Sir Tristan".
Instantly wrapping a cloak around his son's stark-naked muscular body, Meliodas deadpanned "what I told you before to just change back to your human form somewhere hidden?".
Morgan quickly covered her furiously blushing face and turned her body with her back against him, frantically flailing her arms in movement like cat was clawing its claws against the tree, too mortified "KYA! KYAA! KYAAA!".
"from her reaction, I'm sure she's still virgin", Meliodas patted Lancelot's head "good, at least you did not lie when you said you don't eat her before the marriage".
Ban laughed hardly, amused. King covered his head with Chastiefol pillow, blushing hardly just like how Diane covered her eyes in mortification. Lily closed her own eyes after she covered Elias' eyes. Nel Hativa noted to herself that perhaps Slader was into man as well from how Slader had blushed after witnessing Lancelot's naked body while the others mostly covered their eyes in shock or shy.
Lancelot scowled, wrapping the cloak around his stark-naked body "that low you think of me, Dad?".
Still covering her furiously blushing face, Morgan protested "just put something on your body already, Lancelot!".
Not dare to look straight in the eyes, despite her blush, Elizabeth offered a heap of neatly-folded clothes on her hands to Lancelot "um, Sir Lancelot. I found these clothes before we left and I believe this is yours".
"you can just call me Lancelot", Lancelot grinned lopsided like his father's and took back his clothes, bowing his head to her and going to the nearby bushes to put his clothes back on his body, playfully telling her "and thank you very much, mom~".
Elizabeth blushed furiously and covered her face, squealing in delightful before shrinking to the ground in shy. Meliodas patted her head, telling her that there's no need for her to feeling shy just because of Lancelot's words. Deep down in her heart, she didn't mind at all at the notion to be his mother which meant she would be Meliodas' wife.
Veronica yelled in protest "wait! who did you call as your mom, huh!".
After Lancelot put back his clothes, he grabbed Morgan's wrist "come with me".
Ban sniggered as he prepared the food "tch, they immediately have fun~".
Meliodas helped to serve the ale "come on. Just let them be".
Stare...
Tristan could feel the staring dagger from Tristina, his twin. Looking to her, he asked "what is it, Tina?".
Tristina averted her eyes with scowl "nope, but I believe you still have something you should talk about with Isolde, right? Please don't tell me I have to push you two again".
Tristan sighed heavily. Right. He grabbed her wrist, leading her away "come with me, we need to talk".
A/N :
So yeah, finally the Dawn Roar knew the fact that the Sins are innocence because the evil ones here were Lilith, Vivian, Hendrickson and Dreyfus.
To Clarent Excalibur : I'd like to say that we're on the verge of entering the Liones Arc after this mess.
To believergirl62 : and you will see more about her~ I rather like her too
To Ansy : oh yeah, I will need to show how Baltra and everyone in Liones' doing later. Let's just blame Arthur for that because he is the one who compare her beauty with the goddess, pretty accurate though, just like you said. Little gesture between father in law with his son in law, I pretty like it and mom Elizabeth should appear, obviously! Oh, poor Margaret'll recover with Gelda's help.
To Chihiro : nice! Perhaps I will use it once we have completed the members of Junior Sins.