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Is it wrong to seek answers?

Chapter 24 : Adventurers Assemble

FRONT GATE – WHEAT MANOR – OUTSIDE OF ORARIO

" " Brother !" " two unknown voices to Noct, a male and a female, called towards the Savior. Noct turned his head, seeing the two unknown people running towards them.

What's more, he also could see two more people, two adult women, coming along. The first woman had long black hair with two swords, one like Mikotos and another large one.

And the other women had short blue hair with armor oh her arms. They somehow succeeded in discourage the Galvanades away from his other allies.

(OPENING: Promare OST – Gallant Ones by Hiroyuki Sawano ft. Mpi & Benjamin)

"is that really you? " Noct asked again, still not believing.

Then, he turned his head towards Noct, finally confirming it to be him.

Back in Eos, he wore a long, while colored frock with black lining with a large collar that has a purple trim. But now, his appearance was very different: Now he wore a uniform, which is quite identical with the Kingsglaive Uniforms of Lucis, except that the Uniform's color is Silver instead of black, and there was also a symbol of some green cloverleaves around his upper arms, which were possibly armorials of the Dia Familia. But the most drastic difference was his left arm.

It looked like a real arm, it wasn't mechanical anymore like Noct remembered.

To Noct, Ravus now really looks like an Army's General instead of an arrogant prince, like Noct thought when he remembered that white-colored frock Ravus previously wore.

"We'll talk later, let's finish this first." Ravus suggested while turning again facing the Iron Giant.

Then Noct saw the two unknown people coming towards Ravus.

The first one is a male with yellow-green eyes and blue hair, his clothes were also blue on the whole, except his jacket, which was brown, he carries a Greatsword.

The other is a female with brown hair and brown eyes, with a green headband with yellow flower decoration and with a green outfit with more yellow flowers around her waist, and black leggings. Her weapon was a rapier, which looked like a large needle.

Ravus then looked towards them, „Lucia, Leo, take care of her" Ravus ordered.

" "YES" " they said while nodding before taking Asfi, only for her to stand up again herself.

Noct could feel that besides Ravus, who has a strong presence as Ottar, those two comrades of him were also rather strong.

Asfi's, Anya's and Chloe's mouth gaped wide, "OMG, t-that's 'Silverlight' Ravus, along with 'haystack needle' and 'silent Paw', all 3 from the Dia Familia what are they doing here? " Chloe asked rather surprised.

Meanwhile, Bete and Allen for some reason were less keen about their arrival, proven by their annoyed expressions.

Noct stood up, with his Balmung sword in his hands.

(soundtrack: Bleach OST FADE TO BLACK: B13a extended)

"you can take the other? " Ravus asked towards Noct.

"if that one doesn't intermeddle. " Noct said while smirking.

Ravus also smirked while from his body, electricity could be seen.

Then he disappeared.

Only for him to appear behind the first Iron Giant while Ravus stretched his right hand with his sword.

Then, out of nowhere, the Iron Giant fell, and what's more, the black liquid appeared again, but this time, the Iron Giant melted into the air while disappearing in the liquid.

Meanwhile, Noct throws his sword towards the other Iron Giant, which was a direct hit this time, because the Giant's whole body moved some feet behind.

But then it used its large sword to attack Noct again before Bete and Allen appeared again, also attacking the Giant.

"who said that you could have the whole fun, " Bete asked towards Noct rather excitedly.

Noct then smirked again, „sorry, I forgot you guys."

The three male adventurers now activated each a spell.

" 'Thundaga' " Noct shouted while a yellow orb appeared in front of him which he then put into his body, which made his body staying under electricity.

" 'Fenris wolf' " Bete shouted secondly.

" 'skogkatt' " Allen shouted as last.

At first, it seemed that the three were attacking the Iron Giant directly straight, but then all three disappeared, only for the Iron Giant to be hit many times from all possible different directions.

After many hits on the one Giant, it finally felt on the floor.

After Noct, Allen, and Bete stopped, they could see that this Iron Giant also seemed to be defeated since also, here the black liquid appeared while the Giant melted into the air too.

As for the third Iron Giant, it was finished together by Shakti, who used her armored fists and Tsubaki, who used her Katana along with the other two adventurers, Lucia and Leo, who arrived with them.

"LETS GO" Ravus called out loud while all other present adventurers also looked towards the remaining Galvanades.

OUTSIDE OF THE WHEAT MANOR – WEST SIDE– AFTERNOON

The newly formed Group consisted of the three goddesses, Bell, Mikoto, Lunoire, Lily, Welf, Airmid, Syr, Ryuu, Raul, Aura Morel, Ouka, Lulune, and Sophie.

They run fast towards the southern gate.

As the one capable of fighting, including Bell, Mikoto, Lunoire, Ryuu, Raul, Aura, Ouka and Lulune, they were on the front row while the others and the Gods were running along behind.

OUTSIDE OF THE WHEAT MANOR – SOUTHERN GATE– NOON

When Bell's group finally reached the others, he saw that the Giants were defeated and that only a hand full of those Galvanades remained. Bell also saw others, who joined them.

Bell, like everyone else, hurried to help them as good as possible.

"EVERYONE" Bell shouted to Noct and the others rather relieved because they all seemed to be alright.

Noct looked to Bell and the others, seeing that they succeeded in releasing the hostages. It made him smile, which was noticed by several girls, especially Asfi, Luniore, and Airmid. The latter wondered who that handsome man was since she never saw him before, but his smile made her happy, as for most girls who looked towards him.

Only twenty Galvanades remained. These purple beings saw Bell and the others, which made them fly towards them.

The first one flew towards Raul, who then drew his sword.

Then Raul activated his Ability called 'Hunter'. Raul then hit the Galvanades with his sword.

It was a successful hit, but the Galvanade still seemed to be alive, which was noticed by Ryuu, who wanted to help, but knew that without a weapon it was impossible.

"Ryuu-dono" Mikoto called her, which made Ryuu looking towards her.

Since she remembered how she failed against those purple monsters, Mikoto held her Katana towards Ryuu, who took that as permission for using Mikoto's weapon, taking it.

Ryuu then immediately run towards the first Galvanade, „ 'Luminous Wind' " Ryuu shouted, which then resulted in green colored stardust to appear around her. Then she used to attack the Galvanade, which then turned into stone before it disappeared.

Bell immediately noticed the second one flying towards him, which made him his right hand-stretched,

" 'Fire Bolt' " Bell shouted, which made his right hand shooting a large fireball towards the second Galvanade, successfully.

But it didn't give up eighter, instead, it started to grow and a lot of sparks could be seen forming around his body.

" 'Will-o-wisp' " shouted Welf, which also made from his right hand shooting a beam towards the Galvanades.

Before it could use its magic power, it exploded, hurting itself, which also made it turn into stone, thus disappearing too.

"Welfie" Tsubaki shouted towards him while throwing a familiar weapon to Welf "here, you've forgotten it" she added as Welf immediately caught it.

After having his greatsword back, Welf runs towards another of the remaining Galvanades, hitting it successfully.

Ouka, who took out two of his Kunai from inside his clothes, also throws himself into the fray by attacking another Galvanades.

Lunoire also took on another Galvanade by using her fists, also very successful.

Since there were now more than 15 capable adventurers, most of them being middle class, all enemies were successfully defeated after a short time.

(end of soundtrack)

After the two groups finally came together, all the previous hostages then came towards each of their familia, like Raul to Bete, who mocked Raul for being captured; or Syr and Ryuu to the other Anya and Chloe, who embraced Ryuu and Syr.

Noct then saw Lily and Welf, which black eyes and other wounds were still visible towards his face.

"you alright, Welf? " Noct asked him worryingly while looking at his black eye and wound. "good magic you used. By the way, what exactly happened to you."

"it's a long story, " Welf said since it would be complicated to explain it right now. Welf then received a Potion from Mikoto, which he used to heal himself.

Noct now saw another adventurer, a black-haired man with the same style of clothes as Mikoto, who seemed rather shocked for some reason seeing towards Noct.

He then bowed, "my name is Kashima Ouka, captain of the Takemikazuchi Familia, nice to meet you"

Noct then looked towards Bell, „and that woman, was she there too? "

Bell then looked on his left, "Airmid !" he called her, which she noticed, making her coming towards Bell.

When Airmid reached them, she looked towards the spiky black-haired man, „may I introduce, that's Noct Gar, the new member of the Hestia Familia." Bell introduced.

"Hey there." Noct just said, but he could see that she also got beet red. it seemed that Seit was right after all.

"I-I'm Airmid Teasanare, member of the Dian Cecht Familia, nice to meet you Noct Gar." Airmid introduced herself rather shyly, which was very unusual even for herself.

Meanwhile, Asfi started explaining to Shakti, Tsubaki and the Dia Familia members about the capture and the culprit who goes by the name Eleazar, also saying that she doubts that's his real name and about those strange monsters she never saw in the dungeon before.

Noct, together with Bell, Lily, Hestia, Airmid, Welf, Tsubaki, and Hephaestus then went to Ravus, who saw them coming while Mikoto went to Ryuu for her Katana.

Hestia, Bell, and Lily saw the way how Noct and Ravus were looking at each other, which meant that they really know each other.

"Nice to see you, Ravus." Hephaestus said to him.

Ravus bowed in front of the two goddesses as a sign of respect.

Then Ravus took something out of his silver jacket, which turned out to be two envelopes, "I hope I'm right to assume that Lady Dia already announced about our party? "

"yes, she came yesterday to my shop when telling us both" Hephaestus announced while Ravus gave her the first envelope.

Ravus then looked towards the other women whom he also recognized as a goddess.

"and you must be Lady Hestia, right ?, I hope I'm not too late for giving you this" Ravus said while giving her the second envelope. While being rather polite, Hestia, Lily, Bell, and Welf though he is rather intimidating. No wonder since he's supposed to be as strong as 'King', "I hope that he isn't much annoying, right? " Ravus asked Hestia while pointing towards Noct.

" seriously ?", Noct then felt annoyed by Ravus' statement. Seems he was still a little bit arrogant like before.

"no, I'm quite happy with Noct, oh and I've been already told that you both know each other from the past."

Not that it was surprising to Ravus, since being in this world for about 10 years, obviously he knows that you can't lie to a god and goddesses, but he was relieved that this Goddess Hestia wasn't one of the 'bad ones'.

Ravus then looked towards the white-haired boy and the red-haired young man.

(ENDING: Jacob Lee – I Just Know (New Immunity Remix) )