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Is it wrong to seek answers?
Chapter 32: Loki Familia
MAIN HALL-IVY MANOR – DIA FAMILIA HQ – EVENING
'Luna?' Noct wondered for a moment before unintentionally looking towards Lily, who was most likely also looking towards the blond one, possibly knowing her.
Lily, who noticed Noct's gaze, started to explain, "that's the famous Loki Familia, but I don't see their goddess anywhere." she said while looking around, especially at the entrance.
"Loki Familia? " Noct asked, since he remembered not only Eina mentioning them, but also that Bete Loga and Bell's 'special someone', Ais Wallenstein, was part of that Familia.
(OPENING: Sawano Hiroyuki nZK: Mizuki – e of s)
Noct saw how they were coming towards them.
"good evening, goddess Dia" the blond pallum greeted before looking towards Ravus, "you too Ravus, it's been a while, were are the others ?" the blond pallum asked.
"they're still busy since they'll attend another meeting before the actual one." Ravus claimed towards the blonde pallum.
"We've heard all of you returned safely, didn't you ? " the beautiful green-haired Elf asked Ravus, who immediately looked towards her eyes.
"yes, luckily no one was seriously hurt.", Ravus answered while he still looked towards her eyes before looking again towards Finn,
"where's lady Loki, " Ravus asked curiously since he actually expected her to come too.
"Unfortunately, she had no time, since she's busy right now" Finn answered.
"I've had a foreboding about that since we've been informed that Kali visited Melen a few days ago." Dia said while implying that she knows between the conflict between Loki and Kali a few days ago.
"you're right about that lady Dia, but let's save that for the upcoming meeting since these two prefer not to talk about Kali, right? " Finn said while looking towards the dark-skinned twins beside him.
"THANK YOU, CAPTIAN" the dark-skinned girl with the 'visible ones' happily and joyfully said.
"oohh, Argonaut, you here ? " the dark-skinned girl with the 'not so visible ones' happily greeted while looking towards Bell.
"oh, good evening Tiona" Bell greeted her.
"Hello, Bell" now the blond-haired girl greeted towards him, not as joyfully as the twins, but still with a happy expression as Noct realized.
"A-A-Ais, good evening" Bell greeted again, this time however stuttering while getting beet red.
'is that her? ' Noct wondered while seeing bell's reaction towards the blond girl.
What's more, when Noct looked back to Bell, he noticed that both Lily and Hestia made a rather angry expression, which wasn't surprising to him, since he knew how Lily and Hestia feel about Bell.
But when he looked towards the blond girl, he saw that the 'normal' orange-haired elf girl also became upset, probably for the 'same reason'.
Dia and Ravus, as well as many others present, noticed what was going on, but decided just to smile.
"I think we didn't meet until now, right ? " the blond pallum asked to Noct, who noticed that he as become the center of attention.
Noct then came forth to them.
"good evening Loki Familia, my name is Noct Gar, member of the Hestia Familia." Noct introduced again, this time towards the Loki Familia.
"OHHHHH, so you're the one everyone's been talking about" Tiona reacted loudly and surprised.
"am I? " Noct asked her uncertainly.
"of course, is it true that you defeated the 'King' himself? " Tiona asked excitedly.
"I was also shocked by Bete, when he confirmed it to be true" the blond pallum explained, "oh, how rude of me, my name is Finn Deimne, Captain of the Loki Familia ", he introduced as well.
"I am Tiona Hiryute, and this is my sister Tione" the first of the twins introduced herself and her sister.
"Hello" her sister just said rather uninterested, compare to her sister.
"And I'm the Vice-captain of the Loki Familia, Riveria Ljos Alf, good evening" the green-haired Elf politely introduced herself.
"my name is Alicia Forestlight, pleased to meet you." the light-orange haired elf also politely introduced herself, like Riveria.
"and my name is Lefiya Viridis, also pleased to meet you." the normal orange-haired introduced herself the same way.
The only one missing to introduce herself was the blonde girl, who stared towards Noct with her yellow eyes, now sensing his strength, trying to be convinced by the fact if this new comrade of Bell could keep up with Ottar by himself. She now looked towards Ravus for a moment and saw that both, Noct and Ravus, have to be on the same plane if both were able to deal with the 'King' himself
"and I am Ais Wallenstein, nice to meet you" the blonde girl finally introduced towards Noct, who immediately saw, she was much shyer than her reputation would suggest. 'She's nothing like Luna' Noct concluded, still wondering why he saw his beloved the moment Ais came into his sight.
"I remember Bell telling me about you training him, right ?" Noct asked curiously, while also looking towards said person.
"w-what? " Bell asked while becoming more beet red than before.
"did he? " Ais asked, now with an expression of curiosity and slight happiness on her face, which she herself didn't quite understand.
"yes, he even told me especially how thankful he is for your hard kicks, " Noct said with a much louder voice.
" " thankful? " " Hestia, Lily, and Lefiya loudly asked in disbelief.
"soooo, Bellll, when did you plan to tell this to me too, huuuh ? " Hestia asked towards Bell while 'smiling'.
Lily was utterly shocked by the fact that her beloved master Bell enjoyed training with the 'sword princess'.
"B-But I thought you know that already," Bell said to Hestia.
"But you seem to have told Noct a little bit more, didn't you, was it because Noct is a man as well? " Lily angrily asked Bell, wondering if Bell didn't say anything to her because Bell wanted to keep his secrets among other males.
Then the elven girl Lefiya, also with an angry expression, came forth to them.
"unbelievable, so now you're even swagging around how Ais trained you, how shameful of you, BELL CHANEL !" she loudly said, since she still didn't accept it, that Ais agreed to train him, what's more, Lefiya also remembered sneaking them, how Bell slept on her thighs. Did Bell Cranel also tell Noct how he peeped Ais and the other girls in Rivira?
"I think Bell also mentioned a girl named Lefiya once if I'm not mistaken" Noct remembered when he, Bell, and Lily were talking about Ravus.
" whaat? " Lefiya asked with an expression of disbelief.
"yes, you were recently fighting along with Bell in that Festival, uhm what was it called again ?, the one where Ravus's and Ottar's Battle was undecided? " Noct wondered loudly while looking towards Ravus.
"you mean the Greatsword Battle Festival? " Ravus asked "now that I think about it, I remember seeing how two young people fell from the stands on the arena, that was you two ?" he asked while looking towards Bell and Lefiya.
"and now you're embarrassing me too, you … " Lefiya said towards Noct while also grumbling in anger.
"Lefiya ", the orange-haired elven girl heard how her green-haired superior called her with a strict voice
"but Lady Riveria …, he... " Lefiya didn't understand why her dear superior didn't see that this Noct Gar is obviously insulting her.
"do I have to remind you where we are? , and not to mention all the other guests … "
It was at this moment that Lefiya saw that many other guests, especially Elves were staring towards them, particularly towards Lady Riveria.
What's more, Lefiya and Alicia remembered that Lady Riveria doesn't like being among crowds, especially when they're staring at her.
Then, Riveria started to go away, most likely because of the staring crowd. Riveria's Familia members, as well as Bell, Noct, and Ravus saw her leaving, and Dia signalized the just arrived Gina to accompany Riveria, probably providing her with an empty room or the like to decompress for a while.
And after all, Riveria was behaving rather strange for some reason since they came here as Lefiya and Alicia noticed.
"you will pay for that, Bell Cranel" Lefiya then looked towards Noct, Lefiya now pointed her finger towards Noct disappointedly "and you too, Noct Gar.", because she remembered how Bete not only said how responsible Noct acted, but also that Filvis was 'looking at him happily'. At first, Lefiya believed him to be a honorous man.
But now seeing how he shamelessly mentioned one of Bell Cranel's perverted thoughts, made her hate him too. 'I'm sorry Filvis' she thought sadly about her black haired elven friend who presumably fell for Noct.
Lefiya and Alicia were about to go along with Riveria.
"Lefiya, Alicia, wait." Finn called them.
Lefiya and Alicia looked surprised towards their Captain.
"I think Riveria still hasn't recovered mentally from our previous journey in Melen, so we should leave her alone for a while." Finn commented.
Alicia and Lefiya wanted to refuse at first but then remembered the strong spell Lady Riveria cast back then which probably spin out most of her energy, so they decided to stay with the rest.
Lefiya then decided to join Ais, making a happy expression, before looking towards Bell with a rather angrily expression.
"I think it's time for us both to leave too, Noct" Ravus surprisingly announced.
"r-really? " Noct wondered where Ravus wanted to take him now.
"yes, " Ravus announced while holding his left hand, which by the way felt like a real hand, around Noct's shoulders, "if you all excuse us, I and Noct need to attend a meeting in private." Ravus added while going towards one of the two large stairs up.
"where are they going." Alicia asked curiously.
"I think they're gonna make up for lost time if I remember" Dia answered.
"ooh, I remember Bete saying that he and Ravus are from the same place." Tiona commented.
"Noct … " Bell thought, wondering if they'll talk about Lunafreya.
FIRST FLOOR – IVY MANOR – EVENING
"At least it became quieter than before, " Noct said, feeling more relaxed
"look who's talking, wasn't it because of you that it got louder in the first place" Ravus commented on Noct's gossip talk about 'little Rookie's ' and the 'sword princess' ' 'hard and intense training'.
"How should I know that some would get so upset" Noct loudly wondered while recalling the upset Lefiya.
"I think you should've already realized how strangely easy some phrases like 'how thankful he is for your hard kicks' could be misunderstood in this world."
"misunderstood ?, I intended for every one of us to laugh, not to make Bell feel like he's some pervert " Noct explained.
"oh right I forgot, it's not even a week since you're her right. You presumably realized it, but there are certain differences between this and our world, in plain terms..." Ravus said while Noct listened with interest right now.
" ... this world is haunted by perverseness, no matter where you go" Ravus finished his explanation.
"did you just really said that." Noct asked, not believing if he really heard Ravus saying that.
"you think I'm joking? I remember hearing that you also lost your underpants in this world once, right" Ravus continued, seeing how Noct got slightly red.
"how the … oh right... " Noct realized that by now everyone knows about it, „wait.. what do you mean by 'also'? " Noct asked shocked and curiously looking towards Ravus.
"we're here, " Ravus said while seeing a large door in front of them, hoping that he can avoid answering Noctis' current question.
PRIVATE ROOM – IVY MANOR - EVENING
As Ravus opened the door, he and Noct suddenly saw three people, kneeling down.
" " " YOUR MAJESTY" " " those three said in unison.
(ENDING: FM-84 - Running In The Night (feat. Ollie Wride))