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Prepare yourself, changes won't wait

In kingdom of Kissinger People are quite the late raisers. So it wasn't strange at all that in the wee hours, long, long before the dawn, No not-duty-bounded Kissingerian were awake. After all Judge knight won't count as one.

In the chamber next to demon king's, judgment knight was dressing. The room was truly a sight to behold; any king would feel proud to call it his chamber. Though it was supposedly next to demon king's chamber, in fact it was quite a distance away from it due to the grandness of both of the rooms.

Judge thought 'Most probably this is the spare demon king room. It is far too grand to be anything else considering Ceo's description of Silent Eagle's room.' At the same time, he swiftly secured his sword on his belt.

He took a look at his new place; everything was in its place and the bed was neatly made. In fact after his stay the room looked neater. He had to acknowledge, he was a neat freak. He turned around and after blowing candles out, left the room.

Hallways in demon king's palace were quite dark and gloomy; especially in such an ungodly hour. But they still looked beautifully ornamented. The feeling one would get seeing the hallways are same as looking at a beautiful black snake. Even though you can hear death knocking on your door, you can't help but praise its beauty.

He strode down the corridor; his back straight and his face blank. It was still a bit too early for his training. So he had time to familiarize himself with ground.

He begin backtracking his way to throne hall and at the same time discovering where each branching paths lead to. Though he didn't have Grisia's abnormal memory, after living in holy temple and countless adventures for capturing criminals, for more than a decade, his sense of direction was quite honed.

This was how his day begun, by drawing a mental map of main building. Thanks to his speed and dark clothes, he was able to avoid confrontation with sleepy guards. By the time he had explored all corridors connected to the path between his room and throne hall and all of those connected to them, it was already sunrise.

Judge scowled deeply. He had yet to find the front door. 'It seems the demon king's residence is in inner most part of palace.' He thought.

"What are you doing?" A childish voice broke the silence. Judge turned around. It was Scarlet; her body once again complete and unscratched; truly amazing patching up abilities.

Her face slowly hardens. "Are you trying to leave unannounced perhaps?" She begins to gather dark elements in her hands; her threat unspoken but obvious. She wouldn't allow her child's new interest to roam free.

Judge looks straight into her eyes. No sign of fear visible in his eyes at the prospect of once again confronting his murderer.

. "I have promised to stay beside him." His face slowly grows darker. "I have no intention of breaking my oath" his voice was low with an undertone of indignation.

Scarlet relaxed visibly; dispatching the dark element. She obviously hadn't come for a fight. She asked while tilting her head sideway. "Then why is the esteemed Judgment knight caption wondering the hallways so early in morning?"

Judge answered "I'm looking for a way to training grounds."

"Training grounds? Humm, you are a knight after all" She murmured. Then added more loudly "follow me I shall show you to the nearest Dark knight's training ground."

Fifteen minutes later… Scarlet and Judge were standing in a large clearing.

Scarlet said "This is nearest training ground. Because it's closest to demon king's room it's usually empty. You can train here as much as you would like." Then glaring at Judge she added "You better not run away! I don't have time to follow you around. My place is with my child!" She then huffed and disappeared.

Judge took a look around. 'It is suitable' he thought; brandishing his sword as he went into training mode.

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Many hours later…

Grisia opened his eyes; yawning and stretching as he sat up. "Child, had you have a good sleep?" asked Scarlet hopefully; her eyes shining.

Grisia hooked his hands behind his back and pulled them outward. "Hum, it was pretty good" He leaned back on his pillows; looking quite lazy. "You can't believe what a strange dream I had!" He proclaimed.

"About what, pray tell?" Scarlet said. She came closer and sat on edge of bed. Grisia didn't seem to notice or care. He was deep in thought. Finally he waved his hand; indicating it was a trivial matter. "Nothing important; just a very silly dream." Scarlet blinked; looking quite curious. "Tell me about it!"

Grisia was about to say something cutting in return, but restrained himself and decided to humor her this once, after all he was in a good mood. "In my dream you went and brought Judge here." He shook his head laughing "And even funnier was his decision to stay" For a second an unreadable look came over his face.

"Oh that?" Scarlet chirped. Grisia froze for a second and then slowly turned to look at her; her response was a bit off. "What do you mean by 'oh that'?" He was starting to lose his good mood.

"It wasn't a dream. I really went and brought him here and he indeed decided to stay" Said Scarlet very briskly.

"Ha ha! Say it again. I think I misheard you" was the incredulous answer of Grisia.

"I said" She begins to put pressure behind each of her words "HE IS HERE"

Grisia blinked repeatedly. He said in measured voice "Are you telling me that judge is here?" A nod from Scarlet "And you have brought him here?" Another nod from her. Grisia smiled and nodded his head "So good…NOT!" He shouted throwing a bolt of dark element at his desk; completely destroying it.

He grabbed Scarlet's collar and shook her hard. "Are you crazy? Why did you bring him here? Do you wish for my demise?"

"But you were so happy to see him yesterday" She said; tears pooling in her eyes.

Grisia let go of her; groaning. "He is here…I am sooo dead."

He placed his head between his knees; hugging his legs close to body. His voice was muffled. "I thought I was dreaming! Which part of it you don't understand?" His eyes suddenly go wide "Wait a second!" He slowly looks up at her. "I didn't say that, did I?"

"Demanding from him to stay by your side, you mean? Yes, you did" Scarlet Said; beginning to worry. Grisia groaned very loudly "Oh my god of lig… I mean shadow! What have I done? Now even if I were to throw him out, he would come back! I'm so stuck"

"heh! It seems you are still afraid of him" Said an amused pink girl who has come out of shadows.

He springs out of his bed and denied furiously, roaring at pink "I'm not afraid of him! I'm the Demon king. There is no reason for me to fear him" 'Right?' He asks himself the last part in his heart.

Pink says nothing. She just continues to lick her suddenly appeared out of thin air lollipop; clearly not impressed.

Grisia expended his sensing ability; looking in the room next door. A vain popped in his forehead. "He isn't there. Your jest was not appreciated Scarlet."

Pink beats Scarlet to answer "It is already noon! Unlike some useless lazy people, judge is a hardworking early raiser"

Grisia nodded his head "Makes sense…" He stopped "Wait a minute! Did you just call me a useless lazy person?" He roared at Pink.

Pink smirked, feigning fear "No! How can I ever dare to do so? Oh mighty demon king! You called yourself that"

Before things can get out of control Scarlet interfered "Last time I checked he was at your training ground!" Seeing his blank look, she elaborated exasperatedly "Nearest one"

"What?" Grisia gritted his teeth, suddenly angry "Yesterday he was in a battle and now he is off training? Doesn't he care for his health? He better not be there, still training!" Then he teleported to the training ground at once.

Pink said licking her lollipop "I'd really hate to be there as a bystander, pitiful beings."

Scarlet give her a once over "You think bystanders are more pitiful than the one who his rage is directed at?" Her tone conveyed are-you-nuts massage.

Pink shook her head. "You really are clueless! Judgment knight is quite a force to reckon with!" Seeing other's skeptical face she added "Go ahead and see for yourself!"

Scarlet huffed; throwing her hair over her shoulders "I'm going. No need for encouragement from you" Giving a smug smile she added "After all he is my child" And then she too disappeared.

Pink looked at her lollipop, suddenly losing her appetite.

"Your child, hah!" She gazed at floor, her eyes unfocused and wistful.

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Few minutes earlier

Silent eagle was not a man to trifle with. He was a clever man who wasn't ashamed to use manipulation for sake of the world and his swordsmanship was nothing to laugh at.

He was a serious man who held unwavering respects of his peers and follow dark knights. He was powerful enough that even his enemies couldn't help but attest to his power.

But he was also a proud father of three sons and a loving husband to his wife; making him to be always worried. So was it such a great surprise that instead of working on paperwork lying in front of him, he was thinking about unforeseeable variation that had been added to equation? After all he had a world to protect.

Nevertheless, to set the demon king off, there was no need for something big and this new development could be as much a blessing in disguise as the other way around.

Someone knocked rapidly on his door; breaking his line of thought.

"Come in" He called out.

A shadow priest entered, saluting awkwardly as he said "Uhm sir! There seems to be some kind of commotion in his majesty's training ground. Not sure why though but It's continued for more than an hour. I thought you might want to know." His volume decreased by each passing words.

"What?" Awaitsun roared immediately and stood up. He sprinted past the trembling shadow priest towards the training ground.

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Judgment knight was having a good workout; 'was' being the keyword. Few hours into training, nearly at the end of his training time everything changed.

Some of more courageous and ignorant dark knights having decided that he was an unknown threat tried to restrain him.

He of course having no intention of residing in dungeon, resisted and then everything went downhill.

First there were only a few of them but as it was obvious they were not even a challenge for him, others begun to join in too. In an hour, routine training became free for all fight.

Many were sprawled on ground but for each one defeated two would join in. Even Judge, who had exceptional swordsmanship and a great strategic mind, could not hope to win especially since he was still tired thanks to both his training and yesterday's fight.

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Grisia was speechless. He really didn't know what to say and it was truly alarm-rising since he had a really strong nonsense-talking ability.

He had come to training ground expecting to see Judge Working out and then to give him an ear full, but this exceeded his wildest imagination. Instead of training judge was in a melee. 'To think the law abiding judge knight would ever participate in a melee! Is the world coming to an end?' He was dumbfounded.

Gathering his bearing, He gathered dark element in his hand and throws it in middle of crowd and then let it explode. Explosion took care of quite a few of them; none died.

Judge calmly looked at Grisia, not even his hair messed up. He stood proud in midst of tangled dark knights, his face blank and indifferent.

Grisia felt anger beginning to bubble inside of him. 'He looks as collected as ever! Even though I blow up such a large amount of dark element he seems so unfazed! So infuriating!'

And thus Grisia completely forgot his initial goal.

'Judge… just wait and see! I will show you who is the boss!' was his new aim.

He gathered dark elements in both of his hand and said loudly "Prepare yourself Lesus! I'm going to beat you!" He took a battle ready stance.

Lesus measured him up for a few short sec. But for Grisia, it seemed to be longer than eternity. He felt like his soul was being stripped bare and judged.

"I refuse" Was cold answer of Judge. He calmly sheathed his sword and walked away.

"You can't refuse… If you refuse I will confine you! Did you hear me? Wait… I'm not done yet! Lesus Judgmenttttt!" He shouted after him, losing control of Dark elements in his hands and causing explosions which blow away any unlucky or slow dark knight around. But not even a scratch was made on Judge.

A squad of Dark knights surrendered Judge, halting his movement. Their swords and bows were drawn.

Silent Eagle, who had finally arrived, kneeled humbly before Grisia. "Your majesty, I'm at your service"

Grisia ordered, seething with rage, without beating around the bush. "Take him to dungeon and lock him up." He pointed at Judge.

"Yes Sir" replied Awaitsun.

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Scarlet was watching everything from a safe distance.

She saw Silent Eagle's Squad try to detain Judgment knight and Judge's easy acceptance of silently going with them but his furious refusal to hand over his sword. She also saw Grisia's interference to allow him to keep the sword.

But most important of all, she saw many dark knights sprawled on ground unconscious and many more conscious but with light to serious injuries while neither of the two main partakers were hurt. She sighed.

She muttered somewhat darkly under her breath "Pink was right"

How she hated it when one of those two would prove her wrong.

AN: Thanks for reading :) I would try to stay clear of love and stay in safe ground of friendship. Writing love story is so hard. Until next time.