Yozak sighed, 'No getting around not telling.' "Heika and Geika are currently at Shinou's temple."

Everyone was stunned.

Gwendal was the first to regain his self and asked, "How is it we have not heard anything from Ulrike about this?"

"I can only guess Heika and Geika have asked her not to say anything."

"How long have they been here and how long have you known about it?" Conrad asked.

"Well I can't say for sure I didn't ask but I assume since this morning since they were just setting up when I arrived."

"So you knew about this switching ceremony before it happened?" Conrad asked.

"Hey don't shoot the messenger. I only just learned about it this morning."

"And you just agreed to help them? You didn't try to stop them?"

Yozak shrugged, "No, Why should I have tried to stop them? Heika wasn't happy with the current arrangement, he has always contended to not liking being engaged to Lord von Bielefeld. But I suspect something must have happened to suddenly want to go to this extreme to dissolve the engagement, so I agreed to help out. Though I have to admit the end result even surprised me."

"What was this end result Wolfram was babbling about? Also what was that about breaking and cutting his hand on a fork? And why now did he suddenly decide to do this?" Gwendal asked.

"Well Heika and Geika had some kind of forks, spoons and drinking glasses but they didn't look real. I think I heard them say they were plastic whatever that is."

Conrad frowned and said, "Well it's hard to explain what it is it a bendable material but can be molded into different things."

"Did anyone say anything at all about why now? Yuri-Heika and Wolfram have been engaged for over a year and a half, what could have made him decide now of all times to do this?" Gunter asked.

"Well why now I have no idea." Yozak lied.

Yozak then threw a grin towards Conrad, who glared in return. He had suspected Yozak had put something in his drink the night he and Yuri had kissed. He knew this because he had woke up with a major killer headache. The fact was that he hadn't gotten so drunk that he'd pass out since he was a very young teenager. As he got older he learned to hold his liquor better so that unless he just went really, really full blown whole night drinking the really good and really hard stuff under the table with Yozak which was not very often, he didn't generally get drunk enough to pass out and he was confident he hadn't had more than maybe two, three beers at the most that night but yet the next morning he woke up with a mind blowing headache. Normally he would have gone to Gisela for something to ease his headache but she was currently away gathering herbs and wasn't expected back till later that night and his head was hurting so much that he had barely gotten out of bed that morning and for the first time in years sent someone else to do his patrol. He didn't want to still have it when it came time for when he had to wake Yuri and have him worry. So he did the last resort and he went to ask Anissina for something for his headache.

Unlike most people in the castle he didn't have a lot to fear of her, as without maryoku he rarely held any interest for her so he almost never was a subject for one of her experiments. Growing up he would occasionally look up at the sky and wish he been born with some maryoku. However after Yuri came he had started wishing a lot more often so he could protect him even better. But on the other hand he was happy that she didn't do more experiments that didn't require maryoku. Thankfully she had something to easily counteract the headache.

On the way to her lab where he was sure she'd be despite the early hour, he ran into an extra happy grinning like an idiot Yozak who normally wouldn't be caught dead out this early in the morning without direct orders from Gwendal himself. He soon learned the reason why as no sooner than he asked her for something for the pain did she suddenly start drilling him for information which normally wouldn't have been a problem but with his head hurting so much sometimes it took time for him to piece together the question. Come to find out it was a side effect of a truth serum Yozak had slipped him. Which explained a lot, why he didn't remember anything from the night before and the killer headache; of course when he went to find and kill the man in question he was suddenly nowhere to be had.

Yozak was disappointed when he learned the big secret was nothing more than a simple kiss and that it didn't progress beyond that. But he should have known not a lot would have happened as he knew Yuri was inexperienced and from what he'd heard never even had a girlfriend before and he'd known Conrad long enough that it shouldn't have surprised him that things didn't go much further. He knew that even if Yuri had wanted things to progress further Conrad wouldn't have knowing the boy was still engaged to his brother. If nothing else Conrad was loyal. He'd set aside his own heart and feelings towards Yuri all for Wolfram's sake. Which also told Yozak that despite there no longer being an engagement Conrad would need a little bit of pushing to get him to go for it and take what he wants and Yozak knew he was just the man for the job.

"Why did you not think to ask?" Gunter questioned knocking Yozak out of his daydream.

"Well they seemed busy and after telling me my part which was to bring Lord Von Bielefeld to Shinou's temple, I didn't think to ask why." Yozak said. Well that was mostly true, they didn't tell him anything and he never asked. Of course he could tell Gwendal all he knew but it was just so much more fun torturing Conrad and watching him squirm. When he threw a not so innocent grin towards Conrad it made him more than a bit nervous.

The last thing Conrad wanted was for Gwendal and Gunter to learn about the kiss. He didn't want to imagine the lecture and the accusing stares. Then Gunter would start wailing over how he got to kiss Yuri and he didn't and Gwendal accusing him of trying to steal Wolfram's fiancée, it wouldn't be long before the whole castle knew.

"Anyway as for the end result when Lord Von Bielefeld stepped on the water glass in the center of this circle he somehow tripped and fell. Geika tossed him a spoon and helped him up."

Gwendal sighed, "Let me guess the rest. He cut his hand and then without thinking grabbed Geika's hand."

"Yeah, that about sums it up."

Gunter gasped, "But then that means he's now married to Geika! And there's no way of reversing it without a Blood and Fire Ceremony!"

"That would certainly explain his sudden I hate Yuri mood." Conrad said.

Gwendal nodded and said, "Yes as well as his babbling about not accepting something. Obviously he doesn't like the idea of suddenly being married to Geika."

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A/N: Thanks issm I hope I can count on you to force me to work. See you've been waiting like a good boy and here I've been a bad girl. You see I have a bad habit of skipping working and well more than once my stories weren't updated for nearly six months or more! So if you guys would nudge me to work I'll do my best not to let that happen.