Chapter 208 - 208 The precious girl in our heart

208 The precious girl in our heart

“Where’s my father?” Justice asked Xavier and vale, when they were in the kitchen, eating stale bread and out-of-date moomilk from the pantry. They have no choice for now.

“He was gone with Henry and Arthur, your father thinks that he knows where Javier was.” Said Xavier, he winced at how Justice could easily eat the food. “You know what, for royalty, you do have a strong stomach. How could you eat this food?”

Shrugged his shoulder. Justice shows him the stale bread, “If you tear the bad one, you can still eat the rest of it.”

“I’m gonna pass, thank you,” Xavier said to Justice with a grimace.

“And for a werewolf, you really are a picky eater, privilege *sshole.” Muttered Justice while he enjoyed the food.

Vale’s eyes never go away from Justice. “Do you really heal already? Are you sure?”

With a sigh, Justice turns his attention to Vale. “What do you want me to say? That I was actually in pain, but hiding it from all of you? Seriously, Vale, I’m alright, hungry though, but I’m healed.”

Xavier stands up from his seat and excused himself from the room, “I’m going to accompany my brother, you two just discuss this thing together, as for me Vale, I think he has healed already and probably tried to focus on another matter?”

“What another matter, seriously?!” Vale raises his hands, totally confused.

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“Ugh, this is about a trap that Anne set up inside Justice’s room.” He confessed to Justice and Vale, a bit flustered that he forgot to inform them.

“A trap?! What kind of trap?!” Asked Justice with confusion on his face.

He looks outside and thought that Xander can wait for a minute. He sat again and begin to tell them about how he noticed that Xander and Anne were communicating with each other.

“She then revealed her plan to me. I scolded her, of course, since it will put Justice and her in danger.” Xavier ended the conversation and excused himself. “Look, I do hate to scold her, but she needs to trust us, now that she has us as her… You know.”

As soon as Xavier leaves the room, Justice and Vale look at each other. They chuckle together, listening to Xavier’s bashful words.

“Looking at his track record, that f*cking werewolf should be an expert of romantic words by now, but he can’t even declare that we are in a relationship with Anne now.” Said Justice with a smirk on his face.

Vale just shakes his head, feeling ridiculous by his friend’s shyness over their newfound relationship with Anne.

“I’m intrigued by her plan, though. She was doing something suspicious in your room, but I don’t know what.” Said Vale to Justice.

Wiping his face from the bread crumbs, Justice calmly reminded Vale, “What she has done was, for our sakes, it doesn’t mean that she kept it a secret because she was trying to cover something, have faith in her.”

“Well, you don’t have to convince me. It was that stupid wolf who need convincing.” Vale shakes his head and still feels a bit silly about Xavier’s behavior.

“Don’t worry about him. As for Ann, are you sure she is fine?” Justice tried to ask Vale again, but his intuition gave him some inkling that Vale didn’t tell them the whole truth.

With a sigh Vale gave Justice a weak smile, “Nothing could ever pass you, huh?” He took his time and then with a voice who almost like a whisper he said to Justice, “She is weakened, I don’t know how to describe it, but her body is crumbling.”

“How is that possible?” Justice looks at Vale and, at the same time, worried about Anne, “Because she is not from this world? Is that it?”

Vale shakes his head, “I truly don’t know, but as a magi, I was able to detect any anomaly inside everyone, truthfully, she has something inside of her that was so destructive but I don’t know what is that destructive force.”

“And you wouldn’t be able to help if you don’t know anything first.” Added Justice. He close his face and went quiet for a while, until his red eyes begin to open and look into Vale, “Let us concentrate on the problem in front of us right now, remember, we are going to go to your hometown and meet with the round table tribe.”

“You’re right. Let’s hope that they have some tangible answer.” Vale tried to put on a bright smile.

Meanwhile, Xavier walks outside, searching for his brother. He looks around the area when a voice calls him up on the roof.

“Looking for me?” Xander called for his brother while waving his hand.

He looks up and grins at Xander, “Yeah, I’m coming there.”

With a jump from the wall and into the chimney, Xavier could easily go to where Xander is. They meet and have a slight punch in the arms.

“How are you? So nice to see you, brother.” Said Xander with a grin on his face.

“So good to see you as well. I got worried when Justice told me that you got separated from him and the king.” He looks at his brother and the concern is still there.

“Don’t worry, I am resourceful, beside, I got to hook up with a hot innkeeper when I was in hiding.” Xander winked at his brother while implying a wicked gesture in his hand.

Rolling his eyes at his brother’s antics, he gave another punch on his arm, “You rascal! I know about your other Paramore in the capital, a beautiful guard who helped you with the false infection case.”

“Oh, her, she was just… friend with benefits?” Said Xander with a flat voice.

“What happened to you, brother? You never like this before? Something is changing in you.” Xavier looks at Xander with concern on his face.

The only thing that Xander could say to his brother, that he was alright, although his mind always goes to a certain black hair girl, who is waiting to be trial for the unforgiven act of conspiring against the royals.

Suddenly, Xander remembers something that the noisy maid of the inn has told him.

“Oh, brother, there is something that the girl told me. It was about the prince, prince Javier.”