Raiden didn’t know how he had gotten up to his room, or how he found himself in front of the mirror in the bathroom, but he couldn’t stop his heart from beating so fast.
He let the water run freely, splashing the cold water on his face a few tis to cool down as he recalled the conversation that had taken place in the corridor.
Flashback
"Sure."
"Hahaha, I thought so, just give —wait WHAT?!!"
"I said, sure, I will give myself to you, my dear ’Leon’."
Morgana stepped closer and grabbed the back of Raiden’s head as she stared directly into his eyes, making him fluster hard.
Just as he thought he was about to lose his innocence, that woman had the audacity to back away and burst into laughter.
"Hahahahaha, you should have seen your face!! So priceless!!"
Raiden didn’t react for a second, but when he did, he started to feel rising sha in his chest.
But before he could do anything about it, the woman ran away, leaving him standing there confused.
Flashback End
Splash.
Raiden washed his face and looked at himself in the mirror for one last ti as he talked to himself.
"Raiden, oh Raiden, if you play with fire, you are bound to get burned. Plus, you can’t afford to play with such rich princesses anyway. Focus on your mission. Just take the money and get out of here. You live in different worlds.
"Woolie!!" Human!! Co here quickly!
Raiden heard Woolie shouting from inside the room, making him forget about his worries temporarily. He quickly rushed inside the room only to find the sheep bouncing happily on the King-sized bed.
"Woo~Liee!!" This bed is so soo~oft. Co up here quickly!!
Seeing him jumping up and down so happily, Raiden laughed and joined in as both of them enjoyed their luxury room to the fullest.
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The next morning, a knock on the door roused him from his sleep, and he brought his tired body to open the door.
Standing in front of him was a woman in a hotel staff uniform, blushing a little as she glanced at shirtless Raiden, who opened the door for her.
"Good morning, Master Raiden. The matches for the competition will begin in two hours, and before that, we have prepared a lavish breakfast for you. I hope you can join the rest of them downstairs. Thank you."
"Huh? What competition? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I rember. I’ll be downstairs soon. Thank you." Raiden closed the door and started to get ready as he pulled Woolie out of the bed and directly to the shower.
After thirty minutes and a shower, Raiden made his way downstairs towards the banquet hall and started grabbing all the food, ignoring everyone else present in the venue.
After stuffing his plate to the brim, he found an empty seat and started eating heartily, ignoring all the glances and whispers his way.
"Eat as much as you can, Woolie. We must not waste any food here." He has a feeling that the food he was eating right now wasn’t sothing he could afford usually, so he planned to get his money’s worth as much as he could.
"Woolie!!" Woolie nodded in agreent as he also ate everything in front of him at the speed of a storm, earning even more weird looks their way, but Raiden didn’t care.
"You know, it’s an unlimited all-you-can-eat buffet. You can take your ti to eat. Nobody is going to snatch food from you." An amused voice called him out in the front, as he snapped his head up from eating to glance at the speaker.
Sitting in front of him was a woman he didn’t recognise. At first glance, she looked like a deep-sea creature, with deep blue hair, blue eyes and an angular and soft watery face. Wearing a blue overcoat, she fit the the of a water princess overall.
"And you are...?" Raiden asked, unsurely, not pausing in the middle of his eating.
"Oh, where are my manners? My na is Marina. It’s a pleasure to et you, the infamous guy who clashed with the Prince of Light on his first day here." The girl smiled widely as she extended her hand with white gloves for a handshake.
Raiden glanced at his ssy hands, before glancing at the pristine white gloves in her hands, before glancing at his hands again.
He quickly wiped his hands off a napkin nearby before extending his hand to et hers.
"Nice to et you as well, miss. But who is this prince of light you keep talking about??"
"Huh?? You don’t know Prince of Light?? Tall, blond, walks like he has sothing stuck up his arse?? That guy. You are Leon, aren’t you??"
Hearing her words, Raiden blinked for a mont before he grinned and nodded.
"Oh, that arrogant golden-haired bastard, I rember him. Don’t worry about that. He is just a small nobody. Want so fruit?" Raiden extended so fruits from his plate to the lady, who seed to be caught off guard with the offer, before she chuckled and gracefully accepted the offer.
"I actually ca here to warn you, but it seems you don’t need any warnings." She mused while eating so mango pieces with a toothpick.
"Warn ? About what?"
"Well, that guy is an incredibly vengeful sort. I heard you bragged about your family in front of him. So I reckon that by now, his goons must have already reached your city and started dismantling your family businesses by now. I think that by the ti you get back to your house, you will find your clan and all your family businesses gone or in shambles."
Marina looked closely at Raiden’s face to see any sort of reaction to the news, but he seed incredibly calm about it. If anything, he seed slightly happy to hear the news.
"You don’t seem all that worried about your family?" She asked curiously.
"Hahaha, what’s there to be worried about. My family isn’t sothing he can take care of so easily. We have the biggest underground network and rule the darkness of the whole city. I dare him to go after our family if he can. We don’t fear anything. If he dares, we will dismantle his god, sothing clan or whatever it is."
Raiden started bullshitting with a straight face, as he talked even more loudly, attracting so glances along his way.
Hearing his words, Marina started to laugh, while imagining what will happen to his face will look like when he goes back ho and finds everything in shambles. She didn’t think the underground network of any city could even begin to compare with the Goldwyn clan, the de facto leaders of the capital city.
"Hehehe. You are such an interesting person, Leon. Well, it was nice to et you. I hope to see you again on the stage. I will take my leave for now, goodbye~" The woman pulled out a Renaissance tipiece pocket watch attached to a silver chain, looked at it before getting up and leaving gracefully.
Unfazed, Raiden went back to eating his food. Whoever these rich princes and princesses were, it was none of his business. It’s not like he will ever co across them again in the future.
"So there you were, I’ve been looking all over for you." Morgana approached the table as soon as that woman left, as they both nodded to each other along the way.
"Chirrp~" Cinder followed her as she dived down beside Woolie, snatching his food.
"Woolie!~" Hey, that’s my food!
"Chirrp!~" And I am your little sister, so your food is also my food!
Cinder argued, leaving Woolie speechless. Her logic was so solid that he couldn’t find any faults with it. So he obediently went back to eating other things in front of him.
"By the way, what did that witch want with you?" Morgana asked as she took a seat across from him, pulling so food for herself from his plate, acting almost like Cinder.
"Oh, nothing much. She just ca to warn about that golden bastard clan and how he has already begun to take revenge on my ’Leon’s’ family. I was like, bring it on." Raiden answered nonchalantly.
Hearing this, Morgana choked on her food, coughing wildly as she stared at him in disbelief.
"You—"
" what?"
"Nothing. It’s just that it matches the description of her, the Sadistic Witch of Water." Morgana answered as she drained a glass of water on the table.
"Who, Marina??" Raiden asked.
"Yes. The word is, she is a big sadist and loves to see despair on other people’s faces. I bet when she ca here, she wanted to see the sa look on your face. Too bad, she didn’t know you were not any Leon at all."
Raiden felt speechless. The kids over here have already started to develop so many different kinds of personalities. Morgana had started taking after her Dominatrix-like mother, the golden-haired bastard from yesterday acted like a typical young master, and now this girl in blue acted like a sadist.
He wondered if all these personalities stemd from bad childcare or sothing else.
"Oh, I almost forgot. Mom is calling us to et her before our match. She has sothing to say to us. Let’s go."
Morgana said as she stood up.
Raiden nodded at her words and started eating at the speed of light, finishing his plate in a matter of seconds. No wasting of food here.
"Alright, let’s go."
’This Intercity Competition, it’s mine.’
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