Aegis closed the shop early that day before bringing Ning and Ely to his ho.
He lived in a small plot of land with a 2 story house with a relatively big backyard.
"Shaana! Shaana! Look who's here!" he excitedly walked into his house and called for his wife.
"Honey? Why are you ho early?" a voice ca from the other side as a blonde-haired lady walked out of a room.
"Look!" Aegis spoke up again.
The young woman saw the two humans and her eyes went wide. "Is that you, mistress?" she asked with a look of surprise and walked out.
"Hey, Shaana. It's been a while, hasn't it?" Ely said.
"It sure has, mistress," the woman said.
"Shaana, how co you're not greeting my master, and only the mistress?" Aegis asked.
"Master?" the woman finally looked at Ning and realized who he was. "Ah! My apologies, master. Please forgive this fool for not recognizing you."
"No, no, it's fine. You don't have to recognize . You probably haven't seen that many tis, have you? Also, don't call master. I keep telling Aegis the sa, but he doesn't listen to ," Ning said.
"Please do not take away my pleasure to call you master. That's the highest achievent I can think of for soone like ," the young woman said.
Ning couldn't help but smile. "You're of the sa species as Aegis, aren't you? You were back in that beast's realm, right?" he asked.
"I am, master," Shaana said.
"I'm happy my Aegis managed to find soone like you. Thank you for taking care of him when I was gone," Ning said.
"Master, co. There are more here you should et," Aegis said before bringing him to the back of the house.
"Haana, Raelis, gather up," Aegis called out the mont he reached outside.
"What is it, father?"
"Father? You're ho early."
Two voices ca from the back of the house. Ning walked out to see two young Golden Shelled beetles walking away from the flower field.
"Are these… your children?" Ning asked with a surprised look on his face.
"Yes, master," Aegis said. He turned around towards his children and said, "Look who ca to visit us. This is Ning, my master that I've told you about so many tis."
"Oh!" one of them exclaid.
"Father's… master? The one that saved your planet?" the other one asked.
"No, I was not the one who saved the planet," Ning said. "It was soone else."
"Where are your manners? Greet the guest first," Aegis told his children.
"Greetings, seniors," both of them said at the sa ti.
"It's nice to et you two," Ning said.
"They're quite cute," Ely said from the side. "How old are they?"
"The older one, Haana is nearly 100 years old, and the younger one Raelis is only 70 years old," Aegis said.
"Oh, they're very young," Ely said.
Ning had to shake his head to throw off any confusion he was feeling from hearing the number and had to rember that this was an immortal world, where a person that was a few thousand years old would still be considered young.
"I see they've reached the Nascent soul realm. It won't be much longer before they can take a human form too," Ning said.
"We are waiting for just that, master," Aegis said. "The immortal world accepts beasts in their society, but it still feels awkward to send them out into the world when everyone else looks like humans."
"That's why I've instead let them grow flowers for the shop while they wait to get a human form."
"Not bad," Ning said as he looked at the two kids. He walked up to the two and rubbed their head before bringing out a book from his storage.
"Read this and practice it. You will be able to get a human form very quickly," Ning said.
"Really?" Haana was surprised and quickly took the book. She started reading it right there without letting her little brother see it.
"Master, what is that?" Aegis asked.
"You should read it too when you have the ti," he said. "For now, let's leave the children to it. Co, I want to talk to you about your life here."
They left the children and went into the house to talk so more.
Aegis told him about what he had been doing after he reached the Immortal world. Since there wasn't much he could do with his slowed-down progress, he had to find a way to support himself and his wife he had brought along.
Fortunately, he had read Anya's books and knew how to grow special plants. As such, he could start a flower shop using the flowers in his own garden.
Ever since then, his life had been slow with nothing much to do. It was only after his financial status was stable that he decided to have so kids with his partner.
Ning told his half of the story and how he had co looking for them. Aegis felt warmhearted to realize that he was the 2nd person Ning had sought out, right after his own partner.
"What about Night and Blue, master? Do you know where they are?" Aegis asked.
"I do," Ning said. "But they're not in this world. They are in two separate worlds that are quite far away from here."
'I see, so… does that an it will take ti before you go to them?" Aegis asked.
"Haha, no. I can go there right now if I wanted to," Ning said. "But I have sothing else I want to do before I go there. They have waited for so long, I'm sure they can wait a few more years."
"They can," Aegis nodded. He trusted his two brothers more than anyone else. "But what is it that you want to do, master?"
"I'm planning on creating a place, a safe haven for everyone from Kumia so that they will no longer be separated when they ascend to immortality."
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