William wanted part of this grand loot for his future plans, and he wouldn't be stopped by such a la excuse of being seen as a materialistic person, being greedy, or sothing like that.
When he arrived in the back room section, he saw a long corridor with many doors opening at it.
Through the slightly opened doors of so rooms, he found out that everyone inside was in deep sleep.
At this mont, and through the opened windows in these rooms, he noticed that it was pitch black outside, and that ant he slept for a long ti but still awoke in the middle of the night.
"I'll rest then," William excused himself when the butler led him to an empty room in the side of the long corridor, "I'm going to leave tomorrow, so I expect to get my reward before leaving."
"... Have a nice sleep," the butler knew if he lingered around for any longer, he might lose all respect for this kid.
When he left, all he thought about was that kids were really kids, no matter what. Even if William had such a formidable master, pulled such a miracle, saved their clan, he was still acting and thinking as a kid.
William closed the door behind to be welcod with a very large bed. In his eyes, this was much more worthy than any other rewards at the mont.
He never got the chance before to sleep on such a large bed since coming back. Even the sofa looked like a dream to him.
He discarded any of his thoughts and simply jumped over the bed. As his body felt the cosy feeling of the sheets, he couldn't resist falling again under the magic spell of sleep.
This ti, it wasn't just fatigue who drove his body to sleep, but also the desire that deeply ca from his body to enjoy a mont of rest, just like his past days when he was a mighty figure owning a place much grander than this.
Morning ca fast, and the first thing William saw after getting out of his room was the faces of Lina, Ary, and Berry.
Others were nowhere to be seen. William didn't need to ask as this was considered an internal matter of the clan.
"Did you sleep well last night?" seeing him coming out from his room at last, Berry couldn't help but hurriedly ask.
She was concerned about him, eyeing him as her man from yesterday's battle.
"Uhm, it felt great," William honestly answered, oblivious to her thoughts he turned to Lina and Ary, "are you ready to go back to the academy?"
"I… I received an order to remain here," Ary suddenly showed a weird look on his face.
For soone like him, his life wasn't his own to control. To his surprise, a ssenger from the academy ca with this simple yet shocking order.
He was asked to stay here and be one of the guards of the clan.
And that wasn't all! When the ssenger left, the butler of the clan, Lude, told him that he was selected by one of the elders to be a direct disciple and a personal guard of his.
This was an honour he never expected. But he wasn't that delusional to think he really caught the eyes of that elder.
It was all thanks to William.
He was seen coming with William's group and seed to have a close relationship with him. So, the clan higher ups seed to try their best to get the favour of William by doing this.
William wasn't stupid either. He knew this was done to get to the good side of him.
'But… Did they intend to get away from the rewards just by doing that?' he frowned before he saw a girl running and jumping over into his embrace.
It was Tina!
"Young master! I heard about what you did! It's aweso!"
Seeing her bright face and hearing her laughs made William laugh and leave such troubling thoughts behind.
He'd have to worry about such matters later on when he'd et with the old man.
"Little devil, where were you hiding?" William played with her hair and Tina laughed. She seed happy as she said:
"I hid in the house. It's a very huge one. And after the battle ended, I got to play with many kids during the morning while waiting for you to wake up. Big sis stayed all this ti in front of your room's door, waiting for you to wake up."
The mont she said these words, William turned towards Lina, and the latter looked to the side.
If not for her mask, William imagined a face filled with redness waiting for his eyes to et.
He ignored such a remark, turned to foil with Tina's hair as the little devil enjoyed such treatnt and considered it as a ga or sothing.
Tina seed to enjoy her ti, and this was what kids should do at her age. But William knew with her background, she and her sister didn't have the luxury to enjoy such life for long.
William kept such thoughts to himself. He intended to raise up these two and support them with things he only knew in this world.
If they had such a troubleso background and bloodline, they were fortunate enough to et him.
"Are you really leaving today?" Berry stood on the side and watched this warm atmosphere before slowly asking.
"Don't tell you plan to keep hiding here forever," William laughed, "if I'm leaving, then I'm taking you with ."
"Take who with you, ignorant brat!"
Just before Berry's smile would brighten up her face, a snort ca from behind and a man showed up.
It was her father!
"What? Isn't she part of the academy or what?" William knew how hostile this father acted towards him. And he wasn't the man to back down from such confrontation.
"Humph! The clan just got out from such a disaster. We need everyone to help rebuild everything we lost."
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