As Uriel was busy doing his own work far away, at the very sa ti, on the continent of Auranel, the Hayes Estate was enjoying a completely different kind of battle.
A peaceful one.
The sea breeze drifted through the estate slowly, carrying that familiar salty sll from the ocean.
The air felt warm, but not enough to make anyone uncomfortable. Instead, it felt lazy and relaxing.
The kind of weather that made people want to lie down and forget responsibilities existed.
The huge garden behind the estate looked less like a noble garden and more like an oversized field soone occasionally rembered to cut.
Most of the flowers only existed near the edges while the middle remained wide and open like a training ground.
Today, however, the empty lawn had beco the battlefield of heroes and villains.
Near the center of the field, little Rosel, currently calling herself the mighty God of Thunder, Thoratos, was charging forward with all the courage her tiny body could contain.
She wore a toy helt that kept slipping sideways over one eye and held a small silver hamr in her hand.
"Heheheh! DIE, EVIL CREATURE!" Rosel shouted at the top of her lungs while running with tiny stomping steps.
Not far away, Nathaniel stood dramatically with a black blanket tied around his shoulders like a villain cape.
"Hahahahaha!" he laughed in the most fake evil voice imaginable. "You fools cannot stop ! I am GANOS! Destroyer of worlds!"
He even spread his arms wide toward the sky as if expecting thunder to strike behind him dramatically.
Unfortunately, nothing happened. A bird flew past instead.
Rosel pointed her hamr at him with righteous fury. "No you won’t, you evil fiend!"
Then with all her strength, she threw the hamr forward.
The tiny hamr spun through the air beautifully for exactly one second before smacking Nathaniel directly in the chest.
"AGH—!"
Nathaniel imdiately staggered backward like he had been struck by divine punishnt itself.
"How... how can your power be this great...?" he muttered dramatically before collapsing onto the grass. "Impossible... Ganos... has been defeated..."
Then after a pause, he slightly lifted his head. "I’ll return in Revengers Part Five..."
Rosel gasped loudly. "NO! STAY DEAD!"
anwhile, beneath the shade of a round banyan tree nearby, Elizabeth and Rosalina quietly watched the entire scene unfold.
The tree was not very tall, but its hanging roots and wide branches ford a cool little space underneath, almost like a natural hut protecting them from the sunlight.
The two won sat comfortably on a large picnic blanket while the sea breeze brushed against their loose sumr clothes gently.
Both of them looked completely relaxed.
Both of them also wore large sunglasses.
And both of them looked far too cool for two won casually drinking juice under a tree.
"Heh... they’re really getting into it," Rosalina said softly while pouring drinks into two glasses.
Elizabeth accepted hers with a smile before leaning back against the tree trunk comfortably.
"It seems that way," she replied before taking a slow sip.
A few seconds passed peacefully while Rosel could be heard in the distance yelling sothing about "ultimate thunder punishnt."
Then Elizabeth suddenly tilted her head slightly. "By the way," she asked casually, "where’s Julius? Wasn’t he here a mont ago?"
Rosalina calmly took a sip from her drink.
The mont the warm bitter liquid entered her mouth, however, the corner of her eye twitched slightly.
It tasted horrible.....absolutely horrible.
But her face remained perfectly calm sohow.
"He’s doing sothing important," she answered while forcing herself to swallow. "Sothing about sending items to Uriel or whatever."
Elizabeth slowly nodded. "I see..."
For a mont, the two won simply relaxed under the tree again while the sound of Rosel screaming "LIGHTNING SMASH!" echoed sowhere in the background.
Then Elizabeth suddenly spoke again. "By the way... aren’t you two getting married?"
"Well..." Rosalina calmly crossed one leg over the other. "We already are, aren’t we?"
Elizabeth raised an eyebrow slightly above her sunglasses.
Rosalina continued speaking with complete shaless confidence.
"We already live together, we have Rosel, and honestly if you want another grandchild, I can arrange it imdiately."
Elizabeth slowly turned toward her.
Rosalina casually took another sip from her terrible drink like she had not just dropped the most cool sentence possible.
Then Elizabeth suddenly smirked. "You know sothing?" she said lazily. "You really are similar to ."
"Hm?"
"I honestly never thought my baby boy would bring soone like you ho." Elizabeth laughed softly. "But now that it happened... it’s actually hilarious."
Rosalina smirked right back. "Well, naturally." She brushed so hair behind her ear proudly. "Only soone as cool as you could give birth to soone worthy of becoming my Julius."
Elizabeth clicked her tongue in amusent. "Not a bad answer."
"I know."
Then Rosalina suddenly raised her fist toward her.
Elizabeth looked at it for one second before grinning and bumping her own fist against it.
"That’s why we’re great."
"Mother and daughter."
The two of them spoke at the exact sa ti. And right at that mont... "What exactly are you two talking about?"
Julius’s curious voice echoed, and with it the duo turned toward the source of the voice.
Standing there was a handso young man with short golden hair falling lightly over his forehead, a pair of tallic golden eyes, and a sharp mature face.
Unlike his usual formal clothes, he was wearing simple shorts and a loose t-shirt as the sea breeze moved his hair lightly.
Julius slowly walked over before comfortably sitting down beside Rosalina, leaning against the banyan tree with a relaxed expression.
"We were just discussing nonsense," Elizabeth replied with a sheepish grin. "Want to know?"
Julius imdiately understood she had no intention of telling him, so he wisely chose not to ask further.
Instead, he leaned back comfortably and looked toward the grandfather-granddaughter duo playing around on the lawn.
At this mont, Rosel was still chasing Nathaniel around while screaming about divine punishnt, while Nathaniel acted like a defeated villain trying to survive the final battle.
"By the way," Julius suddenly spoke, "Aunt contacted a few minutes ago."
The mont he ntioned "aunt," there was an imdiate reaction from Nathaniel.
His body visibly stiffened. Julius noticed it imdiately and smirked lightly.
"She said she would arrive right about..."
He slowly looked up toward the sky.
"...Now."
CRACK.
A space rift suddenly tore open above the estate.
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