A Casual Boy In Another World - Chapter 8 Out Of The Castle

“My Queen, wake up. The sun is already up.”

Irene was all smiles as she opened her eyes and saw her maid, Ilia, waking her up. Her sleeping position was on her shoulder that half of her body was buried in the soft bed and pillow. Right when her senses came back to her, she frowned and said, “Ilia, you know, I have this strange dream about the interesting guard we met yesterday.”

The maid’s eyebrows furrowed, “Every dream is strange, my Queen.”

Irene nodded, “Yes but this one is too realistic.”, she turned her back on her maid and let her combed her hair, she continued, “Maybe I feel strange about him that’s why I dreamed about it.”

“What is it about?”, Ilia gently stroke Irene’s hair using a golden comb with jewels embedded symmetrically.

“First, everything was dark. I know my dream happened in here because I can feel the softness of the bed.”, she tapped the soft white cushion, “Then he grabbed both of my wrists and pulled me to sit.”

The maid frowned, even though it was a dream, it was oddly detailed.

“By then,”, the maid saw the Holy Queen touched her left cheek, “he slapped me here.”, she caressed her left cheek as she pouted, “I don’t know how he slapped me because it does not feel like it’s a hand but it’s too warm and it was like a stick!”, she turned her to her left and looked at the maid with a cute pouting face, “And he took something on my head and I saw him then. He said, ‘There is always someone higher than you’! I was a bit angered by that but he said, ‘This is just a dream, Irene.’, so I felt relief.”

The maid blankly stared at the Holy Queen’s face, her eyes began to color eerie.

“I thought that it’s impossible for someone to do that even if it was Cass, the guard so I went back to sleep and then I woke up.”, Irene smiled.

“.”, hell swirled inside Ilia’s eyes as she looked at her queen.

“I-ilia?”, Irene got a bit scared of this.

The maid slowly raised her finger and pointed at the mirror while her eyes were unblinking.

“What?”, Irene stood up and went in front of the mirror

with haste. Her silver night dress that showed the beauty of her body fluttered. Her eyes were filled with doubt. She combed her hair out of her face and saw her left cheek clearly.

Wind blew through the huge open window and made her silver night dress float.

The nose of the maid widened as she stared at the white skin under the silver nightdress, for a split second the image was easily carved in her memory.

“Wahhh!!”, the Holy Queen embarrassedly cover her beneath as she kneeled onto the ground, “W-where’s my???”

Her pretty face became red and was filled with anger, “BRING ME THE GIANT COMMANDER, RIGHT NOW!!”

The maid squinted her eyes and said, “My Queen, please let me dress you up first.”

After dressing up the Holy Queen, the maid went outside to send a guard to bring the Giant Commander in the Holy Queen’s presence.

Before going back into the room of the Holy Queen, she stared at the back of the guard that was running away in fear.

‘Cass.. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill..’, behind her still face, her head was filled with chaos.

..

In the garden, Cass was sleeping silently until a guard ran with haste that woke him up.

“Ah~!”, he sat up and looked at the guard that was huffing. The guard was still far from him but the heavy metal footsteps to the stone path woke him up. When the guard was about to pass Cass, the guard noticed him and stopped, “Hey, kid, what are doing in here? People shouldn’t be in here.”

“Uhh..”, Cass scratched his head and said, “I got lost in this huge castle, sir. Can you please show me out of here?”, he said politely while looking troubled.

The guard who was out of breath chose to rest first and said, “Come, since it’s immediate, follow me.”

Cass smiled and nodded. He then followed the slow guard, “Where are you heading to, sir?”

The guard seemed open to Cass since he’s too polite, “Ah, I don’t know.. Haaa But the Holy Queen wants to meet the Giant Commander.”

‘Hmmm, they’ll easily tell that to a stranger? Even yesterday, the security wasn’t even tight.’, Cass ran slowly for the guard to catch up, “Isn’t this place too loose? The state looked as if this was peaceful for the last few decades.”

The guard laughed, “Of course, for more than a century when this place was known as the capital city of the Holy Kingdom, nobody dared to do a crime in here. On tip of that, the Gods protect this place since the Holy Queen reside in here.”, the guard looked at Cass, “Are you new here?”

“Ah, yes. I was from another place and was brought here by accident.”, Cass explained truthfully.

Through other ways, they already exited the garden and the castle directly.

“Oh, by the way, why are you not riding any horse?”, Cass wondered. Why is this guard just running on feet when the Holy Queen called the Giant Commander immediately?

“Ah, I will ride a horse now. The Holy Queen forbids any horse inside the castle because of the tragedy.”, the guard’s smile vanished as he heavily breathed and stopped.

‘That tragedy again?’, Cass stopped and looked at the guard.

“Well, we are already outside now, see you later.”, the guard waved and went where there are horses and soldiers stationed at a shed.

“Yes, thank you!”, Cass didn’t know if he was heard but he turned around and ran.

After he ran, his face sweated. He subconsciously picked a cloth in his pocket and when he really felt one, he was surprised. He took it out and found that he accidentally put the Holy Queen’s underwear in his pocket.

“My bad….”, he then sighed, “Maybe it’ll put to use in the future.”, he doubted himself.

Cass looked around and saw many tall and huge buildings, “Woah,”, Cass exclaimed expressionlessly, “it’s nothing compared to the modern world but woah.”, .

Growwl!* Cass’ stomach roared. It had been since yesterday that he was hungry. Today, he felt unbelievably weak. It’s a good thing that his body was in top shape like in the real word. Actually, everything about his body now was exactly as before, even the face. He once saw himself on the clear pond.

He rubbed his stomach helplessly, “Now, what to do?”, however, he did not panic. He knew that this is the capital of the Holy Kingdom which he, at least, knew it was one of the greatest kingdoms in the world and was definitely drowning in prosperity.

Everywhere, it was filled with people walking, minding their own businesses. There are still many shops there. Maybe Cass could be lucky and spot that needs immediate help in any of those.

However, before he could go of any of these shops, he was stopped.

“Hey, you!”, a rough voice of a young came from the seas of people.

Cass turned around and saw a brown middle-aged man and a young man who looked 20 years old waving at him.

Cass pointed at himself and the middle-aged man nodded.

He went to where the two at and saw a lot of other young men who’re just older than him and a huge wagon.

“What is it?”, Cass stared blankly.

The brown middle-aged man stepped forward and placed his huge hand on Cass’ shoulder with a smile and said, “Are you interested in an expedition young man?”

Cass’ eyes widened up a bit but later on, his lips curved, ‘Well, this is convenient.’