A Tale After Four Lives - Volume 1: Receiving The Reward Chapter 37 37: Making A Plan

“So what’s your plan”, Mournomon asked Ceria, she had been sitting next to Masaomi, who seemed to have gotten a bit better while thinking for a while now.

“I think it would be best for us to lay low, and wait for everything to blow over, but that’s easier said than done, how long will we be able to hide from both the church and other devils, not to mention that I’m not really on good terms with the Grigory.”

Mournomon thought for a moment then spoke, ” All right I’ll make you a deal?”, he said with to Cleria, his face was showing an evil smile that was making not only her but Masaomi shudder.

“W-what deal?”, she stuttered barely able to muster the question, she just couldn’t figure this dragon out, it was almost as if he was doing everything at a whim, it was infuriating yet scary at the same time, who in their right mind would make an enemy out of one of the great houses of the underworld on a whim.

Masaomi was the same, he may have only known this dragon for an hour at most but he was completely terrified of him, the power the overbearingness and the complete lack of reason to everything he does was making being in his presence very unpleasant.

“In return of you using the remaining two chances of the token I gave you I will accompany you until you found a safe place, it would be best if you went somewhere where the three powers have no allegiance, like a place under the rule of another pantheon.”

“True, I will have to escape away from Kuoh town, and this token as you have stated will only be active within Kuoh’s territory, but is fleeing to another Pantheon advisable?”, Cleria asked.

“Well it won’t be any more dangerous than staying here, will it. I have said this before, I will ensure your safety before leaving you so if you don’t do anything stupid you will be able to live peacefully.” Mournomon said.

“Ok, deal”

Mournomon nodded to Cleria’s answer before turning his attention to Masaomi, who had been silent the entire time.

Masaomi seeing Mournomon looking at him with a questioning gaze answered without any hesitance, “I will follow Cleria’s lead”

“Well at least we know who wears the pants in this relationship”, Mournomon thought as he nodded to the pathetic Exorcist who sold his soul to the she-devil.

“Well if that’s everything I will be leaving to start and make some preparations.”, Mournomon said as he started leaving the factory.

“Wait!” Cleria shouted after Mournomon, causing him to stop and turned to her with a confused look on his face. “Is there anything else you need?”, he asked.

“Are you just leaving us here, alone and wounded?” she asked with concern written all over her face.

Mournomon stared deeply at her as he put on a face of contemplation, after a few minutes he finally answered, “Yes”, with a natural tone, before resuming his departure.

“You!!!”, Cleria shouted at him, her face red with anger. Masaomi could only sight, he didn’t have many expectations it was a miracle that they have survived this long, so he didn’t think they should ask for too much but of course, he would never tell his thoughts to Cleria or risk having her skin him alive.

“Relax, I will be back in a day or two. The factory is surrounded by a concealing barrier that will unwanted attention away, I also took the liberty to just put a defensive barrier up as well, it should be able to hold off an ultimate class devil’s full brunt attacks for about an hour so you should be fine since I don’t think any of the devils around here would be stupid enough to release all their power so near human civilization.”, Mournomon said as he left the Factory making his way home.

On his way, he had to make many detours as to run into devils, he could easily tell that these devils were none other than the ones pressing Cleria and Masaomi so he made some time to specially deal with them in the Mournomon way.

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After running over the most present devil, Mournomon was very close to home. Looking back at the barely alive devil he thought while smirking, “Guess there will be new legends spread about people reincarnating but instead of them thanking truck-kun it will be dragon-san”

Entering the house Mournomon quickly changed back into Alex, making his way to where he could here voice. Entering Aura’s room he closed the door behind him, but to his surprise, a little scram came from in front of him.

“KYA!!!”

Getting a better look he saw Aura smiling at him with a loving smile while Tosca was trying her best to hide behind Aura. It would have made a very cute sight but unfortunately, Alex realized what the problem was, they were both half-n.a.k.e.d.

“Well, this was unexpected”, Alex said out loud before making his way towards a chair in Aura’s room, “Quickly get dressed we have some things to talk about”. Leaning in the chair Alex closed his eyes and waited for the two girls to Finnish dressing. It would seem he had caught them just as they were about to change into there pajamas.

“But…but…”, Tosca kept stuttering while Aura walked closer to Alex and leaned forward so that she could whisper into his ear. “Are you sure you want me to get dressed, Master”, she spoke in a seductive voice.

Tosca was a few feet away doing her best to quickly get dressed to ease her embarrassment but nearly tripped over when she heard Aura. “A-Aura, y-you shouldn’t…”, Tosca stuttered but couldn’t finish her sentence out of embarrassment.

Aura turned around and smiled at Tosca, “Naturally, I would have to ‘serve’ my Master, but Tosca should quickly get dressed” she turned back to see Alex having opened his eyes. She was delighted at first but quickly found that his eyes where the same old eyes as always there was no excitement or l.u.s.t in them, they were like a clear pool of undisturbed water.

“Master?”, Aura called out.

“I thought I told you to quickly get dressed there are some matters that we must discuss”, Alex spoke, he had a small smile on his face. Finishing his sentence he closed his eyes again and waited.

Aura was visibly disappointed as she returned to Tosca’s side and continued dressing up in her onesie before helping Tosca into her own, Aura had a rabbit onesie and Tosca a Panda one.

After the two finished Alex opened his eyes, ready to begin but Aura suddenly spoke, “Why do you even close your eyes master, you can still see everything and hear everything in your surroundings even if you were blind and deaf.

“True, but it’s just common courtesy”, Alex spoke with a straight face.

“Now on to the topic of why I want to talk to the two of you.”, Alex had a serious intonation in his voice.

“What is it, Master?” Aura asked she turned into her serious mode as she waited for her Master to continue.

“I’ll be leaving in a day or two”, Alex

“Eh”, Tosca

“NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”, Aura, (back to normal mode)