Volume 5 Chapter 2: A Greeting Is An Order


    <span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400">Volume 5 Chapter 2: A Greeting Is An Order


    <span style="font-weight:400">These guys are too much of a worrywart. Keith sighed as he sat in his bed.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Po!" Mir came up and stayed beside him. Keith smiled as he patted the snowball''s head, "I know. I know. They care about my well-being."


    <span style="font-weight:400">After dinner, Gabriel and the rest insisted that Keith go rest. Even if he was alright with cooking dinner, they should at least wash the dishes. They pushed him out of the kitchen before he could say anything. As he was ready to go to sleep.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Keith.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Keith opened his eyes. Diana?


    <span style="font-weight:400">Mmhmm, it''s me.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Where are you right now?


    <span style="font-weight:400">Can youe to my location?


    <span style="font-weight:400">Sure. Keith got up from his bed and got dressed.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Po?" Mir tilted his head as Keith got dressed. Patting his head, "Don''t worry about it. I''m going to meet with Diana."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Po!" But Mir jumped up and down. There was no way he could let Keith leave like that!


    <span style="font-weight:400">"You cane with me," Keithughed.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Po!" And the snowball agreed like that! He jumped onto Keith''s shoulders.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Keith sensed where Diana was. The position she was in was close. Diana, I''m going to teleport to you. The gates were closed.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Understood.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Like that, Keith and Mir started to glow as they disappeared from his room. And the two arrived at the forest.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Keith," The first thing he saw was Diana.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Diana, are you alright?" Keith was worried.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Diana made a strange expression, "I should be asking you that! You almost died." His injuries were deadly


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I should be fine in a few days." Keith waved his hand, "What have you been doing?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">When Keith said this, Diana''s expression contorted as she muttered, "This is all my fault."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Eh?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Sister, this is my fault. This has nothing to do with you." Another voice cut into their conversation. Keith turned around. His eyes widened, "Aren''t you-"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Yes, I am the one who attacked you." The person scratched her head, embarrassed to say this.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Umm-" Keith had no words to say. The person introduced herself, "A greeting is an order. I''m the great spirit of the wind, Nephele."


    <span style="font-weight:400">A great spirit? Keith turned to Diana, and thetter nodded. This was indeed another great spirit.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Why did you attack me?" That was something he needed an exnation about.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Nephele''s expression turned wry as she exined, "That was an oversight on my part."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I know that." That was definitely her fault, "But why did you attack me?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"That was because I was trying to find my sister."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Your sister?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Big sister Diana," Nephele answered.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Oh,"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"You see, I have been searching for my big sister for quite some time now. But I couldn''t find her anywhere. But I felt her mana in that direction." Nephele pointed somewhere.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Ahh, that time." It has to be that. The ce she pointed to was where Diana dealt with the wyverns.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Big sister was the only one who could deal with those wyverns so easily!"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." Keith stared at Diana, and thetter looked away, not wanting to meet the child''s gaze.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I thought you had taken my sister away. There was arge chunk of her mana on you."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Ah, from the contract."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I didn''t think it was a life and death contract." Nephele was sweating like no tomorrow, "I dodged a bullet right there!" If Keith died, her big sister died along with him.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Dodge a bullet in my butt!" Diana pped Nephele''s head, "How dare you harm my benefactor?! You would have killed him if we didn''t jump in!" Diana had noticed something was off. Keith''s life force dimmed. It meant he was close to death. She didn''t hesitate to teleport to his side when she realized this.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I said I was sorry! And those other creatures were so scary!" Just remembering the others was enough to cause Nephele to shake in her boots.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Do you understand the consequences?" Diana didn''t want to let this go.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Keith raised his hand, "It''s fine, Diana. She apologized. That''s good enough." Hearing Nephele''s exnation, he found it somewhat understandable.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"My saint!" Nephele ced her hands together as she bowed her head to this saint. How could someone be so kind?!


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." Diana gave her a dirty look. But since Keith said something, there was no point in continuing.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Diana, when are you going to return home?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">Diana had an apologetic look, "Keith, I still need to do some things before I return."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"There''s no need to apologize. Please take this." Keith brought up a lunchbox.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"You didn''t have to." Diana''s expression softened when she saw this.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"It''s fine. I know you didn''t eat anything today. I also added some orc lord into it to help you out." Keith knew the orc lord was the best thing to help Diana''s body.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Thank you." Diana smiled softly. Like that, Keith disappeared from there.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"That kid is interesting," Nephele muttered. Now that she had a good look at Keith, the person didn''t seem so bad.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Shut it." Diana grabbed her ears, "I''m still going to punish you for all the trouble you caused."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Sister! You''re going to rip my ears off!" Nephele cried. Diana let go as she looked at the food in her hand.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I''m hungry." There was nothing else to do after scolding. But that caused Nephele to frown,


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Do you need to?" Spirits didn''t need to eat. What they needed was a rich amount of mana.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Hmpf! Then I won''t give you any." Diana looked away from her as she opened the case. And when she did, Nephele''s expression changed.


    <span style="font-weight:400">She had never smelled something so aromatic before.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Diana looked down at the cottage pie. He added my favorite oranges. That child. She could tell how much effort Keith had put into her lunch.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Big sister."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"No."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Don''t be so stingy."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"You''re the one who said you didn''t want any."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Sister!"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Hmpf!" Diana cared less as she started to eat.