CH 405

The Day of Departure

Since I ended up chatting about my own past as well, the talk ended up going on for a longer time than I had expected but, that should cover all I have to talk about Klaus.

When talking I realized even further but, there’s really not a lot of info on Klaus compared to the other two.

I really wanted to gather more info somehow but……..the day of departure was the morning of the day after tomorrow so unfortunately, it’d be difficult to make that happen.

“Anyway. That’s all the info we have on Klaus. It might not be much and even as his real brother, I barely interacted with him so there’s not much I can draw from the past either.”

“And after getting almost killed, you ran into the forest to hide which led to us meeting you finally eh!………. isn’t it a bit too strange how, even though you’re blood brothers, you guys have no history or episodes with each other outside of the one incident where he tried to kill you?”

“Well, I guess we never were normal siblings. It may be as you say Ralf, things were perhaps twisted from the very beginning for us two.”

Not just us siblings, but our entire family may have been completely twisted at its core.

I barely talked with my own mother, and while my father was always supervising me at every moment, we still never had a normal chat, at least I certainly can’t recall one.

All our conversations would be him ordering me to do something, and me doing said thing. Nothing more.

“I feel like none of this would have happened if you two had had proper quarrels and fight since childhood ironically. Honestly, I’m starting to feel like the real problem lies in your parents. Not that I enjoy talking ill of someone else’s folks though!”

“Rather than parents, it’s mostly our father. I consider him the main problem as well but………even then, I still have to fight Klaus no matter what. Sorry to have you two go along with my problems.”

“We know that you can’t stop anymore. And still we chose to come with you knowing all that so please, no need to apologize any further……….let us go and settle this, once and for all!”

“Yeah. Stick with me till end okay?”

“Of course! I know I’ve complained a lot in between stuff but, in the end both me and Esta are your allies first and foremost! Even if the world labels you a villain for what you’re about to do, we’re still not going to leave your side!”

“Ralf, Esta, thank you.”

And thus, after giving my heartfelt gratitude to both of them, our last meeting before the departure came to a close.

It was meant to be just a simple info confirmation meeting but in the end there, things became a bit strange however, being able to see their strong resolve first hand was also very reassuring for me.

Now, all that’s left is to rest our bodies completely all day tomorrow, and then get ready to depart the day after tomorrow.

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Early morning, two days later.

Since we spent the entire yesterday just lazing around our luxurious room, I was able to head into the morning in perfect condition, with no fatigue accrued in my body.

Ralf and Esta were already awake, and Ralf seemed to be playing around with Snow, while Esta was in the shower judging from the sound coming from the bathroom.

“You two awake already? Did you get proper sleep?”

“I won’t say I slept like a log but, yeah it was a good sleep! You however seemed to really have slept like a log huh Chris!”

“Well, it’ll be a long while before we’ll get a chance to rest this comfortable after all. Did you two wake up at the same time?”

“Nah, me and Snow got up first. Esta only woke up like 10mins ago.”

“Which means Esta also got a good amount of sleep then. Let’s wrap up the prep and quickly head out in that case.”

“Phew, finally eh? I know there’s still ways to go but man, I’m starting to feel the nerves.”

“Hold your nervousness at least until we get to the ancient ruins. According to Charlotte it’ll take at least two days of walking until we get there. Well, if we raise our speed it’ll take much shorter though.”

While having such a chat, we began finishing up our travel prep.

Most of the actual prep had already been done yesterday so, it was mostly changing clothes and making sure we weren’t forgetting anything and by the time Esta came out of the shower, we were already done.

Then, we waited for Esta to finish up her own packing as well, and then we quickly checked-out of the Inn.

Anything we couldn’t carry with us, we had already dropped at Isabelle’s house yesterday so we headed straight towards to gates to leave.

The dawn was still only breaking so there were very few people outside, and us three were mostly by ourselves as we walked down the main street.

Since I had to stay mostly hidden inside the city, I still had the feeling of having not enjoyed the city enough but, I can always do that after the battle was done.

Resolving myself once again to win against Klaus and return alive, we reached closer to the gates to exit the city when……….we saw a bunch of people already gathered there.

It was Alexandra and Gautier, and even Charlotte who said that she might not be able to make it to see us off.

And then, there was even a sleepy looking Mielle, and even graham who was standing a little away from them.

I never even told him the details of when I’d leave so I was not expecting to see him here at all but, I was still very thankful that he made the effort to come all the way.

Let’s say our farewells properly before heading out of the capital shall we?