Chapter 90 - [Bonus ] Joren's Return

"A Half-Fury? I feel like I know the half part of it."

Jack searched in his brain, but nothing rings a bell. He only knows one kind of Fury, and it's the God-like being that's a direct descendent of two of the Five Primordial Beings. Other than that, nothing comes into his mind.

'I wonder what a Half-Fury is….'

Jack just nodded and didn't ask anything more.

"Joren, I heard that you jumped out of Charon's ferry ship! Here I am thinking that I will never see you again, but here you are! What happened? Did you secretly sneak into the ship?"

"No, it's a long story, but I'm glad you're here, Sir Jack! I left my card together with my other belongings with Ness, so I thought we were going to be stuck here."

Joren went into the matter. Meanwhile, Kidrith was a little astounded this horse didn't bow down to her.

'He lacks respect, but since Joren's calling him Sir, I must be polite.'

As a Half-Fury, Kidrith still retains that small pride as she knows her place too. She's above mythical beings, after all. However, what makes her so tolerable is the fact that she's been serving her all life.

Kidrith was not used to all the praise towards her. She's just aware of her position.

"I'd like to hear more about where you have been all this time, but we have something urgent." Jack's expression turned solemn.

"What?"

"The Principal ordered me to travel to the UnderWorld since today's the day of departure, and I haven't combed my mane yet!"

"O-oh…"

Jack waved his head, making his mane flow on the air. He truly looked like a unicorn from the legends for a moment there.

"Fortunately, I've done bathing, and I'm young and fresh!"

"... what is he doing..?" Kidirith went and whispered to Joren.

"But… why did Ness order you with that?" Joren pursued what really mattered.

"Ah… that, well, the Monster has been rampaging since knowing that you're dead. Virena's been holding him off alone. However, other goblins, whose brain is smaller than peas, came to support Virena only to power up the Monster. So, the Principal asked me to contact you in any method since we couldn't get even with Nekyia. For some reason, no one saw you there after you were dropped from the cruise ship-"

'That's because I went straight to the palace.' Joren internally replied midway.

"- we want you to stop the Monster. Since he's rampaging due to your disappearance, maybe if we can reach out to you, you can tell him to stop." Jack said in one breath.

"Isn't that pretty important?"

"Yes, but not as important combing my hair." Jack irritatedly showed up the brilliance of his mane.

Handing out a comb, Kidrith offered, "Want to borrow it?"

"A comb!" Jack immediately sat down and took the offer. Using his two hooves, he awkwardly combed his mane. It was hard to watch.

"Where did you get that?"

Joren asked.

"Oh, yes, you never needed it, so I didn't bring it up, but I have all sorts of assortments for making someone beautiful and fresh right in this zipper." Kidrith then showed the special feature of her maid dress, opening the zipper that Joren thought was just a design, revealing all sorts of tools.

"I'm still the head maid of the palace. I take care of the Queen and the Ladies' needs regarding this." Kidrith proudly said.

"Wow… that's convenient, just like Robocat. I want to know more about it but first, Sir Jack, lead us to where Monstein is!"

Joren said, but Jack was still combing his mane. After a while, he was finished and returned the comb. It was filled with frizzly hair strands but full of energy and soft like cotton candy. No matter how nice it looks, it's still filled with strands of hair, so Kidrith secretly threw it away, not wanting to put it in her zipper.

"My bed hair is gone, and my confidence is back!"

'But nothing changed…' both Joren and Kidrith thought while wondering how this horse sleeps for him to get a bed hair.

Wanting to remove that out of their heads, they followed Jack into the teleportation gate.

"I wonder what sorcery this uses!"

Kidrith exclaimed. Unfortunately, Joren didn't know anything about the technology or the mechanism of these very convenient gates, so he didn't know how to answer her.

As usual, it didn't take long for them to arrive at their destination. Its convenient travel made Joren want to kneel and kiss the gate. He had been running all this time and forgot how easy it was with these gates.

With the gate opening, Joren remembered what this place was. This is the entry level of the Myth Academy. It was some sort of a lobby for lesser monsters who were about to enter the academy. He was toured here by Scarlett on his first day.

This place was filled with mythical creatures that he would only see in legends, fiction, fantasy, and conspiracies.

There are even some creatures from games, such as the goblins and smiles. Although they didn't necessarily come from games, that's how Joren met them.

However, instead of the lively lobby room, it was in ruins. The large building was filled with corpses and bodies. There were even ghosts lying around… it seemed that they were pretending to be dead out of fear.

In the edge of their visions was a colossus recklessly swinging its arms. Sometimes, a fire would burst out of its arm while blowing smoke that seemed to coagulate into everything it touched before it turned to something akin to glue.

Meanwhile, a much smaller red-haired figure that's the colossus was trying to hit. She was agile and evasive. Every move of her would render the colossus attack null.

However, the weirdly-composed giant was only getting more potent as moments passed while the smaller figure slowly drained her energy. At some point, she would fall into the trap of the colossus and have her shoes glued to the ground.

Taking this chance, the colossus swung its arm down as fire combusts on its elbow, increasing the speed and, ultimately, the force of the swing.

'Guess, I'll take another damage!' the nimble red-haired, who was Virena without a doubt, prepared to block this giant's attack. She raised her arms and crossed them but—

Nothing came.

'Huh? Did the monster stop?' she lowered her arms after a moment of thought to peek at what happened.

With the impact of the swing, all the smoke was blown away. However, it didn't reach Virena. Instead, it was stopped by a man's single palm. Something that even she, a vampire, wouldn't be able to do.

She doesn't know who's this man in a suit. Although the hair is a little familiar, the first thing that comes into her mind is Joren. At the same time, this man couldn't be him, who was so weak, he died by the Principal's mindless push.

"Monstein, I heard that you're rampaging because of me. But, if you're going to hurt Virena, I'll have to beat you up, do you understand?"

Heavy pressure was suddenly exuded from this man as the weirdly-composed giant stopped. The colossal's skin was of different colors with a closer look, and each of them was patched together. From his face to his legs, they were all patched up together.

The colossal opened its mouth, trying to speak. However, it couldn't as its physiology didn't let it. In the next second, the giant's body loses its power as a small man comes from its nape as smoke arises from it.

On the other hand, Virena's expression was of shock. She heard his voice and was too familiar with it, which was strange. They haven't even met that long, but this voice that she kept thinking about since she last met her entered her ears.

"Joren!!"

The little boy ran towards Joren with smoke still rising from his body. A loud wailing cry could then be heard as if a tantrum.

"They…! They said you were dead! Wahhh!!!"

"Hahaha, I'm not." Joren laughed and patted Monstein's head.

"They also said you're too horny to be alive!"

"Hahaha… what?"

"Wahhh!!"

"Wait, what did you just sa-?"

"Joren, that's you?"

Joren heard Virena's voice, so he looked at her and spread his arm.

'Come, hug me too!'

"You were too late!"

Instead of a hug, Joren was met with a shout.

"Late…?"

"The Principal… she… she…." Virena dropped onto her knees. She wanted to cry, but no tears came out.

Joren immediately came to her and worriedly asked.

"What happened to her!?"

"She thought you were dead a-and made you an altar… then suddenly-"

…

Ding* Ding* Ding*

There were three rings of a bell.

"Joren bless us all! Joren bless us all!"

Kneeling in front of the altar, Ness prayed to the picture seemingly taken from CCTV camera footage where Joren was sleeping on a couch. It was low-quality.

"She turned it into a religion…." Virena pointed with dead eyes.

"The Principal doesn't know how to mourn, so she went too far.." Jack explained, "But why did it turn into a religion?" however, even he cannot explain the outcome.