Chapter 139 - The News That Emery Returns Home Reached The Darcy Family

Alliances between demons were rare and only strong people could maintain themselves as equals, unfortunately, the poor goat would at most have a title of Baron which was nothing compared to a Marquis.

There was still the archangel his master had told him to be wary of, but the worry would be minimal since Azarphy was known to be indifferent to everything around him.

Unfortunately, he was very unlucky and came face to face with this terrifying entity!

"I don't believe it either. If there were such a human, how would the gods allow such a threat?"

Azarphy spoke with some nonchalance, he watched Emery pull a long cloak out of his pocket dimension and embrace Arabeth to hide the nakedness of the demon in human form who seemed to love showing his little soldier to the world.

"This is a case that our master Belphegor is also surprised about. He went to look for the great Satan because of an escape from the prison of the abyss a few weeks ago, but there was no sign of the great Satan... You will know what hell is like... Taking advantage of the absence of our great Lord the emperors entered at war, kings wanting to be emperors and emperors wanting to weaken others..."

The goat commented everything with visible fatigue, if the goat could be sincere he would say that he was relieved to have made the contract with a human and to have gotten out of the huge mess that was in hell.

"Let me guess... Is Belphegor second responsible for hell now?" Azarphy asked still indifferently. He didn't care how the hell he was in an internal struggle.

However, his knowledge of the escape from the abyss and that the demons were looking for the fugitive explained Zariel's appearance in the human dimension.

"That's right your excellency... The problem is that the master was contacting our allies and those gods weren't present either..."

"I do not want to know!!" Emery said suddenly.

The goat and the Warlock were surprised by the fierce attitude of the clergyman, they could not imagine the reason for such aggressiveness in a peaceful conversation.

"I don't want to know anything else. Azarphy if you want to talk to your friends go to the other side" Emery said motioning for them to leave.

Warlock: (...)

Goat: (...)

Arabeth: (...)

Azarphy: Do we look like friends?

Emery: *stops his ears and doesn't want to hear anything else*

"How dare you speak…" the goat was going to scold Emery who was a human who didn't know his place but was interrupted by Azarphy.

"Okay, I and Arabeth are going to have a talk with these people, you can go back to the other human"

Azarphy said in a very sympathetic way, he had read Emery's mind and knew the reason for the human's agitation, which was funny since the only reason he did it was that he didn't want to get into more trouble.

He believes it is better not to know and remain in saint ignorance.

"Keep Arabeth dressed and with his ears and tails hidden. I don't want any rumors circulating about a cat man..."

"Alright alright, we'll be back soon," Azarphy said very patiently, shocking the goat and the Warlock.

Who was that cleric who could control such a powerful archangel?

"Oh, just one thing... The death of priests..."

"I don't have anything related to it, I came here with a different mission"

"Poison the captain of the holy knights?" Emery asked jumping to the other mysterious case which was Levi's poisoning with Blue Fire herb.

"No, no, that would be much more problematic than killing old priests... I came here in the name of love, would you believe that?" Warlock said with a macabre smile.

"No not a bit"

"You're right, I came to avenge my loved one... You'll know soon enough what I did" The Warlock said with a strange calm, which caused a strange chill in Emery that he shivered.

"Forget it... I won't ask anymore." Emery gave up and then asked Azarphy if it had anything to do with threatening his safety. He didn't want to hear the secrets of supernatural beings, he didn't want to get bogged down in these problems.

"Just call me or call Arabeth we'll show up in a few seconds." Azarphy reminded Emery that he had an odd habit of acting as if he didn't have obvious support from them.

Like when he went out with Giovanni and tried to sort it out himself, which was a little understanding seeing Emery's level of caution, but there were too many powerful supernatural beings that could be a threat to the human, which left the other two worried about that independent and lonely attitude of his.

Far from the Abbey Matteo, in the Aurore Empire in the main mansion of Duke Leon in the dining room where there were only two men with similar characteristics, dressed to the nines with their coats, one a dark green color and the other a luxurious purple color.

They took off their coats remaining in their long-sleeved linen shirts and a little puffed up, the shorter man's red hair was pulled back in a long ponytail while the taller, stronger man had short, slightly ruffled hair a little damp. leaving the strands a bright red-orange-like fire.

Despite having different styles, the similarity in many points in the faces of both showed that they were from the same family.

They stared at each other for a short period of time before taking a seat at the table, they skipped their polite and expected morning greetings from them, just the taller man's grumbling and the other man's brief smile were enough compliments.

"Darius, Louis sent a message," the tall man said as he sat down in front of the small laches the servants left. Already Darius was having his breakfast that time already late, he had slept a lot of pie working.

Darius Darcy was working hard to keep his mind always occupied, eating or sleeping was unnecessary for him, but the butler who served him was insistent that he come down to eat and socialize with the family.

As the main heir, Darius had to fulfill this role of a good son and mark his presence as future Duke of Leon.

However, his father, stepmother, and grandparents had already eaten early, even his younger sister was away working, only his second younger brother Charles Darcy was home after his morning training with the family knights.

He preferred it that way, he didn't want to face his father, just by looking at his father he felt he couldn't contain the anger that only increased with the passage of time.

"And?" Darius said indifferently, but Charles could see the long, smooth-fingered hands becoming tense as they gripped the silverware.

"Emery will be coming home," Charles said watching his older brother's reaction.

"What about our father?"

"He was the one who asked Emery to come home," Charles said with a trace of bitterness in his voice.

He and Darius were against Emery being sent to the church, they took care of that younger brother with all love and the young man's talent was high for magic, Darius and Charles didn't want to be heirs, they were happy for Emery to become heir.

They didn't understand their father's attitude, Emery was forcibly sent to boarding school in the capital's abbey, when he returned home for the winter festival he was no longer his little brother they knew.

Unlike Emery, he looked like a shadow of himself with arrogance and a strange coldness, as if there was another being inside their dear little brother's body. 

Darius felt the impact much stronger than the others, the second person was Emery's mother who cried a day and a night, to the point where Duke Leon went on a trip with his wife to calm her down.

Emery himself didn't care much, he spent a lot of time in the library reading about the sacred scriptures and the night going to the brothels. He was later brought home by Charles, who had come in hiding so Emery wouldn't get caught in some scandal later. Of course, he had some people who kept an eye on Emery in case anyone tried to steal the "seeds" of the Duchy of Leon.

That month was very difficult to even for Alene the twin sister of Emery, she looked at her twin brother as if he was a stranger, which was a little weird for Charles and Darius.

Emery and Alene were almost inseparable, the two spent a lot of time together in their father's lab studying and blowing things up. Darius and Charles only became closer to Emery when he entered his teens, yet Alene and Emery escaped the mansion to explore the capital on their own.

Which showed that the bond between the twins was still quite strong.

Which caused a lot of headaches for Charles and Darius who had to find their little sister and little brother before their father knew of the disappearance.

Alene treating Emery like a stranger had been embarrassing and made his stay unbearable for everyone.

Darius thought for a moment that they had sent the wrong person home, but the younger brother's stunning beauty was still there.

So that could only be Emery.

After that Emery very rarely came home, they always met in some restaurant and spent a short time together, in the end, Duke Leon sent Louis when Emery finally became a priest and took on his new role.

"Louis said he finally came to his senses," Charles said seeing his older brother in a long silence.

"What is this reason for him to come back?"

"Maybe he's back to how he was before?" Charles also didn't understand what Louis meant by that message.

"Ah, if it were true," Darius said sadly. If he'd known Emery would become that way that was just an empty shell of warm human feelings, he would have fled with him to another country as the young man had suggested.

"Darius, you can't blame yourself for that day. That was crazy… Where would you run away? To the Saurus Empire? The Empire of the Elves? Do you think our father wouldn't find you?"

Charles said holding his older brother's hand, they both became even closer with Emery going to boarding school.

It was a secret to everyone but Charles about the strange relationship between his older brother and his younger brother. In contrast, of the many people who would act disgusted and even angry, Charles only comforted his older brother when he saw him in such pain and guilt.

Darius already felt so bad about everything, Charles had no desire to put his older brother down any further. He considered the two brothers to be insane and ill-judged.

"Anywhere, even if it didn't last long would be better than seeing Emery come back like that," Darius said sadly.

Charles sighed and let go of his older brother's hand, letting him force himself to eat while he drank some wine. He would keep his brother company, then he would have to meet with his father to fulfill some of Louis' requests.

The father was in the laboratory for a long time and the current butler wouldn't let anyone come close, but as it was Louis who sent the message, then the father would leave the laboratory to find out the news.

Charles would take the opportunity to find out what his father wanted with Emery's return, was that some kind of ultimatum or was it related to his stepmother's sudden illness?

The meal ended in silence, so Charles, watching Darius sipping a small glass of cherry liqueur, seemed to have calmed down more.

"I'm going to talk to dad now"

Charles said getting up and walking away, the large dining room with the long table, with beautifully upholstered chairs and framed in sumptuous wood, the colorful tapestry from the Eastern Continent showing the richness in the embroidery of gold, silver and with delicate jewelry ornaments precious…

Everything so rich with the golden candlesticks with floating light orbs, first-rate magic items, the large chandelier with crystal pieces, and floating light orbs that looked like glittering and flashy diamonds…

So much wealth and beauty, but to Darius, everything was as gray and dead as he felt inside.