"... What?" After a pause, Noah asked, completely lost to their question.
"I mean... The Blessed Governing Body is a government institution to protect people and Blessed from Blessed who are doing wrong things or that could endanger society. The only time I saw someone get a Summons was when they found out about one of our assassins and summoned him, to arrest him without the risk of a full blown fight," Khish explained, making Noah very thoughtful.
"Same here. The only time I saw one of those was when a Blessed abandoned their party to die. One of them survived and denounced him," Sha said, making Noah furrow his brow. "I—I wasn't there! It was a party of a person I had dived with once... He was one of the ones that died that day," she said, slowly turning gloomy.
"Welp, it probably has to do with the Arena, then. I kinda went overboard," Noah said, dissipating the tension, making everyone sigh, since that was a thing they considered so normal by this point that memory had failed them. He did kill many Blessed.
"If that's the case all you gonna get is a warning or a request to kill less people next time. They overlook most events in the arena." Carlos felt the tension in the air, and calmed Maggie and Bel down, since both had some very strange expressions.
"Oh well. We arrived," Noah said, as he saw his old house further down the road, and the car slowly rolled to a stop in front of his room, with Noah warning the monsters of the visitors. 'Unicorn, Terrence, we arrived. There's two girls who will now live here, so you will be relieved of the hassle. I'll leave imps to protect them.' Noah said, as he slowly heard a yawn.
"Uwaaa... I slept so well! Eh, did we already arrive at your house?' Lilith said, looking out the window as soon as her eyes got used to the light.
"Yeah, we did," Noah responded out loud, as he arranged her around his neck and stood up, being the first to leave the car. 'Terrence, unlock the front door, please.' he told the bird, whose presence he felt flying towards the door, and turning the key.
"By the way, I'll introduce you guys to my guards," he said, opening the door, and making the girls freeze on the spot.
"A—A—Are those—?" Al stuttered, staring at the flaming unicorn and the large black bird landed atop it's neck. The feeling was stronger than what she felt when there was the spill, these were even more powerful monsters than the ones that destroyed the city.
"N—Noah... What in the fucking hell are you?" Khish asked, her eyes wide.
And Alice silently watched with fear. She had never seen a monster in her life aside from Lilith. And those, at least to her, felt a lot more wild and aggressive.
"Uwaa... The unicorn is so beautiful," Sha, however, had a different view. She knew it fairly well, a demi-boss of one of the Fortresses she had dived. But then, her eyes fell on Terrence, and her gleeful atmosphere vanished, almost as if she had flipped a switch.
"Noah, why do you have a Boss Monster with you inside the city?" she asked, serious, while Noah turned to face them with a smile on his throat while laughing.
"We can have that conversation in a more private space. Come on, let's get home already," he said, stepping inside, the monsters coming too.
"Absolutely not. They won't even be the ones helping with security once you guys move in," Noah told her, making her tension disappear into a face of disbelief.
"They were here because I could trust leaving the house alone to them knowing they could take care of anyone who tried to break in. But since you will be here, it's better to put a nice squad of Imps, since they are smaller and can somewhat stay hidden, and I can make them obey other people."
"Why can't you make the two stronger ones obey others?" Sha asked, listening in to the others' questions.
"I probably can. But these kinds of monsters hate responding to people weaker than them, so I'd rather keep them happy," he said, implying these monsters had wills of their own, something most Blessed were completely blind to.
"I see..." Sha muttered, letting Noah finish.
"Also, I'd rather have them free in case I go into a dangerous fight. Back when there was the Spillage downtown, I had them protecting the house, and I didn't want to leave it empty after calling them back." As he said this, everyone's expressions, including Carlos', changed drastically.
"You can call them up from anywhere?!" Carlos exclaimed, his eyes wide. "Just like the imps?!" he asked, very pleasantly surprised.
"Well, kind of. I can dispel the Summon, and summon them again where I am. But I have no way to send them back to where they were before," Noah explained, making Carlos nod in agreement, but it seemed like he was the only person around who was really satisfied with this answer.
"Doesn't this spend a lot of mana?" Khish asked, prying about his skill.
"It does, but I have a method of restoring my mana during the fight, so it's not a problem," he said matter-of-factually, taking the former assassin aback.
"You can recover mana?! I thought it was impossible!" Sha said, a smile starting to grow on her lips, as she thought, 'If I can do this then I'll be more useful and maybe even my rank will rise!'
"I can... It's more like an energy generator, though,' Noah started, making her brows frown. "Long story short, I can exchange matter to mana, by burning it with my flames," Noah said, striking his fingers as if it were a lighter, a small sparkling flame appearing every time.
"Oh..." Sha sank, seeing it was impossible for her. "IS that why you always seem to burn the monsters we have nothing left to collect from?" she asked him, making Noah smile.
"Yep, that's exactly why. It's also why, in the arena, I always burned to ash every person I ended up killing," he explained, a faint smile appearing on Sha's lip as she was able to take a weight from her chest, that of the criticism people gave him for having burnt the enemies that way.
If he had this good of a reason, and it was what allowed him to keep fighting, then who was she to complain of his means.