Chapter 110 - Choices Which Change The Future. (1/2)

Alexis' unkind hands touching the half-wolf's body caused such strangeness that he laughed. ”Haha! Alexis? Please let go of me. You're about to choke me.” Luke pleaded.

After the plea, the sleeper hold was quickly undone and the half-dragon spoke, ”I'm sorry, Luke. I didn't mean to...”

She tried to explain herself, her gaze averted and her face flushed. Luke realized that she pretended to be asleep, although he didn't understand why she hugged him.

”Don't worry about it. If you want a hug or some company at night, just let me know. You saved my life once, and I would never forget that I owe you a debt.” Luke scoffed, as he got up from the bed.

At that instant, Alexis' eyes sparkled with vigor. 'He's kidding me, isn't he? Saying that just days after rejecting me...' She was almost angry with the half-wolf.

When Matthew opened the bedroom door and saw Luke the beautiful woman standing next to Luke, he was almost jealous, but he quickly scolded himself and was happy for his best friend.

”Can I come in?” Shyly, Matthew asked.

One thing Luke hadn't realized yet was that Alexis' senses weren't as sharp as his, so she didn't hear Matthew and Luke talking in the hallway while she slept. So when Matthew opened the door, to Alexis he was just a stranger in a black cloak that shadowed his face.

Luke slowly saw the gauntlet of light form around one of Alexis' hands. Before she could invest against Matthew and possibly kill him with just one punch, Luke held her forearm.

”It's okay...he's one of my friends.”

The pressure emanating from the half-dragon was so strong that it almost made Matthew faint. Just at that moment, he noticed that the woman had horns sticking out of the sides of her head. When all the tension had calmed down, Luke sat each of them down in a corner of the room.

”Who is she, Luke, can she be trusted?” Matthew asked, smoothing his almost white goatee.

The half-wolf snorted. ”Before I introduce her, I'll tell you everything that happened in Vasconcelos and why I came back earlier than planned.”

”All right.”

Basically, Luke told about how literally his first mission for the Adventurers Guild was to investigate disappearances in Dungeon and how somehow this ended up in the future becoming intertwined with real demons.

Matthew almost couldn't believe it when Luke told him that he faced real demons, but once Luke told him that the half-dragon in the room was an S-Class and that the beautiful axe he held was the fruit of a demon's death, he had no way not to believe it.

”And that's it... By the way, I almost forgot, Alexis works for the Cardinal Church and is very kind. Only I don't recommend staying near her.”

”Why?” Matthew and Alexis asked simultaneously.

”She's mine.” Luke teased her once again and smiled. The half-dragon blushed on the spot and turned her face away, nervous.

Matthew scratched his right temple and sighed, ”Let me get this straight...you were only supposed to protect a teenage girl and ended up becoming the target of a demon who, besides not having an identity, has a lot of influence? Not to mention that apparently, these demons can control monsters too?”