203 Officially part of the Brigade (1/2)

'Another good sleep…'

Opening my eyes, I could feel that my body has recovered from the side effects of over drawing 'Unbound Vitality' to re-attach my hand.

Of course, it was a similar long sleep that lasted a day and half causing me to wake up early for the day of the ceremony at 8 AM…

'5 hours to go…'

Since the ceremony was scheduled to start at 1 PM sharp, that meant that I could stay in bed till then…

Half an hour later…

Unfortunately, it seemed like someone else had another opinion…

Knock. Knock.

”Yes?”

”It's me, I want to see you in my office in five minutes.”

'So he has opened the letter already…?'

As I was expecting a similar reaction, I bid farewell to the comfy bed as I got up, put on my classic outfit before heading towards the Head's room.

Upon entering, I could see that the Head wasn't sitting there alone, as he had a masked man sitting on the couch opposite to the one he was sitting on.

”Take a seat first.”

”Ok.”

Sitting on one of the individual chairs, I looked at the masked man awkwardly, as it felt pretty strange to have two masked people in the same room.

”This is a messenger sent from the Imperial Palace's side, he his here in regards to the matter of the events you have went through for the last month.”

”Oh, nice to meet you.”

The masked man nodded without speaking as he looked back at the Head.

”I got the gist of what you were doing from your letter's content and the great 'Souvenir' you left me, but we want to hear more about the important details…”

”I see, forgoing the useless details, all I can see that due to unknown reasons I was pursued by an unknown assailant who tracked me with the intent to kill, and after trying to avoid him to no good, I had to confront him in a place quite close to this Capital which coincidentally happened to be in a forest covered with an illusion formation which he intended to trap me in and escape…”

”Luckily, I did manage to see through it, finding a dark cave, though allowing the assailant to escape, in the end I remembered the cave's location to check it out later and use it for some tempering & training, so as we were given a month of free time, I took the chance to, only to find out that it was nothing but an ordinary cave…”

”After going through gruelling battles and almost freezing to death, I found myself in a place full of friends of that 'Souvenir', I did manage with a stroke of luck to destroy that place and taking out their commander barely getting out in one piece, and considering the dangers & 'surprises' that I encountered in that gate, I found that someone needs to be informed-”

I wanted to continue my talk but looking at the ghastly expression on the Head's face and the masked man's serious attention, I paused slightly...

”This changes everything…”

The masked man stood up as he left, seemingly in a hurry, while the head gestured for me to leave…