Chapter 122 Invaders of the Mother forest 1 (1/2)
Mars opened his eyes slowly and stared into the ceiling for some time until he gave a soft sigh and sat up in bed and looked around the small dorm room, Victoria was as always laying on his legs sleeping, so was so far in dreamland that she was snoring lightly Mars reached over with his hand and begun petting her on the head and slowly the snoring turned into light purring before she turned slightly in her sleep. Mars gave a wry smile and lifted her up as he pulled his legs out from under her and got up and looked out the window up at the clock tower
'still another hour until class...'
Mars quickly threw on some clothes and left his dorm room after locking the door and headed towards the cafeteria to get some breakfast, soon he arrived and found the queue for the food was manageable and queued up to get some food, after he got his tray with food he looked around and soon spotted a deserted table and walked over and sat down before he began eating his food in silence until he spotted a familiar person and called out
”Hanna”
Hanna turned and looked around and eventually spotted Mars and walked over with her tray and sat down in front of Mars with a small smile on her face
”it's good you back... when did you return Mars?”
”yesterday morning”
”I see...”
Hanna fell silent Mars was about to return to his food but remembered something and asked
”that reminds me how did that thing go?”
”that thing?”
”your revenge”
”oh that thing... it went well, but thanks to it I have lost all my old friends”
”oh... you mind telling me more?”
”well there's not really much to tell I challenged him to a duel and killed him”
”how did you feel afterwards?”
Hanna opened her mouth but didn't know what to say so she closed it again with a frown on her face meanwhile Mars continued
”surely something must have changed... that's probably what you asked yourself right?”
”th-that's... yes I did ask myself that question but...”
Mars gave a smile and continued
”nothing changed right?”
”...yes”
Hanna lowered her head and bit her lower lip
”don't worry about it that's the normal reaction to that sort of stuff”
Hanna looked up again
”really..? I'm not weird for feeling like this?”
Mars gave a reassuring smile
”nope not at all... well I can see your not entirely convinced, hmm... that's fine too I guess, you'll find your own answer... at some point”
”is that what you did?”
”yes”
”I see...”
the two of them returned to their food and after some time Mars finished and but down his cutlery on the tray and gave a soft sigh before he looked over at Hanna that still was eating and noticed her scars was almost gone only leaving a faint lightning pattern on her face
”oh right how is it going with his highness?”
”with Augustus? we're friends”
”I see... and how's it going with... what's his name again..? oh right Ivan”
”we're friends too”
”huh I thought your old friends left you?”
”Ivan's different then those 2 faced friends”
”I see”
Mars stood up and grabbed his tray
”see you later Hanna”
”yeah see you Mars”
after saying goodbye to Hanna Mars walked over and put his tray in the bin before he walked out of the cafeteria and back to his dorm room and picked up some stuff for class before he poked the still sleeping Victoria awake
”I'm going to class, you want to come with?”
”sure...”
Victoria stretched before she jumped down the bed and followed after Mars out of the dorm room but before he reached he ran into Chloe which looked rather distressed
”what's wrong Chloe”
”oh Mars thanks god I need your help!”
”what's wrong Chloe?”
”something happened at the village!”
Chloe was clutching a small metal cube that was glowing with soft red light
”well then we need to leave now, go pack we'll meet up at the gates in 10 okay?”
”o-okay”
Mars ran back to his dorm room and packed his backpack before he left the dorm room he looked around and thought to himself
'and I was just starting to enjoy being back too...'