Chapter 13：First Step Into a Different Future (2) (2/2)
Then...
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”...”
”...”
*Bam*
”Ouch!!”
”Why did you hit me, Jerem!?”
The now reddened forehead, Charlotte whimpered in pain from Jeremy's forehead flicking.
Jeremy sighed and shook his head from side to side after seeing her like that.
”You don't have to come any closer, it's not like we are gonna kiss or something to pledge the Oaths. Don't let your imagination runs wild, lil' loli.”
”Hmph!! I didn't let my imagination run wild. It was just a misunderstanding...”
Charlotte pouted back at Jeremy whom had reprimanded her.
”Okay... now listen to my words carefully. When I finish speaking all the terms, you just have to say 'I pledge' with a wholehearted consent within your mind for the Oath Rune to take its effects... Understood?”
With a firm nod, Charlotte waited for Jeremy to start.
”Charlotte Rosenberg, from now henceforth, you will keep the events taking place here today as a secret that can only be shared to the people present in this room, you will also join my, Jeremy Caesar Lakota's 'organization' including becoming his subordinate, and you won't betray him, no matter what. Will you pledge and bind your soul to the 3 conditions?”
”I pledge.”
Having known the conditions beforehand, with a determined face, Charlotte agreed without any hesitation.
”Then I shall bind your soul and your resolves with this Oath Runeword.”
With an almost inaudible incantation in an unknown language together with his right hand's movements in the air, Jeremy finally said...
”Bind!! [Oath Binding]”
When he finished all of the process. The strange letter in the air started to float into Charlotte's forehead and disappeared completely after.
Then he said...
”Done. The next one is your turn, Owen.”
Just like that, he continued on with Owen and Sam respectively.
”Owen Steelman, from now henceforth, you will keep the events taking place here today as a secret that can only be shared to the people present in this room, you will also join my, Jeremy Caesar Lakota's 'organization' including becoming his subordinate...”
”I pledge.”
”Then I shall bind your soul and your resolves with this Oath Runeword.”
”Bind!! [Oath Binding]”
”Samuel Fenton, from now henceforth, you will keep the events taking place here today as a secret that can only be...”
”I pledge.”
”Then I shall bind your soul and your resolves with this Oath Runeword.”
”Bind!! [Oath Binding]”
...
Just like that, after he finished binding the 3 people's souls with the Oaths. He chased them away from his house saying that he didn't have anything to say anymore, and from now on, they should realize and prepare things by themselves.
As for the Oaths' effects, whenever one of the three tried to refuse or act in discordant with the conditions. Their bodies would refuse to move by itself, their mouths would shut tight, their hands would also stop writing or doing whatever they tried to do.
'If 'they' are good enough to survive the tutorials and meet me on Ortus. I don't mind taking 'them' in under my wings. After all, I want as many limps and eyes as possible.' Jeremy thought.
'Alas... I'm finally taking my first step into a different future.'
'Now, what should I do next?'
Jeremy thought about his next steps and grinned mysteriously.
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[A/N: Please read the Author's thought below]