D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad

Chapter 1756 Romance Spot Check

--- Kat ---

”Right fine thatʼs… not great but I suppose we can take a bit of time then. Um… how come you guys are cutting this so close anyway? Normally you give yourself a bit of breathing room,” asked Kat.

”It was the extra missions we took,” stated Gareth. ”There were some emergencies along the way and they sort of just piled up over time. We noticed we were cutting things a bit close, but even if we had to detour it wouldʼve still been fine… until we had to deal with that arsonist in the last town. They were setting up enchantments that started small fires some time after theyʼd left. It made it hard to track them down… and cost us an extra two days. That combined with the bridge was too much,”

”Yup,” smiled Green. ”And our wonderful Nixilei here was responsible for making sure it didnʼt take any longer! We might have kept moving but the province here is run by a friend of my family, and while technically not my job… it also isnʼt not my job? I guess? Especially with Nixilei on hand. So… Iʼm glad we could help them out even if it is a touch annoying and a potential issue. I donʼt know if anyone has ever been late to the final part of the tournament after all…”

Kat nodded, ”Do you think Thyme would make an exception? Wait a bit for you or perhaps come looking?”

”Iʼm not really sure Thyme would have a choice,” said Nixilei. ”While acting as a judge theyʼve already bent the rules a fair bit. Mostly in the fact that they were able to judge all the rounds personally. If they were caught playing favourites… well normally itʼd be an issue but after meeting the different rulers the only one likely to complain is the human one. Well, some nobles might cause a raucous so it depends on how much they complain… in the end weʼd rather not tempt fate,”

”Fair enough,” agreed Kat. ”Though… if weʼre waiting anyway. Whatʼs the status with your romances? Whatʼs changed since we last met up?”

Nixilei looked like a deer caught in some headlights and tried to dash away to another section of the tent, but her foot was grabbed by Green before she could run. Not that the tent had that much room, but it did have a few different sections to it so she could pretend. Regardless, it seemed Green wasnʼt willing to let her escape.

”Iʼll give me own report first,” said Green. ”Then you and Kress can go. Though… itʼs not like much has changed with us you know?” Green turned to Gareth who shrugged. ”Yeah not much has changed really. We still love each other, the wedding is still happening but not for a while… hmm we should totally invite you to that. I wonder if ʼgetting to participate in the weddingʼ would be considered enough of a reward?

”Hmm… hmm… thereʼs not much else to say really. Weʼve been going steady for a while now and while weʼre not like… all kissy all the time thatʼs just not really our style. Or at least, itʼs not mine and Gareth is willing to accept that. Weʼve talked about some other things like kids and stuff but weʼre still nowhere near ready for that yet. So… yeah nothing else to say. Next,”

Nixilei didnʼt really want to speak… and Kress was nice enough to step forward. Of course that just meant Nixilei HAD to go next, and follow up his act. Where he planned to detail basically everything. Perhaps heʼd get to hear what sheʼd been up to with Asteodia. ”So me and Stan are… I guess in a sort of holding pattern? Not sure what itʼs like for you but he couldnʼt visit all that often.

”Still, he did manage to get something we can use as basically a mailbox,” Kress pulled a birdhouse looking wooden structure from his storage ring. ”This here lets us send letters back and forth. Itʼs nice, but… well itʼs just letters and heʼs not allowed to help out too much on quests and stuff unless he moves here or we make our relationship more official.

”So he could only really visit properly for short bursts of time and one of us had to pay for the service. Which… yeah means we havenʼt seen much of each other. Still, itʼs nice talking to him, I enjoy the letters and his poetry is pretty funny. Not what he wanted me to take away from it… but itʼs amusing at least.

”At the moment though, weʼre sort of in a holding pattern as well. Nothing grand before we finish up with the tournament. The plan is for both of us to take some time off and have a few more dates… but Iʼd say compared to how things were right after the last round? Iʼm pretty hopeful. Not sure itʼs going to work out long term, but I suspect weʼll at least have a good few years together,”

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After finishing up with his speech he turned and looked directly at Nixilei. The fae let out a long sigh. ”Alright fine. I guess I can talk about things. Itʼs… I donʼt know. We didnʼt exactly… get all that close compared to Stan and Kress while we had the time. We… did set up a similar message system as Kress but itʼs expensive to use and well… weʼre just not quite at the same place.

”I donʼt know how to explain it. Weʼre… weʼre not really dating or courting but weʼre also not, not courting. I mean, I know Iʼd be hurt if I found out she was courting someone else and I suspect it would be the same for me. So… weʼre sort of off the market but nothing has really happened. Her parents… ergh. Nothing has really happened on that front. Marigold convinced her to accept a bit of help but she keeps chickening out and avoiding the issue.

”Iʼm not exactly sure what to think on my end of things. Not just because of that but because I reported our interactions to my boss. It feels wrong to do so, but I DID warn her of exactly what I would be doing because of my position and she said it was fine. The issue isnʼt even that my boss disapproves, or that Greenʼs parents disapprove. If anything, they gave my a strong thumbs up…

”But it just feels so unbelievably awkward. Plus, unlike Kress weʼve only shared a handful of letters and we just… oh I donʼt know. It feels like itʼs liable to cause us both so many issues but I havenʼt exactly put her out of my mind. So itʼs just… awkward for everyone involved I suppose. I didnʼt really want to talk about it, or think about it at all really. Itʼs just… all on her I guess but I donʼt even know what I want her to say or do at this point,”

After that Nixilei sighed and just sat herself down. Green grinned and turned to Kat. ”So… now that youʼve heard it from us, what about you and Lily?”

Lily just gave Green a deadpan look from Katʼs arms, while Kat gave a real answer. ”Not much I suppose? I guess the same as you and Gareth though no talk of weddings or kids. Iʼd say… weʼre closer but also not really? Weʼve spent more time together, Lily got to have a super cool moment where she saved the world, and got embarrassed by Gramps, the old dude who raised me.

”Um… but yeah not much other than that. We werenʼt exactly looking for relationship progress because we ended up on a somewhat tense mission to save a world. Lily was super helpful with it, but we werenʼt really trying to… progress our relationship for that whole thing and then when we got back it was more about reconnecting with out families weʼd perhaps neglected a bit,”

”Hold up,” said Kress. ”Whatʼs this about SAVING A WORLD? Because I get your strong but ʼsave the whole worldʼ strong? Even if Iʼm less of an ass Iʼm not sure itʼs enough for me to buy that,”

”Well, itʼs a touch more complicated then that. And itʼs more like we were just barely strong enough to nip a problem in the bud before it became a serious issue. I specifically was sent because of political reasons. Well, not because of anything I did but because of was friends with someone else that had been to the world before which let them… bend the rules a bit to avoid alerting the angels. Though thereʼs no real problem with that. Weʼre on pretty friendly terms with them… but well…” Kat trailed off.

”Politics?” offered Kress.

”Yeah politics. I donʼt know the full details but yeah thatʼs why it was us specifically that got sent,” explained Kat.

”Right but that still doesnʼt explain much. How did you end up saving the world?!” hissed Kress.

Kat sighed, ”Alright itʼs a bit of a story and technically it starts with my friend… but letʼs skip that. So we get summoned into a monastery…”