A bunch of Vermillion appear
|Master, people calling themself Vermilion are waiting in the living room. They desire an audience with you.|(Butler/guard)
|I''ll go greet them, than ya for telling me.|(Apocalypse)
|I only did my duty.|(Butler/guard)
It has been three day since the orc subjugation and it is Eali''s birthday. It''s still to early for a Vermillion to come knock at my door. I ask the guard from what country they are and he told me two come from the beastmen country and three from a backwater country between the demon country and Guarmille
I enter the living room, in it there are three men and two women, they are all at least 1 meter and 90 centimeters. One is man black while one of the woman seems to be asian, the other three looks cocasian.
|Konishiwa, Apocalypse desu.|(Apocalypse)
The black man, the asian woman and one the other woman react while the two men left look at me like I was mad men. I approach the two and crush their shoulder. The other three are too shocked to do anything whie the two go on their knees. I drew my face close the their''s and flash my aura.
|Would ya two tell me who sent ya here, ya fucking stink the spies and I hate spies.|(Apocalypse)
|Bastard who would tell you !|(Man A)
|Son of a bitch was that detection magic earlier ... you caught us like that right !!|(Man B)
|Unskilled pawn.|(Apocalypse)
I break their neck and and toss their corpses outside the room, so how did I know they were not Vermillion ? Easy, first they did not react to my Japanese and one even thought it was a spell, the aura I released would only affect normal human heck even a common soldier can wistand it. Also a Vermillion''s bone can''t break so easily, it is common sense we are made to kill dragon so why an amount a force I use for a normal handshake with Laura would crush their bone ? Answer it is because they are not Vermillions.
I turn to the three who flinch when our eyes meet, I smile and approach them, I put my hands on the black men shoulders and ...
|Welcome ta tha family.|(Apocalypse)
|Huh ?|(The three of them)
I can see that the two women are shaking like crazy behind the man who is sweating enough to fill a bucket, I guess they didn''t see many dead bodies in those five years.
|Ya don''t have ta worry I won''t do anything ta ya. Ya are real Vermillion, you knew Japanese and yar shoulders aren''t breaking even though I applied the same force as the two guys here and looks they''re still in good shape.
Anyway from which country do ya come from ? Speaking of Earth of course.|(Apocalypse)
|The states .... I come from the states.|(Black man)
|No-north korea ..|(Asian woman)
|Italia .... please don''t kill us.|(Other woman)
|I already told ya I won''t kill ya, anyway ya don''t smell blood so I guess you aren''t used ta death but instead ya smell ... ya smell like lylac, ya smell like iron and steel and ya smell like ... fuck yar smell is a mess, are ya an alchemist of some sort ? Oh yeah could ya also give me yar name ? I am Apocalypse Vermillion.|(Apocalypse)
In order it was Black man, the Italian and the korean. But really there were even some of us in north korea ? I guess everybody is as lucky as me, her life must have been hell ... especially since we Vermillion are pretty much thickheaded.
|Barandian Vermillion.|(Black man)
|Sila Vermillion.|(Italian)
|Kimia Vermillion.|(Korean)
|I see, I see. Well I must excuse myself now, so the guards are going to lead ya ta yar room. I must celebrate my wife birthday ya see.|(Apocalypse)
They nodded and the wolf-kin Zarian, you know the guy at the stardust pic-nic. Soeone already dealt with the corpses. Okay now I must prepare the house with the servant before Eali wakes up. And here we go.
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Barandian POV
The wolf-kin Zarian led us to our room, damn this mansion is big, wouldn''t be surprised if there were at least a hundred or so bedroom. A little later Kimia and Sila came to me room. I met them two years after we were sent to this world. We were in a small country and the economy was really bad so we tried or best to get it back in a good shape.
Even if I was in a poor family on Earth I still had a good education and I wasn''t a bad student, a bit unruly but not bad. Sila was well of, her parents were rich and she was used to traveling but the first year here was quite harsh for her ... mentaly that is, but she was taken care of by a blacksmith so she made it her line of work. As for Kimia ... wel north korea is still a dictature so the first year here she had it very very hard from what she tells me but she met a lady alchemist who taught her how to make potion.
When we met we befriended each other and opened our business together, I was the salesman and Kimia and Sila were the craftsman. Not too long ago a man came in our shop [The Vermillion garden], we called it like that because we were all called Vermillion, that man asked us if we were Vermillion and we answered yes, as a proof he told us to hit a ball. I think adventurer have to hit the ball when the register as one.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.
We did it and he told us that we were the ones he was looking for. We had to go to the Guarmille kingdom, at first we were a bit reluctant but I had heard that slavery was more regulated in Guarmille than in the country we were in so we agreed it was safer in case we got bankrupt.
But if we went to Guarmille we had to met someone there, and that''s how we got here.
Sila sit on the bed, it is bigger than the one I owned in our old shop.
|So what do you think of this Apocalypse guy ?|(Sila)
|I-I don''t know, he has this strange aura, I don''t know. I hate that but I felt like kneeling in front of him earlier.|(Kimia)
|Me ... honestly I find it confusing, I felt he was extremly powerful. Just looks at how he twisted those guys neck ... with one hand each and I don''t think that''s easy, also the fact that he didn''t bat an eye doing it. He also named Vermillion and I felt a need of kneeling when in front of him too.
There is also the fact that I can''t shake the feeling I heard his name somewhere else. I don''t know where and when though.|(Barandian)
|Then you ust know him from Earth. Ever heard of the brother of sins ?|(Voice)
We turn around and see a blond man even taller than Apocalypse holding the hand of a wolf-kin woman, he had a scar on his forehead and exuded the same type of aura as this Apocalypse fellow.
|Yeah I .... No you mean he is one of two ? I suppose he was the brother of wrath since they are both called the same.|(Barandian)
|Yup, this fellow was wrath, and what would you do if I told you I was Imperion ?|(Imperion)
Kimia lifted her hand shily, she is bad with man with autorities, I guess it comes from the fact she comes from north korea. the man called Imperion nod to tell her to speak up.
|I-I am sorry but I don''t understand what you are saying and I think it is the same for Sila.|(Kimia)
Imperion leaned himself on the wall hugging the girl from behind and coughed a litlle.
|So I am going to tell you the Earth version and this world version.
So on Earth Apocalypse and me were calle the brothers of sins due to certain achievement in a game and because of that we became fairly famous on the globe. We were proud fighter in the game and brawler in real life, we were fairly lucky because we were adopted in good family ... I don''t think all Vermillion can say this, actually we are pretty sure a hundred or so Vermillion died on Earth.
Then this world Version.
We Vermillion are Demi god, sort of, who serve the Tytan of earth though we haven''t the slightest intention of doing so, we must battle the dragons who serve the dragon goddess. Like you must surely know the dragoon goddess has seven apostle named after the seven virtues, the Tytan is the opposite. His apostle are named after the seven sins.
For now we know that Apocalypse is wrath and I am pride, we are currently searching for the other apostle. Know that the apostle are stronger than normal Vermillion. We don''t look very different from human at first glance but our lifespan exced them by far and the apostle become taller and taller as they resonate with their sin.
That should be all. Now I must say goodbye we must help with Apocalypse''s wife birthday.|(Imperion)
And just like that he left us confused.
|He has some nerves calling himself our leader I think we should make him remember his standing.|(Sila)
|Sila must I make you remember the fact that here you are a commoner and you are in the house of a duke, you know the guy just below the king so make a wrong move and your head will fall. Also he did not said he was our leader he just said he was more powerful than us.
And I know you felt it too, he is powerful, less than Apocalypse but still more than the three of us combined. And since you don''t about the brothers of sins it''s normal you don''t fear them but trust them they are no push-over.|(Barandian)
|You keep saying brothers of sins that and brothers of sins this ... In what are they special ?!|(Sila)
|They are poeple who could destroy army on their own in the more realistic VRMMORPG, they even did one without pain limitor. If they have be it only one tenth of the power they had, trust me, we wouldn''t stand a chance and something tells me they are far more powerful than in the games.|(Barandian)
I actually watched one of their battle on live and to tell the truth I was scared, I was wondering why they were smiling while fighting, I often fought but I never smiled while doing it for me it was dangerous and even in a game I test with a friend all the player had serious look in the fight but not them, for them it looked easy as if they owned the battlefield.
Sila seemed to trust me, I am more or less the brain of the group while Sila is the muscle and Kimia the money bag so they trust me when I say something.
|Neverless if what they said is true then it is good to be here.|(Kimia)
|What do you mean ?|(Barandian)
|What I mean is the populace know a lot about the dragons but not about the Tytans, so that means the higher ups are hidng most of the information so we can guess the royal family and the chuch''s higher ups to know about the Tytan therefore about the Vermillion but here he call himself a Vermillion openly without getting executed for heresy, that mean we are safer here than back there where burning heretic was a common practice.
Plus it was a soldier from this country who came to our shop to tell us to came, we can guess it was to take us to safety. That''s what I want to believe anyway.|(Kimia)
I scratch my head and sit on the floor. What she said make sense, it wasn''t rare for the church to have forbidden knowledge in their hands back in the days. Also this country doesn''t seem to have has many church as the one we came from.
|Well anyway apparently we had a bad timing.|(Sila)
We look at her with confused faces.
|I mean today is his wife''s birthday, plus I heard he had a kid already so I think we are imposing on them. Also the took us in immediatly so we should repay them but what to do ?|(Sila)
|Well you could help us with the preparation of course dear guest.|(Voice)
I turn around a little mad that everybody seems to enter my room as they pleased but quickly throw this thought away since I am freeloading. The one standing at the door is a lizard-kin with long red hair tied in a single braid, she is simply stunning. She is holding a small child in her arms.
|S-sure but who are you ?|(Barandian)
|Oh silly me. I am Apocalypse''s wife, Yualina Vermillion and the little one is Julia.|(Yualina)
|Barandian, this Kimia and this is Sila. Happy birthday ... I guess.|(Barandian)
She giggled a little, the bastard is lucky to have a beautiful wife like that.
|Oh dear guest, this is not my birthday but Eali''s one.|(Yualina)
|Wait you mean this bastard has more than one wife !! Tsk the scum of humanity.|(Sila)
The room went cold at Sila''s word, so cold I could almost see frost creeping its way on our body. The woman who previously looked gentle and caring was looking at Sila like you watch your vomit. We could see that it was her aura that was causing the freezing, we had to handle troublemaker in our shop and sometimes some of them tried to intimidate us with their aura but that never worked but boy believe me if I say that if it wasn''t this cold then we woulld be sweating right now.
Her aura was far stronger than the one in our shop, it was creeping around like tentacles and gave her a menacing look. She put the baby in the hand of a maid I hadn''t noticed, the small maid also sent lightning at Sila with her eyes. The woman named Yualina approached Sila and put a hand on her shoulder, she drew her face closer to Sila''s. I gulped as had an impression of Deja vu.
|Do not dare insult my husband, if he wasn''t there neither me or anyone you saw in this mansion would have here, we would still be rotting in those cursed mines. So young girl, if you dare disrespect him again ... I''ll make sure that your head falls down.|(Yualina)
She turned around and walked to the door, her aura slowly fading and the room taking back its previous appearance. Before she left she face us and bowed.
|With that said I hope you will enjoy your stay in our mansion dear guest.|(Yualina)
And she left. We all letted out a breath we didn''t knew we were holding and whiped the sweat from our forehead, we also tried to stop our shaking.
|Note to self : don''t fuck with Apocalypse and those close to him.|(Barandian)
The other two nodded and we went to propose our help for the incoming party.