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Guilt

"N-No way..."

"Pfft!"

Liana stifled a laugh at Orion's panicked figure. Truthfully, she hadn't laughed that much since long ago.

"Lord hero, there is a change of clothes here so please change yourself."

Looking at the drenched uniform of Orion, Liana pointed at a shelf in the room.

"Y-Yes thank you very much."

Liana smiled at him and left the bathroom.

"She was really beautiful..." Orion muttered, but quickly shook his head.

Then he removed his clothes and gasped.

"This is really another world !"

He uttered seeing his body perfectly healed.

He was shot by a true gun several times after all, but now there was not even a single scratch.

Suddenly he remembered what had happened.

"I can't believe what is happening..."

Just the fact that he was taken as hostage and shot by a gun was really movie-like, but now he was literally in another world.

Thinking about that, he took the neatly folded clothes from the shelf.

'Black pants, white shirt, blazer and tie. Is it a formal outfit also in this world ?'

The black suit was the kind of suit you would wear on important ceremonies and Orion didn't have doubts that it was extremely expensive.

Putting on the black suit, he left the room.

"Oh my! It's really looking good on you Lord hero." Liana said upon looking at Orion's figure.

"R-Really ?" Orion was embarrassed to be praised by a beautiful princess.

Moreover, he knew that compared to people like Andrew, Austin or the Hawkins brothers, he was really nothing in looks.

"Yes, of course!" Liana replied with a smile.

For a moment, Orion thought she was just saying that to form a good relationship with him, but threw aside this thought upon seeing her expression.

She was truly honest when she praised him. He could tell by looking at her face, so he was happy.

"T-Thank you..." Orion lowered his head bashfully.

"I was just saying the truth, Lord hero. Now please follow me. They are all waiting for you." She smiled and nudged Orion to follow her.

"Y-Yes!"

***

"Why do we have to wear these clothes?"

Anna complained.

After they followed the Emperor, the latter ordered the maids to take the 'heroes' to a room.

Those who had friends decided to stay together in a room, like Anna and her friend Isabel.

The maids blushed bright red upon seeing the handsome men, especially Andrew, Austin, the brothers and Ryan.

As for the guards of the palace, they were stunned by the four beauties. Even if they thought that their princess was more beautiful, the four girls were not that far behind.

After entering their room, they were helped by maids to change into new clothes as their former were stained in blood.

They were embarrassed at first being dressed by a maid but they quickly got used to it. Especially the boys...

The boys were dressed in a formal suit of different color according to their preferences. For the girls it was the same, but it was a ball dress.

"Don't complain again Anna, it's not that new for you to wear a dress, right ?"

Isabel replied to Anna.

Anna was the only daughter of the state secretary of her country, which was the second most powerful post.

So, obviously, she took part at several parties or birthdays of other famous people. In fact, she had already met a few times: Austin, Andrew, the Hawkins brothers, Ryan, Aura, Elena and Sienna.

Moreover, their parents were surprisingly friends. It played a big part in their choice of letting their children study abroad as they knew their friends also put their children in the same school.

"I know, but still it's another world !"

"Yeah, yeah.. Orion is sure taking his time with the princess, huh..."

Isabel said with a playful smile.

They were all now in a larger hall than before where gold was the prominent color. In front of them were the Imperial couple and other people with priest-like clothes. Behind them was a huge white stele on which golden runes were engraved on it.

"Orion huh..." Anna muttered and thought about what happened.

She did feel a little guilty, but that was all. Her friend Isabel was way more important than Orion.

"What is he doing with the princess alone?!"

"Yeah! Could it be that his growing hormones were released ?!

Jake and Jaxon complained loudly.

"What the hell are you saying guys ? Orion wouldn't do something like that." Austin replied to their idiocies.

"B-But he was pretty scary back then!" Jake said as he remembered Orion's bloodied figure.

Truthfully, at that time, he was more scary than the leader.

If someone who was known for years to be a harmless creature was suddenly acting coldly beating up two guys, it was sure scary.

"Anyone would have snapped at his place Jake..."

Austin answered with a guilty voice.

If his dead family memento was broken in front of him, he would surely have snapped and sent them flying the same way Orion did.

Maybe.

Sensing a gaze, he turned on his left to see Elena staring at him.

Then she immediately averted her gaze.

"What's up, Elena ?" Her friend Daisy asked.

"No-Nothing!"

"Hm ? Your face is bright red though ?" Daisy asked with a teasing smile.

"Y-You! Don't say nonsense! I hate that guy!" Elena tried to deny it but dug her own grave by bringing up Austin.

"Yeah, yeah, I know that you hate him very much!"

"Daisy...?"

"H-Hey Elena, don't you think Sienna is acting strangely ?"

Daisy shifted the topic hurriedly and it worked.

"Sienna...?"

Elena looked at Sienna. She always had a cold face, but since she knew her from a child, she noticed that her eyes were more emotional.

"Hey Sienna, what's happening to you...?"

Claire suddenly asked her best friend after noticing her strange behavior.

Sienna turned toward Claire and shook her head.

"I...Nothing Claire."

"Sigh..." Claire abandoned with a sigh.

Sienna looked at the stele without words. She was in her own world thinking about what happened to Orion.

The scene of him crawling toward his memento overlapped with an incident that happened in the past. She had forgotten now. It was bugging her.

'If I was stubborn like him maybe...'

"Oh he is here!" Claire took her back from her thoughts.

Turning around she saw a shy Orion in black suit walking alongside the most beautiful girl she had seen.

It was a totally unbiased opinion.

She wasn't stupid. She knew that she was one of the most beautiful young girls here alongside her three other classmates, but the golden-haired girl in front of her was on another level of beauty.

"H-Hey Andrew! I think I'm in love!"

"Yeah..."

"Me too..."

John, Tyler and Joseph said with an entranced face. He wasn't the only one by the way, as all the males were nearly drooling looking at her. Several girls were jealous of her beauty.

Andrew ignored them and stared fixedly at the girl in front of him while throwing aside Orion near her.

Golden hair as if they had sliced gold ore to make her hair, shining golden eyes, snow white skin and a perfect golden dress sticking to her body.

'She is mine...'

Andrew thought darkly in his mind.