The Strange Life I Live

First Meeting

Now Zen is in a room filled with books, where Zen is currently sitting and looking around the interior of the room he is in carefully. He was currently sitting on a sofa from the room and was waiting for someone who invited him to this place to make himself a drink.

“I guess a Guild Master would have an assistant” muttered Zen, as it realized the Guild Master he had met was making him his own drink for his guests.

Indeed today is a new day where Zen was told to meet with the Guild Master by Meli yesterday. Zen had no idea why he had been summoned, but still decided to attend the call.

“Ah...I'm sorry I made you wait” said a man in his 50s who had brought Zen a cup of tea.

“Thank you Guild Master Ray” responded politely to Zen, while receiving the tea that the man had made.

“Call me uncle only, it is quite strange for me to be called a Guild Master” said the man who was directly sitting in front of Zen.

Currently they were sitting on a sofa in the room of the Guild Master of this city, which they were now sitting opposite each other and separated by a small table in front of Zen.

“Then, what need does a Guild Master call myself to this place?” ask Zen directly.

“I told you, don't call me Guild Master. And to answer your question, some Enex royal envoy asked for a meeting with you” replied the man replied to a question from Zen.

“Enex Kingdom? What are they looking for me uncle for?” ask Zen then.

Hearing Zen already not calling him with the emblem of the Guild Master, made the man in front of him a little happy and started to take Zen seriously at this moment.

“I don't know, but maybe you've guessed their arrival intent isn't it?” ask the man that Uncle called by Zen.

“Hmm... maybe” murmured Zen while nodding justifying the words of the man in front of him.

Finally their light conversation ended, after a knock on the door began to sound. After being invited in, a woman was currently guiding two men dressed in the clothes of a soldier with the royal emblem of Enex on his robe to enter this room.

“Please sit tuan” said the Guild Master who was in this room and invited the two people who had just entered it to take their seats.

The two of them were currently sitting before Zen, after the Guild Master had already moved his seat which was now next to Zen. The two men finally began to sit down and began to talk about the purpose of their arrival in this place.

“Hail Prince Zen, Guild Master. We came to this place on the orders of His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Enex, King Maeloch Enex to extend a deep apology to the prince of Zen for the events you experienced in our kingdom” said one of them.

Zen did not answer immediately, but still carefully digested their words, until the Guild Master sitting next to him began to look at him and give a code to answer the words of the man in front of him.

“Alright.. First I am not a Prince, so stop calling me a prince. Second to the apology for now I am still considering it, because you know for yourself I experienced a lot of things that disappeared from me since that incident” said Zen.

Actually Zen only lost an arm, not with a soul that lived in his body first that experienced many things for the incident ranging from his status, loved ones, his trust and so on disappeared from him.

“We know the prince, but still we have to convey directly our apology to you” said the man in front of him.

Now Zen understood the feelings of a Guild Master if his title continued to be called because he felt so sick of being summoned that way, and moreover Zen did not want to go back to wearing the title that had been revoked from him because he thought it was not his.

“Ya.. yes.. just tell your King, that I will consider it” Zen reply.

“Then prince, we mean to come here also to pick you back to the Kingdom of Enex” reply the man back.

“For that request of yours, sorry I can't do it” replied Zen who rejected their request firmly.

Yes, Zen currently decided to become strong in his own way without interfering with any party. So if he was told to come back, Zen would immediately reject him because he already had a plan for himself.

“True, even though our King is ready to give you a large compensation and restore your status to be the fiancee of Princess Aghni, although now the fiancee of the hero of the kingdom of Enex, the lord Richard” reply to the man in front of him.

“Wait... You mean Aghni... ah no Princess Aghni becomes fiance of Richard?” ask Zen.

“Ya... such is the prince, but His Majesty Maeloch promised if you return, he will betrothed Princess Aghni with you back” said the man back.

Zen started to narrow his eyes slightly, as what he had just heard started to get even stranger. It was not because Zen was curious about the likeness of Princess Aghni and she was very disappointed that she was engaged to another man.

But his engagement to the hero is very strange according to Zen. But Zen is currently just saving his thoughts and continues to listen to the words of the man in front of him at this time.

“Actually, King Maeloch insisted on forcing you back towards the kingdom of Enex, but empress Eclana told us not to force your will” said the man once again.

Yes, from the story of his grandfather, Empress Eclana and Princess Anne the younger sister of Aghni, was a good person to him. Even when he was hit by a case, they were the first to defend him, even though what they did was in vain –.

“Ya.. thankfully you have a wise empress” said Zen then as if his words had a hidden meaning from behind the sentence he uttered.

“And this is a letter from him as well as from Princess Aghni and Princess Anne” the man said and handed three letters to Zen.

Zen gladly accepted it, and began to put it in his pocket and decided to read it later. The soldiers were still asking if Zen was willing to return with him, but Zen again subtly rejected them.

Until finally they say goodbye to him and leave the room, leaving Zen and the Guild Manager in the room.

“Hahh... why do they keep calling me prince, even though my princely status has been revoked” said Zen.

“Truely not, it feels bad to be called with a title rather than a familiar call” said the Guild Master next to him.

Hearing that, Zen simply nodded and began to drink the remaining tea on his cup, and would leave from there because he already had no business in this place.

“Then, I will return to take an Uncle” mission said Zen who wanted to say goodbye to the man next to him.

“Wait for the young man, can you share what you were thinking earlier with me?” ask the Guild Master who is currently holding back the departure of Zen.

Yes, the Zen saying that fortunately the kingdom of Enex had a wise empress could be captured by the Adventurer Guild, and of course he did not miss the opportunity to find out what the real Zen meant by saying such words.

“Shared?” said Zen.

“My instruction says that you have something very important that will probably be useful to the Adventurers” Guild the man replied later.

“Hmm. But my instinct told me that I should keep it to myself” Zen replied with a smile to the man, and would move on from there.

“But, if you tell me, maybe I will help you and make the Heilight Kingdom party not deal with you anymore”