LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 40: Blocked
"Why did you need me!" Lesha complained as I dragged her into the back room.
"Because I'm not carrying this table alone! Leave the girls, it has to be hard for both of them. Mei doesn't recognize her, but she knows Mei. Could you imagine if only you could remember me, but I had no idea who you were?"
Lesha let out a sigh and came to help me carry one of the tables out. The girls were sitting at the other table, but neither was talking or looking at the other one. This was going to be weird for a while, but the biggest problem was that I couldn't give Gloria a ribbon.
Though with the dungeon in its current state, that wasn't an overly pressing concern, but it would become one in the future. We set the table down and I asked the girls to come and help me with the chairs. When Lesha and Mei each grabbed one, I stopped Gloria, asking her to wait while the others went.
"How much do you remember? Do you know what is going on? Did you know me?"
"Only Mei, and I have been looking for her for a very long time, but no matter where I looked I couldn't find her. How did you find her? And no, I do not know you, but I do feel like I might have, but I don't know what that means."
"She came to me, I am the first Guild Leader, and others with Mana are drawn to me, and Healia."
Gloria spat on the ground at the mention of Healia, and I looked at her with disgust. I bite into people's necks and the girls could tear a man limb from limb, but we weren't animals!
"Hey! Don't spit at the floor! This is a nice place and you are…" I tried to say, but Gloria dropped the table and started to go off on a tangent about god waving her hands around as she fumed.
"Gods are the scourge on the world! I am sure that Mei was taken and hidden from me by one of them! All of them are traitor monsters that only seek to de-harmonize our world! I have seen what they are doing in Westoff right now, Randamodeus and Telporation are pitting their followers against each other, tearing the cities apart in the process! All gods are evil!" Gloria finished and picked up both her chair and the one in my hand in a huff and half dragged me out.
"That wasn't the gods, it was someone before they came that did this to her, so be mad at that person, the Game Master. The gods are bad, but Healia isn't like them, and there might be others. Still, I do understand what you mean, we will find the person responsible for what was done to Mei, but you need to be here for her now, that's what you can do!"
We set the chairs down and Gloria came around and gave me a quick hug.
"I know we know each other, and we were friends, I just don't know how yet, but thank you for finding her."
Gloria and everyone was getting ready to sit down, but I cleared my throat, and my brothers almost dropped the food they were carrying out. I signed and glared at the girls.
"How many people?"
They all jumped up and ran to the storage room and by this time the other boys had come down so we ended up getting two more tables. Put together they made one nice long table, and with the food and plates set out we all sat down. Sixteen of us all sat down to eat, just missing Healia, but she didn't seem to be a part of this, and I wasn't about to force the matter.
Everyone said thanks for the meal, and then started to dig in, passing food and plates around to everyone. Once everyone was eating, Lesha leaned in to talk to me.
"Where are we going to put Gloria? We don't have extra rooms, I checked before. Our rooms are up with your rooms, and it's not like we can expect her and Mei to sleep together on the first night, right?" Lesha asked me, before taking a bite of salad and steak.
"Who are they? They are fine, let them figure it out," I said while looking away from Lesha, filling my own mouth with steak, lettuce, and a slice of strawberry with an almond slice stuck to it.
I knew what she was getting at and I was not liking what she was implying.
"K, she is going to sleep in our bed tonight! We have a huge bed!"
"But the thing, you know, the THING!"
"This is your fault, the dungeon is no one's fault, but you messed up with the points and now we have nowhere to put her! And you bit her, so now we are responsible for her!"
"Alright! Don't get so worked up, I see what you mean. I don't like it, but I do understand, but I don't like it," I said with a tone that dripped like acid.
"You said that twice," Lesha said while rolling her eyes.
"That's because I don't like it! I just wanted to enjoy the first night and such, but it's fine, and your right. Still don't like it!"
"That's good, I will make it up to you when we have a free night!"
I went back to my food, trying not to give Gloria dirty looks. The steak salad was excellent that Leana had made for us with strawberries, almonds, and some kind of sweet vinegar dressing. After everyone was finished we cleaned up and said good night to everyone.
"Can you all meet me down here in the morning before going out? I need to talk about some things that happened today, but I would like to wait and see what Healia figures out about it before talking about it, thank you."
I waved everyone off and then headed up to my boring bedtime.