Rise of the Rejected Deity from Chaos-Chapter 169 - 168: [••••••]

Kaeliyus was too gripped with nervous fear to even react. His mind had gone spiral, trying to place things.

How did she see inside him? It must've been me. How could I make such a mistake? Will there be consequences? Did I just endanger my young Lord's life?"

Seiya whose eyes were fixed on Kaeliyus, more puzzled about the reason Kaeliyus seemed stiff and frozen than the woman's screams.

"Kael," Seiya called, which had been like the fourth call yet it breezed past Kaeliyus' ears. Without another word, Seiya walked to his front and flicked his forehead.

Only then did Kaeliyus blink, eyes focusing on Seiya who stood before him.

"What is it?" Seiya asked. Kaeliyus' eyes darted to the woman, huddled together and still on the floor, wimping.

"It seems I've done something to cause you trouble," Kaeliyus said, voice low with quiet sadness.

"Let's go back, my Lord. I need to fix things."

Kaeliyus held Seiya by the wrist, walking him away like a younger brother. They wove through houses rather than walk on the street to avoid public eyes.

Certain that they had reached a secured place with no eyes, Kaeliyus and Seiya teleported back home.

With urgency, Kaeliyus placed Ibyu back on the couch, and placed his coat on the floor, politely asking Seiya to sit on it.

Without protest, Seiya did as requested, folding his legs and comfortably resting his cheek against one hand. Kaeliyus, after asking permission, took off Seiya's clothes. He placed his cold palm on Seiya's back like he had done the day he took out the barrier.

Much like that day, Kaeliyus' hand entered inside Seiya's back like he wasn't made of flesh and bones but a dimensional warp of some sort. Kaeliyus' hand remained inside for a while, his eyes closed, muttering incoherent words.

After several moments, he retracted his hand. With his other hand, he touched Seiya's back, unable to pass through like he did with the first hand. Kaeliyus breathed out a sigh of relief, informing Seiya he was done.

Seiya rose from the ground, sitting himself down on the couch. Kaeliyus himself also rose, bowing in front of Seiya.

"Thank you for your patience, my Lord."

Seiya who understood nothing regarding what Kaeliyus had carried out in his back, said nothing—unbothered as long it brought him no harm that would cause him to retaliate. For now.

"What about the face mask and blindfolds?" Seiya asked quietly.

"I'll get them myself. You need not worry about them anymore and simply rest."

Both Seiya and Kaeliyus spent the day doing nothing, and when evening came, only then did Kaeliyus go back to buy the mask and blindfolds. After that, they ate dinner together with Ibyu included before going to their various rooms and retiring for the night.

At 5:02 a.m in the morning, a vibrating sound reverberated through Seiya's room, waking him up instantly. Seiya reached out his hand, grabbing his phone that rested on the bedside table—the place it had been resting on for days after Hayne and Naki left.

It was an incoming call from Hayne. Without delay, Seiya pressed the answer button.

"Speak," He said into the phone, voice groggy.

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"You were asleep?!" Hayne exclaimed from the other end of the line. "I thought you'd have already woken up since you tend to not sleep a lot."

"I do now, bye!" Seiya said flatly, aiming to cut the call but Hayne's frantic plea stopped him.

"Speak," Seiya urged.

"I just wanted to commend you for a job well done. I've been keeping an eye out, anticipating the news about the village. I was overwhelmed with joy when it came out, and I was also relieved," he said.

He paused briefly, waiting to hear Seiya's response but Seiya said nothing.

"It mustn't have been easy," he continued. "I also wanted to thank you. Thank you for helping them despite your life being at risk. Thank you," he said softly.

"Mn," Seiya replied, the truth that he had simply gone there to fight the demons, tugging at his heart. Nonetheless, it didn't change the fact that he did indeed save the villagers.

"Also, were you the one who set up the barrier protecting the villagers? It's going all—"

"It was me. Bye." With that, Seiya cut the call, returning back to his sleep—paying no mind to Kaeliyus who stood outside his room.

Kaeliyus had also been woken up by the call and had come to check on Seiya, but hearing it was Hayne, he instead stood outside the room to listen.

_ _ _

Over at Hayne's room where he sat before a desk. He sighed out loud, a smile tugging on his lips. "He hasn't changed at all," he muttered, shaking his head as he dropped his phone on the desk.

"But he has changed, in some ways," he said, referring to the barrier Seiya put up to protect the villagers.

"I wonder how many headlines he'll make," Hayne chuckled, leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes with a grin.

******

9:46 a.m at the association, inside the commander's office. The same girl the commander had given orders just the day before, stood steadfast before him. She had just made her way in, ready to report her findings.

And as usual, the commander's assistant stood firm in the corner beside the commander.

Without a word, the girl stepped forward, placing a file on the commander's desk, and stepping back to her spot.

"There is an awakener that isn't registered under us in Japan currently," she started even before the commander could open the files she submitted.

The commander's hands that were about to open the file, ceased, his gaze lifting to meet the girl's.

"An awakener from Korea," she continued. "He had entered the country a few weeks ago, almost a month now."

"So? Does his entrance correlate in any way to the events that had been unfolding?" The commander asked, eager.

"Yes, I would say. Everything somehow points to him being the person behind everything."