The Second Life Of The Mercenary
Chapter 42 Welcome

Jovan stood up and grabbed Callix's hand, with a sparkling look he said, "Can I see the other equipment? like Miss Isabella's collection, can you?"

Callix smiled slightly then looked at the others, they nodded as a sign if they agreed. Callix is happy to take Jovan to the storage room, where there are many highest level potions made by Luca, the deadliest poison for Ainsley, there, weapons made directly by the best blacksmiths of the titan city, the, and the plants were made from the elemental power of Phil and the kitchen utensils brought by Phil and given by the elven villagers when Isabella visited there.

Jovan did not stop expressing his admiration when he saw that so many rare items in this room, all the ugliness about Isabella that was in his mind instantly vanished without a trace of silence. Because for him a person who can get a lot of something rare is unlikely to be a bad person.

"Everything I'm home .. oh! My sweet little jaguar, do you miss me? My good-natured Audrey are you too? this is Selina, the pretty lizard who's gonna be our new friend." Isabella's voice was heard by Callix. He ran outside to see the woman who had just returned after almost a year of not coming home.

"Isabella, welcome." Callix hugged him tightly, not just Callix but they all hugged to let go of the pent-up longing. 

"Do you have any guests?" isabella asked to see a snack on the table.

"Yes" replied Jovan from behind Isabella. Spontaneous Isabella immediately turned around to see who the owner of the voice was.

"Greetings Miss Isabella Abraham. I am Viscount Jovan Oriel, I was asked to come by Duke Cedric Abraham specifically to take you back to the residence of Abraham." Jovan gave a noble salute without diminishing his respect for Isabella.

"Forget it. Tell the man even in his dreams I won't go back there, so you get out of here" Isabella said.

"This is not the duke's wish but Miss Vanessa's, '" replied Jovan.

"Why did he ask me to come back? he doesn't deserve to do that."

"The Duke has agreed even I think you should return, at this time the duchess is trying to master the duke's residence. After remarrying the duke is rarely in the residence, it's possible that the duchess could hurt the missus because I've seen 2 duchess princesses oppress the missus. But no one dared to help the lady, even if there was a duchess would have driven the man out of Abraham's house after he found out."

The deg!

Isabella is surprised that something never told in the novel happened, Isabella thinks that maybe the duchess and her two daughters are antagonists who have replaced her. At this time Isabella had no choice but to join Jovan back to the Abraham residence, initially she did not want to return so that Vanessa can live happily. But maybe because of his thinking the storyline of this novel changed, like a predetermined destiny.

"We're going to go. But ... with one condition and you have to qualify it. I'll reward you as much as you want" Isabella told Jovan.

"alright. Tell me what is it?"

"I'll bring all my valuables, so I'll ask you to find me a new residence. But, the residence with a shop in front of him."

"The shop?"

"Yes. The residence for this special 3 brothers, and the store was to continue our cake shop business. Hows it? can you?"

"Give it to me. But in return, I want to ask for a set of tea cups from the elf village."

"That's it?"

"Yes, that's all I want."

"Callix, give him a set of cups that are in the storage room. And also give her 25 bottles of the highest level potions as a bonus," Isabella ordered.

Jovan was so impressed by Isabella's generosity that she accepted the gift gladly. Not to forget Jovan helped Isabella carry all her valuables by filling everything into a storage bag, the bag was equipped with magical power that could hold as many items as possible. Thanks to the bag Isabella felt very helped.

The night they all left for the imperial capital, Isabella felt heavy heart to leave the village. But he promises to return to the village when he manages to protect Vanessa until the day she lives happily, after all, all team members will regroup 2 months later after a long break from hard work.

"I can feel your sadness," telepathically from Selina, Isabella just smiled and stroked Selina on her lap.

"Are we going to split up if we get to the capital?" jasper asked Isabella. The four of them were in the same carriage.

"Are you sure you'll be okay there? the man who hurt you once said you were from that residence" Audrey added.

"Just calm. There I will be the master of the man, so I will make a calculation with the man later" Isabella replied.

"Did that lizard come with you?" ask Callix.

"Yes, I decided to make him my friend. Oh yes about my promise first, even though we do not move to another village. But now that we have also moved, I do not want to go to the residence just that I seem to have to go there. And for you, as I promise you, you can open a new branch someday.  I don't forbid it anymore" Isabella said.

They all smiled happily and said in unison, "Of course. Just leave it to us, we'll open 1,000 branches in the near future."

The sound of laughter from Isabella's carriage made Jovan a little envious, they rode together while joking while he was alone on the big carriage, no one to joke with.

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15 Days later Isabella has to part ways with Callix, Audrey, and Jasper. They swapped trains not far from the entrance of the capital, Isabella went with Jovan to Abraham's residence while the three men went with Jovan's servants to his residence.

Along the way to the residence of Abraham Isabella and Jovan did not talk to each other, Isabella focused on seeing the atmosphere of the capital from inside the car while Jovan sat down to write something.

"We've arrived." Jovan put the slate back in the bag as the horse-drawn carriage turned into Abraham's residence.

"I'll go down first." Jovan went down first, then he extended his hand to Isabella to help Isabella down.

"Thank you." Isabella gave a small smile welcoming Jovan's hand.

When he first saw Isabella, the servants and knights of Duke Abraham were instantly fascinated. Isabella who wore a black dress, with her long black hair unraveling and the small smile on her face made Isabella look very elegant, she was like an honorable noble lady.

"Welcome, Miss Isabella." Welcome all the servants outside the residence.

"Naka …." 

Charlotte and Carolina accidentally nudged Vanessa as she was about to walk up to Isabella and step ahead of her to approach Isabella, the twins will not give Vanessa a chance close to Isabella instead both want to make their relationship move away.

The twins walked over and immediately hugged Isabella, they looked so friendly that it was hard to believe they were antagonistic shops because they were so skilled at hiding their evil intentions.

"Welcome big brother, we are happy to see big brother for the first time. Please help him to the future well brother," said the twins simultaneously.

"What if we're gonna take you to brother's room?" haggling twins.

"Ore you guys. I told you from the beginning that you should keep your attitude in front of your brother, don't make him feel uncomfortable on his first day living here as a noble," sindir Elena who just came with her 5 personal servants.

Isabella was not interested in their fake hospitality, her attention was only on the sweet girl who was currently standing with a sad look on her face. Isabella said nothing and immediately walked up to Vanessa, whether this was due to the aura of the main character or not. But according to Isabella, Vanessa shines a lot in her sight.

"You're Vanessa, right?" ask Isabella. Sponta Vanessa immediately looked up at Isabella's sweet smiling face, "You're the reason I came here. Don't you want to hug your brother, my sister?"

Vanessa shed happy tears and immediately embraced Isabella, the twins with Elena knew that Isabella's friendly attitude to Vanessa just because they were in public places then they believed Isabella would make Vanessa suffer later.  Bad people always think everyone is as bad as they are.

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