The Traitor: Relic War
Chp. 33 Afternoon Town Atmosphere In Her Warm Hugs!

"Wait Zen..." The sound of such a familiar call in Zen's ears made him turn around when he had just gone to the capital through the front door of the palace along with Nania.

"Well?, Tumben once you two meet me?" He replied with a hint of indifference and eyes that looked quite lethargic on Shin and Rika who appeared together.

"Where are you going?" Shin asked who glanced back where Nania in her Maid uniform stood while waiting for their conversation to finish.

"Come, said Nania the afternoon breeze in the capital was very comfortable, so I thought to walk for a while along with her..." Zen pointed at Nania who was standing right behind him with a thumb.

"It looks like you're the only one who dares to brightly walk with another woman when Elize's daughter isn't around..." Shin put on a worried face while looking at Zen who actually did not know what he meant.

"Elize?, is there anything she needs from me"

"Kanade I didn't know you were insensitive or just plain stupid..." Rika who was standing right next to Shin finally spoke but the sentence that came out first was quite a piercing sentence and made Nania feel uneasy.

"Master and Miss warriors are sorry if my words sound presumptuous but it seems that the miss and Master of the warrior misunderstand.I and Mr. Zen have nothing to do at this time, I just want mister Zen to relax a little because lately he has been too busy with the mission of the kingdom and maybe too self-imposed... I just don't want Mr. Zen to be sick or stressed from being depressed... That's all..." Nania advanced a little forward then bowed respectfully before she spoke.

"Ah so well, thank you for taking good care of Zen ehmmm..." Shin stopped before his sentence was finished.

"I'm sorry I introduced myself late... My name is Nania Yuigaichi... Mister and Miss can call me Nania..."

"Well, thank you for taking good care of Zen during this time Nania... And also sorry for misunderstanding, apparently you're just worried about Zen, thank goodness you're well cared for in this world of Zen..." Shin gave his smile as a form of sincerity in his thanks as well as being able to breathe a sigh of relief when he knew Zen was well cared for.

"Don't mention it in Shin's world, you promised never to mention it again..." Zen's refutation when hearing Shin's words that began to offend his past, made Nania able to witness Zen's panicked and sad face at the same time.

"I'm sorry, I forgot..."

"No matter Mr. Shin, it's my duty to serve Mr. Zen very well so you don't have to thank me, I also feel good to be able to serve Mr. Zen..." Nania again lowered her head at Shin, Zen glanced at Nania and relieved a small breath.

"So what's up? Don't tell me you're only meeting me for this..."

"Ah... It almost forgot... Can you meet Haru later... It looks like there's something she wants to talk to you about..." Said Rika who remembered her goal and Shin looking for Zen.

"Who was that then...?" Zen who had absolutely no idea who the person Rika was referring to asked with a curious face.

"Haru it's Miharu Katagawa... Don't tell me you don't know who he is..."

"Ah Miharu Katagawa... I know him..."

"Good, meet him later yeah..."

"Alright, I'll take the time to meet him later... That's not it?"

"Well, that's all you need to do to relax... Nania it's true that you look quite exhausted, lest your bad nature control you again yan Zen... Remember that..."

"Good mom... You're too chatty" Zen turned around after blurting Mother's words at Shin who was back lecturing her, making Rika and Nania slightly hold back her laughter seeing the joke of the two.

"Fuck you, I'm not your mother..." Shouted Protests Shin from a distance as Zen was already approaching the exit gate of the palace.

"Zen and Mr. Shin seem to be very familiar..." Nania opened the conversation when she and Zen started walking on the streets in the afternoon of the city, it will soon be night but the city streets have not been decorated by street lights that are usually turned on by residents.

"That's how, Shin was my childhood friend so I've been familiar with him a long time..." Zen replied continuously looking forward and walking aimlessly.

"Had he known about your past..."

"Well that's how it is..."

"...." - ".Nania glanced at Zen Face who looked a little lethargic and without any clear expression.

"What's up..." Said Zen who realized that Nania was staring at her face.

"It's okay... I just thought that Mr. Zen was someone who didn't like to tell others about his past." replied Nania who immediately shifted her eyes when Zen looked back at him.

"I guess why but apparently that's all..." Zen yawned slightly after his worries were over.

"If you don't mind Zen can tell me..." Nania slightly blushed to hide her face by lowering her head.

"All right, I don't have a problem... Although to be honest I don't really like to spread it to others, but if it's you Nania like her it'll be fine..."

"Thank you for trusting me..."

"Just whatever..."

"Ehm... Then I'll ask you Nania, what kind of life do you want...?"

"Everyone wants a happy life with the people closest to them..." Nania replied even though she did not know the purpose of Zen asking her that.

"Haha... I didn't think we had the same thought... It's not beautiful if we can live happily like that... At least I used to think that way..."

"Is there something going on..."

"Well, but it's something I'm slow to realize... You know, Nania, my father was a great man who was known to the public as the founder of an electronics company, he was a genius who was able to contribute to the technological development of my world..."

"I don't really understand... But it looks like your father was great..."

"It's true that she is indeed great, moreover my mother, she is a multi-talented woman who stands side by side with my father, therefore both play a very big role in the technological development of my world..."

"Then what happened..."

"When their names were known to everyone as a great and wonderful couple, they were, the perspective of society began to increase and they began to think that when they both had children, their children were geniuses who were very talented and able to inherit the greatness of both..."

"But unfortunately the one born was me, a child who was even in academia... And it doesn't have much of an advantage..." Zen spoke with a slight gloomy and sad sound that slowly began to rise and now the two had reached the middle of the city without them noticing, he said, Nania without speaking began to lead the way as Zen again prepared to connect the story.

"When I did something wrong, people in my extended family started to berate and doubt myself whether I was really the son of both such great couples...

But when I get an achievement then they consider it a natural thing because I am the second child...

My father and mother were the same, there was not a single compliment when I managed to achieve something and they instead compared myself to other family members...

But when I was wrong they would start lecturing me like real people fail in life, they didn't care at all about how I felt, they broke my mind as a child...

But I still haven't given up, I learned to die when all the kids my age were busy playing, I was busy rejecting the invitation to play from Shin as a child just to learn and practice the sword, all of that was just to prove myself that I could indeed do something that would make them praise me...

And in the end there was not a single bit of them doing that and they were just busy with their own affairs...

I gave up, that's how I thought, I even hoped that I wouldn't be born to the two couples, and at the end of the day I ran away from home, For a while I stayed at Shin's house, Shin himself kept asking me to go home but there was not the slightest bit I intended to go back to that hell...

And for a few years I escaped them, but they didn't look for me at all, they didn't worry about me at all, and that's when I realized that from the beginning I was unwanted in that family...

Stupidly not, since the beginning I was stupid because I realized it too late.., Even when leaving Shin's house my life was very messy because it was Shin worried about me, even when I was away from Shin, because he knows that I'm the one who doesn't care about life anymore..." Zen ended the story and looked straight ahead, where he finally realized that he and Nania from earlier continued to climb the stairs and finally arrived at the top of the tower where it had a view of the Capital with a beautiful and soothing afternoon sky.

Zen was glued for a while and washed away in the beautiful view of the city in the afternoon where the sun had begun to change shifts with the moon.

"That's not at all Zen's stupid... In fact I'm amazed you can survive such a life for so long..." Said Nania who was swept away for a while in the view of the city.

"That's how it is..."

"Well, you're a strong man, and somehow I felt what you felt like back then, it must have hurt a lot..."

"Well, it hurts... Until I remember her again I want to cry..." Zen turned his head towards Nania who was looking at him gently with no flat expression at all.

And immediately Nania grabbed Zen's head and immersed him in an embrace that she offered only to a Zen.

"Nenice?"

"It's okay Zen, you can cry now, I won't laugh at you, you can cry as much in my arms... I'll hear all the things that weigh on you Zen..." Nania stroked the elus of Zen's head gently and the tone of voice was so subtle.

"I won't cry stupidly, I don't want to show you my weak side..." Zen replied letting himself stay in Nania's arms.

"Once crying is necessary, you've been holding it all this time... So you can get her out now..."

"No... But thanks to Nania, I've never felt a hug this comfortable... Feels like... I don't know, forget it... Please let me do this in a moment..."

"Well, please stay this way until you calm down..."

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