The Goddess Made A Mistake Again

It was the next day after the parade.

I was having a normal class with Jennifer teaching us math. Looking to my side, I see Xavier's other seat empty.

After the day Lazarus was caught by the guards in front of us, Arthur stopped attending classes. I learned from Xavier after much through talk that he was not in his right mind.

Which in normal translation meant, Arthur was ill.

Good, let him stay in bed while this matter with Lazarus ends once and for all. Now we wouldn't want him meddling in something that he shouldn't.

In this few days that I had spent with Jennifer, I somewhat realized that she isn't that bad. Our relationship has made a big improvement now.

Before, we couldn't even look at each other before screaming out insults in our minds. But now we can look at each other and nod to stay out of one's path.

Such a huge improvement.

Which I'm sure wouldn't have been made possible, if it weren't for ol' Lazarus… who I will miss very much.

It was at that point that I had jinxed myself.

"Shif!"

The door of the classroom opened and showed two guards. Looking at them, you could immediately guess that they were the royal guards because of their pricey uniform.

Jennifer immediately asked, "How may I help you, gentlemen?"

The soldiers didn't take a foot inside and saluted her first, "Hello, ma'am. We would like to know if this is the classroom for first year F students?"

Jennifer gave a nod, "Yes, this is it."

The guard then told their objective, "With your permission ma'am, we would like to take a student in for questioning?"

Jennifer raised her brow, "A student? For what reason if I may ask?"

"It's for the cause of Lazarus Blackshot. We want to question someone who has had a thorough connection with him for our intelligence."

Jennifer sighed as she pointed to me, "Henry, I suppose they are talking about you, so go with them."

I pout at her, "Come on, Miss Jennifer. Without even asking them, you already point me out to be the bad guy here."

She didn't seem affected by the joke and turned to the guards, "What is the name of the student you want for questioning?"

The second guard spoke, "It's Henry Van Tax."

Jennifer gave me a haughty look like she won the battle, "You want more confirmation, no? Then please go with them and try to cooperate."

I get up, "Alright, I guess you got lucky this time."

"It wasn't luck, that's called using your brain. Which if you did use even once, the guards wouldn't be taking you now."

I snicker and closed the door hard.

Cut that part out about us improving our relationship, it's still fucked up.

I look at the guards, "So where you want to do this?"

The guards looked at each other before asking, "First of all, we would like to know if you are okay with doing this or not?"

'Hm? Why are they asking that? They generally don't ask such question.'

Then I saw their faces, they had sweat dripping from the corner of their heads. There was fear written in hidden places of those hard faces.

'They're scared of me…'

Thinking clearly, I understand that they knew I was a part of something big. Not many knew it but those that knew, either stayed clear of me or tried to curry favors.

These two seem to fit the first category.

I nod, giving them a nice smile, "It's alright. You guys don't need to be scared. I understand that you're only listening to your boss's orders."

"What? We- we're not scared." The second one said, a bit hesitated.

"Is that so…" I give them another look as they silently gulped, "Alright then, move on."

They turned around and sighed in relief. They didn't think that Henry would be so easygoing here.

They didn't cause any more trouble and quickly brought me to the royal guard's station which was close to the royal palace. Seeing the tall pristine building with a Silver Crossguard as the symbol, I laugh.

Hearing me, one of the guards escorting me asked, "What's funny?"

"It's just, I didn't think the first time I would visit here would be to questioned about someone else and not me. It's such a funny thing."

The guards only shook their heads about Henry and went inside, not wanting to spend any more time with one of the most wanted criminals in two kingdoms.

They brought me inside and immediately the workload filled place went through a huge change.

The sounds and clattering of work stopped. Everyone inside, the guards and the criminals too, looked at me.

They were gauging me out, seeing if I was the real deal or not.

The criminals that knew my face made sure to keep their faces down, not wanting to interact at all.

I only smiled at their general direction as I walked inside the captain's office.

The captain was a 6.5-Foot-tall guy with a huge and heavy mustache and well-built body. He looked like someone who could take a cannon ball to the chest and still be fine after.

I sat across his desk as the guy looked thoroughly at me. The guards who were standing behind me, had trouble because of the intense atmosphere around the office.

"You two can leave."

They saluted and left happily as the captain popped out a cigar and gestured it to me.

"No, thank you. I don't smoke."

He didn't say anything and lit the cigar, taking a smoke himself.

After what seemed like a power play for leaving me hanging for almost a minute, the captain spoke, "You know, I didn't think the leader of such a huge criminal organization would be someone so young."

"It almost seems as if we are being criticized for not being able to catch a stripling."

"You know; you could also take it as you guys not being as competent as the criminals are."

The guy's sharp eyes looked at me, "So you are confessing about being the leader then?"

"When did I do that?" I look confused, "I only pointed out as you being incompetent. Besides… didn't you guys brought me in for questioning about someone else?"

"If you wanted to talk about me, you could have just said so from the beginning. I would have happily shown you my biography, cap'n."

The guy still looked sharply at me as he slowly exhaled, "It's Captain."

"Same thing."

"…"

"…"

The captain finally stopped this small show of power and went to the point, "I want you to honestly answer some questions about Lazarus Blackshot to me. I've heard that you were quite close with him."

"Where did you hear that shit?" I raise my brow.

"From Lazarus himself." The captain asked seeing my strange look, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing… it's just, did Lazarus finally break under the bleak food you guys serve?"

"…"

After a thorough questioning by the captain, in which he had suspected every one of my answers and called them lies.

"So you expect me to believe that, Lazarus attacked you because you fell on a boy and he's crazy? Lazarus had a whole another story."

"Are you going to listen to a crazy person or me?" I say. "And if you don't believe me then you can ask other people in my class too, they'll say the same thing I did."

"You mean the boys you paid?"

"Cap'n," I ignore his correction and continued, "Do you seriously believe I can buy or even control this elite batch of snobby rich bastards?"

The captain only exhaled slowly, keeping his sharp eye on me.