Gold and his friends are travelling back to the kindom in the carriage.

  Nico: So is you neck gonna be like that now all the time?

  Gold: Seems like it.

  Alaric: You are lucky to be even alive, you have to be more careful than that. Learn some patience.

  Gold: My patience is what saved me.

  Lucia: You don't know how angry I am at you! I was so scared!

  Nico: let's just leave it now. Everything is fine. Gold is just like that.

  Alaric: Things work out for him for some reason.

  Nico: What are you gonna do about the ring Gold? Are you gonna accept it's existence?

  Gold: I don't want to think about it. Everything will work out fine I am sure.

  Alaric: He is taking it for granted now. He will get us in big trouble. I am afraid I would not be able to handle it alone.

  Gold: What do you mean alone? I am here!

  Alaric: Other than you I am the only one who can fight. We are both strong but numbers have their own strength.

  Gold: So you want me to lead an army?

  Alaric: What gave you that idea? I am saying we one more person we can rely on.

  Gold: No! I am not going to mingle with one more of you! No more grandfather obsessed people!

  Nico: Hey! What do you mean by that!?

  Lucia: I can join you.

  Alaric: You know that's impossible and you can't fight.

  Lucia: But I can take care of him!

  Alaric: You can do that anyways. I promise I will bring him to you when he is in a bad condition.

  Lucia: Thank you so much Alaric! I will sing your praises to your father.

  Alaric: I will write you the lines!

  They reached the Kindom and completed their quest. After saying goodbye to the princess they reached the adventurers guild.

  As soon as they entered the guild Emilia came running towards them and jumped on Gold.

  Emilia: You are back! Wait what is that blue spot on your neck! Are you all right!? Did that woman do something bad to you!? Hey Nico! Come over here you tell me about everything that happened! And both of you go to my fathers office he is waiting for you.

  Gold: Hi Ben.

  Ben: Hi Gold!

  Gold and Alaric enter the office but are surprised to see Caroline sitting with Eberhard.

  Gold: What is she doing over here? Is that buff old man not enough already?

  Alaric: I see why Emilia let you go so easily.

  Eberhard: Stop standing over there and come take a seat.

  Caroline: Nice to meet you again Gold. How are you doing?

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  Gold: Good. ( I need Nico to translate for me)

  Alaric: He is doing fine just a bit tired.

  Caroline: Nice to see you too Alaric but i never expected you two to become partners.

  Alaric: We are more than partners. We are best friends.

  Gold: (I still have my doubts about you man!)

  Caroline: You have good eyes Alaric. I failed to convince him to become my partner.

  Alaric: Becoming your partner would have made him loose his freedom. That's unlike his character. On the other hand I have promised my loyalty to him. I will follow him till the end of life.

  Caroline: So you choose to serve him instead of the King? What will your father think of this?

  Alaric: Who I choose to follow is for me to decide.

  Eberhard: Okay enough about all this. Tell us about everything that happened.

  Alaric explains everything to both of them.

  Eberhard: So you are saying Gold fought King Harald and impressed him! And he gave all of you gifts before your departure.

  Caroline: He gave jormungandr's blood to Gold!? And he contained it and that's why his neck has that blue spot?

  Eberhard: That's such a big deal! Our relationship with the kindom of Thor has never been good but this changes everything!

  Caroline: The king must know about this at once!

  Eberhard: Oh no!

  Caroline: What happened master?

  Eberhard: After hearing about this the king will surely ask Gold to marry princess Lucia my daughter will have to share him with one more woman.

  Gold: (So no one even cares to ask for my opinion?)

  Alaric: (don't worry Gold things will just work out for you like always.)

  Caroline: What does that mean!? Explain it to me Alaric!

  Alaric: My lady Gold is already married to a girl named Aya and he is informally married to sir Eberhard's daughter Emilia.

  Caroline gets angry and grabs Gold by his collar.

  Caroline: Who do you think you are!? Going around getting married to every woman that you meet! You gave you permission for that!? How can you get married without telling me!?

  Gold: Huh? Why would I have to tell you about this? And why are you acting like that?

  Alaric: ( Wait, don't tell me!? Even lady Caroline!?)

  Caroline: You fool! Don't show me your face again!

  Caroline leaves the office.

  Eberhard: That makes it four.

  Gold: What are you talking about?

  Alaric: Nothing Gold. Let us go back too.

  Gold and Alaric come out of the office.

  Gold: Nico come we are leaving.

  Nico: I can't believe the Grandmaster was here! I wanted to meet her again.

  Emilia: You are so cool Gold! You fought king Harald!

  Gold: But I couldn't do anything to him. I was easily defeated.

  Emilia: Even surviving a fight against him is legendary. There aren't many in this world.

  Gold: But it wasn't a fight to death he was just testing me.

  Alaric: Wait! You thought it was just a sparring match?

  Gold: Was it not!?

  Alaric: No! Every battle in that Kindom is a real battle! You could have died if Bhairav didn't stop him!

  Gold: Why didn't you tell me this before!?

  Alaric: was it not obvious?

  Gold: My head is starting to hurt again. You guys go on without me I will see you tomorrow.

  Alaric: What are you going to do?

  Nico: We are worried about you?

  Gold: I will get some rest. She will take care of me.

  Emilia: I will take the day off! Don't worry I will take care of him.

  Alaric: What are we supposed to do then?

  Gold: Do whatever you want.

  Nico: We can look for a new member!

  Gold: Except that!

  Alaric: Sorry already on it! It's for your own good too.

  Emilia: You are looking for a new member for your party?

  Alaric: Yes! Do you have someone can fit with us?

  Emilia: No but I will put up a notice about it. Though it has to be a man. No woman is going to come near him.

  Alaric: There goes half of our potential candidates.

  Nico: I don't want to be rude but are women adventurers even strong?

  Alaric: Well to be honest most are not strong in combat. They usually have supportive roles. We already have you for that. But some women are exceptionally strong take Lady Caroline for example.

  Nico: I am a big fan of her! What about Luka? He can join us.

  Gold: I hate that guy.

  Nico: But didn't do anything wrong. It was just a setup to find you.

  Gold: But his arrogance is real and he is hard to fight.

  Alaric: We need someone who is compatible with our abilities and can fight alongside us.

  Nico: It's going to be alot of work.

  Voice: Emilia I am here to take a quest! Got something for me? Wait what is he doing here?

  Emilia: I am sorry Thea but I am taking my day off. You can talk to Ben about that.

  Thea: It's because of him right? How many times have I told you to forget about him! You can easily find someone way better than this loser.

  Gold: Can we not do this today? I am having a headache.

  Thea: I don't care about you. I won't let to you near my dear friend. Emilia get away from him or I will tell your father about this.

  Emilia: He has already agreed to it. We are engaged.

  Thea: What!? No! How did he agree to this!? I thought he is the smart one in the family!

  Nico: Who is that?

  Alaric: How would I know? But seems like a friend of Gold.

  Gold: She is not my friend!

  Thea: Who would want to be friends with someone like him?

  Alaric: I have figured it out Nico! These two really hate eachother.

  Emilia: Yeah you are right Alaric.

  Nico: Can you introduce her to us?

  Emilia: Her name is Thea she is a B rank adventurer. She is the one who brought Gold to the kindom.