“No!” Jirot shouted. “You ot.”

  “I have to, my dear,” Adam informed, lifting the girl up to stop her pining by cuddliightly. “I’ll have to leave the Iyr one day to go work for you, my sweet.”

  “Kiss!” the girl pined, pouting towards her father.

  Adam kissed her cheek and held her close to his chest. He gently rocked her from side to side.

  “You did not wish to tell her the day we left?” Jurot asked.

  “I ’t just do that,” Adam replied. “I have to prepare them for me to leave. I ’t just leave one day out of the blue.”

  Jurot wasn’t sure what the eant, but he remained silent. He caught little Jarot pouting up towards his father before he was lifted up and embraced too.

  “Daddy is going to work today but he’ll be back like normal, okay?”

  “Okay…” Jirot sniffled. “You are leaving, daddy?”

  “Not today.”

  “Not day?”

  “No.”

  “Okay.”

  Adam spent the days enting the magical ons. After six days of enting, creating six Basic ons to au off, he took the day off to spend time with his family and friends. He pyed warriors and wanderers with the children and spent time with his panions, many of whom spent their days speaking of their tales to the different Iyrmen families.

  “Vonda, you aren’t allowed to steal my children from me,” Adam stated, noting how much time Karot spent listening to her order’s tales.

  “Karot, do you like me more than your father?” Vonda asked.

  Karot pouted shyly, before shaking his head. “Daddy…”

  Vonda smiled, brushing the boy’s hair. “Do you love yrandmother or your father more?”

  “Don’t tease him like that, only I do that,” Adam pined, opening his arms for his son go run into them, embrag the boy. “You don’t have to reply.” Adam peppered the boy with kisses.

  “Am I allowed to steal Gurot from you?” Vonda asked.

  “You wouldn’t dare.”

  “I would not?”

  Adam frowned. “How you do this to me? This is why you have to be careful of nobles, Karot! They’ll steal away your ky uncle from me!” Adam bleberries into his son’s stomach, causing him to cry and squeal.

  Vonda smiled, though her thoughts fell toal for the year. They would o head to East Port to firm the matter. ‘I hope end time in Liferiver…’

  Once Adam was doh enting so many Basic ons, he began w for the Iyr, pg the first pluck of the Greater entments onto each magical on, three at a time.

  He worked hard, even up until the day before the group were about to leave. Wheurned, he found a set of familiar faces.

  “You guys came back at the right time,” Adam informed, approag the group in the er.

  “We couldn’t leave you to corrupt the children,” Lucy retorted, allowing Jirot to grab onto her horns as they pyed. Little Jarot sat on Mara’s p, staring up at the woman while she spoke about their advehus far.

  “Have you been filled in on the pn?”

  “There’s a pn?” Lucy asked.

  “There’s always a pn,” Adam replied, taking a seat opposite her. “Just because you don’t follow the pn, it doesn’t mean there isn’t a pn.”

  “I always follow the pn.”

  “Name oime you followed the pn.”

  “I sat with Yellow Turban during the tour.”

  “That wasn’t the pn, that was just very lucky.”

  “It worked out in the end.”

  “Just because-,”

  “Jirot, see how y man is bullying me?” Lucy asked, frowning towards Jirot.

  Jirot gasped, her head snapping towards her father, and she pointed her finger up. “What? You are bully, daddy?”

  “No, no, I’m not bullying her.”

  “Tha’s wight, daddy, you do not! You listening, daddy? You do not.” The girl wagged her fi her father.

  “Okay, okay.”

  “Okay,” Jirot stated, before holding onto Lucy’s hand. “It’s okay.” She kissed the Demon Lord’s forehead before brushing her hair gently.

  Adam remained sitting opposite the Demon Lord, sitting up tall and tense, ahat his child was ad his friend instead of him. “I’ll five you just this once, Jibaby.”

  “So what is the pn?” Lucy asked, rubbing her cheek against Jirot’s, her fingers gently rubbing the back of the girl’s head.

  “The pn is to assimite the farmers into the business, help Sir Vonda became a good, det folk like we oners, and then…” Adam blinked. “Hold on. You’re the Demon Lord, so you’re a oo, aren’t you?”

  “Yes,” Lucy replied, a slow smirk appearing on her face.

  “Jirot, e here,” Adam called.

  “No.”

  “e here, Jibaby.”

  “No!”

  “Jarot, e to daddy,” Adam cooed.

  Little Jarot pulled away from Mara, before he assed along by Adam’s panions towards his father, before Jirot pulled away and was also passed along towards Adam.

  “I ’t have nobles corrupt my sweet, i children.”

  “Demon Woad,” Jirot accused.

  “That’s right.” Adam slowly nodded, embrag his twins within his arms. “Anyhow, we’ll help Sir Vonda bee a det folk like we no good filthy oners, which also helps out Dunes because we’ll be heading to East Port to deal with his matter.”

  “What matter is that?”

  “He has some cultural thing he o get done,” Adam replied, waving his hand dismissively, doing his best to hide his smirk. “What’s most important is that the markets i Port are huge and sihe war has e to an end, we should be able to find something good for the kids.”

  “Is that all you think about?” Jaygak asked.

  “Just because Kavgak prefers to spend time with Raygak, it doesn’t mean you should take it out on me.”

  “I allow Kavgak to rest for the evening, whereas you keep tiring out your children with your affe.”

  “You take that back, Jaygak.” Adam raised his brows.

  “Or what?”

  “Or I’ll tell Jirot to sort you out. Jirot, do you see this? Kako Jaygak is bullying your daddy.”

  Jirot, who was led up to her father’s chest, sat up and gred at Jaygak for a moment. Then she smiled. “Kako Jaygak.”

  “Yes, my little Jirot?”

  “Yood?”

  “I am very good.”

  “Good.” Jirot returned back to her father’s chest, sug her thumb quietly.

  Adam gnced aside. “I’ll five you just this once, Jibaby.”

  “There will be many of us,” Jurot stated. “We will need many supplies.”

  “We’ve got the two elks, don’t we?” Adam asked. “If we take Jonn, that’s three elks.”

  “Korin will apany us, that makes four,” Kitool added.

  “Right, right, I fot he was a guardian too.” Adam nodded his head. “Right, we should have four elks then, and that should be enough to…” Adam pulled his head back, wing from his stupidity.

  “What is the matter?” Mara asked.

  “I was meant to equip everyone else with magical items too,” Adam replied. “I was more focused on making sure the aus would pass by smoothly.”

  Mara realised she should have expected something that ridiculous ing from his mouth.

  “We are all armed with magical ons that you-,” Jurot began.

  “That the Enter has graced us with, yes,” Adam replied, raising his brows towards Jurot.

  Jurot furrowed his brows, unsure why Adam wasn’t speaking so openly about it sidering everyone here knew about his abilities.

  “The Enter makes such great ons, don’t they?” Adam asked, kissing Jirot and Jarot’s foreheads.

  “Yes,” Jirot replied, giving Adam a thumbs up. “Gweat.” Little Jarot agreed with a nod and a smile.

  “That’s right…” ‘I have to be more careful from now on. I ’t have too many people know, otherwise they might hurt you…’ Adam cuddled them closer.

  “Nirot also has a magical ons,” Jurot said carefully.

  “Right, but what about Faool? Laygak? Naqokan, Uwajin, and Bavin? I don’t think they’ve gotte.” ‘I should have focused on that instead of the Iyr…’ “I mean, even Nobby has a magical shield.”

  “Have you thought of who should and the wolves?” Jurot asked.

  “Not yet, no. I was thinking about meeting with various noble families, so I feel like I shouldn’t be the one anding them. I was thinking you and Vonda help me out with that.”

  “Kitool would be best,” Jurot stated.

  Adam threw a look to Kitool, who nodded, before he slowly oo. “Alright, fair. An Iyrman and a noble priest of the nd’s most respected order. That should cel out how much of an idiot I am.”

  “Mara and I go adveh the wolves,” Lucy offered. “They be our mounts.”

  “Sometimes, Lucy, I think you might actually be a genius.”

  “I am a genius.”

  “Keep telling yourself that and one day it might be true.” Adam chuckled, before stopping upon seeing Mara’s gre. “Anyway, that’s a great idea. We have you three on the wolves since you don’t o wear armour and they’ll appreciate that.”

  “Nirot and Naqokan could ride Kit’a and Jay’a,” Jaygak offered.

  “I want all the teens together in their own squad, and actually, I was hoping you would and them.”

  “Me?” Jaygak asked, almost taken aback.

  “Yeah. You and… Dunes, probably?” Adam thought. “Oh, and then Brittany and Nobby could go with the wolf squad, maybe? You guys won’t have healing, though… unless I put Jonn with you?”

  “There would be an additional wolf.”

  “Yeah, that’s too many wolves…” Adam thought about it for a moment. “Let’s leave Cloud here, and you guys take…”

  “Mighty,” Luformed.

  “Wolfy,” Mara stated.

  ‘How am I not the worst at naming them?’ Adam thought. “Alright, well, sure…” Adam wasn’t sure how he felt about giving up his wolf to Jurot so he could give up his own to Mara. “Okay, let’s lo the wolf squad, and then say there’s also a teen squad, and we figure out the rest from there.”

  “Not that much of a pn.”

  “We deviate from the pn when we feel like it, like when you went with Yellow Turban,” Adam stated. “Speaking of Yellow Turban, I hope we get to meet Kalid again, what a character.”

  “Your obsession with children is being w, Adam,” Jaygak said, narrowing her eyes slightly.

  “Jaygak, don’t joke about that sort of thing,” Adam replied, his voiever more stern.

  Jaygak remaiaring into Adam’s eyes, before relenting. “Sorry.”

  Adam bowed his head, his cheeks flushing slightly. “I’m only pretending to be a little ge, but Kalid is genuinely such a character.”

  “You were pretending?”

  “Mostly.”

  Lud Mara both tensed up, before their eyes so the side, where they found Vonda and Sonarot returning with the triplets, as well as a basket taining a certain baby.

  If they talk about plression, does that mean the plresses?