Chapter 274 - 227 - 2019
The arrival of 2019 started not with a bang, but whimpers of protest.
"Shooooo…" Pacifica whined, holding him from behind tightly.
"Sleepy…" Rebecca joined in on the complaints.
"Mrrrpgh…" Taika buried her face in his chest, ears folded back in an attempt to silence the noise of her bed mates.
"Go back to sleep then, stop bitching," Shouri groused, wondering what the fuss was about in the first place.
BOOOOM!
Nevermind, 2019 did in fact, start with a bang.
Shouri and the girls threw open the door to their room to find the guild's youngest helping his fire cat up to her feet. Zephyr hovered nearby; her gaze focused on the source of the thunderous explosion that rocked the guild hall.
The huge, smoldering crater taken out of their front lawn. Just behind it sat the rental van which was now coated in a fine layer of clay.
Shouri gestured at the hole with an expression that said "explain yourself."
"Okay, funny story, true story; we were practicing spells and disarming them, and Mila accidentally set off her own landmine," Vince explained, chuckling nervously as everyone was at their doors staring at him.
The guildmaster didn't have words, he just gawked at the younger Maestro whose nervous laughter was growing progressively louder with each passing second. Finally, Shouri spoke his demand. "Pay one of the earth elements to fix the hole and wash the van--that's your punishment for waking everyone up at this ungodly hour."
"It's 9AM," Zephyr pointed out.
"Right, that's what I said, ungodly hour." With that, Shouri slammed the door shut and attempted to return to bed with his three lovely ladies behind him.
When his tuner rang.
The young guildmaster slumped over, a weary sigh escaping as he did so. "One day I'm gonna fall off the face of the planet only so I may know peace." He trudged over to the nightstand with Taika at his back.
The explosion was one thing; it got his heart racing and adrenaline pumping, while jolting him out of bed. This. This was something entirely different.