Chapter 224: Home Sweet Home
"Ahh, home sweet home, at last!" Grinned Raven, as he pulled Celia into a hug and buried his face in her chest.
"H-Hey, that kinda tickles," She giggled as she wrapped her arms around him, before adding as she softly kissed his forehead, "Welcome back, Raven, I missed you."
"Yeah, I missed you too, Celia, glad to be back."
It was the 14th of June, 1920, and the group had returned to Persona. After everyone returned following the teleport trap, the alliance was promptly settled the next day.
While they’d been intent on leaving right away, Anima insisted they stay one more day to celebrate, as well as to make up for the unpleasant experiences they’d been put through by Anima Shield.
Jules was reluctant, but not wanting to be rude, she hesitantly agreed to stay one more day. As a result, a large festival was held the following day, with a near-endless selection of food, drinks, events and games.
The Knights ended up having a lot of fun, they were shown an almost excessive amount of hospitality by the Anima citizens, in an effort to make up for the whole mess with Anima Shield.
The festival raged on late into the night, and as a result, everyone ended up waking up well into the middle of the afternoon, earlier today.
They’d promptly packed up their things, before finally leaving the nation of Anima and headed back to Persona, going their separate ways to each of their assigned locations once they arrived.
It was currently early in the evening, Raven had headed straight for the Knight outpost to see Celia, and the other Knights offered to take over their duties for the rest of the day so that they could head home early and spend some time together, and they gratefully accepted.
"I heard that things went wrong, I was really worried. I’m glad you got back safe," Smiled Celia, as she embraced Raven warmly.
"Yeah, me too...it wasn’t anywhere near as dire as things got in Sylph, but it was far from ideal. It all worked out fine in the end, at least...well, besides Lloyd’s death. I didn’t really know him, but he seemed like a good guy. So, I’m glad we could at least avenge him.