Chapter 678: Children are the best negotiatior
After sorting out the information in just...ten minutes, we wanted to return immediately. Shwa, however, thought otherwise.
He wanted to play with the fairies and enjoy the flowers, so he kicked at his demon father, who was going to teleport us back.
...or, maybe he didn’t like teleporting?
"What about going back on foot?" I laughed as Natha and Shwa had a staring contest with scrunched-up faces. It was funny since they had the same face, so it was like a mirror image. "We can still look at the flowers and the fairies can follow us until the garden."
Natha pinched his son’s puffing cheeks with squinting eyes. "Whatever the little boss wants."
And that was how we had a morning stroll across the forest with a heavy golem in tow. The thud-thud-thud could not be ignored, and the morning castle staff--from the gardeners, the maids, and the guards--were looking over with raised brows.
Perhaps it was the combination of a mumbling and giggling baby with an armored golem looming behind. Stan himself had been observing Shwa with keen interest ever since we found out that the baby’s previous life was the golem’s creator.
Would it feel like meeting one’s long-lost parents? But the parent was a baby and had no recollection of him, so...if it was me, I felt like I would be weirded out. No idea what the golem would feel because Stan was different than other golems. I was tempted to ask him about it, but...
It seemed like I should give Stan ample time to digest the sensation through his progressive learning.
Anyway, thanks to our funny march, the news about a new armored golem was spreading fast across the Castle. When we arrived at the Lord’s quarters, guests were already there waiting for us.
Well, rather than guests, it was more like...usual trespassers who came and went as they wished: the vassals. Except, this time, even Haikal was there.