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"When is he going to come out?"
Someone said with an annoyed voice.
"...I'm not sure, let's wait a bit more."
Another person answered him.
"Sigh. Why does he always stay at his house?"
A third voice chimed in.
"I know right? We even came all this way just to meet him..."
The last voice was full of depression, and all the others who heard it sighed.
"Oh! He'll be out soon!"
A new voice announced cheerfully. Everyone who heard it jumped on their feet with excitement.
Cale, who wasn't aware of anything and was just quietly enjoying his Slacker life, suddenly felt chills.
"Human! Lemonade gramps said there will be a festival today! Let's go there!"
"Youngest is right, nya!"
"Let's go, nya!"
'Ah, was it why I felt chills?'
Cale thought before sighing and standing up. How could he refuse the children?
Half an hour later Cale and children got out of Super Rock villa and tried to go to Harris village.
Keyword, tried.
"He is out!"
"He is here!"
"Let's go!"
Cale flinched. And looked at the sight, dumbfounded.
'No way.... They weren't waiting for me, were they?'
Cale felt like fainting. It was because he recognised the ones rushing to him.
'Damn it!!!'
That's right. All of them were information about all sorts of wars and disasters. All of them were waiting for Cale to step out of his home so that they could reach him.
Cale started to speak urgently.
"Raon, teleportation!"
Raon took a look at his human and flinched.
"Alright, human!"
A bright light surrounded Cale and children.
"Nooo!"
"Stop him!"
"We need to tell him!"
Cale was really at the verge of fainting.
"The fuck! Leave me alone!"
The teleportation circle activated and Cale and children disappeared.
"Wh-What should we do now?"
A shaking voice asked.
"Sobs. We were waiting for weeks outside his house... How could we miss him...?"
A firm voice cut the second voice.
"It's alright! We cannot lose hope! We just need to ask our comrades were he went!"
All of the informations brighten up. They were in awe.
"You are right! We just need to ask other informations about him!"
"I found them! They're in the capital! They went to Crown Prince's bedroom!"
"Let's go!"
This was how, the hide-and-seek between Cale and informations started.
•••
Alberu Crossman was the first Prince of Roan kingdom. He was also the kingdom's Crown Prince. He was also very busy.
Half of his workload was created by his dearest dongsaeng, who was probably slacking in his villa right now.
That was why, he didn't expect thet Cale Henituse, his dearest dongsaeng who always showed up uninvited, chilled in the sofa and ate cookies without caring about any kind of etiquette, would show up like this.
A bright light filled his bedroom and a second later Cale and children appeared.
"Cale...?"
Alberu jumped to his feet. It wasn't because he was surprised by them suddenly coming to ambush his cookies, it was because of the expression on Cale's face.
Cale looked scared.
'...Just what-'
"...What happened?"
"Hyung-nim."
Cale's voice was extremely serious. Alberu gulped.
'... Should I prepare for a national disaster? No, if he looks like this... is the world going to end?'
"Yes, dongsaeng. Tell me, what is it?"
"Please hide me."
"Hmm?"
Alberu was confused, but before he could say or hear anything else, Cale flinched.
It was because he heard it.
"Caleeeeee!"
"He is here!!!!"
They found him.
"Raon!"
Cale screamed, causing Alberu and children to flinch.
"O-Okay!"
Another teleportation circle was activated. Alberu watched dumbfounded as his dongsaeng and his children disappeared in the middle of the screams of disappointment.
He couldn't see, but clearly heard the voices.
'What the hell...!'
"He left again!"
"I found him! He is with the World Tree and Golden dragon!"
"Let's go!"
Alberu stood there frozen.
"...This is driving me crazy."
He grabbed the video communication orb. He didn't know what was going on, but...
'I need to contact Eruhaben-nim.'
•••
"Unlucky bastard."
Eruhaben said the moment he saw Cale and children teleporting in front of him.
He had already heard everything from the World Tree.
'Tsk. He truly is the unluckiest human I have seen in all 1000 years of my life.'
"Eruhaben-nim..."
Cale looked like he would cry at any moment. Eruhaben clicked his tongue.
"Leave. I'll try to delay them as much as I can."
"Thank you very much, Eruhaben-nim."
Cale and children disappeared again. Eruhaben grabbed the communication orb that was ringing since earlier and answered it. It was the crown prince.
"Eruhaben-nim, something-"
"I know. I am busy, so call all of the allies immediately. Inform them that we need to protect the unlucky bastard."
Alberu's expression changed. It seemed like something more serious than what he thought was happening. It would be one thing if the world was in danger, but...
'Someone is targeting my dongsaeng.'
Someone was targeting Cale Henituse.
'And they're strong enough for Eruhaben-nim to say all of us need to be prepared.'
It meant the enemy was extremely strong.
'I need to inform everyone.'
Half an hour later, the whole world was in emergency state.
An hour later a rumour filled the whole world.
The hero, Cale Henituse, was targeted by some unknown yet strong enemies.
That day, Cale visited all of his allies while running away from informations.
It was when he visited the Endable kingdom.
"My son, I will protect..."
"What the fuck do you want? Why don't you leave me alone?"
Fredo didn't have the time to pout because of getting ignored by his self proclaimed son.
'Who is he talking to...?'
"Listen to us Cale!"
Flinch.
Fredo flinched at the sudden voice.
'...I didn't feel any presence.'
Then another voice joined.
"We won't hurt you!"
'...Are they threatening my son right in front of me?'
And another.
"We just want to tell you-"
"Shut up! I don't want to hear!"
"But-"
"Human! It's ready!"
Cale and children disappeared again.
"Ahhhh! He left again!"
"He is in Harris village! Hurry!!!"
"No! We need to tell him before he goes back to his home!"
The room became silent.
"Did you hear it?"
Solena appeared out of nowhere and answered him.
"Yes, Duke-nim."
"Inform everyone. The ones we've going against are even more powerful than the White Star."
"I understand."
Solena disappeared and Fredo sit on his chair with a chilly expression.
'My son always attracts strong being, be it as allies or enemies.'
He sighed.
'We need to get rid of them somehow.'
•••
"Hurry Raon!"
Cale urged Raon to activate another teleportation circle for the nth time.
"H-Human... Th-This great and mighty me has run out of mana and coordinates..."
'What?'
Cale was horrified. They were in the Harris village and Cale was sure that the informations will be able to locate him soon, again.
Cale bite his lower lip and announced.
"We will run straight to the black Castle."
"Okay, nya!"
"You can't use too much power, nya!"
"Noona and hyung are right, human! Don't use too much power!"
Cale just nodded absentmindedly. He didn't have the time to care for those things. He needed to run away.
"He's here!"
Cale flinched.
"Run!"
He screamed and started using sound of wind on himself and kittens immediately. Raon was flying right beside them.
"Wait for us!"
"Please stop!"
"Cale! Don't run!"
"We're harmless!"
'Harmless my ass! You're all just going to kill my slacker life!'
Cale once again firmed his decision that he would run till the end and won't listen to them.
Poor Cale. He wasn't even aware of the chaos that he had created in the world.
Even White Star had heard of the chaos and now was looking for this so called strong enemies to collaborate with them.
White Star was a poor bastard too.
"Cale-nim!"
Cale rejoiced after hearing Choi Han's voice.
'Just a little... A little more and I'll be in home-'
Tak. Thud.
Cale, who was too excited because of hearing Choi Han's voice, didn't see the tee branch in front of him and collided with it.
"Cale-nim!!!"
"Human!"
"Cale-nya!"
Cale fell into the ground. Choi Han and children immediately surrounded him.
'Damn, it hurts...!'
"He stopped!"
"We arrived on time!"
He shivered when he heard the voice of informations.
"Ch-Choi Han!"
Choi Han unsheathed his sword and his aura immediately shoot up.
"Stay away from Cale-nim!"
He heard multiple voices at that moment.
"We mean no harm!"
"We just want to inform him!"
"Yes! We have been waiting for a long time!"
Cale desperately screamed.
"No!!! Stop!!"
But he couldn't stop them.
They started to say all of the things they knew one by one. They didn't even care how Cale was almost collapsing.
Poor Cale. In the end, he received a lot of unwanted and annoying informations, yet again.
Oh, but there was something that even they couldn't bear telling him.
I mean, how could they tell him the whole world thought he was escaping from some people from divine or demonic race and was preparing for a possible holly war because he was running away from them?
It definitely wasn't their petty revenge for making them wait outside of his house for a long time or travel around the world to chase him.
Definitely.