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Lee Soo Hyuk is currently having a tea party with his nephews and niece wearing a silver and gray princess dress that is way to tight on his chest and waist area and a silver crown, holding a cup of tea that is designed with silver holy-looking shield. Along with him is Choi Han who is wearing a big poofy neon blue ball gown dress that has a very outstanding butterflies littered all of the top portion, Choi Han is also wearing a tiara, on his right is Alberu Crossman who is in his quarter dark elf form wearing a dark skin-tight skirt with a blood red crop top with spaghetti strap trying to cross his legs as much as possible since his skirt is showing too much skin.
The three of them is currently in the Super Rock Villa along with Raon, Hong and On. The three children suggested that they should play tea party since they are bored. They are having a blast with playing dress up with the three dark haired individuals, the three looking so hilarious that the three children just cannot stop themselves from laughing.
Cale, their father, is currently having a meeting at Harris Village with the Wolves and the Tigers. He's quite busy this days what's with the annual celebration coming up. The three children also needs to distract the three adults because it's an order from their human.
They don't have a clue on what he'll do but based on his face when he told them what he want them to do, they reluctantly agrees, getting the feeling that it won't really put their guardian in danger.
"When will our Maknae agree to my premonition, Hyung?"
Alberu asked Lee Soo Hyuk.
(Yes, it's already settled. Since Alberu and Cale are sworn brothers and Lee Soo Hyuk are Kim Rok Soo's hyung and what with Lee Soo Hyuk being older than the two, it's only natural that Lee Soo Hyuk become Alberu's hyung too.)
"I just want him to give a speech, a single speech, just a speech and nothing else."
"You'll get there one day"
And then their tea party goes own, their conversation going from the speech of their littlest brother, to the kingdom, to Choi Han's brigade that he's training personally, to Lee Soo Hyuk's farm, to the second and third prince, to Zed Crossman and then back to Alberu's siblings and their rivalries. Lee Soo Hyuk then talks about his own sibling rivalries back on Earth with Choi Jung Soo and Kim Rok Soo. With Choi Jung Soo's memory, Choi Han then asked about the pranks Lee Soo Hyuk have done, Alberu then asked what a prank is since he have never done such a thing.
The two then tells the King what it meant to prank someone and where to draw the lines.
"Yeah, but there's someone we've never really prank before cause we're so scared of crossing this guy. I mean who wouldn't, the guy's fucking scary as a grim ripper when angry"
"And that guy is?"
"Kim Rok Soo, you've never seen him getting angry at you so you don't know and believe me when I say that you don't wanna know, but yeah. Rok Soo have never been a target, hehe, but sometimes I just wanna throw some freezing cold water on him."
"Cale-nim needs to wake up early to get some morning sunlight, he's so pale and his lifestyle isn't healthy at all"
And then the tea party continues.
The children who's still with the three saw their Uncle Cookie contemplating something before smiling a scammer smile, the three looks at each other then shrugs it off....
Plausible deniability.
Too early.
It's too early.
It's 8:00 am and it's still too fucking early for this madness!!!!
Insane.
THIS PEOPLE ARE INSANE AND HE WANTS REFUND!!!!!!!!!!
Cale Henituse, former Kim Rok Soo, is not a morning person, even though he can wake up early, when and only when, it's an emergency, you still cannot think of him as an early person.
His temper knows no exemption when he's not properly awaken and/or he's force to wake up just because of someone else's stupidity.
So imagine what his temper would be like if he's awaken by a bucket of freezing cold water.
It's...
I don't even have a proper word for it.
Anyway, Cale is livid, he's eyes met the Sun of the Roan kingdom beside his bed holding an empty bucket, by the door he can see a frozen Ron slowly inching away until he's fully out of sight. He stood up, hair and pajamas wet and yet his all fired up. He's eyes met a group of giggling children, Raon, Hong, On and Lock, eyes void of any emotion the group stopped laughing then tries to look away since they all felt the feeling a child would get after finding out that they apparently disappoint their favorite person.
Choi Han and Lee Soo Hyuk is already looking pale.
Even though it's Lee Soo Hyuk idea to wake up the red head with a bucket of water, he actually didn't expect the Roan Kingdom's King of all people would actually go along with it.
It's only supposed to be a joke, a passing joke because no one is idiotic enough to do it.
Even though Cale Henituse and Kim Rok Soo used to be two different person, they've always been quite similar even if the two do not have a single idea about it. It's why no one actually noticed the shift of character, they act the same with the littlest difference that can be easily excused as him being sober instead of drunk, the littlest change of habits can be explained as him being stressed and the little change of preference in clothing can be explained as him choosing to be more practical.
That's why, even if some of them only saw the temper of the prematurely awoken Cale Henituse and not Kim Rok Soo, the fear is still ingrained enough to awaken the trauma that those people got from the experience.
And the fact that Kim Rok Soo in Cale Henituse's body is just standing there dripping wet, devoid of any emotion, acting not unlike a brewing storm.
They all felt suffocated. Only now realizing the fact that Cale have never been angry with any of them
They are currently in Harris Village, Cale choosing to finish his business with the Tigers and the Wolves. Both of them already acquired a few locations as there home in the Eastern Continent, they are only seeking his assistance since they need the materials for the constructions of their new home, they also need Cale's connections so they could properly settle down. The meeting already happens yesterday and he's pretty tired since he also has paper works that needs his attention, he also need to go to a few noble gathering to pacify a pack of idiots that dares to even send marriage proposals to his little sister and his daughter.
Idiots, really, to think that they are even qualified to ask for their hands in marriage, he would gladly sicced Ron to them to get their own hands but, unfortunately, he's Hyung-nim won't like it.
But he guessed now he has an excuse to cause havoc considering that his Hyung-nim did something so.......
Rage inducing...
And he actually wants to be a bit kind to him and finally accept to attend the annual celebration event that the palace prepared without asking anything in return.
He actually plans to become a bit lenient and give a speech that his dear brother have been asking him to do for who knows how long.
And this....
He....
He actually want to repay his kind thoughts with something like this????
UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!
Cale looks at the children, he knows no exemption but he still cannot include his children in his ire knowing that they have no idea that this would happen seeing as Raon, On and Hong is also slightly wet. He thinks that those children barely manage to escape.
(The three wet themselves on purpose...
They don't know that it'll happen so...)
He also knows that Lock is only here because he asked him to wake him up and remind him of his schedule, he's planning on going on a trip with him and his siblings so that he could buy them proper clothes for the annual festival considering that it has been around 8 years since the defeat of the White Star (5 years since the annihilation of the Hunters but no one needs to know that).
"Out"
The 4 children scrambles and zipped out the room, Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Han wanting to do the same but with a piercing glare from the red head, the two man stopped on their track. Alberu already accepting his faith and in his mind, his already trying to find ways on how to control the damage.
Standing still with a poker face, Cale stares at the three idiots.
At the door Eruhaben looked inside the room, curious as to why the children is running as if they were being chased by demons and as to why he couldn't feel the presence of the unlucky bastard's butler. He takes one look at the three statues and the wet Cale then speed walked out of there. His never going to admit that he got chills just by the looks of the void that Cale has become, even worse, he gets the feeling that Cale is not using any of his Ancient powers that makes him seem stronger. This is his own aura, his own presence, not anyone else.
He prays that those three would still be alive after this mess they found themselves in.
The quarter dark elf sure is unlucky too. Maybe he should start calling him Unlucky Idiot?
Hmmm...
No.
'Not yet, Cale might be jealous.'
A week later, Alberu faced the revenge of his dongsaeng in the form of multiple mountains of paperworks, most of them are complaints about them losing a whole hand. The complaints also have a note on them saying that those who has their hands cut off has received pages among pages of reasons why they are not enough and will never be enough to even dream of aligning themselves with the Henituse Duchy.
The copies of course is hand written by both Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Han.
(Deep inside them, they think it's worth it cause now they have the memory of THE Cale Henituse, the stoic, no nonsense former commander of the Roan Kingdom shrieking.)
The hand cutting part is done by Ron, his assasin family and a few from Deruth, though none of them would complain since it's actually pretty satisfying on their part, they too think that On and Lily is overly over qualified to just be a horse shit's wife. Ron thinks that his granddaughter deserves more than what this rabbit's could offer, he thinks that anyone who wish to court his On have to atleast be as rich as his puppy young master.
(He knows that that is a losing game considering this child of his is not just rich but also very politically powerful that he knows he alone can overthrow a whole empire if he so wish.)
Deruth might not be the best father but he too thinks that someone who wish to court his Lily at least can face his oldest son without fear and get his permission.
(He knows that that's almost impossible, he knows how protective his son can be. He's also aware that after getting his, his wife and his sons' permission that person also needs to get permission to all very powerful individual that his son manage to acquitted himself with. He's also aware that that is the same case with his On.)
Cale is actually okay with anyone courting his daughter and sister, it's just that marriage is too much of a big leap and his still not prepared to hand his two precious girls to anyone just yet.
He will be okay with it as long as his girls are okay with it, On and Lily are both smart and so he'll trust their judgment.
On's a Henituse, a Molan, a Miru and a very dependable older sister, she's strong and capable and he knows that she's not a pushover. Lily's a Henituse and just like with On, he knows that she's strong and is also not a pushover. When time comes that they manage to find someone to take the next step and be lovers with then he'll be okay with it, but he can't promise that he'll won't sicced his sons and brothers to those people first. He knows himself so he'll warn those people, he knows that he can and he will destroy anyone who even dare use his family.