23 Future

The room went completely silent again. Everyone looked at Alvin and Milia Frondor. Wife? What wife? Since when were they married?

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Alvin immediately grabbed Linfel's core. "What the hell are you talking about?!"

Linfel got puzzled. "But... didn't Linfelia say-" He couldn't finish his words as Alvin cut him again.

"She said nothing like that!" Alvin wanted to cry. Milia was kind of a goddess within his age, with very few women capable of comparing to her. The wisp's words pretty much would make all the maguses at Alvin's age his enemy.

Truth be told, Linfel didn't even know what a marriage truly meant. There were no such things two billion years ago. He thought it was just a way to describe someone's partner for procreation and nothing more serious.

Milia's expression immediately turned dark. "What kind of joke is this?" Even her bodyguards were ready to jump forward and teach Alvin and his Familiar a lesson.

"Please, ignore him, Miss Milia!" Linfelia also jumped to the front. "My master made this Familiar with a weird sense of humor. Trust me, we truly didn't say anything like that."

Suddenly, the wisp had a revelation. "Oh! Right, right! Linfelia indeed didn't say you were Alvin's wife, sorry for the misunderstanding."

"Hmph!" Milia wasn't in the mood to entertain such bullshit anyway. "It is good that you know."

Alvin and Linfelia sighed in relief. At least the wisp knew when to step back... or so they thought.

"Yes, yes!" Linfel nodded. "What Linfelia said was that you were Alvin's future wife. You aren't his wife yet. You just came to pay a visit to his father yesterday night." 

Alvin and Linfelia dropped their heads to the ground. Sure, Linfelia did say 'Future Wife,' but that was supposed to be just a joke to tease Alvin. The fucking wisp took it seriously! (Chapter 15)

That wasn't all. He even mentioned how Milia paid a visit to Alvin's father. Wasn't that the same as saying she was meeting her future father-in-law? Everyone was even more shocked by the revelations. Have the marriage preparations gone so far already? How did Alvin manage to do this? Well, Milia's visit had absolutely nothing to do with what everyone was thinking.

The leader of Milia's bodyguard stepped forward as his Magic Energy circulated around his body. A brown color quickly spread as several diagrams began to take form in midair. He was definitely a Level Three Magus. "Lady Milia, it is our duty to uphold your honor. I'm sorry, but we need to eliminate these troublemakers here."

Alvin released buckets of cold sweat. He had the impression the wisp would cause some trouble, but he didn't think he would die on the very first day because of it.

"Stop." Surprisingly, Milia ordered the guard to step down. Instead, she looked at Alvin and asked. "I'll give you one chance to give an explanation." Yet, it was pretty clear she was also holding her anger. The only reason she stopped her bodyguard was because she did indeed visit Alvin's father yesterday. She needed Alvin to clarify the real reason for the visit.

Alvin felt like he was pardoned and immediately got up. "Yes, yes, yes! Everyone, ignore my Familiar. He just has some problems with his sense of humor. Please, think about it straight. Do you truly think someone like ME could marry someone like Lady Milia?! That is absolutely ridiculous! Her Frondor family would get rid of me before she could even entertain such an idea."

Sure enough, Alvin's words were very intelligent.

"Now that you say that..."

"Yes, there is no way goddess Milia would care about someone like him."

"Phew... For a moment, I thought everything in this world was possible."

"But... what about that visit the Familiar... Errrr... Linfel was his name, right? Anyway, what about that visit to Alvin's Father?"

Such questions and words appeared all around, giving Alvin the chance to explain himself.

*Mmmhhmhmmhhhh...*

Linfel also wanted to talk, but Linfelia was making absolutely sure the wisp didn't say a single word anymore. She used her Magic Energy to stop Linfel's voice generation through his own Magic Energy. 'You stay quiet! Master will end up dead if you talk anymore.'

"Ahem!" Alvin quickly spoke. "The visit had nothing to do with the nonsense my Familiar, Linfel, spoke. You see, my father is a fisher, and his boat was attacked by a Level Two Magic Beast yesterday. Lady Milia took the mission from the academy to investigate the reason for a Level Two Magic Beast to appear there. Naturally, she went to visit my father to inquire more about the event. It was all a coincidence."

Alvin quickly bowed to Milia after that. "I'm terribly sorry for Linfel's lack of common sense, lady Milia. Let everyone know that I and Lady Milia have absolutely no relation with each other. Yesterday was truly the very first time we even exchanged words."

Finally, the bodyguards and Milia's expression eased a little bit. That was definitely a very thorough explanation that left no room for misinterpretation. Well, even with everything clarified, that definitely would be the talk of the academy during the foreseeable future. "I heard yesterday that you modified your Familiar during its creation, so I will let it slide this time. It can't even do normal chores, after all."

"So he truly changed his Familiar..." Jumanhi commented. They all thought Alvin did something to Linfel for them to reach that level of compatibility.

The others also nodded. Having Milia mention this fact made them sure Alvin did something completely out of the norm to get that result. Could it be that making nonsensical Familiars would give them a higher compatibility level? Some of them made a mental note to try it in the future. 

Alvin finally calmed down a little, and the Wisp came to his side. He glared at him, angry. "Don't try to kill me this time, will you?"

Linfel was still puzzled, but he nodded nonetheless. "Well, I'm not really familiar with the concept of what a wife is anyway. Let's forget it. So, Lady Milia, why the sudden visit?"