Responsibilities (Part I)

Previously on the last episode...

"*Your journey is a long one, not only you have to save the world, but you also need to fill up the empty seats on the throne as one of your responsibility." He said cheerfully, dropping the bomb.

The group of college students widened their eyes in surprised after hearing the unexpected news.

"Wait. What?" This time, it was Michael who said that*.

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The intriguing young man only watched them in amusement after seeing their shocking expressions.

"Yes, you will be doing some of the royalties responsibilities. For short, most of you will be filling up the empty seat of the King temporarily until our complications got solved." He replied calmly, waiting for their outburst.

"How is it possible?!! We don't look like them! Even though we don't know what they look like and what their personalities are." The Frenchman was the first one who quickly composed himself, and the rest slowly followed.

"Dude, Julian is right. No offense, though. I imagined them as old men reigning in the Kingdom, and I don't like responsibilities at all." The American pouted childishly, crossing his arms over his chest while looking on the ground in interest. He was now sulking.

"I could not agree more, Alex," Julian smirked towards him in amusement, especially the part of old men managing the Kingdom.

Meanwhile, with the German, he positioned his hand on top of his head, shaking his head in frustration while ignoring them. He wanted a bottle of beer right now as his stress level was piling up, and he could feel the upcoming throbbing head-ache because of this many information adding inside his brain.

"Heh~ I don't really mind being a king. Maybe all my citizen will be my friends~" The Belarussian easily accepted the situation, and he was carefree with his answer. The Englishman glared at him in annoyance.

"Nikolai, don't accept it carelessly!! Plus, it is only temporary." He corrected him, wanting him to remind Nikolai that he was not a real king, and then his attention went back to the masked man.

"Ehh? But still, I wanted them to be my friends." He replied cheerfully, which Michael ignored him.

"Julian is right, though. How would we convince everyone that we were them?" He asked him curiously. Inside the Brit's thoughts, is there some kind of magic that involved to disguise themselves?

"You don't have to worry with those." The college students stopped their musing as they paid their attention toward the enigmatic man, and they waited to further explain himself.

"After all, everyone in here, except me, looks like the same as Kings. You will know what they look like in the portrait at the castle." He clarified, and then he looked at Alexander, which the American subconsciously stood himself straight after feeling his eyes toward him, and he felt creep out.

"Alexander Emory, you will be the substitute of Regis Herbert as a King of Spade." The mysterious man nodded towards him while Alexander furrowed his eyebrows, wondering how he knew his full name because he knew he didn't mention it to him, and then he glanced at Julian. The Frenchman looked at him in an approachable expression, and his lips curled up with a friendly smile, which the obscured man knew that he was suspicious of him. Behind the mask, he smirked at him in pleasure, reminding him with someone in familiarity.

"Julian Beauregard, you will be a stand-in of Jeanne Beaumont as a King of Diamond." He continued while his eyesight moved towards Nikolai. Nikolai only smiled at him intimidatingly while his eyes were closed, which the enigmatic man disregard it because he faced terrifying foes than him. When he compared Nikolai with his enemies, Nikolai looked like a wounded puppy, barking at him adorably. If the Belarussian knew what he was thinking off, he will be pissed, and then he will beat him up even knowing he will lose.

"Nikolai Smirnov, you will be temporary called as Danila Montgomery. He is the King of Club." His gaze quickly looked toward the German, which Albrecht looked at him calmly and wearily.

"Albrecht Eckardt, your name will be replaced as Gabriel Friedrich. He is the King of Heart, and lastly," He glanced at the last member. Michael felt chills around his body, but he glared at him defiantly.

"You will figure out who you are filling up with soon. He needs you." He said seriously, wanting him to know that he was important as them.

The mysterious man used the tip of his cane to tap it on the ground gently, and the back of his left gloved hand glowed softly with green light, and then a magic circle appeared underneath the college students.

The magic particles covered around them with a gentle gust of wind as the wind slowly grew stronger because of his magic pooling up.

The five individuals gasped in surprise and confusion while others shielded out their eyes with their arms.

"What the heck is happening?!!" Alexander cried out loud because the howl of the wind was producing a loud sound.

"My job here is done. You will see me in the future. The rest of the explanation, someone will inform you about that soon. May the goddess of magic blessed you. I wish you the best of luck." After hearing his last words, the flash of bright light exploded around them in a short while until they vanished.

When the disguised man was finally alone surrounded by various roses with different colors in the middle of the meadow inside his dimension, he enjoyed the silence while looking above the blue sky, and he could hear the gentle of rustling leaves and birds chirping peacefully in the horizon. He grabbed his mask, slowly lifting it up until his chin and pink lips got exposed.

He smirked.

"Yes... You will see me soon enough." He chuckled lightly, having an inside joke of himself.

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When dusk was fallen above the heavens, in the middle of the forest, there's a bright light occurred until it disappeared. There were a few curses, moans, and groans in the woods.

The five college students arrived in the lushed green trees, bushes, and grasses, and it was slowly getting dark as chill air blew in the air.

"Where the bloody hell are we?" Michael grumbled while he looked around.

"We are in the middle of nowhere!" Exclaimed Julian in frustration.

"That stupid jerk. He should have told us where we are going before being summoned in unknown place!" Alexander muttered underneath his breath in complained.

"Heheheh~ If I see him again, I will smack and beat him with a metal pipe on his head." Nikolai smiled creepily, and his black aura was pouring out of him. The Frenchman heard him what he said since he was beside him, and he shivered and sweat-dropped.

"Now, now, Nikolai. Don't let him get to you because--"

"I would punch him in the face first and hit him with my guitar." Interrupted the Englishman in irritation. Julian whipped his head to looked at him in disappointment while he frowned.

"So violent. I thought you already past the phase of being a punk." The culinary student reminded him dryly. Albrecht only pinched the bridge of his nose. He felt really tired because of this bizarre event, and here comes the head-ache that he predicted earlier.

"I did, but don't you dare mention my teen phase!" He growled as he threatened him, and he wanted to forget some of his memories when he was a teenager. Well you see, Michael did have an interesting teenager phase while Julian got dragged along in the middle because of his friend's stupid decisions (Well, some of it), and he had to look after him because he did not want him to end up in jail and destroy his future. Like when Julian was searching him after Michael's brother called him through his phone to look for his foolish brother in the evening with him, and he found him after hearing a loud crash nearby while he ran towards the source of sound in the street. When he saw him at the antique shop, he noticed that his friend was drunk while he cursed through the heavens after he smashed the glass window. As a good loyal friend, he didn't hesitate to help him escaped before they were caught. Back there, Julian visited in England five years ago to meet his childhood friend since he lives in France, and the Frenchman caught in surprise after seeing him wearing black cross earrings on his ears, highlighting his hair color with red dye, and gothic style clothing such as black leather jacket, gloves, black shirt with a flag of United Kingdom that got broken into tiny pieces while the 'Anarchy' word burst through the center of the broken flag as a design, matching tight pants and boots one day. Michael in his punk phase cursed like a sailor that makes the ******'s ears bleed, and he was an amazing vocalist and guitarist when he joined the band. Also, he has a tattoo on the side of his hips as proof, which he won't describe what it looks and how he found it towards the readers.

It was really a flabbergasted experienced to Julian, but he still loves his dear friend, even though they argued a lot, and Alexander always joked and depicted them as an old married couple.

"Okay, mom and dad. Stop arguing already." Whined and teased Alexander to them. Michael and Julian craned their necks simultaneously and glared at the American in irritation.

"Who are you calling us mom/dad?!!" Both of them exclaimed in unison, and Alexander only laughed obnoxiously at them after hearing that while Albrecht and Nikolai looked at them in a deadpanned expression and amusement chronologically.

While they were busy by entertaining each other, they heard a soft echoing voice in the distance.

"Wait. Did you hear that?" Alexander's neck craned where the voice came from quickly. Michael and Julian quietened down until they were still, and their ears strained to focus what Alexander talking about.

"Hello?!! Is there anybody there?!" The unfamiliar man shouted once more, and the voice was slowly getting thinner, indicating that he was going far away from them.

"We are here, help!!!" Alexander yelled his lungs out for their aid. Michael flinched because of how loud he was, and he scowled at him because Alexander was on his left side while the other side was the Frenchman. Julian only furrowed his eyebrows in displeasure.

Albrecht looked worried.

"I think it's a bad idea to shout in the forest. Maybe some predator will be lured in here." Unfortunately for the German, he jinxed it because in seconds later, there was a low growling sound nearby. A crunching of leaves could be heard while all of them glanced where the original sound was, and it was coming closer.

The five of them huddled together in alert and confusion, and they knew that splitting up was a bad idea.

"What was that?" Whispered Alexander softly.

"I don't know. But what I do know is that its bad news." Replied Julian with a shaky tone nervously. Nikolai picked up the rock on the ground, and Michael noticed him.

"What are you going to do with that?" He asked him curiously. Nikolai got his attention, and he only smiled at him innocently.

"I will throw it. Maybe it will get distracted and chase it instead of continuing to go to our place, da?" He answered.

"Ohh!! That's a great idea!! There might be a slight chance that it will work." The American cheered softly.

"At least there's a plan. Throw the rock as hard as you can." Albrecht supported the white-haired male, placing his hand on his broad shoulder in encouragement.

"Da. I will." He replied, nodding at the German in acknowledgement. Nikolai felt good that everyone paid him attention, and he did an outfield baseball position while his sight concentrated on a random direction. In fact, he was inexperience when it comes to baseball, but he wanted to try this for a long time.

After he was in the position, his purple eyes glinted and threw the rock roughly. The rock zoom ahead until there was a loud pitch of a pig crying was heard.

Everyone stayed still, and they were shocked.

"Oh, Merde!" The Frenchman cursed in French, breaking the silence first.

The ground began to shake, and they knew that the gigantic mysterious creature was running towards them.

They were ready to run, but it was too late as it exposed itself quickly. It was a twelve feet tall brown wild boar, and it was grunting, looking straight at them in anger. The wild animal's eyes are pitch black while the being's pupils are brown with black atmosphere lingering around the critter. They could feel that something was wrong with the beast.

Inside their minds, they remembered what the masked young man warning and explanation.

"Five years ago, a disaster struck in our land. Aggressive monsters or any wildlife that turned into monsters appeared out of nowhere, causing chaos everywhere." He began his tale.

Is this what he was talking about? If so, they were screw.

To be continued...

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