When the plot-skips players into the game world Chapter 604

Chapter 604: Chapter 20 Drost’s Past Chapter 604: Chapter 20 Drost’s Past “Mr.

Diodes!”

When the solemn elf with the square face heard Aiwass’s voice, he thought for a mont that he was hallucinating.

It was only after he turned around that he resignedly confird that it was indeed Aiwass walking toward him.

“Archbishop Your Excellency, what is this—”

For a mont, a flicker of anger sparked in Diodes’s heart.

—I made it clear to you, “Do not go out, do not go out, do not go out”!

Why would you still go out in broad daylight, and even co directly to !

This was practically a hint to Moriarty father and son, informing them that “Charles Drost plans to silence Aiwass,” warning Aiwass not to give him a reason during this ti…

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No, that was no longer a hint.

It was an outright declaration!

They had agreed so readily!

If sothing really needed their attention, couldn’t that old man Oswald co to instead?

He was not familiar with Aiwass.

The reason he would pass on ssages was due to his disdain for Minister Drost and also because of his many years of friendship with Oswald.

The two were mbers of the sa Papal Guard graduation class and also childhood friends who had been stationed in a foreign land together for a full four hundred years.

Out of all the Guardian Spirits in the Papal Guard, only the two of them had known each other before being assigned.

If one of them had been a female elf, by now they would probably even have great-grandchildren.

Diodes was fairly certain that Aiwass was safe as long as he stayed at ho.

Even if the Star Antimony people took complete control of Avalon, Drost would most likely not dare lay a finger on him.

Charles was soone Diodes had watched over since his childhood; he knew his character well.

The man had beco a coward.

He had developed an inertia for endurance, and he would not make a move unless he was sure.

—This was completely opposite to how Charles had been in the past.

Diodes thought to himself.

Back when Diodes was sent by the Pope to guard the bloodline of Dagonet in Avalon, he was but a frail and timid boy.

Charles had just been born, and he wasn’t as old as now either.

Charles had been most likable when he was a teenager in his teens.

Back then, he was optimistic, cheerful, and sociable.

His features were pronounced, his deanor noble, speech clear and forceful, always wearing a smile, and never discouraged by setbacks.

At most, he would sulk by himself for a while and then smile again, pumping himself up and rebounding.

During that ti, Diodes often felt lancholic.

Because then, his partner in Avalon had passed away.

He had known him when he was still a student, and back when Diodes, still a handso uncle, grew older looking as the other aged and died.

His will had been sapped for a long while, and he would silently flip through old photos whenever he was idle.

Those years were when he aged the most rapidly.

It was by observing the youth Charles, who always encouraged himself after failures, that Diodes gradually recovered.

So Diodes once held Charles in high regard.

The teenage Charles could be described as the heartthrob of the masses.

He tied his flaxen curly hair into a ponytail.

He played cricket, soccer, and even specifically trained in horse riding aiming for polo.

His academic performance was not bad either; by sophomore year, he had beco a second power level Legal Mage.

Coupled with the background of a Founding Family and his outgoing, fiery nature, he had nurous girlfriends during his university days, the quickest of which he would change three in a week.

Although a Legal Mage, Charles was always keen on exercising.

He woke up at five every morning for workouts.

Even though he was a playboy, he neither drank alcohol nor stayed up late, his interests being sports, gourt food, and won—things that brought him pleasure.

When he inherited the position of family head, he was only thirty-eight years old.

By then, he had reached the fourth power level, had beco the Minister of Comrce, and was hailed as one of the Transcendents most likely to touch the fifth power level.

He was also married for many years, and his wife had borne him three children.

The eldest was even close to adulthood.

But from that point on…

for so unknown reason, he suddenly started drinking.

And it led to alcoholism.

Long before becoming a minister, when he was a specially-appointed legal Counselor for the Comrce Departnt, his daily workout routine had disappeared.

As for the ball sports he once loved, he hadn’t touched them since his graduation.

The vibrant and passionate young man in Diodes’s eyes had slowly faded away without notice.

He even began assigning Diodes to do so dirty work—assassinations, theft, surveillance.

Diodes didn’t know if other Guardian Spirits had done similar things, but it was his duty to obey the head of the household and protect him, even if it ant occasionally offering unsolicited advice…

In the beginning, Charles listened to Diodes’s suggestions with politeness and respect; later, as he grew aware of his own authority, he no longer accepted all advice, though he still maintained decorum.

Then he started to argue, yet he still valued Diodes’s words and reluctantly corrected his behavior.

—Until the day Diodes caught Charles humiliating his daughter, Thalia Drost.