Unfortunate Hero's Retirement Life

King William knew Heero was not kidding with his words. And after he met a real dragon yesterday, he trusted Heero more than before.

He gestured to his knights with his left to not speak and said to Heero, "Good! What about Alexa? Can I bring her with me?"

Heero did not give an immediate answer. He looked at Alexa and in a split of seconds, his pupils turned purple. It was hardly noticed by the people around him.

"If you trust her then it's okay, he can join us to meet our shorty friends,"

He said a random blabber with a big smile plastered on his face. King William took that as a joke and smiled in return.

The three Guardian Knights who did not follow King William to the first dungeon wanted to say something. However, Guardian Knight Adrian stopped them with a gesture of his hand and a shook of his head. He was telling them to follow the King's will to not follow them.

At this point, he was pretty sure Heero was someone he could trust. He fully trusted Heero.

'If he truly wants to harm William, yesterday was the best chance to do that!'

It was a dragon and the dragon was Heero's friend. He, William, and Alexa could be killed instantly there but they were safe and sound. He believed there was no reason for Heero to harm King William.

While the other three Guardian Knights did not understand why Adrian agreed to that. They did not talk back and retreated afterward.

"Then let's go," Heero led King William and Alexa to their destination. They did not go toward the academy but toward Xing Auction House's direction.

When they arrived in front of the auction house, Heero met with his daughter. Miao Miao was walking together with her usual group. She, Myung-Hee, and Lan Lan. Each of them holding a skewer covered in red sauce.

"Daddy!" Miao Miao called out as soon as she discovered her father. She ran toward him while waving her skewer.

"Wow~ Wow~," Heero caught her daughter and took the skewer from her hand. He did that to prevent the sauce from falling onto her yellow shirt.

"Where are you going?" He asked her as he gave the skewer back.

"I am going to play with Lumi. Where are you going to, Daddy?" She took a bite on the skewer after she asked back.

Lumi was her Luminous Hyacinth's name. It seemed the three were going to the noodles shop's rooftop to play.

"I am going to visit uncle shorty, do you want to visit them too?" Heero asked.

When Heero said those words out, Miao Miao's eyes brightened. When uncle shorty was mentioned, her eyes lit up. The same for Myung-Hee and Lan Lan, they also had the same reaction.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" The three little girls replied simultaneously.

"Where's Sister Moira?" Heero asked Miao Miao. Moira usually played with them but he did not see her today.

"Sister Moira is training with Brother Dong-Woo. She's working very hard!" Myung-Hee was the one who replied.

Heero nodded his head understandingly. Moira was dedicated to becoming strong. She said she did not want to lose her new family so she wanted to become strong to protect his sisters.

Miao Miao looked toward King William and Alexa before she whispered to Heero's ear, "Can I get more skewers for uncle shorty?"

"Of course you can," Heero nodded and gave his diamond card to her daughter to buy more skewers.

"Looking at you with your daughter makes me envy you," Said King William as he looked at the three little girls running away from them.

"You can start planning it after you go back," Heero grinned at the couple.

The skewer stall was not far from the auction house. It did not take a long time before the three little girls ran back with two plastic bags in each of their hands.

There were at least thirty skewers in each bag.

"Let's go!" Miao Miao said as she handed back the diamond card to her father.

Heero took the diamond card and followed the three little girls into the auction house. King William and Alexa followed closely behind.

King William was confused at first. He thought the last secret ally was at the second gate in the academy's backyard.

He entered the auction house. It was dark and empty. In his second step, the light automatically turned on, brightening the hallway.

In the fifth step, they stopped at the empty hallway.

Heero placed his hand on the wall which confused King William. But soon his puzzle was cleared as the wall slid down and showed a new path to the underground.

King William and Alexa subconsciously stepped forward to see the path. It was a stair that led them to the underground.

The three little girls excitedly rushed into the underground while Heero also followed them.

King William and Alexa exchanged a glance briefly before they entered the underground together.

They lost sight of Heero and his daughters but they were not anxious to catch up. It was only a one-way path, there was no way they would get lost.

The path was illuminated by a hexagonal crystal. They could see a crystal every three meters. The couple was scanning the path, the stair was covered by slabs of black stone and the wall also had a similar design.

As they kept going down, soon they heard the voice of the three little girls. They were chatting happily while they kept calling "Uncle Shorty" repeatedly.

Curious, King William and Alexa picked up their pace. As they got closer they could also hear a boy's voice? Yes, it was a cute boy's voice, King William was sure about that.

When they reached their destination, the couple were surprised by the scene in front of them.

They saw Heero's daughters surrounded by boys. However, the boys were a head taller than the girls. There were five of them and they received the plastic bag from Heero's daughters.

Maybe the five boys realized the couple's presence so the five boys raised their heads and met with King William's eyes.

King William and Alexa were shocked by what they saw. They thought the five were boys but they were not.

Three of them had a thick beard, one of them had a long beard, and the last one had a thick mustache. On top of that, they had pale white skin just like a vampire in the movie.

A name flashed in King William and Alexa's thoughts.

'Dwarf!'

To the couple's surprise, the five dwarves immediately handed the plastic bags to Heero's daughters. Then five of them took twenty centimeters steel out and suddenly, a meter of blade popped out of the steel. Three swords and two spears, they pointed their weapons toward them and yelled with their cute voice, "Who are you!?"

"Wow~ Wow~ Wow~! Calm down, guys! Calm down and put your weapons down," Heero appeared in between the couple and the dwarves.

"You bring them here? You promised us to not bring any random stranger to us!" A dwarf with a spear yelled toward Heero.

From the dwarves' expression, King William could tell these dwarves were furious at their presence.

"I know! I know! But they are not just a random stranger. They are your new client," Heero then turned back and winked toward the couple.

His lips moved, speaking without a voice, 'Greet them~ Politely~'

'Don't forget to praise them too!'

Fortunately, King William and Alexa were quick with the uptake. They got the message.

The couple stepped forward and politely bowed their heads to the dwarves, "Hello, I am William and this is my wife, Alexa,"

"Hello~ I am Alexa~," Alexa waved her hand to the dwarves cheerfully.

Only then the dwarves lowered their weapons.

"Hello!" The dwarf with a spear nodded and he tried to deepen his voice as he returned the greeting. However, with their cute voice, it did not give off the right impression to the couple.

Alexa was amused by the dwarf and holding her laughter inside.

"You have a nice voice~," Alexa praises the dwarves. She did not forget Heero's words to praise the dwarves.

She chose 'nice' over 'cute' even though the voice was genuinely cute to her. Despite their cute voices, they looked old. If she praised their voice as cute she was afraid they would be offended.

From the look, these dwarves were old, and calling them cute might be a mistake.

The dwarves smiled and Alexa knew she was right with her choice.

Miao Miao approached the dwarf with a spear and held his hand, "Uncle Shorty, he is a good person,"

"Yes, he bought these for you guys as well," Myung-Hee showed the plastic bag in her hand to the dwarf with a spear.