How to explain the walk back to the castle?

Awkward.

EXTREMELY awkward.

L.Joe tried to come up with a conversation to make it feel less awkward (note: TRIED), "S-So how's your wound S-Sungjong...?"

"Good if you don't take having my stomach, intestines, and one of my kidneys almost falling out of my wound if Kei didn't heal me quick enough into account."

To which was immediately shot down with Sungjong's sass and a hair flip.

The myrmidon pressed his lips into a thin line before turning his head away.

Amber looks over Eun's head at the pegasus knight with a worried expression, "Sungjong, that was a bit uncalled for... you know that L.Joe didn't deserve that sass-"

"Shut up!" Sungjong yelled before looking to the ground and letting his bangs cast over his eyes, "I can't believe you murdered someone...!" L sees how Sungjong's grip on the reins tighter.

The tomboy's gaze softened, "I had to or else you would've died, and there's no way in hell I would ever let that happen, especially if I'm able to do something to stop it."

"But..."

"W-We're here!" Kei exclaimed, interrupting the tense atmosphere.

L looks up to see a large gate slowly open and is greeted with the sight of a large throne decorated with pearl light periwinkle furniture and a few in a pastel rose, gold, pearl light lavender. There, in the middle of all of the rather theme colored throne, stood a girl who seemed relieved at the sight of them.

"Oh thank goodness...!" as they enter the throne she runs over and hugs Amber.

"Hey Krys, we're back from that meeting thing-y," Amber pats her head as she releases Amber.

"M-hm, hopefully that trip wasn't too tough. Sungjongie didn't do anything rash right?" 'Krys' turns to 'Sungjongie', to which L had to stiffle a chuckle.

"Ugh don't talk like your the older one Krystal. Don't go giving L the idea that he can talk down to me too," Sungjong rolled his eyes.

"So I'm guessing you're L? I'm Krystal, the sister of the queen, but go ahead and talk to me informally like these guys here," Krystal smiled, "Oh, I'm also a lord class, but unfortunately this class ."

From seemingly polite and formal to blunt and straightforward. Yup, definitely their friend.

"Speaking about the queen, where's Jessica anyways?" L.Joe asked, turning around to see where the said queen was.

"Meeting with the Esem kingdom... again..." Krystal sighed before motioning them to follow her to the hallway.

"Esem kingdom?" L asked as the others walked through the large hallway.

"Oh yeah, amnesiac and all of that stuff," Amber scratched the back of her head, "Well long story short, each of us sorta come from a different or town each. Jessica came from Sonyeoshidae, Kei came from Lovelyz, L.Joe came from Teen Top, me and Krys came from Efex, and Sungjong... came from Infinite."

L scrunched up his eyebrows, "What kind of names are those?"

"To which I ask everyday," Sungjong says stoically.

"Anyways, Lovelyz and Infinite have an alliance treaty called the Woolim treaty, so we consider them to be the Woolim kingdom. It's sort of like Efex and Sonyeoshidae with our Esem treaty along with some other towns, so we're the Esem kingdom and Teen Top with some other towns so they're the Top kingdom.

"Basically, each of our kingdom clashed with one another until Krystal and Jessica's parents were tired of it and decided that we would all work with each other. Now we just have this neutral area a.k.a. this intersection between all of the towns, thus why Jessica is the ultimate royalty over all of our kingdoms."

L sort of paused for a moment to fully let his head fully absorb the information, "That's... complicated..."

"Yeah, why else did Amber tell the short version," L.Joe sighed, "The meeting we were returning from was to check up on a new addition to the Top kingdom so that they understood how our neutrality worked. Guess Esem's really big kingdom is having some sort of debate there..."

You know, you would have really guessed that they would finally get some peace and quiet as Krystal lead them to (well what L assumed to be) meeting with the other people in the army... well, if there was a giant explosion sound and the wall vibrating a bit, guess not.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me," Sungjong groaned as they walked a bit quicker to the back door and opened it to reveal some barracks and a giant smoke cloud floating out of one of them.

They ran to the source of the giant smoke cloud to see a boy right beside the barrack lookin scared to death and a girl with her hand hovering over a fire tome, ready to literally fire at the boy.

The boy quickly noticed the group and ran over to L.Joe, "Guys help Jiae is trying to kill me!"

"Nu-uh Chunji-sunbaenim basically stomped a hole into my freaking barrack with his stupid horse!" (obviously the girl) Jiae yelled in defense.

"Excuse you Seok is not a stupid horse!" Chunji yelled back and once he saw Jiae point at him with a summoning circle he immediately squeaked like a chipmunk and hid behind L.Joe (which didn't help since the latter was shorter).

"Sungjong-oppa can I fire at him?" Jiae asked with puppy eyes and pouty lips.

"L.JOE-IE HELP!" Chunji screamed a high note.

Obviously, Sungjong and L.Joe were unimpressed with how Sungjong huffed with a hand on his hip and L.Joe simply groaned as he smacked the his forehead with his hand.

As more screaming ensued Kei did a quick mini introduction to L.

"Uh, so Jiae is a mage and Chanhee- who prefers to be called Chunji- is a cavalier. They sort of get along like water and oil..." Kei said.

"I can tell," L blinked in a dumbfounded way.

"Well I can go and help you find an empty barrack for you to rest in and get another healing staff," Kei said as another explosion was heard a some more screaming.

"Please do."

L sighed before finally stretching without his ankle feeling like it was being teared to pieces. He smiled to himself before he realized that he still has something in his pocket that he bought in the town before.

He walked out of the dining room to go look for a certain boy and found him standing in the hallway that lead to the bedrooms for the royalty.

"...ahaha, yeah. Goodnight Krystal," Sungjong smiled before Krystal returned to her bedroom and shut the door. It was odd seeing such a friendly and innocent face on the pegasus knight.

Speaking of which, once the boy caught sight of him the friendly and innocent face was replaced with furrowed eyebrows and a scoff.

"Oh what do you want?" Sungjong asked as he walked up to L and the latter couldn't help but feel slightly intimidated.

"Er- um- I was looking for you..." L averted his eyes and awkwardly scratched the back of his head.

Sungjong crosses his arms, "And...?"

He quickly dug through his pocket, "Uh- here..." L held out a hair clip that had a small, plastic white angel wing attached to the top of it.

The feminine boy blinked at it in surprise before picking it up and examining it.

"It's really hard to fully see with your hair covering half of your face, right? So while we were leaving the town we saved and you left Eun unattended with me so that you and L.Joe could go buy some bread for the journey back one of the vendors there was selling hair accessories."

L awkwardly looked back to the boy, "She saw me staring at it and gave it to me for free since we saved the town and all that. Consider it a present for dealing with me...?"

Sungjong stared at the hair clip a little long before pulling back his bangs and clipping it onto his hair. He turns to a polished vase to see how it looked and pouted a bit, "Now I look even more like a girl..."

In fear of being attacked (again) L added on, "I-If you don't like it then you can always give it b-back!"

"It's fine."

He looked at the pegasus knight in astonishment, who blushed a bit and huffed indignantly, "I said it's fine! It was considerate of you, okay?!"

"O-Okay okay!" L couldn't help but stutter still.

"... And you're not a bother. Don't think so lowly of yourself just because you made me angry when you woke up," Sungjong sighs.

"Uh, right..." L smiled a bit. He hesitated a bit before asking, "So... can I ask about why the eye that was covered is lavender and not brown like the other...?"

"Story for another day bub," Sungjong scoffed sassily, making L momentarily shocked.

The feminine boy looked at him before smiling, "But thanks, L."

He struts walks past him to return to his barrack, leaving the amnesiac slightly shocked but a little bit happy.

"Yeah... no problem..." L smiled to himself.