There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 629

Chapter 629: Side Story 1. The Twilight Zone - 11

"I haven’t seen you for a month and what? You’re imprinted, you’re engaged, and you’re pregnant?" Tian Yu raised his brow at the guide who shamelessly shrug as a reply. "Are you trying to speed running life or something?"

Zein leaned back at the desk chair on the artificial beach of a certain luxurious fishing resort in Rexon. "I mean, we’ve been delaying things while we’re in the Deathzone."

"Huh," the old man nodded. "Make sense."

Zein smiled and closed his eyes, continuing with his sunbathing while the old man stared at his fish lure bobbing up and down in the artificial sea. It would be better to do it in a real sea, but as of now, the beach was still in ruin and the fish were probably nonexistent, so they had no choice but to use this place in Rexon.

"Hmm...it’s not bad," Zein opened his eyes and shaded his eyes. Magic was truly great, and since Zein couldn’t see the flow of mana outside of someone’s body anymore, he could pretend that everything was natural.

There was a benefit to losing his mana, after all.

"So, when’s the date?" Tian Yu asked after casting another lure.

"Which date?"

"I heard the due date could change suddenly, so the other one."

Zein chuckled and took out an invitation. "Here, July thirteen."

"You make it fast," Tian Yu raised his brow. It was still April, but the invitation was ready? He stroked the thick card and beautifully embossed letters. It was well-made, too.

"Well, it’s a date and a place that we will never change, so..." Zein shrugged. "You’ve never been to the lake house, right? That’s where my parents married and lived briefly before the attack."

"Ah..."

Tian Yu’s eyes shook a little bit, thinking of what could become if he knew about Alteroan’s problem. Ah, well...there was no use thinking about it now. He looked at Zein and waved the invitation. "Were you planning to climb the mountain just for this? How reckless."

Initially, Zein wanted to come to the Iron Mountain’s abode. He kind of missed the serene atmosphere of the cabin in the middle of the mountain, surrounded by a forest that made him feel isolated from the rest of the world.

Naturally, both the old man and his fiance scolded him--and that was how they met in this fishing resort instead. They even saw Darleon Belthera briefly earlier, who was bowing so deeply to both of them, not at all looking like the formidable former guildmaster of Celestia.

"Well, it’s not just the invitation," Zein smiled. "There’s something I want to ask you, and I don’t think it’s something that could be asked through a call."

"Oh?"

Zein straightened his back slightly and looked at the old man with a deep gaze. "Would you like to walk me down the dock?"

* * *

The passage of time was often unrecognizable when one had a lot of things to do. With a single blink, the week had gone by, and then, a new month had arrived, and people couldn’t help but lament about having no time to rest.

Zein, too, had a lot of things to do, but surprisingly a lot of time to rest. Or rather, he was forced to rest.

Be it Bassena or the Iron Shield, they told him to stay put. It didn’t mean that they left him out of the business--which was impossible since he was the patriarch anyway--but they brought themselves to him instead. Be it the management of the foundation, the clan’s restructuring, the wedding, or their new territory in the Far East--everything was either done through conference calls or a visit to the penthouse.

Fortunately, Zein did leave his business to competent people before going to the Deathzone before, so all he had to do was listen to the reports and review them. In the first place, Zein didn’t know much about management or how to do business--considering he never attended formal schooling--so he was grateful that he was surrounded by trusty people.

Much had happened during his absence in the Deathzone. Celestia, after going through massive weeding and restructuring, had gone back to their roots and cemented itself as the sturdy umbrella that was the number one guild in the Eastern Federation. Naturally, profit was flowing to Iron Shield and Zein as the major shareholder.

With the money from Celestia, Iron Shield also grew as a company. If Mortix reigned in high-end equipment, the Iron Shield was the main provider for middle to low-rank ones. Without overshadowing each other, House Ishtera and House Mallarc continued to weave a strong friendship.

Thanks to the profit coming from both, Zein’s cherished academy and orphanage could proceed without worry. The Academy only received guides sent by other guilds, the military, and the government at first. But now that Zein was no longer in the Deathzone, they planned to open the Academy to the awakened guides who had yet to receive their license.

Expanding the school grounds was not an issue since the Horins acted like feudal lords in the surrounding area, so a lot of people just left, leaving their buildings open for rent or purchase. The orphanage, however, was a bit tricky.