Chapter 236 - The Lantern Festival (2)
The five of them went onto the street in the upside where the festival was ongoing , Rudra was surprised to see soo many people there , it seemed like half the upside was present on the festival street today.
Rudra could see many familiar faces from the guild. He spotted Bo and Skyla , apparently they were roaming with vice guild master Karna .
Karna also spotted Rudra and gave him a big grin , and made a ' yo ' sign with his hand , Rudra first looked towards little Max , to check if he could see what he was about to do next , but little Max's attention was apparently caught up in the nearby ice cream store.
Assured that he would not learn bad habbits from him , Rudra looked at Karna and gave him the middle finger with a smile.
Karna bursted out laughing , and soo did Rudra , they both needed no words to be exchanged to show how understanding they were of each other.
Rudra then pointed towards little Max and ruffed his hair , Karna understood that he was out with his little brother , and made a Ok sign , to show that it was okay for him to carry on with his buisness.
Rudra nodded , and moved on ..... On his way however many guild and even non guild members stopped to greet him upon seeing him . Rudra was a well known figure in the upside now , everyone knew he was close with Ethan Grey and the guild master of the guild that was the overlord of Purplehaze city.
This was both gratifying and troublesome for Rudra , he loved the attention , however not when he was out with Maxie , there he just wanted time with his brother.
However Max loved the respect his brother was getting , as he would say " My brother " and hide behind Rudra's legs , as someone would come and greet him .
After a while Max said " Big brother you are famous! Like a king! ".
Rudra chuckled he wanted to deny the claims his brother made , but Yua cut in , she said " Yes , your brother is a king , he rules over a city you know ".
Max looked at Rudra with gleaming eyes when he heard this .... He said " Brother I want to go to your kingdom , I will eat lots of ice cream there. And noone will scold me as my brother will be king ".
Naomi and Yua together said " Awww... ".
The girls had already melted for the little guys cute charms , and he was getting more and more adorable by the minute.
Yua could not handle the overload of cuteness, as she bent down and pulled little Max's cheeks .
Max was annoyed by this , nobody can touch his damn cheeks?, hence he made his best looking mean look , and stared at Yua .
However , he looked like a harmless puppy , he did not deter Yua at all. After a few seconds though he could not take it , as he complained to Rudra with a teary eye .... " Brother , the big bad aunty is bullying me ".
Naman " .... "
Naomi "....."
Yua " A...A...Aunnty? ".
Rudra picked Max back up , and gave a death glare to Yua , nobody made Little Max cry ... If someone did , they would face the wrath of his brother.
Yua felt wronged , as she wanted to explain herself to Rudra , however seeing the cold look on Rudra's face as he consoled Max , no words came out from her mouth.
Naomi could barely control her laughter though , as she let out a little giggle .... Yua glared at Naomi , who gave her a smug look.
This was why kids were soo dangerous , because they were soo innocent , they could end people's careers in seconds .... And Max calling Yua aunty , was one such career ending moment .
Naomi was on cloud nine , the look on Yua's face when she was called Big Bad Aunty was priceless , she wished she had this moment recorded on camera , it would be funny even 20 years from now.
Rudra wanted no more nuisance , he decided to part ways with everyone and weak a mask . He went and bought two traditional masks from a nearby stall and put one on himself and one on little Max . He then said " Guys I think I want to spend some alone time with Max , I have to get him to eat cotton candy , ill see you all later ".
Naman was cool with it , soo he nodded , while Naomi and Yua were sad that he was going away , Naomi glared at Yua. Who ruined her time with Rudra , while Yua did not back off and glared right back.
If there was ever a chance of the two becoming friends , it was destroyed now . They both knew that they hated each others guts and liked Rudra .... The enmity was set in stone.
Rudra took Max to the cotton candy store , and bought him a giant , mix pink and blue candy.
Max happily ate his candy as he was having a great time , he then looke at Rudra and said " Brother the blue candy is soo much better than the pink candy .... Betty is stupid , she likes pink candy more than blue candy ".
Rudra was intrigued he asked " Ohh , I agree , blue candy is the best .... But who is Betty? ".
Max eating his candy said " Betty is my girlfriend , I will marry her when I grow up ".
Rudra was stunned for a moment , as dark thoughts entered his brain .... But then he remembered that max was a long way out from puberty and his tools were as good as useless for now.
He sighed in relief and said " how did she become your girlfriend ?".
Max looked at Rudra and said " In school , she gives me grapes for lunch ".
Rudra bursted laughing at the reply ... His little brother was soo easy to please , just give him anything sweet and he will shower you with love.
Sometimes he was worried , if a kidnapper offered max a box of chocolates , he would probably abandon everything and live with them.
However when he realized that little Max was getting more action than he did ... His mood sunk .
' Even eight year olds have girlfriends now ..... Sigh, when will I have a girlfriend? ' , Rudra thought.
Finally after eating cotton candy , it was time for the main event of the lantern festival .... Writing a wish on a paper lantern and letting it fly!
Rudra took Max to the lantern stall ... And to his surprise , everyone was there .... Jhonny , Yume , Karna ,Bo , Skyla,?Naomi , Naman , Yua , Fatty Kalash , and even Ethan Grey .
Looking at the lineup , Rudra felt like he was back in a guild meeting. He grinned , all of them were family.
Everyone started to write their wishes on a piece of paper and tying it to the lantern
Jhonny wrote " Bless flat women with more bust ".
Yume wrote " I want to break my virgin status this year ".
Karna wrote " I wish that my guild keeps soaring to new heights ".
Bo wrote " I wish to be like sir Jhonny ".
Skyla wrote " I wish that the blockhead Leo Crispii , understands my crush on him".
Naomi wrote "?I wish ..... ".
Naman wrote " I wish to level up faster ".
Yua wrote " I wish the bit** Naomi has a miserable year ahead ".
Fatty Kalash wrote " Legendary hammer for forging ".
While Ethan Grey wrote " Stupid fate , I am the master of my own destiny , you can go f*** yourself ".
Rudra wrote " 3 gold medals and Ruby ".
While little Max made a drawing of a big lollipop .... Everyone tied their wishes to their lanterns and let it fly .....
Everyone except Naomi's flew away , for some reason , her just landed back down , and the candle inside got extinguished. It fell right beside little Max who opened the letter inside ...
Naomi panicked .... This was bad ... She wrote embarassing things in there.
Max opened the letter and started to read in a mechanical manner " I . Wish. Guild.leader. Happiness . I . Hope . He . Lik...".
Naomi rushed up to Max and put her hand on his mouth , as?she refused to let him speak a single word more ..... Her face was as red as a tomato at this point .... This was too embarassing.
Everyone gave knowing glances to her ... The smart ones , Skyla , Bo , Yua, Fatty Kalash and Ethan understood what was going on , whereas the blockheads Naman , Karna and Rudra were clueless.
Rudra reprimanded Max " Max if you read someone's wishes they won't come true ... That's bad ".
Max looked at Naomi and said " I'm sorry big sister ".
Rudra looked at Naomi with a smile , he said " Thankyou for the well wishes , I hope you get all the happiness you want too. ".
Naomi sighed in relief , while the smart ones sighed at Rudra's stupidity .
Seems like the secret stayed a secret for now.
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