The Greed of Kronos

Astian and Kronos as roommates

Thirty-five: Astian and Kronos as roommates

With that being said, Astian looked at the bed and then looked at him with confusion. “Huh?”

What’s wrong with the bed?

As soon as Astian shifted his gaze towards the bed, he then immediately realized why Kronos was showing off a shocked expression.

It was because the bed was actually two beds that were connected. “Oh~ This room seemed to be occupied by one person since the two beds are connected. Hold on.”

Upon saying that, Astian laughed nonchalantly with Kronos’ cuteness as he started to approach the big bed made of two mattresses and was about to separate them.

However, even before Astian could take another step, Kronos yanked him, making his body to turn around and face Kronos, who was already wearing his usual blank expression. “It’s fine.”

“You’re fine with this?” Astian asked him in a shocked tone of voice.

Kronos then nodded, “Mm.”

Hearing this, it was as if Astian was possessed by a playful ghost that he suddenly faced Kronos properly and looked at him with innocent looking eyes, head slightly tilted, and a warm tone of voice. “But I’m not, though.”

Astian’s actions contradicted the words that came out of his mouth.

With that being said, Kronos flinched as he felt a small amount of embarrassment. It was his fault, after all. Kronos merely thought that he was okay with sharing a bed. The latter did not even bother to ask Astian if he was okay with the two beds connected too.

Thus, shortly after pondering for a moment, Kronos decided to take a step forward towards the bed. At first, Astian was just observing him. Who knows what he would do? Would he dive into bed and ignore what Astian said or something?

Well, what happened was that Kronos started to separate the two beds. And when Astian saw it, he abruptly pulled away Kronos and laughed. “I was joking~ Just jesting~ I am very fine with it too! Let’s just leave the bed like that.”

It was not clearly a laughable joke for Kronos as it was a matter of privacy and personal space. It’s okay for him to share a bed as he doesn’t have any weird occurrences during his sleep. When Eros and Agape visited his house, the three of them would often sleep together. And during their first time, Kronos ordered Skia to oversee Agape and Eros carefully all night as a pretext as he honestly wanted to know if he acted weird if sleeping. But when the sleepless Skia reported that aside from Agape tossing and turning, Eros and Kronos were sleeping peacefully without moving an inch, Kronos abruptly rest assured that he wouldn’t be accused of anything in case something would happen.

In other words, that’s the story of his undying confidence in sharing a bed with others.

Either way, it does not matter anymore. Astian already told him that he was also fine with sharing a bed. Hence, he pushed back the slightly separated bed together and then took a seat on the bed and looked at Astian, who was busy roaming around the bedroom.

“Oh! Here are two cabinets for our uniforms and everyday wardrobes. Uwaah! It’s already inside!” Astian exclaimed.

Just as when Kronos heard the word ‘wardrobe,’ he suddenly had the feeling to take a bath and felt that he was actually smelly and sticky after a long day.

Thus, he stood up from the side of the bed and stared at Astian. When Astian felt that Kronos moved, he then looked at Kronos as if waiting for him to talk. Seriously, at some point, Astian seemed to be too lazy to speak like Astian and would more likely just give him signals. When they were on their own sometimes, that is.

“Bath.” He simply replied as he turned around and started to exit the bedroom.

With that being said, Astian then replied with his voice slightly raised as he considered their distance from each other. “It’s near the mini dining room! You can go take a bath. I’ll pass you something to wear later!”

For exact measures, the distance between Astian and Kronos was quite far considering how big the room was. Astian was looking inside the cabinet, which was in the very corner of the room, while Kronos already reached the open doorway.

Kronos, on the other hand, stiffened. He forgot that there were no servants to help him with his bath and bring him clothes. No. More likely that he forgot that Aquila was not beside him. What could he do? After taking a step into the mansion, Aquila immediately took an exit with luggage, saying that he would go on a vacation together with Drakora and Aora.

But whatever. Better not think of someone away, or they might come out of thin air. Kronos abruptly shook his thoughts and slightly rotated his head to look at Astian. “And you?”

“I’ll take a bath after you~” Astian replied with a smile.

With that being said, Kronos then replied before he started to go and take a refreshing bath. “Alright.”

What happened next was not that much. After coming out of the bathroom, a pile of clothes appeared right in front of his eyes. So he abruptly changed into evening clothes and got out of the bathroom. Astian, who was hugging a pair of evening clothes, was then spotted outside and seemed to be waiting for him to finish.

Then shortly after that, Skia helped the two of them to dry their hair and went straight to bed.

“Good night, Kronos~” Astian smiled as Kronos ordered Skia to turn off the lights.

When the light was already gone, and the room was blanketed in darkness, Kronos then gave Astian a pat on the head and replied. “Good night.”

Kronos was not even exhausted half a bit because he devoured the corrupted core. But he still seriously had the need to sleep early as he already had a plan on how to spend his free half day that was given by Sir Samael.

And when the sun rises up, the leaves dancing on the wind and the birds offering a song to each other, Kronos abruptly peeled his eyes open and marched directly towards the bath with Skia assisting him.

From scrubbing its master’s arms in a human form to helping him get dressed. Skia has done all of those. Although it was not an unfamiliar sight, Kronos still could not get used to seeing Skia having a human form and dressed as a butler. Moreover, Skia was not comfortable with its human form as well. To the point that the shadow master hid last night for it not to be summoned by Kronos.

Even though Kronos wanted to punish him, it was awkward for him as well. Which was why he chose to be lenient towards Skia if the matter was about the human form. He happened to call for Skia, who was not guilty as Kronos wanted to do things faster and quieter.

He’s not alone in the big dormitory room, and Astian was still sleeping. Of course, he would try his very best on not to wake him up.

Just as when Kronos was drying up his hair by Skia, who was back on its fox form, Astian came out of the room hugging Kronos’ pillow as he was also rubbing his right eye. “Kronos? Why are you up so early?” He asked in a hoarse tone of voice.

Astian seemed to be still sleepy, did his movements around the house wake him up? “What about you?”

“My body tends to get up at this time. Where are you going?” Astian replied and asked at the same time.

And while doing so, he strode towards the direction of the busy Skia and brushed its shining black fur.

“Home.” Kronos simply replied.

The plan that he was thinking about for that day was going home. Missing his parents was part of it. However, he wanted to ask why they kept a piece of confidential information from their own son.

Astian, on the other hand, seemed to misunderstand for the first time that he started to get teary and asked in a sorrowful tone of voice. “Are you leaving me behind?”

He remembered how Kronos was in a rage to get into the lowest class. It was not a surprise that he would leave. But just as when they are already close friends? Was Kronos that cruel?

Seeing this, Kronos was at first flustered, and then shortly after, he regained his composure and wiped off the tears on the rim of Astian’s eyes even before it would trickle down his cheeks. “No.”

With that being said, Astian’s face suddenly beamed as if he never showed any expressions of sorrow a while ago. He knew all along Kronos would not leave him behind. After all, they were already close friends.

“Then are you going home because you wanted an explanation from your parents? You were unaware of everything, am I correct?” Astian replied still with his beaming face, and the sorrowful voice was then turned into a warm one.