AI Doctor : From Slave to Beast King

Chapter 60: A Troublesome Gratitude

Before Damien could respond to Maui, there was a cry of sheer glee behind him. He turned and looked at the woman who was standing at the entrance of the guild. Her eyes were filled with tears but her expression was that of happiness.

"You are alive."

"Thalia!" Samuel raised his good arm and waved at his daughter who let out a whimpering sob before running past everyone standing outside the guild. She threw herself into the arms of her father.

"Thank god, thank the beast god, that you are safe Father," Thalia buried her face in the crook of the neck of her father with tears trickling down her cheek. "I thought—oh father ..thank you...thank you for coming back."

She then turned to look at Xavier and Damien. Her eyes stayed on Xavier for two seconds and Damien thought that she was going to hug him as tight as Thalia did to her father.

However, contrary to his expectations, Thalia willed her gaze away from Xavier and then threw herself in his arms after pulling away from Samuel.

"Hey? Woah." Damien staggered behind as he caught hold of Thalia's waist. "Watch before jumping, Miss Thalia. We could have fallen—"

He didn't even get to finish what he was saying when the woman raised her hands and caught hold of his face. And then —

Something soft and warm was pressed against his lips.

"Thank you," said the woman with a gleeful smile on her lips. "Thank you so much, like I promised...I will now hand my life over to you as payment."

"Bahaha! Good for you, Lia. You have found a good beastman to follow," Samuel guffawed as he patted his daughter on the back, her expression was shy and charmed as she peeked at Damien.

On the other, Damien was simply dumbfounded. Back then he thought that Thalia had simply said those words out of desperation never did he think that she meant them.

"So this was what you were after from the start?" Xavier accused as he wheeled and looked at Damien with disgust.

"No!" Damien refused at once. What did he mean by that he was after this from the start? He had never taken Thalia's words to his heart.

"Who was worried about this bastard?" Wistoria snapped as she freed her arm from her brother's grip. She glared at Damien and sneered, "So you are still alive?"

Damien looked down and then looked up before nodding, "Well since I am not in the category of an extra concentrated ghost —I think I made it out of that forest alive."

The woman sneered at him even harshly before walking past him, not forgetting to bump into him as she walked past him.

And—

"OUWW!" Damien gasped as he looked down at his foot that had been stomped on. "That hurts!"

However, Wistoria didn't stop walking instead she continued storming towards the carriage which was parked at a small distance from the guild.

Damien stared at her back furiously.

"Don't mind her," said Nicholas with a gentle voice. Damien turned and looked at him as he remarked, "Well my foot that was nearly squashed to bits, does mind." What? He was a sarcastic little thing from the day he was born, and it didn't help that his toes were throbbing a bit too painfully.

Nicholas smiled at him before saying, "She is just jealous. She has been coming here every day because she was worried that something might happen to you. Almost went to the forest to look for you but was stopped by Master Godric, who told her that this mission belonged to his guild."

"My sister is quite possessive of her things —and people."

"And now that you have finally returned..." he trailed off as he glanced at Thalia who went slightly pink. So did Damien, he shrugged what could be counted as casual and said, "That—I never asked her to kiss me."

He then turned to Thalia before saying, "Miss Thalia, for your father's aftercare— just clean his wounds with hot clothes, and hard alcohol and change his bandages every six hours."

"Make sure pus doesn't form around his wound."

"I—I got it, Lord Damien," Thalia glanced at Nicholas before nodding at Damien who waved his hand at her before taking his leave.