Chairman of The Magic Council 85 Celestial Spirit King (Patreon)

Once Celestial Spirit King appeared, the world was surrounded by a starry sky as if they had been teleported to another world.

Bourne frowned since it seemed Celestial Spirit King was stronger than he had thought since this spirit was able to control the space and time itself. He felt wary since he knew that space and time magic was the most troublesome magic.

But Bourne wasn't worried, since no matter what being, it was, there should be water in their bodies, right?

"Thou, the one who summoned me?" The Celestial Spirit King looked at Karen.

"Yes! That's me!" Unlike Aries and Loke, the pressure which was generated by Celestial Spirit King was stronger than Karen thought which made her tremble for some reason, but then her shoulder was patted.

"Calm down."

Looking at Bourne, Karen nodded. "I want to have you as my Celestial Spirit." She had made up her mind, as long as she owned Celestial Spirit King, she would be the strongest magician in this continent.

"...."

However, Celestial Spirit King didn't answer Karen's words and only stared at them quietly.

But this silent stare alone was enough to scare Karen. She remembered her master's words in the past which reminded her that a spirit wasn't a tool and she was wondering whether she would receive some punishment after what she had done.

Karen was about to say something, but then...

"Karen Lilica. You need to annul your contract with your spirits," Celestial Spirit King said.

"What?! How can you do that?!" Karen was furious when she heard it. She had summoned Celestial Spirit King, but the result was this?!

Karen couldn't accept it and wanted to fight back, however, the pressure of Celestial Spirit King was too big.

"Oh, Celestial Spirit King, can I talk to her?" Bourne suddenly asked.

"Bourne?" Karen looked at Bourne in surprise.

"Loke has forced her master into a critical situation and she almost died in this mission. Don't you need to compensate her because of that? We have tried to summon you because we want to have a talk with each other because of Loke's action, but you suddenly ask her to annul her contract with her spirits which really troubled her."

Bourne stared at Celestial Spirit King without fear and asked, "Oh, you Celestial Spirit King, you, who is known as the ruler of the Celestial Spirit World and the wisest among spirit, are you cruel enough to force a woman to let go all of her hard work into vain?"

In this situation, Bourne needed to make Karen into a victim and turned Loke into the perpetrator. He knew that it was almost impossible for Karen to change her view of Spirit as a tool, since he also thought so, but he could help them compromise.

"Then, are you saying that you're justifying her cruel action toward our kin?" Celestial King Spirit stared at Bourne.

"Justifying her cruel actions? King, please tell me who is cruel enough to slander this woman?" Bourne sighed and said, "King, Karen is a very kind woman and her relationship with Aries is the best since Karen even treats Aries as her own sister. She doesn't even dare to hurt a fly, how can she hurt her spirit who is also her partner and best friend at the same time?" He showed a shocked expression at this moment.

"...."

Karen stared at Bourne with an inexplicable gaze, but she hurriedly nodded, telling the King what Bourne had said was true.

"...."

The Celestial Spirit King stared at both of them for a while and didn't see a lie on either of them.

Bourne and Karen were very good at acting so it was very easy to fool the Celestial Spirit King.

Bourne often told Karen that unlike human beings which were full of lies and hypocrisy, the other species such as animal, spirit, beast, etc were better since they were always being honest with themselves and at the same time, it was very easy to fool them.

"So are you saying the report is false?"

"King, can you please let me know who has reported you on that matter? Was it Aries herself? No, right?" Bourne asked. He knew Aries's personality very well and he didn't think that Aries would report about her disatisacation to the King so there was only one person.

"It's a Loke," Celestial King Spirit said. He didn't feel that there was something that he needed to hide.

"Ah... I see... that guy, huh?" Bourne sighed at that moment.

"What's wrong?" The King stared at Bourne's reaction and felt that there was something wrong with Bourne.

"Maybe I shouldn't tell you this...." Bourne shook his head.

"Tell me!"

Bourne had a regretful expression, then sighed. "King, do you know that the spirit of  12 Golden Zodiac Keys resembles a human, right?"

"Yes."

"Then, do you think it is possible for them to fall in love with a human?" Bourne asked.

"...."

The king was silent for a while, but then nodded.

"Yes. The truth is Loke has fallen in love with her master, right, Karen?" Bourne suddenly asked.

"H, huh?!" Karen was startled by Bourne's words.

"Is that true?" The King's voice seemed to become serious at this moment.

"But Karen has never thought of him that way and she rejected his confession a month ago," Bourne said with a sigh.

"..."

"Loke has been rejected and because of that he doesn't want to go back to Spirit World until Karen accepts his confession." Bourne looked at Celestial Spirit King and said, "You also know how flirty, Loke is, right?"

"..."

The King couldn't refute Bourne since he also knew much about Loke's personality.

"I know that it might hurt you to know that your kin are doing mischief at her master, but please let me tell you that this kind of mischief isn't funny." Bourne had a serious expression on his face and said, "If I'm a minute late, then she might not be in this world anymore."

Karen looked at Bourne in amazement since she didn't expect the situation would favor her and she became even more confident at this moment.

However, no one would expect that the King would bow himself toward them.

"I'm sorry for our kin's action! And I'll punish Loke when I return to the Spirit World."

"King, please raise your head! You'll make us uncomfortable like this! You're the King of the Celestial Spirit! You shouldn't bow to us, a mere human!" Bourne added more guilt to the King.

"No! This is also my fault! We should regulate our kin better so this kind of thing won't happen once again," the Celestial Spirit King said.

"No, no, it is not your fault king." Karen also helped Bourne add more guilt to the Celestial Spirit King.

The Celestial Spirit King stared at Karen and said, "It seems that I have misunderstood you. I'm sorry for our mistake."

"Please don't say that again. I know that Loke didn't mean to hurt me so you don't need to ask for my forgiveness." Karen felt very good at this moment.

Looking at the interaction between Karen and the Celestial Spirit King, Bourne shook his head and didn't think too much. He didn't have that much interaction with Celestial Spirit King, but he knew that it was necessary to maintain a good relationship with him since Celestial Spirit King was the ruler of the entire Celestial Spirit.

Bourne felt that it was useful to know him.

At the same time, Bourne was glad that he had succeeded in reversing the situation and made Karen become a saint in the eyes of Celestial King Spirit.

If Loke's personality was loyal, then Bourne believed that this case would be hard, but fortunately, Loke was known for his scumbag and womanizer personality so it was very easy to fool the Celestial Spirit King.

Bourne, personally, didn't have a hatred toward Loke, but that guy almost indirectly killed Karen so what he could do at this moment was to kill Loke, socially, of course.

"So King, I hope that we can compromise on both sides," Bourne said.

"Compromise?"

"Karen is hurt because of this slander so we..." Bourne held Karen's hand and said, "We hope to annul her contract with Celestial Spirit."

"..."

"Huh?!"

The Celestial King Spirit was surprised, but Karen was even more startled at this moment.