Ask him to replace you with me, Aquarius,” Shion offered quickly, “I’ll go watch the border. Three days or more will be just fine for me.”It was his turn to let out a chuckle as he gazed at the younger man with teasing eyes, “You mean just so you could get away from that problematic, loudmouthed blondie of yours?”“Well, I believe that loudmouth will not initiate too much trouble from now on, but still, it’ll always be my pleasure to provide you guys even with a little help. Anything I can do.”“Gladly, Shion. But we’ll see. If Sisyphus is fine with it, then so be it. I somehow already have Aspros and Asmita helping me. They were around although couldn’t stay too long.” He pointed at Kardia at his side, “And even him too.”“He’s with you too?”“He actually is assigned to guard the other side, including the village. But yeah, lesser responsibility for me, which is good.”“Okay,” Shion nodded, “Then if you meet with Sisyphus later, just let me know what he said, Degel. Because if I’m going, I think I need to prepare ahead, handing over the guarding duty, and so on.”“Sure is.”Shion nodded, satisfied and then the next averted his eyes to the other Gold saint, “And how is the village, Kardia? Is everything alright in there?”And...... silence.The Scorpio saint apparently was only partly listening to their conversation, not even appeared was interested at the slightest bit of it. At the moment his eyes and attention were solely fixed to the fourth Gold saint in training, seeming to have no whatsoever care to his surrounding even if someone was to drop dead next to his feet.By the look on his face, there was no doubt that Kardia was being fixated on the pretty sight in afar. Shion knew, had he scouted closer to the Scorpio, he might have seen desire dancing wildly in the man’s eyes, perhaps a full force lust even, and such a thing made him sighed tiredly. That was just the effect Albafica had on the people around him, even his own Gold comrades were not immune to his deadly, enthralling beauty, and to Shion that was just so exasperating.To merely to break the man’s train of thoughts, he then repeated, a little louder this time, “Kardia, are you there? Did you not hear what I was asking?”It was then the blue head turned slowly, regarding him with a smirk plastered on his face, as usual, “Of course I did.”“And?”“The village is fine, Shion,” he replied nonchalantly, “The people are recovering from the trauma of Minos’ attack last time, those who were deceased had been buried and the wounded are being treated just fine. I met those survivors myself and I’d say they are doing magnificently well. Other than that, the constructions are progressing as expected, it’s still quite messy here and there but surely not as bad as before. We are currently working on the safety measurement of the place; me, Aspros and some Silvers, and I can say that it’s been doing fine too. Later this afternoon I will go back there to assemble the villagers along with their elders and their chief to brief them on the new emergency procedure. So have no worry, Aries. All will be well.”“Okay,” he responded politely, appreciating the valuable info, “So you did what? Ran back here from the village only to see him?” He pointed his index finger at Albafica, making Kardia snickered.“Actually it was for having my lunch.”As if he couldn’t have his lunch in the village, Shion scolded inwardly.And then the long haired Scorpio quieted, his eyes immediately went back to Albafica and by that, Shion understood that it would be useless to prolong the topic about the village. Perhaps it was better to speak to Degel, checking on the recent situation. But just as he was about to open his mouth, Kardia then broke the silence.