I am only asking, love, and that is all,” he hugged him again, but this time was doing it tenderly, maintaining contact with Minos eyes with some form of cheerfulness in his blue eyes that Minos knew was not there before, “I heard you and I understood, everything you just said. I am so happy now I think I could cry.”“Well don’t. I won’t be happy if you do. But honestly, Alba, please do not fret. Everything will be fine, I promise you. For now, Rhadamantys and Aiacos are very much still trustworthy and that I could guarantee. Because if they are planning to deceive me, I will know, and I will kill them myself....”“What? No no no no!” Albafica retorted, bursting out even when his throat gave him so much trouble in doing it. He gripped the front of Minos blouse, clenching it tightly with his hand, “I have never ever asked you to harm any of your friends. You got that wrong!”“What’s your problem? They’re my friends anyway....”“Hey, still, I’ve never said that,” the blue haired nearly yelled, “There would be no honor in killing your own kind, even you should know that, Griffon.”Minos snickered, couldn’t help it to not feel amused by his lover’s anger, “Fine. You’ll kill them then, but only if they really betray us, which I so doubt will happen. The Wyvern because I know he’s not a liar, he has too much pride in him to be one, believe me. And Aiacos, well, let’s just say that he has his own reason....”“His own reason?” Albafica stared at him. Minos was holding back a smile as he said those last words and it made the saint slightly confused, “I don’t know what that means.”“And you don’t need to know because it’s not important. It’s just Aaicos, you know,” he said it quickly, focusing back on the matter in hand, “But what matters that, for now, both my comrades are not the enemies. I trust them fully in executing this plan of truce, and thus I ask you kindly to do the same, except if you choose not to?”“Of course I will, Minos,” he answered, with no hesitation, “I will. And that is because you asked me to.”“Thank you,” he countered rather jauntily, “Because I know they will do well in their missions, even if we are going on our separate ways during our journey.”“Oh yes, that,” the cheery air engulfing Albafica disappeared, as he once again suddenly looked woeful and full of worry, the same as when Minos had just entered his room. The saint swallowed and asked cautiously, “So, you’re leaving..... tonight?”“After sunset, yes,” the Judge replied, “Is there any problem?”He sighed, both in exhaustion and desperation, before then answering, “Look, I know that I’m not supposed to be worry, but if I have to be honest, you know yourself that what you’re having ahead of you is so dangerous. You’ll go against the will of your Lord, you openly defy him. He will go look for you, he is a God and he could have you killed just like that. Not that I’m trying to intimidate you, but I am so sorry Minos, but this kind of looking so...”“Unattainable?” He finished for him. Albafica nodded vaguely as if he was afraid he might hurt his feeling, but Minos only smiled, “You worry?”“Of course I worry, you silly. What else do you think I’m thinking right now?”