God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

By the time Keith got back home, it was already evening. Caleb, who was sitting on the stairs, saw Keith return and immediately stood up.

"Captain, you said that we should ask you if we have any questions but you disappeared. Anyways, the carpenters said that they'll need four to six days to get the tables ready." he said as he walked over to Keith who was taking off his shoes.

Keith nodded "Yeah, that's expected. Anyways, I didn't really think that you guys would have questions so I went out to get a few things done. Ask up now since I'm here."

"About the empty room in second floor, I talked to the others and all of us felt like it could be a good place for physical training. Did you have other plans for that room?"

"Hmm..." Keith hummed and thought for a bit before shaking his head, "Using it as a room for physical training isn't a bad idea, but based on my future plans... I think we'll need to use it as a prison instead. Or maybe... ugh, honestly even I'm not sure. Let's wait for a few days and then make a decision."

Caleb nodded and asked another question.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Um.. Laura said that it'll be better to share rooms for building camaraderie. This way, we'll have extra rooms to spare and we can use these rooms as prisons instead. We just need to get someone to build us some strong cages."

Keith waved his hand dismissively, "Sure sure, we'll talk about this tomorrow. Is the dinner ready?" he asked as he walked into the living room and glanced at the empty kitchen.

"No... detective Amelia said that we can eat outside tonight, to celebrate this auspicious day since we moved in just now."

Hearing this, Keith silently sighed and shook his head, "Eating is fine, but none of you guys are allowed to drink. She can just go to her office and laze around, but you guys will be on active duty. Anyways, where are the others?"

"Upstairs. Lady Clara is in her bedroom with Amelia, but the other two are upstairs since they wanted to watch the carpenters work."

Keith nodded and walked over to the door that was the farthest from the main entrance. This room was also the closest to the stairs.

He pushed the door open and saw Amelia crying in Clara's embrace. Feeling like this was the worst time to walk in, he immediately closed the door and looked at Caleb who was climbing up the stairs, oblivious to what Keith had just seen.

With a sigh, he headed over to the living room and sat down before he took in the atmosphere. The room was turning dark thanks to the setting sun.

There were multiple oil lamps hung up on the walls and there were also some metallic hooks at one corner just in case anyone wanted to hand up a lamp in the middle of the room.

Keith looked up at the ceiling and saw multiple U shaped wood pieces, which he could guess the purpose of.

'Welp, there is no oil in those lamps so it's pointless right now.' he thought, but he still went ahead and grabbed five of the hooks. Each rod had two hooks, one of each end and Keith hung them all up using one hook.

And then hung up the oil lamps on the other end of the rod. Once done, he walked out and knocked on his room's door, "Hey, it's getting dark. Let's go get some dinner first." he said and then walked upstairs to call the others.

By the time he walked back down with the trio, Amelia and Clara were ready to go. He also saw that there were no tear marks or any other sign of distress on Amelia's face.

The dinner was simple, with just some bread, meat stew and a nice cup of sweet tea. To his surprise, Amelia did not buy any alcohol and nor did she complain. Instead she silently ate just like everyone else.

Keith grabbed his leather pouch and took out two medium sized bronze coins that had the number "5" on them. He placed them on the table and pushed them towards Caleb, "Here's my weekly quota."

Seeing this, everyone else followed and gave Caleb the money for food and groceries.

Keith went back to eating and brought up the topic that Caleb had talked to him about.

"So, I heard that you guys wanted to share rooms. I just want to know the reason for this thought." he said as he wondered why they would say no to personal privacy.

"Well, you said that we an get into a romantic relationship with our teammates, so having different rooms will make things difficult. You just happily took Clara away by using Amelia as an excuse but what about me?" Laura said and pointed at Caleb, "I want him in my room and we talked about it already."

Keith glanced at Caleb to see his face go bright red. He smiled slightly and nodded, "Sure, as long as you keep work and private life separate. I originally wanted to get you guys teamed up, but now I've changed my mind." he said as he turned to look at Nathan.

"Nathan, you'll work with Laura and Caleb, you'll be coming with me. Oh and Clara, you'll be working with Nathan too. It's not fair if I split them up while.. you know..."

"It's fine, I understand." Clara said as she smiled gently, "You're just worried that we'll act based on our emotions instead of using our brains. Even you're not confident in controlling yourself, are you?" Discover stories with empire

"You're right." Keith nodded before looking at his teammates, "When you have someone you care deeply about in your team while doing a dangerous business, you'll be more occupied with their safety instead of focusing on the mission. Especially when one of them is weak, like me and Caleb."

The group continued to talk and debate until they were done eating, but just as they were about to leave, Clara grabbed Keith's hand sleeve.

"I have something to talk to you about." she said and then smiled at the others, "We'll join you soon."