BXBX NOVEL Chapter 60 No Dinner
After hearing Elise\'s warning, Lothur and Annaliese looked at each other for a moment, worried about what Mabel might want with the two of them.
And noticing the concern in each other\'s eyes, the two quickly headed towards their rooms to prepare for dinner.
It was still some time before dinner at the home of the Frost patriarch, and both needed to return to their rooms to change clothes and other minor matters. Especially Lothur, who still had the slight smell of Elke on his body, something that, if he did not take a shower, could be noticed by Mabel.
Seeing those two disappearing from her sight, Elise continued in the same place as before, looking with a smile on her face in the direction Lothur had run. \'Ah, Lothur, you hardly know what awaits you...\'
\'Enjoy it while you can, for your situation will not be comfortable much longer.\' She licked her lips in anticipation of the weekend when Lothur would leave for his academy mission.
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After a while, Lothur and Annaliese finally entered the dining room of the Frost patriarch\'s house, where that man and his wife were already waiting for them.
Mabel was sitting next to her husband, wearing a long blue dress. But despite its volume, it only amplified some of her most striking features.
At the same time, Aiken was wearing a usual suit that fit him well and matched his mustache and brown hair.
But as they stood around the dining table that was still empty, those two looked at the people who had just entered there with sober looks on their faces. Especially Mabel, who was already beginning to get annoyed with Lothur just by seeing him in front of her.
Aiken then said. "Lothur, Anna, we want to know what is going on with you..."
"Not only did Anna do that horrible thing a few days ago, but now..." He paused briefly, trying to calm down a bit due to the thought he had in mind considering what some servants had told him. "But now you two meet every night in her residence."
"Lothur, you..." He was about to say something when the silver-haired young man suddenly realized where this conversation was going and stopped his father-in-law from further irritating Mabel.
"Father-in-law, you are overthinking this. Anna and I were just talking about what happened." Lothur said this with a calm expression, sometimes looking at that man and then at the woman at his side. "There\'s truly nothing strange going on."
"The previous event was just a misunderstanding."
Annaliese nodded in agreement and swore at her father, "That\'s right, father. I don\'t know what you heard, but Lothur and I are just getting along after everything that happened."
"Is that so?" That fellow\'s expression improved considerably.
But in that instant, Mabel let out a big \'humph\' and stood up from where she was. "I don\'t believe that nonsense one bit."
"Bastard, what are you trying with my daughter? Don\'t tell me that you are desperately courting Annaliese after getting nothing with Viktoria?" She walked toward him.
"Mother..." Annaliese turned red with embarrassment at that woman\'s words.
And hearing that, Lothur was silent for a moment, looking at that woman intently, feeling his anger rising.
[Name: Mabel Rios]
[cultivation: ???]
[STR: ????] [CON: ????] [DEX: ???] [AGI: ???]
But seeing that woman\'s status for the first time, Lothur almost forgot where he was, opening his mouth slightly in surprise.
\'What the fuck is that?\'
\'I can\'t see anything!\' He shouted in his mind, seeing such a situation for the first time since he got this system function.
He had already tried to see Viktoria\'s status. However, even with that woman, he could still see her level, although he could not see her attributes.
But with Mabel, nothing!
He had not seen Mabel since he started using his spiritual senses, so this was the first opportunity he had had to try to check her features. And seeing that, he promptly tried to do the same with his father-in-law to understand the problem.
However, he only had the same result with Aiken as with Viktoria, seeing his father-in-law was at level 14, the 2nd stage 5th Revolution.
\'Are they so strong that I can\'t check their strength?\'
\'Unbelievable!\'
And seeing how Lothur had looked at him, Aiken felt a little bad since he could not do anything against his wife.
That was her personality, so he could only silently support the young man in front of him.
Lothur then said after a brief moment. "I don\'t know what you are talking about, madam. Anna and I are good friends, so what\'s wrong with us talking in her residence?"
"It\'s not as if I can welcome her into my humble little room..."
"What? Now you\'re complaining about our hospitality?" That woman looked at him closely, holding back from teaching this fellow a lesson.
She then looked at Annaliese and asked. "Anna, are you such good friends? Why is that the first time I\'ve heard that?"
"Tell your mother the truth."
"Yes, mother." Annaliese lowered her head and answered obediently. "Lothur and I have always had an easy time talking. And after he entered the academy, I\'ve been helping him get to know that place better."
That was indeed true, and Mabel readily sensed this. \'Is that actually true? Isn\'t this scumbag pushing his luck?\' She doubted her senses.
"Tsk!"
"In any case, the previous situation is still not well explained." Mabel continued. "If you want to help him at the academy, I don\'t mind."
"At least this good-for-nothing can learn something useful." She looked disgustedly at him, making him shiver with anger. "But do it in the presence of other people."
"I don\'t want you and him alone after what happened. Do you hear me?"
\'What a bitch!\' Lothur felt as if this woman was trying to get in his way however she could, and he could not help but curse at her.
\'I have to get out of this family!\'
\'There is no room for me in a place like this!\'
And seeing Lothur\'s eyes, Annaliese felt insecure at the moment, thinking that at any moment, this young man and her mother might start a fight.
Gulp!
"As long as it\'s someone of my choosing, that\'s fine, mother." She said as she thought about how to continue training with Lothur in secret. \'I guess I\'ll have to do that far away from here...\'
"Hmm, that\'s better." Mabel lowered her tone as she looked at that girl with brown hair resembling hers.
But soon after, she coldly looked once more at Lothur. "Now, moving on to the next subject, tell me what happened to you. How did you recover so quickly?"
"Tsk!"
"I already told Viktoria. Why don\'t you ask her?"
She moved closer to him, not liking the way he was talking. "You think I don\'t know that? I want to know the truth since, for some reason, my daughter can\'t extract it from you!"
"Then why don\'t you try?" He looked her in the eye, standing in the same position as before.
"Bastard!"
Mabel finally lost her temper and grabbed that young man\'s neck with one of her hands, squeezing it \'gently\' to make him feel the pressure of this situation.
After seeing that, Aiken\'s eyes narrowed as he rushed to his wife\'s side.
"Mabel, don\'t overreact!"
"Lothur\'s words were not thought out, but I am sure he is not trying to deceive us." He said as he touched one of Mabel\'s shoulders, trying to get her to stop what she was doing.
"Mother..." Annaliese looked in astonishment at her mother, feeling guilty that what she did had put Lothur in such a situation.
As for Lothur, he remained silent while breathing with some difficulty but without feeling the spiritual pressure released by that woman.
After a few moments in that situation, Mabel looked strangely at Lothur until she finally let go of him.
"Tsk!"
"Go to your room. You won\'t get your meal today as punishment for speaking in that tone with me." She said this as she returned to her chair, feeling frustrated at not getting anything from him.
After that, Lothur left in a hurry, having slammed the door hard after leaving that dining room.
On the other hand, Annaliese was not happy at all and said. "I\'ve lost my appetite!"
"Anna, come back..."
But that woman did not listen to her father\'s words, having run in the same direction as Lothur.
"Sigh..."
Aiken sighed at that situation, also feeling his appetite pass. "What\'s all this for, dear? At this rate, Lothur himself will find a way out of our family."
But she did not comment on the matter.
Realizing this, he sat down beside her and asked what mattered. "What have you found out?"
"Nothing." She said in a disappointed tone.
Mabel had checked Lothur\'s constitution by touching him earlier, which was her goal from the beginning of the conversation.
However, she only found a body similar to the one that had been tested when that young man joined this family, only a little stronger physically. "The bastard is just as ordinary as he was on his first day here."