57 57 - Avoid his food in the future. (1/2)

Aatrox was on his way to leave to prepare for the event that would take place at night. But on the way to the door, he found Annie worrying about something deeply.

”Yo, are you okay?” Aatrox asked.

Annie looked at him and was surprised. She strongly believed that he would no longer want to talk to her after training with her father. So much so that when her uncle arrived, she begged him to convince her father to take it easy with her friend. But to her surprise, when her father came with her uncle, she was able to identify some injuries in him.

In all those 17 years she's lived, she's never seen her father hurt before. Not even a little knife cut, nothing. But today she had seen his hair a little shaggy and his forearm a little swollen, even if he had tried to hide it.

In her head, she could only assume that her uncle had done this to her father. Probably because he had been excessive with her friend and that maybe Benjamin came out of the dojo very hurt. But what surprised her was that the boy in question was perfectly fine, if she didn't know, she could have imagined that he had just gotten ready after a bath. She wasn't even able to see a small bruise on his body.

'It's not possible that he did that to my dad, right?' Annie thought internally as she got up from the couch and stared at him, looking for something abnormal. ”How was the training with my father?” She asked, trying to understand what had happened.

”Really?” She looked at him with a dubious look. Her father had a security company, and he personally trained most of the security guards. She couldn't find any possible way for Benjamin to get out of that dojo unharmed, let alone cause an injury to her father.

”Uh-huh.” Aatrox answered.

Annie was a little relieved, since he was treating her normally. At least she wouldn't have to worry about him getting scared of her father and never talking to her again.

The two talked superficially about some issues until Aatrox said he had to leave to prepare for an evening commitment. Annie was curious about what that commitment would be, but he didn't say anything.

When Aatrox got home, it was just him and Alex. His father was finishing saving some files and turning off the computer, he had probably just finished working.

”Hey, son, how did it go over there?” Alex asked with excitement when he saw Aatrox coming in. He was Anthony's friend for a long time and finding out that his friend was also a cultivator aroused a lot of interest in him.

”I was right, he's a cultivator and so is his brother. I don't know if Amelia is too, but she knows they both are, and she asked me not to tell Annie.” Aatrox answered.

”His brother, you mean August? And you fought?” Alex asked after reflecting for a while.

”Yes, August is also a cultivator. I couldn't figure out his strength, but I know he was stronger than Anthony, who in turn is weaker than me.” Aatrox responded while looking to see if there were any breakfast toast leftover.