Chapter 139: Consequences (1/2)

”Why are you always naked!”

Walking into the room, the first thing they saw was the matured lady that sat across from them in the nude as she read a piece of parchment in her hand while sipping on a glass of wine by the side.

The matured looking lady had long blonde hair with streaks of grey running down it as her silky hair went down to the lower parts of her back. Her eyes were the same colors as Nina's, which was emerald green. Her face was almost flawless as it would dazzle anyone but her cold and sharp gaze would make people lower their heads before her, unable to appreciate her beauty.

”I work better like this but never mind that. I see you're finally up. I was beginning to think you were never going to wake up again. I'm glad.”

The matured lady replied bluntly in a semi monotonous tone, without even looking up at the pair that had entered the room. Her naked figure sat leisurely on the black leather sofa as she crossed her legs. Her large but firm bosons pointing straight at Nina who immediately felt self-conscious and her gaze strayed down to hers for just a moment.

The matured lady's skin was almost as smooth as the ones of new bone babies, her long legs and curves that complemented her features were obviously superior to Nina's, making her feel inferior and uncomfortable.

Sensing her daughter's nerves begin to rise, the matured lady finally looked up from her parchment and sighed. ”So you're still this childish huh. I left you with those monkeys because I thought it would help you grow out of your inferiority complex but it seems I was wrong.”

She then got up from her seat and walked over to the rack by the side of the room putting on a robe by herself, her personal maids nowhere to be seen.

”I-I I'll help you with that ma'am.”

The lady nodded and Vella quickly ran over to her and helped her secure her robe's and tied the belt around her slender waist.

”What happened to your maids, didn't there use to be more than four of them. If I recall, you even had one of your boy toys dress up as one.” Nina asked the question with little interest but as though she was hoping to avoid something.

”Hmm... I tasked them in returning something, they should be back soon.”

Nina could think of several reasons why her mother would do something like that and judge from the fact that she was naked and a liquid had dripped down from in between her legs the moment she stood up. It was probably something she didn't care to imagine much less talk about.

”How's your chest? I just received a report that the healer for that will be here before the end of the day so do bear with the pain.”

Nina's expression sank even though this was supposed to be good news and seeing this, her mother chuckled. ”On that note, is it's about time you explain what happened to you and tell me who dared to lay a hand on one of the direct defendants of the Zorak family?”

During their entire conversation, even when she had chuckled, her mother's sharp and cold expression had not changed even a little. Nina didn't know how to explain herself. However, she had known that she would have to do this when she had resigned herself to using the family's escape tool.

Amongst her four siblings, she was not only the least talented but was the only girl. Although gender generally didn't matter in the Demon continent as long as one had enough strength, it would become an issue for someone like her that had been deemed unfit.

While she had a Basic Tier 5 potential herself, her brothers all had a Peak Tier 5 potential at the very least and her eldest brother was even the current demon lord of the Zorak family, even though her mother still held most of the authority within her grasp.

However, this was not even the issue as the most important thing in a noble family was their inheritance, their innate ability. While it wasn't compulsory for every member of a noble family to inherit the same innate ability, all high-ranking noble families pride themselves on this fact.

They would allow the other family members and other non-pure-bloods to develop their innate ability or leave without one. However, every direct descendant of the family must have inherited the family's innate ability and be proficient in using it, or else they would lose their standing in the family and the worst case be quickly and quietly eliminated to save the family from humiliation.

Therefore, one would be able to live well in a noble family with only a peak Tier 3 or Tier 4 potential as long as they could use the innate ability proficiently. As for someone like her that even though she had the innate ability, she could not fully utilize it as she had almost zero talent or affinity for magic, she would be looked down upon in disdain by those that envied her position.

”Nina, you haven't answered my question. You know I don't appreciate repeating myself.”

Nina's thoughts froze as her mother's cold and penetrating gaze settled on her for a moment. She gulped and forced herself to speak else face the consequences of her silence.

”I'm not sure who he is myself.”

”Meaning?”

”I only met his ones. He was a man I was hired to kill but I wasn't interested so I didn't pay any attention to the details.”

”If you weren't interested how did you lose to him?”

”I got curious later on when I was done with my original job so I went to see if something was interesting there and found the pair had already killed more than twenty of the men that tried to hire me so I thought it would interesting.”

”And you proceeded to lose to a pair of commoners?”