153 Dominate (1/2)

They entered the villa and were greeted by the sight of Jane and Lucia playing on the floor. Between them, there were cards spread out, which belonged to a popular card trading game. They were currently focusing fully on their fight.

Celine didn't know enough about the understand who was winning, but it seemed like they were evenly matched.

She laid down Ivan on the couch, which was the furthest from them, before greeting them.

”Hey. You two.”

”Hey, mom.” ”Hey Celine”, the two greeted her back, without even looking up from their game.

Celine shook her head helplessly. ”Stop your game, we have guests. So at least stop your game for now.”, she then admonished them.

The two finally looked up from their game. When Jane saw Key, she exclaimed, ”Uncle”, and ran towards him.

”Hey, little one.”, Key greeted her and caught her when she threw herself at him.

”How come you are here? Didn't you go out with dad? How come you brought my uncle back? Where is daddy?”, Jane then fired off question after question, without giving them time to answer.

”Calm down.”, Celine said and then started to explain, ”We went shopping together and met your uncle by accident. Then we decided to chat go somewhere else and have dinner together. That's why he is here. As for your daddy, he is lying over there. You didn't even realize that I carried him in.”

The little girl looked at where she was pointing and saw her father lying on the couch. ”What happened to him?”, she asked calmly. She didn't seem that concerned about seeing him passed out, confusing Key and Yevina.

”The usual.”, Celine remarked.

”Seems like something like this has happened to him before?”, Yevina asked curiously.

”Yeah. Once with my mother and once with Celine. Maybe even more, but I don't know about it.”, Jane told her.

”Wow. That's weird.”

”Mm, should be because of who he was before his reset.”, Jane commented. That was what her mother had said. Because of his reset, her father should be different from others, so if something weird happened she shouldn't worry.

”Makes sense. Still, does anyone know when he will wake up?”

Just when she asked, Ivan moved. He slowly sat up. When he had just woken up, he still was filled with the feeling that woman had induced in him, but as soon as he realized that he was back home, he had calmed down and gone back to normal.

”Damn, what happened?”, was the first thing he said. He then realized that everyone was looking at him curiously as well. He wanted to say that he had no clue but then realized that there was a message from the system.

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