67 Chapter 61 ~ Taken (1/2)

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Sitting under the sunlight, fully clouded in the sky. The breeze of fresh air of an unpolluted area, the scenery of the far beyond in the ocean, soothes Siola's petrified hearts as she took another bite of the fried chicken her mother made.

”Siola, I'm asking since when did you have a relationship with that woman?”

Her eyes still blank as always as she looked to the sky—

”Siola!”

Rolling her eyes out, ”Yeeees, MotHEEEeeeaaARSFuuu…” slamming her head on the table lightly in the softness of the pillow, muffled by the said squishy thing, she mumbled, ”It doesn't matter when, does it? She's my girlfriend now, and I love her. Why are we eating here, anyway? Aren't you supposed to go back and suck father's dick?”

Gritting her teeth, ”You're,,,” closing her eyes, Yuri tried to swallow the annoyance of her child's vulgar words. ”Listen—”

”No, you listen! Why are you cheating on father, right behind his back! With a girl!!!!! MY FRIEND!”

”That's… your father is always busy with works and it's been a while he tends to me, besides he has no problem with it. As long as it's a girl, he even supported my decision. What we're talking about now is WHY did you choose a girl as your partner? You do realize that—”

”Yes, YES! I know, okay? Clam and clam can't go together and make babies, I know!! But I love her, and you… don't have a say on anything in this about who I love and who I fuck with. Just stay away from this, old hag.” Siola kicked the chair away and left, but then come back again to take another piece of chicken and said, ”It's not because I like it or anything, I'm just hungry.”

And then leave for real this time.

”…” sighing, Yuri laid her back down the seat of the chair and pondered in her thoughts. 'Haa… just what is father going to say about this. The teachers he sent only wants to make out with his own granddaughter that they were supposed to teach, and now… they are playing games together mindlessly. The excuse of teaching her through a game is so stupid, why did he even agree to that? I never understand.'

”Haa… at least, the heat between Siola and I has lessened because of them. But if I continue to keep asking their help just to meet her. Haa… I can't even use the credit card to meet her again, she's immune to it now, and I don't know how and why did that happen.”

”What credit card are you talking about, ma'am?”

”Hiiiiiiiieeeeeeeee!” startled by the sudden callout, she turned around and saw the head maid standing behind her. Glaring down at her, ”G-Goodness, Sadrin. Don't startle me like that, what are you doing here anyway?”

”I apologize, but I have called you out through calls several times just now. I figured something was wrong and so, I have come here.”

”Ahh…” Yuri noticed there are indeed several missing calls on the bottom right of her sight, ”Sorry, it was mute.”

”…”

”Nothing… Ma'am. Lord Hajaran wished to see you.”

”Why?”

”Nothing… in particular… Ma'am.”

”Why are you talking like that?”

”…”

Chills suddenly come down to her spine, she quickly stood up, and said, ”Right, father, was it? Then, I'll leave this to you, and thank you. Also, goodbye.” Being faced by nervousness, and it's showing all over her face, Yuri tiptoeing away as Sadrin menacingly eyeing her as she left.

Sighing, ”If only her genes did not go through, Siola would have a lot more stable life right now.”

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Arriving back to the empty white void, Siola took out the book of Appraisal and left it on the desk before she's going into Ekolia. Now that she's in there, hiding inside a small cave just outside Stoneanvil, she went to organize her inventory and then walked into the village. ”All right, let's sell these things first. Nothing worth putting up in Auction it seems, so, let's just go to an NPC store.”

When she enters the village, she saw several players walking around, 'Oh? Are they here on a quest or something? No, wait, ahh, yeah, that quest.' The quest in question is Rank D [Trouble in the Dark]: A group of bandits has raided Stoneanvil in the middle of the night, be wary of stranger sightings.

'Well, not hurt to ask, I guess?'

Siola went to approached a group of two who is browsing for vegetables in the market, an archer, and a guardian, both of them are women. ”Excuse me” she greeted them.

”Yes?” answered the knight.

”Are you going up to the Emerging Night?”

”Ahh, no. We're just here for shopping. There's a big raid event coming up in the south, and we were on our way to get out of there and then we found this place, so… we thought that we… err, gave it a visit.”

”Heeh.”

Siola's Note: South from here is an empty grass plain where people farm several different resources that are mainly focused on enchanting, basically, farming for a magical beast. Different from normal beast, which drops mostly petty and lesser cores. Magical Beast can drop a higher one at that, such as greater or even grand-tier cores.

'Whenever a raid pops up, that means a strong and powerful boss monster appeared. I might want to check it out later.'