Chapter 150 - This Is Blackmail...! (1/2)

Marvin's eyes narrowed down on Hecathe as he heard this and he opened his mouth to say something more to that but was interrupted by Hecathe who continued.

”And you owe your life to Alphius.”

”...” Marvin suddenly felt as if he was being tricked, but at the same time, even though he knew that he was being tricked, he couldn't simply avoid falling for this trick.

This was emotional blackmail...! Hecathe was using Marvin's emotions against him!

Hecathe smirked as he saw the reluctance in the boy's face.

”What? Are you going to say that you have already paid back for what you did to Alphius?” Hecathe asked with an amused tone that almost sounded as if the man was trying to mock the boy.

Marvin opened his mouth to give a response but before his words could leave his mouth, he was suddenly interrupted by LeiLei who spoke up.

”Um... I feel like I heard that wrong...”

Hecathe and Marvin turned to look at the girl in confusion and it took them a minute to realize that Hecathe had once again said something that he shouldn't have.

LeiLei's eyebrows creased together in confusion and worry as she looked at Marvin, ”Did he just say that you owe something to Alphius...? Like, the real Alphius? The Great Leader of the mecha-suits...?!”

Marvin gulped as he heard this question and immediately turned to Hecathe for help.

It was Hecathe's tongue that had slipped so he naturally needed to take responsibility for it.

Hecathe coughed as he shook his head and forced himself to chuckle dryly as he spoke, ”You must have heard it wrong.”

LeiLei frowned, ”Then what were you really saying?”

Hecathe was not that good of a liar, to begin with, so when the girl suddenly asked this question, the man was a bit taken back and couldn't respond soon enough.

Marvin, ”We were just talking about another guy. You know the friend that I told you about? The one that died?”

LeiLei nodded her head as she heard this and asked, ”What was his name?”

Marvin sighed as he answered without missing a beat, ”He was called Alpias.”

”...”

'Alpias' was certainly the best name that Marvin could make up with on the spot, but the name sounded so ridiculous that the girl found it hard to believe that this was really the boy's name.

Hecathe chuckled awkwardly as he nodded his head and backed Marvin's words, ”That's right. You must have heard it wrong. I said he owed it to Alpias, not Alphius.”

LeiLei pursed her lips into a thin line as she heard this but although the girl was still not trusting the two, she didn't bother pondering over this topic more.

”In any case,” Hecathe cleared his throat as he took the chance to change the topic once again in order to bring it back to the path that it had originally deviated from, ”Marvin, you owe it to Alpias so you must help me.”

Marvin wanted to curse the man out as he heard this but he didn't dare to act that impulsively.

LeiLei suddenly raised her hand as she heard this and it looked as if the girl had an idea.

”What is it?” Hecathe asked as he looked at the girl.

”Sir, wouldn't there be another easy solution?”

”Eh?” Hecathe tilted his head in confusion and simply waited for the girl to continue.

”Sir, didn't you spread the rumor about the great Orgon? The boy in the rumor was supposed to be you, wasn't it?” LeiLei asked but it seemed as if she didn't need to know the answer since she was already sure of this and so, she continued without waiting for a response, ”If you want the mecha-suits to think that the three willows of spring are the one's behind this then you can just say that you came here under their instruction.”

Hecathe blinked a few times as he heard this and although he was a bit confused in the beginning, he eventually started to feel as if the girl made sense.