34 If You Can Receive My Fis (1/2)
”I give you five seconds to cut the act. Otherwise, I will split you in half!”
Wolfgang's roar caused Konrad to open his eyes in a heartbeat and sweep the perimeter with astonishment.
”What? What? What happened?!”
”Oh, my head! I'm being assailed by monstrous headaches. Help!”
Konrad howled while clenching his head and pressing it harder against Iliana's chest.
”For real? Let me check.”
The evident concern within her eyes caused him to further push the act with strong nods and false demonstrations of pain.
Count Wolfgang flew into rage! When did the daughter he carefully raised become so easily deceived?
That boy had to be butchered.
”Boy, I warned you. You can die!”
He summoned his energy battle-ax and was about to drive it into a fatal arc when Konrad promptly rose from the ground and stood straight like an arrow.
”Hum, hum!”
”No need to be so dramatic. After all, as in-laws, we should first learn more about each other and establish the foundations of a healthy familial relationship.”
”As an elder, you should be the one taking the lead in such matters. Yet, since your arrival, you've only been causing trouble. You should reflect on yourself.”
He admonished with the stance of a disappointed senior lecturing a junior on his many failures.
”Trickster!”
”Impudence!”
Iliana and Wolfgang roared like a choir, but Konrad remained complacent and unfazed.
”Humph!”
Iliana snorted, stood up and walked back toward her father's side. With the two now eying Konrad with a mixture of rage and vigilance.
But seeing that he had lost his dignity as an elder, Wolfgang straightened himself, turned his attention back to Iliana and asked.
”Where did you find that mobster? You said he's your savior?”
Wolfgang's inquiry caused Iliana to snap out of her exasperated state.
”He saved my life at multiple occasions. Once within the palace, and another one today. He also saved Daphne's and helped me reawaken her from her coma. And he's the one that managed to convince the Holy Empress to allow me to return home.”
She explained with warmth flashing within her eyes.
Wolfgang didn't need to hear more. And although he couldn't comprehend how a young eunuch ( that probably wasn't a eunuch) managed to convince the Holy Empress to cancel the Holy Emperor's decree and return his daughter to him, he still was grateful.
Thus, his view of Konrad underwent a 180-degree change.
But the words that followed caused him to almost spurt blood and all goodwill to turn into fury.
”She is omitting a lot. Like our many embraces under the moonlight, or all the smooches within her bed, and even the cuddles on the way here. Speaking plainly, although she tries to put up a strong front, she's my wife in everything but name. We might as well sign the papers and move on to consummation.”
”Father-in-law, do you agree?”
Iliana's cheeks burned with a flaming red while her eyes widened in shock. She hadn't expected Konrad to be bold enough to retell those events in front of her father!
And seeing her reaction that showed shame but no rejection, Wolfgang drove his battle-ax in a ferocious cleave, turning air pressure into blades that shot toward Konrad.
”Aaaargh!”
He turned into purple light particles and narrowly dodged every single one of them.
”You even dare dodge? Today if I do not beat you half an inch into death, I am not surnamed Kracht!”
Wolfgang snarled and shot toward Konrad, replacing his ax with his bare fists that threateningly approached Konrad's face.
”Catch me if you can!”
Konrad once again turned into purple light particles, intangible particles immune to physical harm.
In that form, he bypassed Wolfgang's fists and instantly reappeared by Iliana's side!
”So fast? Is that truly just a Grand Knight? Also, why have I never seen that kind of light attribute?”
Attributes were not all of the same level. Some inherently ranked above the others while there were also opposite attributes that mutually canceled each other out.
Light had always been a mighty attribute, possessing great regeneration properties and endowing its user with enormous speed. However, Wolfgang had never seen anyone able to turn into intangible light particles or being able to deploy such speed in the Grand Knight Rank.
”Is he possible that he's a secret disciple of the Holy Empress?”
He wondered. But at that time, his thoughts were interrupted by another display of insolence.
”Hum, hum! Killing me will not change reality. Your daughter's heart has already been snatched by me. And in any case, you need a man to carry on the male bloodline right. I promise you top-notch genes and dragon-like descendants!”
”Satisfied or reimbursed!”