Chapter 653 - A Challenge From Father-In-Law

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Vheslia's mother, Mary, and her daughter Vheslia both walked into the kitchen. Mary hugged her daughter again and kissed her face several times, as Vheslia accepted her love.

"I missed you a lot! So many things happened but… I am just happy you're safe and alive…" sighed Mary.

"I am also happy to see you alive and fine too, mother…" said Vheslia.

The two began to cook as they started to talk.

"Your father is… very angered over the situation…" sighed Vheslia's mother.

"I know, he had been always quite temperamental with things that affected me, but he was always a good father with me…" said Vheslia.

"This is because he really loves you dearly… Sigh… This is quite the big impact; it will take a lot of time to process it and accept it." said Vheslia's mother.

"Hm, I understand how you feel… I will come here almost every day from now, sometimes alone and other times with Frank and the rest of the family…" said Vheslia.

"Really? You promise?" asked Vheslia's mother.

"I do… We'll slowly make father accept how things have changed." Said Vheslia.

"You've become truly strong. I don't think there is any way that we can even force you to change your idea anyways…" said Vheslia's mother.

"Yeah, you can't. Frank is someone that changed my entire life. I love him, and wouldn't ever leave him behind… I just want to stay at his side… You understand? So… I will just do what I want." Said Vheslia.

"I get it…" sighed Vheslia's mother.

"I am just happy…" said Vheslia.

"I can tell you're happy. We are happy as long as you're happy, dear. Your father and I just have to get used to how things have changed… I-I guess… But really, did he had to have so many wives?" asked Vheslia's mother.

"Ahaha… Poor Frank, he really didn't had a choice there, he made too many girls fall for him and he didn't wanted to break our hearts, so he accepted us and loved us all." Said Vheslia.

"But… there's no way he can properly love all of you equally, right?" asked Vheslia's mother.

"Of course he can. Frank is not a normal human at all, he's an incredible person that surpass common sense by far. You'll slowly learn of his capabilities, what he can do is incredible…" said Vheslia.

Vheslia's mother was left speechless as she heard her daughter talk so good about another man. She had really fallen in love with him… she recalled how she used to praise her husband back then when the two were just boyfriends. As she praised him in front of her aunt.

She smiled faintly at her daughter, it seems that perhaps… she was really and truly happy now.

Suddenly, the kitchen was interrupted as Gwendolyn, Axitl, and Clishya walked inside, the trio desired to help out Vheslia and her mother into cooking.

"I came here with some of our own ingredients and spices, let's cook together something yummy for everyone. We'll show the cuisine of Earth." Said Gwendolyn.

"I'll make some Tempura!" said Axitl.

"Leave to me the ramen…" said Clishya.

The girls had brought a lot of ingredients from Earth directly to Terra, and took them out of their inventory bags, surprising Vheslia's mother as she noticed all three of the girls had powerful items that could store items inside through a pocket dimension. This was a very advanced level of magic that would cost thousands of coins in this world!

But that wasn't all, she also saw all these strangely packed ingredients being put over the kitchen table, some covered in plastic covering, others in paper covering, but they were all colorful, with Japanese letters that she couldn't understand.

"I-Is this advanced food packing from the province of the beast-folk?" she asked.

"No, it's from Earth!" said Axitl.

"Earth? Where's that?" wondered Vheslia's mother.

"It is… Erm… A small city." Said Clishya.

"Exactly…" Said Gwendolyn.

Vheslia nodded as they shut up Axitl before she was to talk something even more insane that wouldn't be believed anyways.

"O-Okay then, let me see what you got…" said Vheslia's mother.

The group of women quickly began to cook something up, while Frank continued with his nervous meeting with Vheslia's father. Everybody else seemed to be minding their own business for the most part, but this only made it more awkward as only the two were intensively staring at one another.

The wort part for Frank was that Vheslia's father looked like a young man on his early twenties, despite being very old, at over seventy years of age. Apparently, the race of demons they belonged to would live as youthful people until their last days.

"So what do you do aside from killing monsters? Can you work? Can you adapt to society or are you just some rich guy and lazy guy?" asked Vheslia's father angrily.

"I-I am quite competent… I am good at cooking, alchemy, crafting, and farming…" said Frank.

"Huh, is that so? I don't believe you as much, you seem like you just smack things with your magic weapons or something." said Vheslia's father.

"Rest assured, I am quite competent…" said Frank.

"…"

"…"

"You better show it to me… Come! Show me that you're good at alchemy!"

Suddenly, Vheslia's father rushed into the other room of his home and Frank felt forced to follow him.

There, there were two large cauldrons, and Vheslia's father was unpacking some ingredients and putting them over a table, separating them.

"What is the meaning of this?!" asked Vheslia, as she rushed inside.

"He said he's good at alchemy! SO show me how good you are! Make a Potion, a Health Potion!" said Vheslia's father.

"A health potion…?" asked Frank.

Vheslia's father smiled as he looked at Frank's seemingly despairing expression, although what he had on his face wasn't actually despair, he was just surprised of the easiness and simplicity of the challenge…

"Is that everything?" he asked.

"W-Well, yeah!" said Vheslia's father.

"Seems easy enough…" said Frank, as he began to work.

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