Logan and Claire too simultaneously realized that the teenage girl had stopped to look at them and without any fear, she approached them while hopping like a rabbit.
She was gaining rapid distance from her father, but that didn’t seem to faze her even a bit. It was as if she didn’t worry that someone would attack her.
Her smiling expression also indicated that she wasn’t worried about being attacked suddenly.
Davis then noticed that she wore an accessory over her neck, ’A protective artifact?’
The teenage girl neared them and curiously looked at them with a scrutinizing expression. Behind her, Edgar Alstreim rather quickly arrived seeing that his daughter had suspected these three people to be the source of the change that would happen to her.
The Whisper of Fate phenomenon...
’A group of masked people? They have the element of mysteriousness... This... is going to get difficult since they obviously don’t want to be probed...’ He inwardly mused.
Davis pursed his lips and a difficult expression appeared on his face.
’Could it be that we were found out?’
This sentence echoed in their minds but if it wasn’t the case and they were to back out now, they felt that they would just become even more suspicious.
Their eyes imperceptibly twitched as they knew that they were admittedly placed in a difficult position.
The two groups that were already just an arm’s length away were looking at each other but none of them spoke, leading to an awkward situation.
Davis felt that he had to break this atmosphere and cast any suspicion towards something else. He bowed deeply as a commoner would do and spoke.
"We greet the Alstreim Family!"
The ’we’ in his words prompted Logan and Claire to follow his example. They too bowed and greeted.
"We greet the Alstreim Family!"
But Claire didn’t speak, afraid that her voice would be found out. She had also completely withdrawn her undulations the moment she had spotted them on the flight of stairs, plus the mask she wore had the ’Blur’ Symbol, so her father wasn’t able to tell at all.
Edgar Alstreim saw that these masked people recognized their identity. There was also the projections that displayed their figures before, so he automatically considered that they would know about them. In fact, if they had claimed to not know them, he would’ve become more suspicious of their origin.
"Is there something wrong?" Davis probed.
This gave Edgar Alstreim, who usually didn’t like to fight without a reason, automatically say, "No, no..."
He suddenly stopped, realizing that he had lost the initiative to question them by saying this, but even then, he uttered forcefully.
"It seems like my daughter is interested in knowing what kind of faces are behind these masks..."
Davis’s heart delayed a beat.
However, Edgar’s expression became a little bit ugly.
He realized that he didn’t take a soft approach at all!
What if those people disappeared because of his threatening gaze?
’Did I ruin my daughter’s chance?’ He couldn’t help but berate himself.
Sometimes, habits die hard...
Quite some time had passed, more than ten minutes but they didn’t still appear. Just when he thought of going outside to look for them, he heard a knock.
"It’s open..." He answered.
Reacting to his words, the door opened and three masked people entered.
Davis, Logan, and Claire stood beside the door but Davis took a few steps forward and sat on one of the three chairs that were readied for them. He even crossed his legs and sat like a big shot.
Claire and Logan wondered why their son suddenly decided to act like this but they inwardly shrugged and sat beside him.
’Oh?’ Edgar Alstreim saw that the man who spoke rather timidly now reveal his fangs. This told him that the other party realized something, perhaps, a weakness that would make him unable to berate or threaten the other party?
Without any prompt, Davis uttered, "High-Level Spirit Stone Vein Fragments..."
"What?" Edgar Alstreim became confused.
Davis chuckled, "The price for revealing our faces..."
Edgar Alstreim widened his eyes and asked with an amused expression on his face, "Are you not afraid of my Alstreim Family?"
Davis extended his hand and tapped the table twice, "I am afraid of Alstreim Family but not of you..."
Edgar Alstreim lifted his brows, "Do you think I’m an impostor?"
"No, no it’s just the opposite. From the projection, I know that you belong to the Alstreim Family but I also know of your personal history with the Alstreim Family, Edgar Alstreim..."
"So I also know that you wouldn’t rely on the family which backstabbed you in the past..."
Edgar Alstreim widened his eyes even more in shock. His curiosity peaked as he tried to guess who this person in front of him was!
"You’ve successfully convinced me. One High-Level Spirit Stone Vein Fragment it is..."
His lips subconsciously curved into a grin.
"Show me your face..."