Chapter 7 Emma Augustride

After I got out of the room, I started walking to the kitchen to order the chefs to prepare some food for me.

However, at that moment, I saw the first heroine of the game waiting on the floor while leaning against the wall.

When she noticed me, she stopped leaning against the wall and blocked my way.

And the scene in front of me is really beautiful; it is no wonder she is the heroine of the game.

Just like her mother, Emma too has yellow eyes and red hair.

Since the hair and body structure of a person is related to his/her own attribute, and both Emma and Adelyn have a high-fire affinity, they have fiery red hair.

Although right now, the person in front of me is still just a child, that doesn't mean she is not beautiful.

In the game, she had a slender body just like her mother, and she wasn't a well-developed heroine in a sense.

However, right now, my focus is not on how she looks beautiful or not.

No, my focus is on her expression and her face.

She looks like she has cried for a long time since her eyes look swollen and red.

However, her expression is something else.

Even Adelyn wasn't looking at me with this kind of hatred on her face.

If looks could kill, I would have died the moment she looked at me.

"You are finally out of your room, you rat."

She said and started walking towards me in slow steps.

/SMASH/

In a blink of an eye, she suddenly caught me by my collar and smashed me to the wall.

"You! It is all because of you, and your father is dead. Why just why, did you go out with him? You are just a failure, so tell me. Why were you the one with your father? If it weren't for you, the father would still be here. Fuuuck! I will kill you. I will fucking kill you!"

She suddenly started shaking me while gripping me by my throat.

It seems this girl really wants to kill me right now, but do you really think I will just stand there and watch you choke me?

At that moment, I suddenly activated my trait [Tyrant's Aura] and gazed into her ferocious-looking eyes, and at that moment, feeling that intimidation, she loosened her hand on my throat for a moment.

But that was all I needed to free myself from her hold.

"Cough, cough. You are foolish, don't you, Emma?"

I said while coughing.

"Huh, what happened just now? Bastard, what did y-"

She was trying to grip me again, but this time, I blocked her hand and held it.

"Just like your mother, you are a fool as well. From the beginning, you blamed me for what happened to my father without even thinking properly. How foolish. Even though your brain is tiny as a bird, it is still there for you to use it. But right now, the only thing you are doing is crying like a baby and blaming me for everything instead of using your brain to find the culprit behind our father's murder. You have really disappointed me and father as-"

"Shut up! Don't put the name of father into your filthy mouth, you bastard child. Just as your mother was a whore, you are a bastard until the end as we- huh?"

The moment she mentioned my mother again, I couldn't hold it in this time.

It seems I need to work to control my feelings in the future, but not right now.

I grabbed her on the throat while subconsciously activating my [Tyrant's Aura] as well as [All Seeing Eye].

"If you say that word to my mother again, I will pull every one of your teeth one by one until there is nothing left in your mouth. I don't care if you blame me for Father's death or other things, but I won't stand still when you repeat something about my mother. And, I will avenge my father by myself, neither with your help nor with your mother's. But if you stand in my way again, I will make sure to crush you properly at that time, understood?"

At that moment, she suddenly had a scary expression on her face and couldn't do anything except nod her head.

After she nodded her head, I released my hold on her throat.

"Cough, cough."

"If you really need someone for your revenge, then look for the people who have a hand in Father's death, don't make me your enemy just because of some childish emotion, and don't waste my time either."

After saying that, I left her and started walking to the kitchen while looking at the system panel before me.

Emma Augustride

Age – 13 Years old

Class – Magic Swordsman

Sub-Classes - [Locked], [Locked], [Locked]

Knight Rank – 2-star

Mage Rank - 2-star

Attributes – Fire (High)

Traits – [Locked], [Locked], [Locked], [Locked]

Arts - [Locked]

Skills - [Locked], [Locked], [Locked]

After I activated my art subconsciously, suddenly, this system panel appeared in front of me.

It seems the [All Seeing Eye] lets me peek into the status pages of other people, which is certainly one of the most broken skills out there.

But, since my mastery over my skill is pretty low, it doesn't show too much information, and most of the information is blocked as well.

But it is still a good thing, nevertheless, and I am planning to practice my skill on the whole mansion and see if there are some rats out there as well.

<Successfully evaluated the status page. Mastery over the [All Seeing Eye] increased.>

With that sudden notation, I pretty much understood what I should do for the rest of the day.

After that, I went to the kitchen and kept observing everyone's status page. I could and found some things about my art.

Firstly, in order for me to see the person's status page, they should be at most a 2-star rank, or else I will be at risk of being discovered since I tried to look at the statuses of some of the knights, and they all suddenly turned their attention to me.

It seems, for now, I need to practice this skill, as well as my intent.

Know that, in a sense, the reason assassins are training their intent is to make sure to erase it.

Intent and instinct are heavily related in this world, and if you are unable to erase your intent, be it as a ranger or assassin, it will be detrimental to you as well.

And this will be a good practice ground for me since even in childhood, Callius is known as a silent observer of the mansion.

He doesn't talk too much and always reads books or observes other people outside.

In a sense, he was trying to fill the emptiness of being all alone by trying to find some entertainment in other people's lives, but of course, when someone who had bad rumors about him was looking at others, they would freak out.

And right now, almost all the people I am looking at are feeling uncomfortable, but they aren't able to do anything since I am their employer, in other words.

Just like that, I reached the kitchen and ordered the chiefs to prepare some meals for me.

"Huh, lord Callius, are you sure you want us to prepare the meal with 'Bloodthorn'?"

When I ordered the food I wanted, the chief suddenly got surprised.

Well, it is normal to be surprised since the herb 'Bloodthorn' is one of the most disgusting meals out there, and only beggars and some regional freaks would eat it.

However, in the game, this herb had the effect of opening the mana paths even without the effects of classes, and the newly opened mana paths would be connected to all of your body.

Later in the game, there was one certain villain mage rising from the slums.

During his childhood, he was unable to receive a blessing from any church, and since he was an orphan from the slums, he usually ate the herb 'Bloodthorn', and later, he was found by a 9-star mage and got accepted as a mage's disciple.

This was how his story went, and this was the perfect opportunity for me to eat the 'Bloodthorn' herb.

However, just eating this for one time won't have a sufficient effect, and I don't have too much time either.

That means I need to increase its effectiveness with other herbs as well.

"Yes, you shall prepare the meal with Bloodthorn, and make sure to deliver those herbs in the list to my room with the meal as well."

After I said that, I put the list I had prepared on the table and started walking toward my room.

Today will be a very painful day for me since I will forcefully open my mana paths as well as strengthen my foundation with the liquid, and both of them are really painful processes.

But they are both necessary for my future. Since this body is initially weak and not good at fighting directly, it is better for me to become a mage.

And to become a good and outstanding mage, it is not always good to rely on blessings. If there are other ways to get stronger, it would be a waste not to use them, don't you think so?

With that, I reached my room and started preparing the things I would do in advance.

I first need to prepare a hot bath and a cold one at the same time since I will need to first cool my body and later heat it in the process.

While I was ordering the food, I also ordered some maids not to disturb me later in the day since this process is still a secret.

Anyway, after waiting for 10 minutes or so, my meals and the other things I ordered came.

And with that, I started the painful process of getting stronger…