Damien who heard Alice's question and saw Max, Grace, and Lily standing up in their seats, backed away a little.
He didn't want to get in between something important, and it was not his meeting anyway.
Max, Grace, and Lily stood up and directly bowed their heads.
"Thank you for saving our lives!" X3
All three of them spoke at the same time in a loud and clear voice as they bowed their heads to Alex.
"You don't need to thank me for that, you know? Whoever put the bomb was probably targeting us as well, so I was going to handle it anyway."
Alex spoke as he waved his hand but there was a light smile on his face.
Max had already informed Grace and Lily about the bomb in the café.
Yes, Lily as well, he had decided to let Lily see the real world, so the first thing he needed to show her was the dangers in the real world.
Lily was a little shaken, but she calmed down soon enough shocking both Max and Grace.
But it was better, so they just praised Lily and went into the café.
Right now, Alex knew what they were talking about and why they were thanking him, but he needed to play dumb.
"It is not because of that," Max spoke as he, Grace, and Lily sat back in their seats.
"I was thanking you for saving their lives during the gate break in 'Style Haven Market'."
Max spoke as he patted Lily's head with a loving smile.
Lily was sitting between, Grace and Max, the same as Alex, who sitting in between Alice and Ann.
"You guys were there as well?" Alex asked as he leaned forward with a raised brow.
"Yes, I was the lady with a little girl you saved that day, thank you again," Grace smiled gratefully as she bowed her head again, which accidentally showed her cleavage.
Alice and Ann who could see it as well, snapped their heads toward Alex, but they didn't see any change in his expression, so they nodded inwardly.
"Oh, I see...." Alex nodded his head with a thoughtful look.
"You guys were wearing a disguise-type item, a high-ranked one I guess," Alex spoke out loud.
"Yes, we can't go in public without that, you should know why," Max spoke with an exasperated sigh.
"Yes..." Alex nodded his head, and so did Alice and Ann.
"I see, so this is why you were trying to help us get our images better," Ann finally spoke with a contemplating look.
"Huh?" X3
It was time for Alex, Alice, and Ann to get confused now.
It was like they had question marks floating above their heads.
"When did we say that we wanted to create an empire??" Alice asked in an utterly perplexed tone.
"You never said it, but after observing your actions and comparing them with Argon Hart's, we found many similarities, so it was not hard to guess what you were trying to do."
Max told them about how he came to that conclusion.
Argon Hart also went around saving people for free and in the end, he built his own empire, so like many people out there, Max thought that the Crimson Lotus Guild or Alice to be precise wanted to create an empire.
"We didn't want to create an empire...." Alice spoke in a low voice.
Some people might call them people with no ambition, but it is what it is.
'He did all that just because he thought that we were going to create an empire....' Ann just sighed inwardly as she thought about it.
"Huh???" Max tilted his head to the side as he got confused again.
"We don't have any intention of creating an Empire," Alex spoke again.
Max who heard that finally realized that he was not hearing it wrong.
"So, I was doing all that for nothing??" Max asked in a dumbfounded voice.
"Unfortunately, your answer is yes," Alex answered Max's question with a sigh.
'Here I was hoping that maybe it was something interesting," Alex muttered inwardly.
The whole purpose of his coming here was because he thought that there would be some deeper conspiracy here.
Max who heard the answer looked at Grace who was equally shocked as him.
Max then turned back toward Alice, Alex, and Ann, and looked at them before he asked in a perplexed tone.
"You have the power, why would you not want to make an empire of your own??" He couldn't see a reason why they would not want to do that.
Alex and Alice exchanged a glance and Ann just sighed as she knew what the answer was going to be.
"Well, it's...."
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