Chapter 91. Mysterious Person

93 Chapter 91. Mysterious Person

"He's your ex?" said Mia in shock. Our feet stepped towards the cashier at a slow pace.

Celia nodded slowly with a regretful face. She did not think her decision to date Bern would bring disaster.

"Celia has never dated before, so I think she just chose the wrong person," I tried to comfort her. Celia started dating Bern a few months after our father died, so I thought she was just looking for someone who could comfort her, but unfortunately, Bern only gave her trouble.

Mia sighed as her eyes turned soft.

"I understand how you feel. Sometimes we can't judge someone by their appearance." Even though Bern was annoying, he did have a warm face that made everyone think of him as a good person. Then she frowned.

"If one of them is your ex, but who is the other?" she asked.

"I don't know," Celia replied.

"Oh, he's Bern's brother, Franz." Celia had never met Franz before, so she didn't recognize him.

Celia turned towards me with a confused expression.

"How do you know him?" While Mia also looked at me with the same expression, since she knew I was the kind of person who avoided making trouble and didn't want to deal with people like them.

"I've met him in Nighthallow City before," I said with an innocent face as if I had no problem with him.

"When? Why didn't you tell me?" Celia asked me impatiently.

I couldn't possibly tell her since she would have been worried if she found out that they ganged up on me in their fighting studio.

"I think it's unnecessary. It's just a brief encounter anyway," I decided to say nothing.

Mia looked at me suspiciously.

"Is that true?" Her disbelief was clear in her voice.

"Then why did they attack you earlier?" Well, it was weird if we only met briefly but now they attacked me like sworn enemies.

"Brother, could it be that he asked Franz to beat you up for revenge?" Celia guessed.

Hearing the words 'revenge', Mia turned to Celia.

"Has Ethan fought with your ex before?" she asked in a half-shocked tone. It seemed like she couldn't believe I could beat Bern who was so much bigger than me.

"Yes. And he beat Bern and made him scamper away," she emphasized.

They turned to me at the same time.

"Ethan, what did they do to you?" asked Mia again.

Even though I didn't want to answer then but seeing their serious glances at me, I let out a surrendering sigh. Besides, admitting this wouldn't have too much effect on me either.

"Okay, I confess. I did fight with him a few days ago. But not because of Celia but because Franz was also disturbing my friend." I deliberately mentioned this so Celia wouldn't feel guilty.

"Then what happened? Did they beat you?" Mia asked curiously. Seeing their big muscular bodies, she could guess they managed to beat me up.

Celia smiled proudly.

"Haa- hah-hah --haaaaaa!" Bern and Franz ran in shuffled steps at me.

"We are sorry... We are sorry..." they said in fear as they hid behind me. Their faces were battered and covered with bruises and wounds. I looked at them alternately in confusion. I still remembered clearly, they weren't this scared when I defeated them in Nighthallow City a few days ago, but now they were hiding behind me like cowards.

'Whoever their opponent is I'm sure he's not just an ordinary person.' I shifted my gaze to where they fought earlier but found no one there.

My eyes swept around me, checking it again, but I still couldn't find anyone.

'How could he disappear that fast?'

My attention returned to Bern and Franz, who were ducking in fear behind me. Their hands grabbed my jeans and sweater. I glanced at their status above their heads.

[Name: Franz Fullhorn]

[Level 5]

[HP: 41/148]

[MP: 25/30]

[Name: Bern Fullhorn]

[Level 3]

[HP: 32/100]

[MP: 23/23]

I remembered their HP was still full when I met them in the supermarket earlier.

"What happened?" I asked.

They shook their heads.

"It's okay, we - we're all right," Franz replied quickly. And Bern nodded in response.

"All right? Don't joke with me," I remembered when they lost to me, they tried to cheat by threatening to report me to the police, but this time they didn't say that. It was clear they wanted to let this slide.

"We - we just fell," said Bern in a stammering voice.

"That's not a fall wound. I know someone else is there. Who is he? What have you done with him?" Even though it could be that person who started the fight but because of their attitude earlier I deliberately concluded that they were the one who was looking for trouble first.

"The - there's no one beside us. We only fought with each other. Yo - You know sibling fight," Franz added with an awkward smile, but his fear was still clearly visible on his face.

"Yeah. Tha - That's right!" added Bern.

"That's impossible. I saw ---"

"N-no, there is no one but us," Franz interrupted me.

"Franz, I know ---"

Before I finished my sentence, Bern tugged at my jeans and I could feel his shaking hands clearly.

"Let's go," he said in a stammering voice.

Seeing them so terrified, I sighed and swept my gaze once more into the alley, before turning and leaving followed by Bern and Franz.