Chapter 462: What Changed...?

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"So why didn't you kill him?" Margarete inquired with a voice that effectively broke the chatter happening between Marina and Aqua.

"..." "..."

They were both taken away from each other's throats as they looked toward the Queen Mother.

Nadia was also curious as to why her mother was unable to kill someone after going out to do it herself.

And it didn't take long before Marina gave in underneath the pressure and said, "This Azmond was weaker than me in the beginning; however, he took me off guard and quickly surpassed me by multiple minor realms in strength."

"As expected of my husband!" Aqua beamed with a radiant smile playing on her lips.

"Ho?" Nadia mused, her interest in this man having been piqued.

"Teehee~" Esra mischievously giggled as she knew that there was more to this 'Azmond' than what was shown at face value.

Her playful gaze shot toward the retreating sickly figure as she seductively lipped her lips.

Every further thing I hear about you makes me want to gobble you up even more!

While Esra was having some very lewd thoughts, Margarete and Aqua were focusing all of their attention on the curvaceous Queen of the AquaRing Kingdom.

"..."

Marina knew she had some explaining to do as she slumped into her seat before beginning to narrate the events that followed after she left the castle.

Of course, she left out everything that had to do with Azmond's 'system' and that 'ghost lady'.

But other than that, she essentially summed everything up as him being an utterly ridiculous aberration and unparalleled genius.

A few minutes passed by in the blink of an eye.

"So what you're saying is that you were bested by a boy less than a tenth of your age?"

Margarete's rich voice, filled with a tinge of disappointment, echoed out within a sound canceling Qi barrier.

"You're different What changed?" Margarete inquired with a curious tone.

Marina heard the all-too-familiar question and turned her head down a little before thinking over what exactly it was that gave everybody the idea that she had changed.

Have I really changed all that much? But I don't feel any different than before

Marina couldn't comprehend what it was that made everyone assume she had changed.

But when she put her pretty hands up to her mouth and felt the slight crease in her lips, she understood what they were talking about...

And it was at that moment that her eyes creased right along with her lips as she stared at her family before saying, "I guess I have changed."

"..." "..." "..."

Nadia, Aqua, Esra, and Margarete were left starstruck for a moment as they got lost in the lively eyes of Marina.

"Mother You're hot" Esra mumbled with her mouth agape.

*Whack!*

"Shut up, you unruly daughter of mine!" Marina yelled after smacking her second-eldest daughter across the back of her head.

"Ow! Mother, you big meanie! That man will never like you if you're so mean!- Oh, oops"

Esra let something slip that she shouldn't have

Her apologetic eyes stared at her mother, as she was silently lip-voicing the word 'sorry'.

Marina looked at her daughter with a disbelieving gaze before she felt the eyes of her mother bore into her back.

"A man?" Margarete questioned with a 'friendly' look on her face.

"Listen, mother, Esra here is quite the silly one, and she oftentimes makes up things-!"

"Don't bother. You think I'm as easy to fool as your daughter's?? Tell me right this instant what she meant by 'A man'," Margarete interjected with a fierceness hidden in her tone.

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