Chapter 143: They didn't invite me to the party

Perseus POV

"Hey Cat, what's up?" I greeted as I see Catherina approach me at this café where me and my division excluding the resting Lia are enjoying are lunch.

I swear, cafés always have really small portions of food, I had to order a lot of food from the menu, why did I come to this place that is wasting my money? As the boss of my division, I'm responsible to pick out places that they like and treat them sometimes, this is why they picked this one to waste my money.

"I hate it when you call me that, stop it, my husbands will be jealous when they hear I allow someone else to call me by a nickname like that." she said as she asked a waiter to get her a chair.

"How's the recovery?"

"Being with my loved one helped, so I'm doing okay for now." she answered

"Okay, so why are you here? Just so you know, I'm not going to reimburse for your broken equipments, I can't do what I did."

My 3 clanmates have this questioning look on their face since none of them including almost everyone else didn't know what truly happened while I was gone. No one needed to know that there is an item that can restrict a ranker's power.

"You saw me naked." Cat stated

"And?"

'You're not even flustered, tch, I'm offended." she retorted

"Don't try to flatter yourself, I've seen better."

I can now see a vein bulging on her forehead as a waiter gave her some cutlery and dig into some of our food. Not even asking for a bite, just went straight ahead and ate them.

"Seriously, if you're here trying to just get me to repay you somehow for seeing you naked, I'm not gonna, no matter how much you try."

"No, you have to take responsibility and marry me." she declared

"Hell no."

"Yeah, I mean, do you really? He's impotent." Terra commented "I on the other hand can take your offer."

"Seriously? Are you some sort of innocent character in some fictional story or something? We maybe novel characters, but you sure aren't innocent, you got 2 husbands for a reason."

"Well I was mostly joking, but I'm still offended that you rejected me so quickly, I have a lot of confidence in my beauty." Cat replied "I came here only to thank you...and to annoy you by eating your food and wasting your money because I know how much of a cheapskate you are."

"So you're not angry that I saw you naked and had to dress you with some of my clothes?"

"It's not like you can help it, I wouldn't be angry since you actually helped me. I'll forgive you for making contact with my flawless skin this time."

"I used magic to dress you up, I was scared that if I did touch you, trouble arises with some fake rumors of me doing things without your consent or something."

We then ordered some desert but as we do so, I felt the presence of demigods, similar to the last assassins, the children of Zeus are here to kill me, I'm just going to kill them.

I took out my credit card and handed it to Wyatt.

"Spend it well, you 4 can go hang out and make connections or something, just so you know, if I see you buy anything weird when I asked the bank, it's coming out your pay. Go shopping or something, i have a party I have to attend to."

3rd person POV

All of them then got this puzzling look on their faces as they see him leave, he would never give his card away like that, and party? Perseus hate socializing if he doesn't have to, there's a reason why most of his classmates don't hang out with him and why his former high school classmates are highly regretting not befriending him since he was always alone.

But Catherina don't just question that, she also questions this weird presence radiating from somewhere that are somewhat similar to the 13 admins, it's somewhat similar to Perseus, but less sinister.

But Perseus and his sister always gave off that feeling, they are prepared to fight even in their sleep, those who can pick up on their presence usually are warded off, but these...it's like they are trying to hide their killing intent.

It's far away, but she can somewhat vaguely sense it and Perseus got to do with it somehow, is he involved with some troublesome organization? If so, he shouldn't lose, because despite being mind controlled with that particular rock, she remember everything before she was knocked out.

Perseus defeated without wasting a sweat, she did broke his sword, but he was stronger with hand to hand, it's like as if his sword was his limiter. She paused because she felt her attacks weren't that adequate, he backed away and everything, and she saw he can feel pain, but...

<I maybe mostly a healer, but I do have the qualification to still have the SS+ threat level even if I stop being a support, the 13 admins confirmed it...> she thought <I know a threat level doesn't tell you their total battle prowess, but he's much more powerful compared to Arlon, how is he still an 11th rank?>

Her thought process then went to evaluate what she saw from him in his previous fight with Elliot...he can heal, he has an affinity with every magic she can think of, he has enough physical prowess to be a tank, enough stealth and agility to be an assassin...every ranker knew after that challenge, despite his lost, they knew he is going to grow up to be the scariest existence they will see in their life time.

He's a perfect all arounder who can fit into any party, he is confident with enough skills to back it up, his only flaw is his desire to slow down in order to tame the tremendous mana inside his body, he should have kept climbing and hope to find a miracle potion.

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Perseus POV

I ran and warped to this small town of npc, which from the size, I can see no more than a few hundred npc living in it.

I hid my presence and go to this tavern where they're all drinking in this private room as they mapping out out places best suited for the battle as I looked through this small window on the door. Too bad I can't kill em since we're on the large first floor of the tutorial floors.

I then took the tray of food from the waiter and brought it in for him.

"Yo guys, I got the food, why didn't you invite me to the party?"