Chapter 84

When I got to the car, Lucy, Kiwi, and Judy were in a near fainting state... and they weren't feeling very well and I couldn't even look at them. What do you want from me?

"Silence. and food."

I nodded understandingly and immediately took out a few containers from the trunk, which I handed to the girls, who began to devour them very quickly without even noticing what they were eating. I went back to the trunk and took out three bottles of drinks with vitamins in them.

After handing over the drinks to the girls I finally took my place of honor in the car and nodded to Panam.

"Let's go home..."

"To the clan?"

"Yeah..."

I grinned. During this time, we'd somehow stopped thinking of an apartment in the city as a home. Temporary housing base? Yes... But not a home you wanted to stay in. And that was something all the girls realized, even Judy, who had been somewhat attached to the apartment since her grandparents had left it to her.

"Okay..."

Panam pressed the gas pedal and the car moved smoothly from the spot...

"А?"

Judy blinked in surprise.

"Quiet, everybody!"

She was clearly panicking and it was just very obvious, and when her eyes lit up, signaling that she was talking to someone, I knew that something had gone wrong...

There was silence in the car for a while, after which I received a call from Judy and with a surprised look I answered it.

"So you're the young man who turned my girl's head?"

Two avatars appeared in front of me, the first belonging to Judy, who looked away guiltily, and the second... a young girl with gray hair, but wearing a bonnet on her head and a dark blue shirt.

"Uh... excuse me..."

I was somewhat confused by the pressure of this girl, though more likely still a woman, since the hair is most likely exactly gray.

"...and who exactly are you?"

"How?!"

On the face of the girl... damn, how difficult, the current care allows you to make of quite old women young beauties and although I realize that in front of me ... is not a young lady, I can't quite get my head around it.

"You date a girl and you can't even recognize her beloved and only grandmother?!"

"Kha..."

I coughed and looked around in surprise at the avatar of... grandma? And then I looked at Judy. And she nodded in embarrassment.

So it's grandma after all.

"Hello, dear Ainara Alvarez."

"So you've at least heard of me..."

"How can you do that?!"

I shook my head.

"How can you not know about your girlfriend's favorite grandmother?! That would be a crime on my part! Yes, I didn't expect you to look so young."

"Am I supposed to be old?"

There was a threat in the woman's voice.

"I just wanted to say that I expected a more mature beauty from my girlfriend's favorite grandmother..."

I was met with a suspicious look.

"Consider it done. Do you love my girl?"

This question was asked without any hesitation and the answer came without any hesitation or doubt.

"Yes. I do. I'd give my life for her. preferably someone else's, so as not to make her miserable with her death."

"Good answer..."

Girl. women... Ainara nodded at this response from me.

"I heard that you have other girls besides my girl..."

It wasn't a question, but I felt it necessary to answer.

"Yeah. I have five girls who will eventually become wives."

"Again, without a shred of doubt."

Ainara nodded and looked at me with a dose of respect.

"You know, I knew from that little brat's early childhood that her love life wasn't gonna be easy... and it wasn't even because she liked girls."

She shook her head.

"Grandma!"

"Don't be my grandmother! I have to talk to your beau, and since you wouldn't introduce me to him yourself, I've decided to take the matter into my frail, elderly hands..."

Ainara lifted her hands to show her not at all elderly arms, revealing delicate hands with neat manicures. Judy's eye twitched, and I smiled at the sight.

"And you two get along well..."

"No!"

"Sure..."

I grinned as Judy denied having a good relationship with her grandmother, even though she spoke very warmly of her, and Ainara confirmed it. It was so funny...

"You know, I think I'd like to see it in person... Ainara, would you like to come and visit us?"

"А?!"

This both members of the Alvarez family said at the same time.

"I would certainly love to talk to Judy live, and her family..."

I was met with a suspicious look.

"...but I'm not really looking forward to going back to Knight City. It's a rotten town."

"I don't disagree. it's not a nice town, but we live in the Aldecaldo clan now, we have our own Behemoth that we've remodeled for our own use and there's room for you and your husband."

"Hmmm..."

I was examined again.

"All in all... I might even take you up on that offer. but to get to you."

"Don't go on! If you agree, I'll send a car for you."

"You're a rich guy, aren't you? Corporate?"

"No..."

I shook my head.

"Although my mom wanted to make me a model corporatist and even got me into an academy. But, uh. it didn't work out. So I went solo and now I'm working as a fixer-upper.

"And you make a lot of money?"

"Enough to provide for his family."

"Uh-huh?

I was once again given a skeptical look.

"Bah, it was thanks to David that I started earning significantly more and was able to transfer that money to you that surprised you so much."

"Seriously?"

"Yeah..."

"Interesting..."

Ainara nodded thoughtfully.

"You know, Judy, your new boyfriend makes me happy. not like your previous girlfriends. I didn't like them at all, but I was willing to overlook them for your happiness. Now. I'll even come visit you."

She nodded again confirming her words.

"Great, text me the address, I'll send a car to pick you up."

"Okay..."

We talked for another ten minutes, until Ainara decided to end the conversation and cut the connection. After that, Judy and I were alone.

"David. thank you."

I looked at her in surprise.

"For what?"

"For talking to Ba..."

"So it's kind of okay to-- to talk to the only female relative of your favorite girl...

Judy shook her head sadly.

"...what, no?"

"Well... Maiko was quite sarcastic with my Ba back in the day. Anyway, she didn't like her and the feeling was mutual. So things didn't work out there. And Parker."

Avatara Judy wrinkled her nose.

"...she was trying to be liked... really hard. So ingratiating. and she really annoyed Ba and refused to understand why. And you talked to her normally. in your usual way, and she could sense it. So thank you."

"You're welcome..."

That was the end of the conversation and we cut the connection.

"And what was that?"

Becca as the most active first couldn't stand it and asked a question.

"It was Bab... Ainara, Judy's relative."

"Wait, a relative? I thought she only had a grandmother..."

This has already been said by Panam who continues to drive the car.

"Uh-huh...

I nodded.

"...she was."

"Then why didn't you say it properly?"

Kiwi looked at me with interest in asking this question.

"You just haven't seen it."

"А?"

All the girls looked at me in surprise, and even Panam diverted her eyes from the road to hold a slightly surprised look at me, but quickly returned it to the road by sharply jerking the steering wheel to the right and overtaking some small car.

"She looks younger than me!"

"Bullshit!"

Becca didn't hold back, but judging by the looks on the faces of the other girls expressed the same word their friend had literally shouted.

"No..."

I shook my head.

"...Maybe I'm embellishing a bit, but honestly, put you all in a row and she'd be your age. I didn't even immediately believe it was my grandmother, she looked so young."

"It's just that my grandmother always took good care of herself, and as I started sending more money, she started spending even more on her appearance..."

"Plastics?"

All the girls shifted their gazes to Judy interestedly.

"Not only that..."

She shook her head at the question Lucy asked.

"...there and synthetic organs, although she dreams of real ones, but there is not enough money for them, it is really necessary to be a corporatist, and not from the rank and file. So she's settled on synthetic--

"Mm..."

The girls looked at each other shocked.

"Okay, I have some very exciting news for you..."

"Which is what?"

"I've invited Aynara to visit us, along with her husband. So if she accepts the invitation and sends me--

When I opened the message I saw that it had been sent by Ainara and that there was an address and a convenient time for the car to arrive. Naturally, taking into account that the driver still had to get there.

"...already sent it."

"А?"

Judy looked at me with shock.

"She sent you the address?!"

"Yes, and also when it would be convenient for her to come to us."

"Tough..."

She shook her head.

"I thought you two were joking, and she-- she took it seriously!

"Actually, I wasn't kidding either..."

I shrugged.

"...and I'd love to have your grandparents visit us. So get ready, in three months, they're coming to visit us. And yes, everybody get ready."

I looked around at the girls.

"Is there anything in particular you need to do?"

"It's nothing."

I shrugged.

"...just be ready to receive guests. That's all I need from you. No, I'm lying, I need you to be yourself when you talk to Einara."

"Uh, uh. and me?"

Becca looked at me in surprise.

"And you. We all have to be ourselves, though I can tell from our brief interactions it won't be easy since Einara's such a pest... but, uh."

I grinned slyly and paused a little longer.

"What?!"

The girls couldn't stand it, however, the question was asked by Panam.

"It's Judy who will get the hardest, as she's currently Einara's favorite target for teasing."

"Tsk... It's no big deal. I'll get over it."

But despite my words I could see Judy was really excited that she would soon be able to see her grandmother.