"Don't think too much about it, anyway. Have a good day and bye." Yuki simply chuckled as she finally dropped the call and went towards the others to speak with Aika and when she arrived, the atmosphere instantly shifted.
All of them knew that Yuki didn't like too much chattering, especially when people were laughing too much, and because of that, they shut their mouths as soon as she sat down which confused Yuki. Because she was just getting close to them, she could hear how cheerful they were, but when she arrived they suddenly went quiet.
"Why are all of you quiet, even if I hate loud people, that excludes all of you, of course, that doesn't mean that I get irritated by your loudness. But I only get irritated if it really gets loud and you shutting your mouths makes me feel like I'm the bad guy because I ruined the fun." Yuki simply sighed as she then crossed her legs and looked at everyone before chuckling to herself.
"Anyway… how are you Aika? Are you enjoying yourself in the Celestial Star Heaven?" Yuki asked as she turned the conversation away because it seemed that she really did kill the mood with what she said, but after asking the question, Aika eased up and began answering her Mother's question.
She began stating what had happened to her from the moment she got into the Celestial Star Heaven up until now. Yuki was happy to hear that Aika was doing well even though the environment was a lot different, even if she hadn't made a lot of friends there, she was still happy for her daughter because it seemed that it didn't affect her much.
Stories from the food, adventures, training, learning, and basically everything that Aika could recall she said all of it to Yuki to which she just happily listened to her. She was even more glad to hear how much progress she had made in her cultivation path because now it seemed that she got a lot stronger, just by looking at her status window, Yuki could tell that she had improved a lot, at least by twice.
"I'm impressed! You have improved so much, though I do have to ask. I know it may sound crazy or bad, but how are you fairing in unaliving your enemies? Don't worry, I'm not asking for Humans or Fairy, mostly brainless Beast, because I know that you are having a hard time with that. I mean not only you… but mostly all of you. Though Yumie and Katsumi are a different kind, I'm talking about you Kurokami and Fumiko." Yuki said as she glanced at those two and when they heard her, they simply coughed in embarrassment as they were still having a hard time with that. Though Kurokami was a little better as she had a lot of experience already being an adventurer.
"I… I haven't really taken any quest from the Guild that requires hunting something. I'm mostly doing chore quests like getting medicine herbs and helping people carry stuff, and that is about it. I'm still at Rank F because Mother said that I should hide my abilities, so I did so which landed me on the lowest Rank, plus Mother also hid my identity. Because she knows that you will be mad, but she only did that when I'm doing quests, but apart from that everyone knows who I am already." Aika explained and when Yuki heard it she nodded in approval.
"That's fine, you can take your time. Because in the future you would want to protect the ones that you love right? Just like this time… your sister got disrespected by some perverted woman, won't you like to take revenge for her?" Yuki asked casually and when Yumie heard it, she shivered because she had no idea that her Mother was actually going to do something like this.
But in reality, she was actually thinking of telling her little sister, because she felt that it wasn't right to keep secrets, especially with something like this. Unlike Katsumi who usually takes everything to herself because she is strong-willed, she is different, she is weak. Her cold and indifferent side was only like a facade to the others because, in reality, it was still the same little pink lizard that Yuki found in the forest.
"What!? I didn't know that, are you okay big sister? Can I ask what happened?" Aika asked in a shocked tone, but she still asked her in a careful and attentive because she was not sure whether her big sister would want to talk something like this.
"It's fine… you are the only one who doesn't know it and I will feel bad because it would seem like I'm letting you out in the dark. You see…" Aika took a deep breath before she started explaining what happened from the start and Yuki was also listening closely because she knew that there were still some things that she was refusing to tell her, which is why she needed Aika's help.
Because if she was the one who asked for the details, it was going to be even harder to reject her unlike with her. She was closer to Aika to begin with because she liked her a lot but that was a given, she was just different because Yumie could act more freely with Aika but with her, she felt that she needed to act somewhat like what Yuki wanted her to be, which was a professional even though they are a mother and daughter.
After she finished explaining the events that happened to Aika, Yumie took a deep breath to calm down, and it was clear that she was still shaky with what happened. But when she saw that Yuki was staring at her silently at her, she already knew that her mother knew that she was hiding something, and this was her plan, to begin with. She again fell for the tricks of her Mother, so without a choice, she opened her mouth to continue.
"After she made the figures of me, she suddenly started stalking me. Everywhere ago she was there following me and she was not even trying to hide that she was following me, but she never did anything physical to me. But the way she looks at me every time she follows me makes me shiver, she always looks at me with those lustful eyes." After she said those words, the air around them instantly turned cold, and this is exactly why she didn't want to say this because she knew that everything would get worse.
"Fufufu… I see, so that's what currently happening. This woman surely has guts, don't you worry Yumie. Whoever that person is, whatever background she has, I'll shred her to pieces." Yuki spoke up in a cold tone that was full of bloodlust towards that woman.
"See, Aika? This is exactly why I want you to grow up not to be a pushover. I mean this to all of you, in a cruel world, you sometimes need to be cruel. You need to stand up for yourself because this world is unfair, become stronger so that no one can trample on any of you." Yuki begins to calm down and just as she is about to add something, she feels the presence of Skadi back.
"Did you get what I wanted?" Yuki simply asked as she stood up.
"Yes… here they are." Skadi said as she gave Yuki the papers that contained everything that needed to be known about Leticia Vox. After she gave the papers, she sat beside Kurokami, and in front of her, she saw a screen with a little girl that almost looked exactly like Yuki though she was a child.
"Her daughter, blood-related daughter," Kurokami explained shortly because she didn't to complicate any things further.
"She has another woman beside you two?" Skadi already accepted the fact that her granddaughter was marrying someone who had multiple wives even though she was against that idea at first, but she would have never expected that Yuki would have a daughter already.
Even if it was her first time seeing Yumie and Katsumi, she knew that they were not blood-related because they were adopted. But the little girl in front of her was different, she could clearly tell that she was her real daughter and it was only confirmed when her granddaughter told her.
"No… I guess? It's a long story, but you don't need to worry. We are the only women that belong to Yuki, at least for now. But we won't know in the future."
"So this woman is actually the daughter of the previous Guild Master of the Melvis Kingdom… So this is the reason why she is so brave thinking that she can do anything, well sad for her that she met me." Yuki said to herself as she continued reading the papers.