'Can I be really some miracle child that crossed racial and reproductive barriers?'
'A bit ridiculous. Better not to think about it.'
Asher picked up the juice on the table and drank it in one gulp.
'Don't make things difficult for yourself. Parents and such, they're like wild grass in the fields, who knows when they might suddenly sprout up?'
Asher: Daily Hell Joke (1/1)
After resting at the Sterling family's for one night.
The next day, Asher still couldn't return to NY City.
Early in the morning, he was packed up and sent off to Star City.
———
"I feel like I have a special bond with Star City, otherwise how come I get sent there every few days?"
Freya coughed twice, "This is probably some unspeakable kind of ill-fated connection."
Asher: "..."
Charlotte, who was responsible for receiving Asher, lazily waved at him.
"Long time no see… Oh wait, it hasn't actually been that long since we last met."
"It's been a month," As she spoke, Charlotte greeted Freya beside Asher.
Prince and Felter?
Charlotte smiled.
"Brother, did you do something to them?", Felter tugged Prince's clothes.
After coming out of the small secret realm, Prince, now equipped, had once again turned into the most dazzling shamate in the crowd.
Hearing his brother's question, Prince was full of question marks.
"Ah?"
"I don't know."
"Probably not."
Felter: "..."
'If it really was nothing, would they be mad enough to drag me into it too?'
Felter felt this was definitely his brother's fault.
Listening to the brothers on the other side talking without even lowering their voices, Charlotte's mouth twitched hard a few times.
'Seriously?'
She had known about Prince's absurdity from day one, so she wouldn't say much.
'But what's up with this little brother of Prince?'
'Why is he just like his brother in this regard?'
Charlotte turned her head, this time truly deciding to ignore the two of them.
"Hahaha!", Freya couldn't help but laugh on the side.
She wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes, "Let's talk inside."
The Sterling brothers? Let them be.
Charlotte thought Freya's suggestion was good, and acted on it.
They arrived at Charlotte's office.
Asher wasn't exactly unfamiliar with the place.
After all, he had been here once before.
"Professor Asher, your luck…", Charlotte poured Asher a cup of tea, her gaze at him somewhat complicated, "Very good, really."
Asher calmly held the teacup, "If your tone wasn't so perfunctory, I might actually believe what you said."
Charlotte gave a fake smile, perfunctory was unavoidable.
Because Asher's luck was just ridiculously heaven-defying.
Asher had previously run into a folded space on his own.
This time, he encountered another problematic folded space.
If you asked Charlotte. This kind of luck was seriously unparalleled.
"But what's up with that small secret realm, anyway?"
All jokes aside, when Charlotte got serious, she still looked very reliable.
"There was even a Ace-level beast tamer among you."
Asher shook his head, "Very dangerous."
"If it weren't for a bit of luck… someone would probably have died in there."
Upon hearing this, Charlotte's brow furrowed and her expression turned serious.
Then Asher didn't skip anything and thoroughly recounted all that had happened before to Charlotte.
Listening to Asher's description, Charlotte's face gradually wrinkled.
Wrinkled into a ball, brows tightly knit.
Especially when she heard that entering the altar under the wrong conditions meant certain death, she suddenly stood up.
"How could you dare!", Charlotte glared at Asher.
Then she shifted her gaze away from Asher and turned it to Prince and Freya.
Felter… Felter was younger, about the same age as Asher.
No matter what, you couldn't blame a child.
But Prince and Freya were different.
"Not to mention that you two are seniors, how could you let a young man go take that risk…", Charlotte clenched her teeth, her voice tinged with confusion and anger, "I just don't get it, how could you believe the words of a strange beast?"
"Huh?"
"Even little kids know not to trust strangers on the street."
"What were you thinking?"
As she spoke, Charlotte slapped the table in front of her, making loud banging sounds.
Even Prince, who feared neither heaven nor earth, couldn't help but shrink his neck at the sight of the enraged Charlotte, lowering his head, not daring to meet her furious eyes.
Freya tried to cough a few times, hoping to brush the matter aside.
Too bad. Charlotte saw through her intention at a glance and didn't give her the chance, instead, she fiercely glared at her.
"You, shut up."
"This is not something that can be brushed off so easily!"
"You must deeply understand the danger in this!"
"Beast! That's an BEAST!"
"A synonym for danger!"
"Understand?"
Charlotte let loose a torrent of words, not giving Freya and the others any chance to speak.
Felter, who had been spared for now and wasn't caught in the storm, looked at Asher with pleading eyes.
Felter: 'Asher! This woman is so scary.'
'Shouldn't we say something to help Miss Freya?'
What? And his brother too? Felter thought Charlotte was saying all the right things.
Asher: "..."
He had truly witnessed the fragility of brotherly bonds.
"Well… you can't completely blame them either, I and little Sterling…", Asher hadn't finished speaking when, under Charlotte's shifting gaze, he silently closed his mouth.
Asher made a zipping motion across his lips.
He understood.
Charlotte was really angry right now, better not provoke her at this moment.
Seeing Asher shrink back like a little snail into its shell, Charlotte's anger mixed with fear finally subsided somewhat.
She let out a long breath from her chest, trying to make her voice sound calmer.
"I'm not trying to flaunt my authority or anything, I just hope you can realize… it was very dangerous, really very dangerous."
"And you two should be experienced seniors, how could you make such an absurd…", Charlotte paused, but still said the word, "Mistake."
A Tier 8 Ace beast tamer.
A Tier 7 beast tamer.
Either one pulled out at random would have over ten, even dozens of years of combat experience with beasts.
Even if that thing, which was actually black sludge claiming to be a sea dragon but looked like a unicorn mixed with My Little Pony, seemed friendly, so what?
The difference between beasts and pet beasts.
Is like the difference between wild cats and house cats.
If you don't have enough strength to subdue the wild cat, take it home, and tame it, you must never let your guard down when interacting with it.
Even if fully prepared. There are always wild cats born yearning for the wild, utterly untamable. Not to mention. Asher and the others were in that creature's lair?
Trying to tame a wild cat in its own home?
Charlotte really wanted to let out a cold laugh from her throat.
Seriously?
What were these people thinking?
"Hiss—", Previously she didn't feel anything was wrong, but now listening to Charlotte say it all, Freya, realizing something was indeed off in her brain back then, rubbed her aching forehead.
"Don't say it! Really, don't say it!", Freya held her forehead with one hand and rubbed it with the other.
"Why didn't I think Professor Asher's suggestion was too reckless back then?"
"Not only did I not stop it, I actually agreed?", By the end, Freya raised her voice, full of disbelief.
As if she couldn't understand what she had been thinking at the time.
Freya suddenly raised her head, eyes wide, and looked at Prince, "Wait, didn't you feel anything off back then? Don't you think your thinking was wrong now?"
"Ah?", Prince, under the dual gazes of Freya and Charlotte, blinked with confusion.
"What was the problem?"
Prince scratched the back of his head, "But back then… Professor Asher was the most suitable one to go down! His pets were appropriate!"
"What was the issue?"
Prince sorted through his logic.
In the end, he felt everything made sense, so he shook his head.
He didn't think there was anything illogical about it.
Freya: "..."
Freya wiped her face, then turned helplessly to Charlotte, "I swear, I'm not trying to justify myself, but I really feel that, in that environment, my brain was to some extent affected by some unknown force."
"Otherwise, if I had my rationality, I'd never agree to such an absurd thing."
"Professor Asher…", Freya also paused, "Normally, it should be us protecting Professor Asher, not letting him face danger, and not even feeling anything wrong with that decision."
Maybe it was the magnetic field.
Or maybe something else.
But something definitely affected her.
After listening to Charlotte's scolding, Freya wasn't angry, instead, she deeply reflected on herself.
"Hoo—", Seeing this, Charlotte let out a long breath again, her whole demeanor much calmer.
She sat down, fingers tapping lightly on the table.
"This kind of situation you mentioned…", Charlotte went silent, then shook her head, "Hard to say, hard to judge. After all, beasts with the ability to affect human minds and will…"
Freya sighed. Absolute zero.
The only reason it's not an absolute zero is because they can't fully prove it, so they can only keep a suspicious attitude.
Charlotte and Freya exchanged glances.
In each other's eyes, they saw the same solemnity.
Prince on the side: 'Eh? Eh eh eh?'
'Why does it feel like I am being excluded?'
"Hmm…". Asher stroked his chin, thought for a moment, then looked up at Charlotte.
His voice carried a calm and inexplicable steadiness, "It might sound like hindsight now, but in that situation back then, me going down there was kind of a strange coincidence."
"Neither Brother Sterling nor Freya did it on purpose."
"I gave a reason, showed strength, and they agreed to let me go, wasn't that pretty normal?", Asher shrugged.
In a team, strength does the talking. Not age.
Charlotte: "..."
Asher continued, "If the one who had gone down wasn't me… can't say for sure."
Asher looked at Freya and Prince.
He wasn't sure either.
These two, one a Tier 7 beast tamer, the other an Tier 8 Ace beast tamer, in that kind of environment, could they have failed unexpectedly?
From a strength perspective, maybe not.
But if they had no mental defense, and also thought that with their power and experience, failure was nearly impossible.
Precisely because of that, it actually became very likely they would fail.
"There definitely wouldn't have been a problem," Prince patted his chest, speaking with conviction.
Him, fail? That was absolutely impossible.
Prince's eyes were full of confidence in his strength.
Before Charlotte could pour cold water on him, Prince paused mid-sentence, rubbed his chin as if thinking, then said, "But getting hurt wasn't impossible… I'd probably get a bit hurt?"
"If that's the case, we really should thank you, Professor Asher!"
Prince grinned brightly and gave Asher a big thumbs-up, expressing his sincerest thanks.
Asher: "Alright, I accept it."
Asher calmly nodded.
After spending the last few days with Prince, Asher had gained a better understanding of him.
As long as Asher didn't feel awkward, there was no problem at all.
Freya watched the two of them and didn't speak for a long time.
Prince had that kind of confidence.
Did she?
Freya wasn't sure.
Tier 7 beast tamer.
Six pet beasts.
Flame Dragon Jaeger was her trump card.
The others weren't weak either.
But when facing an unknown altar and deadly action… Freya sighed, and sighed again.
"Really was just good luck…", Freya looked at Asher with gratitude.
Charlotte looked at Freya, finally showing a sense of fear in hindsight, and helplessly shook her head, "Alright, let's not talk about this anymore."
"In any case, all of you came back safe and sound, and that's already something worth celebrating."
Look at who these four are. Elite students of the Jade Dragon University combat department.
From a Beast Tamer family, with a powerful older brother, and she is also a not-weak Tier 7 Beast Tamer.
One of only seven Tier 8 Ace Beast Tamers in the entire country.
A seemingly ordinary second-rank pet beast evolution research pet beast, actually the youngest genius in this field, without accident the future national-level treasure, Asher.
Among them, only Felter's identity, at first glance, looks a little more ordinary.
Felter: "..."
'Really, thank you so much for this reality check.'
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