752 Then, shall we?
[Eon's POV: ]
"I will not repeat myself!"
"No one is telling you to do so either! Just go out of here, Nolan!"
"No! She said she wanted it and I will do it! You can not stop me!"
"Three more minutes and both of you are going out with me. We have to leave. Everyone is waiting."
"Then tell your father to let me do what I want to do!"
"Eon! Please help me stop her! Taika wasn't serious when she said that!"
The morning of the grand auction and my parents are fighting in the kitchen. Haaa...
"The hell is matter with you?!"
"What is the matter with You? Why are you doing this when we should be out and going to Hiraani! It's a big day for you!"
"I know that! That's why you should step aside and Let Me Cook!"
"No! Please don't do this..."
He was practically begging her at this point now. I couldn't see this happening anymore.
"Alright you two. Let's go." I got behind them and started pushing the two out of the kitsch. They were acting like kids when their kids were waiting outside... I wasn't going to just watch them waste time like this today. Especially not today.
"Eon! Why are you pushing Me?! Push out your dad! I'm not in the wrong here."
"No! Eon! This is better! Just drag both of us out! That's much better than someone getting sick!
"Yes yes."
It was happening because Taika said she would like to try something mom makes herself now that she had evolved and had a human-like sense of taste As A Joke.
She had already tasted mom's cooking and was poisoned so she wasn't dumb enough to try something like that stuff again. It was obviously a joke... but mom took it seriously.
"Fuck you, you damn bastard! You ungrateful child and you piece of trash husband! I will see you both when this is over!"
"Yes, please."
Both of us would take her punishment over her cooking any day. Living was much better than being bedridden for days or being in pain for hours.
'Food and mom just don't go well together. She is good at business, with money, with people, and with politics but food? Nope.'
The world and this family was better off without anything related to her cooking. It was Taika's fault for even sparking the fire to cook in this mother of mine as well.
I will tell her to mind her words involving mom's cooking when we get the chance later today. "Hmm? Ohh! Big brother, mama, and daddy are here~!"
The carriages were gathered outside, and everyone was waiting for us right now.
"Where were you three~?" Anna came running to us and asked with puffed cheeks. She was angry that everyone had to wait twenty whole minutes for us... but only I know what kind of argument these two parents of mine were having... and how they were flirting in between that argument.
She liked playing with them as well so, when we were going to Hiraani, she couldn't possibly not be their Tourette guide.
'Only a few of them had been to the biggest auction house of the Roxana empire. Quin, Lizzy, Ball, Nox, even princess Luna and Hide had never been to the place so this was going to their first time there. And, Anna knew it very well.
"Alright! Alright! Let's just go already~!"
She was happy and excited, and she didn't want a normal incident like this one to get the best of her, so she forgave them and hugged mom back.
"Hehehe. Then, shall we?"
Mom was happy as well.
She didn't get to make something for her dear Taika, who had been watching us with a smile all from the back all this time. She had not worked at all for this year's event and had a great number of helping hands helping her with every single thing, so she was happily enjoying herself since earlier.
She planned to enjoy herself till the end of these three days, since after that, she was not going to get even a few hours for herself with the Grand conference and everything else coming up.
The world was shaken by the invasion of those cultists and it is not going to stabilise anytime soon even after the conference.
She was a countess, as well as one of the few people that had to maintain the flow of the economy of not just this empire but the entire world. Which was no simple task.
'This little vacation was gave her enough time to rest, but after this grand auction, she is going to get busy with many things.'
She might not even be home, well I might not as well, so there was a chance Anna would be alone with the others.
It was inevitable with the situations we were in, she understood that as well. That's why this one event was so important for them...
"Alright everyone! Get in your carriages! We are departing now!"
Our friend had worked hard for this event... they had worked more than what they were getting paid actually. But that did not matter to them.
They had a fun time working with me and since Rein wasn't here last few days, I also had a good time teaching them the a few things that would help them later on.
After Anna's tea party, even without Rein here, I wasn't alone.
And since the Black Hand people were threatening Hiraani, it was even more fun preparing for their attack.
'They must have prepared quite a lot.'
We knew how our surveillance devices were stolen, and how there were suspicions people roaming around Hiraani since a few days ago.
They were experts so they were certainly going to come from the front door and we wouldn't even know, it was obvious.
'<Zack> was also with them so, the security system that I had worked so hard to create was going to face the first real challenge.'
Breaking in or even creating a simple crack in that system was an unearthly task. I had used Runes as the base so even if someone black into a few layers, they would have to understand the magic as well as elder mages did to just brack in and open the doors that lead to the chamber leading to the place where everything is stored during the auction time.
'We still don't know what <Black angel> truly is after but, he was the one to assemble this team. We know that much.'
Which means he himself is coming for us... 'I will be waiting for him when he does.'
They were the best of the best in the world. I'm expecting to learn at least a thing or two from them.
'Which will be fun. I know that much.'