Otherworld Adventure 349 Another One?

"Yeah, you totally are an idiot... Also, can you not look at me with those eyes? It's bothering me..."

"...Sorry..." Cecil said as he turned off his Mana Eyes.

Seeing his pupils turn back into their original black color, Katya was rather fascinated by it.

"Hey, hey~ can I see you do that again?"

"Huh? Do what?"

"You know... the thing with your eyes!"

"Oh? Uhh... sure?"

Cecil activated his Mana Eyes again and Katya quickly told him to turn it back off which he naturally did. The girl couldn't help but giggle when she saw such an interesting ability.

She immediately asked, "What's it like?"

"What's what like?"

"You know, to see through those eyes?"

"...It's fascinating, that's all I can say~" Cecil said with a smirk.

Katya smiled at him and asked, "Can you really see mana? What's it like? Can you touch it? What color is it?"

"S-slow down a little. Yes, I can see mana. I don't think there's anything special about it, it's just there... well, I guess that's because I got so used to seeing it all the time. No, I can't touch it because it's just like the air. It only pa.s.ses through my hands and if I try gathering it using my mana it'll only infuse itself into my body. As for the color...well, all Earthlings are the same, we all have a golden colored mana."

"Really? That's interesting! We're all golden!"

"Mhm, but it's not the same for the planet's natives. Each person has a different color based on what kind of magical element they can use. Red for Fire, blue for Water, light green for Wind, dirt yellow for Earth, light purple for lightning, white for Light, and black for Dark!"

"So what you see must be a colorful world then~"

"Yeah, I guess!"

Seeing the pleasant conversation the two were having, Lucia began to pout while Serilla had an amused look on her face.

"Sure is nice, huh Cel?" Lucia mumbled from next to him.

"What's that Lulu?"

"Nothing..."

"Hehe, are you jealous?" Cecil poked fun at her.

"Tsk... if you keep on doing that, you're gonna make her fall for you..."

"Too late, I think she's already starting to~" Serilla whispered.

The 3 were talking in quiet voices so Katya couldn't hear much from sitting across them, but she did hear about someone falling or something.

"Is something wrong? I heard you say that someone fell?"

Cecil immediately looked back up at her and hastily replied, "Haha, n-nothing's wrong!"

"Well, someone did fall, or at least is about to fall~" Serilla teased.

Lucia only clicked her tongue at her sister's words and started glaring at Cecil. Her eyes quickly read that if he were to start flirting with her again, she'd immediately start cutting him up with her Shirayuki.

"D-don't worry, Lulu. No one's falling or anything, alright?"

Katya only tilted her head in question at their odd conversation. She continued eating her dinner and while doing that, she was reminded of Cecil's unique spellcasting method. It was intriguing since it seemed that he didn't even need to think to even draw those spell formations.

All he needed to do was draw a few shapes in the air and the formation miraculously appeared and a spell was invoked in the next second. It was much faster than her voice invocation magic at least.

She wanted to ask more about it but Cecil suddenly stood up and excused himself from the room. He already finished eating and said that he was about to go and do something. Ren also quickly finished his food and asked to be excused as well. Then the two strolled out of the dining hall together.

Lucia, Serilla, and Angelia couldn't help but frown when they saw the two walk out together. The three girls immediately knew what they were going to do and where they were going.

"Those two idiots, they're going to the workshop!" Lucia said.

"We better stop them. They just got back and immediately they want to start working again," Serilla added.

"Let's go, let's go~" Angelia said as she stood up from her seat.

Seeing the unfinished food her daughter had left behind, Anastasia immediately stopped her and said,

"Angel, let the big sisters go and do it. You, young lady, better finish your food!"

"Aww, come on, mom..."

"Finish it like little Ren did!"

Angelia looked at Ren's empty plate which was being taken away by the servants. She sighed before walking back to her seat.

"Fine..."

"Good girl~"

"Mother, father, Seri and I will be excusing ourselves. We're going to go stop that fool and his apprentice," Lucia said.

"Go, go. That boy, he just came back from the war and he's already trying to continue with his work... make sure you tell him to rest for a few days before he goes back to his work," Anastasia said.

"Yes, mother."

Lucia and Serilla immediately stood up from their seats and walked out of the hall. Katya was a little confused by what they meant. It was already night time so she couldn't help but wonder what kind of work could Cecil possibly be doing?

"Uhm... Patriarch, Matriarch... this may not be my place to ask, but what kind of work does Cecil do?" Katya politely asked.

Hearing her polite but rather stiff form of addressing them, Anastasia immediately replied to her, "Dear, you don't need to call us Patriarch and Matriarch...just call us Uncle and Aunt! Sooner or later, you might be calling us mother and father after all~"

"...I'll stick with calling you two Uncle and Aunt...but please don't have any expectations of me calling you two mother and father... Uh, I mean no disrespect at all by saying that..."

"Don't worry~ we're just hoping after all! You're such a fine young lady. If Cecil still wasn't married to anybody, we would be pretty satisfied with you already~" Anastasia said.

"Ana, don't say such misleading things. It's like you want our son to marry one more time..." Kaiser said.

"Well~ he already has two~"

"Ana!"

"I'm just kidding! Aish, can't you take a joke or are you too old for that?" Anastasia teased.

Kaiser sighed and said, "I honestly can't tell whether you're just joking or you're being serious. Look, you're making Katya embarra.s.sed."

Anastasia giggled when she saw the red faced Katya who had her head dipped and was silently and quickly eating her food.

'J-Jeez...this family is just way too playful... they're totally different to how my family describes them...' Katya inwardly thought.

Unlike her family, none of the Silvarias was stiff or too rigid with their customs and traditions. After spending a few hours with them, she figured that none of them cared too much about their traditions.

Everyone was casual with each other and from the looks of it, there was no scheming or behind the scenes fights and collusion between the siblings. They all acknowledge Cecil being the next patriarch and no one wanted to even vie for the position. Katya noticed that each Silvaria siblings seemed to already have their own goal in mind.

"...if only I was born a Silvaria..." Katya mumbled silently.

She felt the change in her environment to be quite pleasing. Back at her home, she had to worry so much about her etiquette and manners. Well, it's not like the Silvarias were uncultured or anything, but it's just that they paid less attention to the rigid customs that normal ancient families had going on in their homes.

They were much more modern and placed less emphasis on those kinds of things. Of course, Katya didn't know that Cecil was practically forced into the successor's position due to his grandfather and father, but even if she knew, she wouldn't care and instead she would just laugh at him.

She found it all refreshing, since here, she didn't have to watch her back and constantly look over her shoulders. In her family, her siblings were always constantly gunning for each other and trying to outdo one another so that their father would select them to be the next leader candidate.

They also had to worry about their uncles, aunts, and cousins from the main and branch families. She felt as if a large burden had been lifted from her heart once she realized that she no longer had to care about all that now that she was living with the Silvarias.

She hadn't been staying with them for so long yet, but she felt like she was finally able to relax now. Katya's only hope was that later on Cecil wouldn't actually try to ask for her hand in marriage because he had taken a stronger more intimate liking to her. She also hoped that she wouldn't fall in love with him because if she did... she probably wouldn't be able to stand it and might do something irrational just like what she did with her previous beloved back in the Faustus Archduchy.

Her recklessness had led to her family now facing many problems. Of course, she hoped that even if this did happen, the Silvarias wouldn't take advantage of her and try to harm her family. The whole point of her even coming to the Silvarias, was so that the two families would form a stronger bond with each other and hopefully end all enmities with one another.

"Ohh... I just hope that I don't fall for that perverted man..."