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Chapter 57 - Silent Treatment
🕑 Added 2024-07-07 20:02:45 +0000 UTC"I'm back!" Leyvi met up with Valenia and the rest again. He pretended that nothing happened.
Valenia and Scarlet were relieved to see that Leyvi was fine. They were worried when they heard the sound of a huge explosion just now, especially Scarlet. That was exactly the level of noise and tremble produced when two high-level demonic beasts fought. She experienced it a few times throughout her life.
Valenia looked at Leyvi suspiciously. "Why do you wear different clothes?" She probed.
"Ugh..." Leyvi tried to think of a reasonable lie to tell, but nothing came to his mind.
"I tried to fight with the demonic gorilla but I lost with a slap. My clothes were destroyed at that time. Hahaha!" Leyvi decided to tell the truth but he played down the seriousness of the matter.
"I'm reporting this to madam." Valenia immediately said.
"Ahaha...Val, don't tell her pleaseeee...I'll do anything you want," Leyvi got near Valenia and pleaded with her.
"Nope! Mister Leyvi..... I'm Madam Anda's Alchemic Knight, so I can't lie to her." Valenia said in a teasing tone. She can't wait to see Leyvi get scolded later.
Leyvi knew his bribing plan wouldn't work. He had teased her too many times she was probably waiting for revenge now. Since he couldn't bribe Valenia, he could only think of a way to coax Anda later.
Listening to the conversation, Scarlet was amazed that Leyvi could survive a hit from a high-level demonic beast. She had never heard of any intermediate-level demonic beast capable of that. What kind of human had she followed?
Since Leyvi had achieved his main objective of coming here, which was to find a spirit beast capable of digging, he decided to return. When Leyvi gave the Dig talent to Scarlet, he got an Earth Affinity benefit in return. As he gave more and more talents, he has quite a lot of benefits now that some of them don't even have any opportunity to be utilized yet.
However, having a lot of options was not a bad thing. In fact, it was a very good thing to have since you never know what situations the world would throw you into. Leyvi didn't even know what he was supposed to use the dig talent for right now, but he was sure it would be useful one day. Maybe they could live underground like how the red foxes live their life.
Another five days later, Leyvi and the group were finally out of the Bara Forest. Along the way out, they hunted more demonic beasts and collected more alchemy ingredients.
Scarlet's digging talent was quite bizarre to see. She could make a tunnel easily by just running into the ground. An invisible forcefield would form around her and drill anything in her path at an unbelievable speed. Weirdly, it wouldn't work on a living being. The forcefield would just allow the living being to pass through it.
Although Scarlet couldn't use the invisible drill to kill her target directly, she could use it to ambush them from underground. What Leyvi liked the most was he could ride Scarlet and travel with her underground. Leyvi even found a few underground demonic beasts such as demonic earthworms and demonic ants.
Leyvi raided and destroyed the entire demonic ant colony he found underground. Although most of them were low-level demonic ants, Leyvi obtained thousands of demonic cores from them. All of these could be used to make his spirit beast stronger faster.
Leyvi was satisfied with his trip this time. Although he did get swatted by the high-level demonic gorilla and almost died, that was because of his being overly curious and reckless. When he was level-headed, everything went according to his plan. Leyvi doesn't have any intention to be reckless anymore. One time was enough.
Valenia was also happy with this hunting trip. Although she had to deal with the annoying Leyvi, she gained a lot of real battle experience. There were plenty of times she had to adjust her fighting style to suit the enemies and the environment. Instead of swinging aimlessly, she learned to control her enormous broadsword better.
Since he was a resident of Bara City now, he didn't have to pay the gate fee anymore. Leyvi and Valenia were once again back in the city accompanied by a new spirit beast and three cubs.
Suddenly, a few people approached Leyvi and kneeled in front of him. Leyvi doesn't recognize any of these people.
"Lord Leyvi, please forgive us. We have a family to feed. please forgive us!" All of them were begging for forgiveness from Leyvi.
Leyvi was confused. He looked at Valenia. "What's wrong with them?"
"There were the people who got banned by madam, it seemed that they have been waiting for you to come back for a while," Valenia said. She doesn't care about these people. It's not her problem.
"Ahhhh......" Leyvi was reminded of Anda's ban again.
Anda was using these people as an example of offending her but Leyvi felt it was too excessive. Since they had come and begged for forgiveness like this, Leyvi couldn't just ignore them and let it continue any further. After all, they only talked badly about him. Nothing serious that their life should be ruined because of it.
"Everyone, please stand up. Actually, I also have no idea that this thing has been happening behind my back. Don't worry, I will talk to my wife and make her rescind the ban. All of these happened because my wife loved me too much. I hope you won't resent her after this." Leyvi told these people what they wanted to hear while bragging about being loved by his wife.
Valenia's eyebrow twitched when she heard the bragging.
"Thank you Lord Leyvi! Thank you Lord Leyvi!" They thanked Leyvi excitedly.
They swore to say good things about Leyvi from now on. They personally experienced how horrifying it was to be shunned by everyone. They never wanted to go through that again. They regretted opening their stupid mouth and saying stupid things. It was true that the mouth was the source of disaster.
They were glad they heard the rumors recently that the Alchemy Master Anda's husband had a big heart and was open-minded. That made them decide to wait here and beg forgiveness and sure enough, the rumors were true.
"Everyone, please don't call me Lord Leyvi. I don't have any important position here. Just call me Leyvi." Leyvi said while smiling.
All of them were looking at Leyvi as if they were looking at a holy man now.
When Leyvi returned to the mansion, everyone happily greeted him and the maids were excited to see the three cute red furballs. He introduced everyone to Scarlet as his new spirit beast. After Scarlet saw this place, she knew she would have an easier life for herself and her children from now so she felt greatly relieved.
Valenia immediately reported everything that happened to Anda. Leyvi saw Anda glared at him so he knew Valenia had snitched. He also shot a glare at Valenia but she stuck her tongue out making fun of him from behind Anda.
Leyvi was expecting some severe scolding from Anda, but contrary to his expectations, that didn't happen. Instead, Anda ignored Leyvi completely. For some reason, the silent treatment from Anda felt a million times worse than getting scolded.
A few days passed.
From Valenia, Leyvi learned that Anda had rescinded the ban on everyone as he promised them, but Anda still wouldn't talk to him. Leyvi's image in the city was rising due to this but he didn't have time to care about that right now because his wife was ignoring him. Leyvi had never felt so anxious in his life.
Not wanting to drag the silent treatment for longer, Leyvi decided to stop dodging the issue and ask for forgiveness from Anda. After all, he did break his promise. If he can't even admit fault to his wife, what kind of man is he?
"Anda....I'm sorry. I broke my promise and I was wrong." Leyvi admitted to his fault in front of Anda's door. He knew she could hear him.
The silence continued. Leyvi stood outside for a few hours before he opened his mouth again.
"Please open the door."
Leyvi thought he had to wait again but contrary to his expectations, the door opened. Anda was there standing right in front of him wearing a see-through pink night gown.
"What did you do wrong?" She asked while staring right into Leyvi's eyes.
"I promised to stay away from any high-level demonic beast but I broke the promise and went to fight one," Leyvi admitted truthfully.
"Since you know your wrongdoing then I'm not going to nitpick anymore. I forgive you but you still need to be punished." Anda pulled Leyvi into her room and closed the door.
"Lay on the bed! Tonight you are not allowed to move at all or I will not talk to you for a year! Understand?" Anda gave Leyvi an ultimatum.
Leyvi nodded, he never expected that a silent treatment would be so effective. Leyvi doesn't want to experience that again. His talking panda was better than the silent panda.
How is this a punishment? My wife is so cute. Leyvi chuckled to himself as Anda was riding him passionately. However, he has to admit not being able to move was quite a torture. He wanted to touch the heavenly maiden on top of him so badly.
