Chapter 147 That“s all that you have?
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Lauren could not believe it.
Her father, who had left her and her sister 5 years ago, actually had the gall to co back here, right when they were having a major problem against the Pantheon!
Lauren was not sure on how her father found out that Signum was Lauren, but she knew that her father did sothing to discover her.
"...." When she reached this thought, Lauren could not help but clench her fists so hard that her fingernails started to wound her palms.
Even right now, Lauren could still rember it.
She could rember the sudden disappearance of her father, and the extrely difficult days that followed his disappearance.
Lauren could still rember Lara’s cries for their missing father, along with days of them being unable to eat anything.
Lauren rembered the cris that she did just to provide for the two of them, along with her younger sister asking if their father left them because they were useless.
That only served to make the despair between Lauren and Lara deeper at that ti, and she almost thought that they would not make it out of the pit they were left in.
Fortunately for them, her father’s sister reluctantly took care of them, which allowed the two of them to thrive to this day.
"Should we really hear him out?" Lauren muttered as she glared at her father, who seed unrepentant on what he did. "He could be just scamming us now!"
"I’m really sorry Signum, but Alina told that Andrew Collins is telling the truth about him knowing sothing about the Legacy." Lauren heard Alex replying apologetically. "I’m really sorry if it had to be like this. If you want, you can go join your sister while we talk to him."
"No. I will stay here." Lauren replied, as she felt surprised with the intensity of her reply. "This is just my hunch, but maybe this Legacy was one of the reasons father left us. I... I want to know why he abandoned us."
"Lauren, I never abandoned you!" Her father suddenly said as he overheard what Lauren was talking about. "I... I just have to hide to keep myself safe! That’s it!"
"..." Even if he did not show it, Lauren was sure that Alex was looking at her father with a displeased expression.
"Quit yapping there and just start talking." Alex said as he sat on a comfy chair, with Alina sitting beside him.
The two of them looked like the perfect pair, as if they were ant for each other.
"..." Lauren ignored the slight disgruntling sensation that she felt as she looked at the other people around her.
She could feel Queen Mother’s presence behind her, as Queen Mother’s body was sitting very close to her. Lauren tried to ignored the warm, refreshing scent coming out of Queen Mother as she focused on the current situation.
By swiveling her head a little, she could see Professor Frances and her allies just sitting behind Alex, and from the way they moved, it was as if they were here to watch a show.
The professor was even holding a bag of popcorn in her hands, which she used to eat popcorn which produced an audible and irritating crunch in the whole room.
"Crunch, crunch."
Lauren was not sure on what to think of the Alchemists.
Sure, they already knew her identity before and might have attempted to attack her, but they seed to be honorable enough to honor a truce with Alex.
But even if they were like that, Lauren was still wary of them, as villains will always be villains, no matter what they do.
"Wait, but technically speaking, the Travelers are a villain group now too with the stunt that they did." Lauren thought to herself as she winced inwardly, as she rembered the piping hot ss that she was in now.
"Grrr..."
Before Lauren could start self-combusting with countless worrying thoughts, Alex started to talk, which prompted Lauren to listen.
"First things first. How were you able to find us here, and how were you able to know that we are looking for the Legacy of Tartaros?" Alex said as she crossed his tentacles around him, creating an extrely nacing image which made her father looked quite scared.
Lauren might not be a fan of those tentacles, but right now, seeing those tentacles unnerve her father made them look more acceptable now.
"I.. I have to explain everything from the top." Her father said as he gave a hesitant gaze to Lauren.
Lauren’s only reply to that gaze was a glare full of anger.
"In that case, make sure that you will tell us the truth, and nothing but the truth." Alex drawled as one of this tentacles moved forward, wrapping her father’s torso with ease. "I have soone here who can detect lies, and I wish that you will not try lying to know that I am serious with my threat."
Lauren then heard so popping sounds as Alex started tightening his wrap on her father’s torso, which elicited panic from her father.
Ok, this ti, Lauren was sure that she loves tentacles already.
"Ok, ok! I will not lie!" Her father replied as he nodded profusely. "I will tell the truth, and nothing but the truth!"
"Start talking then." Alex said with finality as he withdrew his tentacle, leaving her father gasping for breath.
"...My life before was just like a normal person." Her father started saying as he wiped so sweat off his forehead. "I have a family that I take care of, and a business which I am thriving in. My life back then...was really great."
When she heard what her father just said, Lauren started to see red as she beca extrely enraged.
Her father’s life back then was great? If that was really the case, then why did he abandon them? Was it because he was bored of them already? Or was it because he left them for another family?
Whatever the reason was, Lauren was sure that she had to land in a hit towards her father.
"Calm down Lauren. I can see your rage." Before Lauren could make her move, she saw Alex’s worried gaze landing on her. "If you feel hurt by your father talking here, you can still leave the room. Do not worry , we will tell about what your father said later."
"Just go on." Lauren replied as she took so deep breaths to calm herself down. "I can do this."
"Ok then." If there was one thing that Lauren liked from Alex, it was the fact that he trusts his friends. People rarely do that, and even Lauren herself was sure she was not capable of such kind of thinking.
"As I said earlier, I lived a normal and great life." Her father continued talking as he started looking down. "But all of that changed 5 years ago."
"Here it is." Lauren thought to herself as she gazed at her father intently.
"I can still rember it." Her father said as he seed to wear a reminiscent expression on his face. "I was having a picnic with Lauren and Lara 5 years ago, and during that picnic, I slipped, and my head hit a nearby wall. That hit did not only bring pain. It also brought sothing different."
Even if Lauren was trying to block the painful mories of her past, she knew what her father was talking about.
That picnic that he just ntioned happened the day before her father disappeared. Even now, Lauren could rember her sister’s happy expression during that picnic.
It hurt Lauren when she rembered that it took her sister a long ti to regain that happiness.
"So, what else did that hit on the wall give you?" Lauren heard Alex asking with a curious expression on his face.
"I... started having these flashes of mories." Her father replied as he let out a shuddering breath. "These flashes of mories were all limited, and I only gained a small amount of information from them."
"And what is this limited information, if I may ask?" Even if he tried to hide it, Lauren was sure that Alex was extrely excited right now with what her father was saying.
Lauren was not sure on what to feel by that, as she did not want Alex thinking of her father in a favorable light.
"In those flashes of mories, I can rember myself tied to a chair." Her father replied as his face started to look pale. "While I was tied to that chair, there was a group of people talking in front of . They all looked powerful, and they seed to be extrely serious. But aside from that, I can rember them looking extrely alike the Pantheon mbers!"
At this point, her father started hyperventilating, as if the re act of rembering these mory flashes were too much for him.
"While I was tied in that chair, they.... they were arguing if they should kill !" Her father said as he began to tremble. "In their talks, I heard them saying that my connection to the Legacy of Tartaros was the reason they captured ! And at that ti, they were thinking of killing because of that connection!"
Her father’s body seed to look unstable at this point, with his face full of sweat.
"I do not know any kind of connection that I could have with the Legacy." Her father replied as his breathing quickened. "The only thing that I know is that the Pantheon captured for that connection, and they seed to want to kill . I... I was lucky that I survived, but I do have no mories showing on how I am still alive until now."
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"...So, that is all that you can rember?" Alex said as her father seed to have lost his strength to talk.
"Yes, that is all that I can see from those flashes of mories." Her father replied as he looked up to Alex timidly.
"He’s telling the truth." Lauren heard Alina declaring, which elicited an irritated sigh from Alex.
"So, let get this straight." Alex said as he raised all of his tentacles off the floor. "You seed to have an encounter with the Pantheon many years ago, maybe even before you got your family. You sohow survived the encounter with them, but you also forgot about it. It was only five years ago when you hit your head in the wall that you managed to rember so flashes of your encounter with the Pantheon. That is all that happened, right?"
"Exactly, exactly!" Her father replied in a relieved tone, as if he just found his ssiah.
"..."
An awkward silence then followed that conversation, as if both sides were waiting for the other person to talk.
When the waiting ti beca too unbearable already, it was Alex who talked, and there was a tinge of disbelief in his voice as he said,
"Wait, so that is all the info that you have about the Legacy of Tartaros? Please tell you have sothing hidden yet."
"...That is all that I know." Her father replied as he seed to be oblivious of the sudden change in the atmosphere.
"He’s telling the truth." Even Alina was looking pissed now, and Lauren could not actually bla Alina for thinking like this now.
"You little s**t!" That was what Alex said he seed intent on crushing ] her father whole. "You ca here pompously while making your abandoned daughter rember her trauma, and all the info that you gave was just that? You did not even tell us why you abandoned your daughters! You just told us that shitty info, and you stopped talking there! Are you retarded? Or do you want to just die?"
"Please hear out more!" Her father cried out as he seed to have realized what was happening now. "I-I-I can still help out with you looking for the Legacy! Just... let do it with you all!"
"Hmph, continue your story first." That was Alex’s reply as he gave her father a sneer. "Tell us everything that you did after you saw those mory flashes. Tell everything that you did up until this day. Maybe we will hear you out after hearing you say those things."
"Yes, talk about those things." Lauren said before her father could say sothing else. "If you don’t talk about it, I will make sure that you will not co back here anymore!"
"Ok..."
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