After Kai exited the room, I turned towards my elder sister and inquired politely, "So, you wanted to discuss sothing with ?"
Yelena leaned forward on her throne-like chair as she rested her hands on the table in front of her and gently interlocked her fingers.
"You lied to ," she declared.
"Hmm?" I raised an eyebrow. "What do you an? I don't understand."
"Don't! Just drop the act," she blurted out, her anger evident in her tone.
Before I could respond, Yelena added, "When I asked you about our family's weapon art, you lied. You claid to know nothing."
"So?" I probed, urging her to explain further.
Yelena pointed directly at my chest and added, "So why do you possess the sa relic that the spearman who used the Dawnbreaker during the Mock War had?"
A frown creased my face as I glanced down at my chest.
Hidden beneath my buttoned shirt was a red ruby that was embedded in my chest— on the exact spot where Yelena was pointing at.
"The dical team had to sedate you before they could begin healing your injuries. While you were unconscious, a red ruby appeared on your chest," Yelena told .
"The dical staff alerted , and I used Athena to identify that relic. To my utter surprise, it was a semi-divine-ranked relic. Athena inford that she had sensed this relic with soone from Class 1-A-1 who participated in the Mock War. And, again to my surprise, it turned out to be you," she added.
"Yeah, that's all well and good, but it doesn't prove that I was the one who used the Dawnbreaker, does it?" I retorted.
"It does," Yelena sighed, casting a cold glare. "I asked Athena to track the person who possessed that relic in the VR world. She inford that it was both you and the spearman I just ntioned. Not to ntion, you have also started using a spear again, haven't you?"
...Ahh! Damn.
I didn't know Athena was capable of that.
Well, considering we were in a world created by her, it shouldn't have co as a surprise to that she knew about what relics the Cadets brought in the VR.
However, I am sure that I hacked into Athena's mainfra just before my duel with Quinn.
...Ahh, wait, okay, I see now.
After hacking into Athena's mainfra, I only disrupted her tracking program so that she couldn't broadcast what was happening in the VR world.
But she must have still sensed soone using a relic in that world because, as I said, Athena made that VR world herself.
In simpler terms, Yelena already knew that the spearman in the VR had employed a relic called Phoenix's Embrace since it's a relic that's in the Academy's Records of Relics.
So when she discovered the very sa relic in my possession later on, coupled with the fact that I started using a spear as my main weapon, she deduced that I was the spearman from the Mock War, huh?
Mhmm. It's really simple. I just slipped up.
Well, I can't be blad for that. I don't know what exactly Athena is capable of as an AI.
Back in my real world, AI technology wasn't this developed. In this world, on the other hand, AIs like Athena can maintain a whole city alone.
"What's the matter, my genius little brother?" Yelena asked, a hint of mockery present in her tone. "Is this checkmate for you?"
I matched her gaze before a smirk ford on my face. Letting out a scoff, I replied, "Huh? Checkmate, you say? Nah. I admit it was . I did lie to you, so? What will you do?"
"I will tell Dad," Yelena seethed in anger.
"Oh, okay! By all ans, go ahead!" I sneered. "I an, how do you think I used that technique? Obviously, our father showed it to ."
Yelena tightly clenched her fists, her nails digging into her flesh as she controlled her anger.
Of course, she knew the only way soone could've used the Dawnbreaker is only if the two people who know that technique– her and her father– would've shown it to them.
And since Yelena never used the Dawnbreaker in front of Lucas, that only ans their father did.
But why?! Why did he do that?!
She had to wait for such a long ti and put in so much effort to gain her father's acknowledgent, but he showed it to Lucas just like that?!
When he was a child, at that?!
When Yelena and Adel were young, they weren't allowed anywhere near her father when he would train.
Once, they tried to sneak in on him and as a result of that, they had to run laps around the whole city! They were just nine and ten at the ti! I think you should take a look at
Yet, he not only never punished Lucas, but he also showed him the Dawnbreaker?!
"Fuuu!" Letting out a deep breath, Yelena faced Lucas with an icy chill glare.
"You not only lied to , you also used our family secret weapon art in the open like that! You know it's secret for a reason! No one who ever bore witness to the Dawnbreaker never lived to see the dawn of the next day," she said. "But you– you exposed it in a Mock War?!"
"Calm down, will ya?" I raised my eyebrows at Yelena, glaring back into her deep rlot-red eyes.
"I only perford the first step, not the whole technique," I added. "I don't even know the whole technique. Hell, I don't think I even perford the first step correctly."
"No, you perford it perfectly," Yelena muttered under her breath.
"Huh?" I raised my eyebrows. "What did you say?"
"Nothing!" She snapped before continuing. "Your argunt is irrelevant. Even if you only perford the first step, it's not a technique that you can perform just like that!"
"That may be true for you, but not for ," I retorted.
"What?" Yelena narrowed her eyes.
"I an, it's a technique that the Morningstar family should not use in the open because it's their secret technique right?" I asked a rhetorical question. "But as you said earlier, our kind father already disowned from our house."
"...So this is your way of getting back at us?" Yelena asked, gritting her teeth.
"That's not it–" I was about to speak up when she cut off.
"Don't lie!" She shouted. "The rumors about you being Leo Kurogami's disciple are true, aren't they?! Do you know how much Dad hates that guy?! You are clearly trying to get back at Dad by pulling all these stunts!"
"What does that have to do with anything?! And why do I care about who he hates or not?! I didn't even know that he hated Leo because no one ever told ! No one in our family even talks to !" I snapped back.
"Oh, don't start with your sob story again!" Yelena scoffed.
"Huh? What does that an?!" I inquired. "Are you seriously calling my past a sob story?! You guys abandoned ! And I'm not even allowed to talk about that?!"
"Oh, shut up! No one abandoned you!" Yelena yelled back. "Mom and Dad still catered to all your needs. You were given a monthly allowance and you attended the best school in the Western Continent! It was not like anyone was torturing you!"
"Haaa!" A mocking gasp of disbelief escaped my mouth as I heard her.
"Are you serious right now?" I asked. "Is that what you rember happened? Let tell you what I rember, sister! I rember Adel, my own twin brother, bullying every day until he went to the Ethereal Academy.
"I rember my father turning a blind eye to my existence as if I was nothing but air. I rember the cold glare of my mother as if I had committed a cri by not having a high-ranked potential. I rember coming to your room one night to tell you about my problems and you laughing at !"
Yelena, who was about to burst out, went quiet when she heard the last part of my sentence.
"My family– The people that I loved and who loved , changed their behavior overnight! I was just a fucking kid back then! Do you fathom the ntal anguish I must've been in?!" I yelled, my tone dripping in venom.
"I rember how you guys celebrated Adel's birthday every year while I was always alone in my room! I rember when I would co back from school, beaten and battered by the bullies, and everyone ignored !
"I got a monthly allowance, you say?! Well, that money didn't fill the void in my heart that you guys created! So I indulged myself in whatever pleasure I could find, just to stop the wrenching pain in my chest!
"But you know what? I see how wrong I was now. I should've just stopped caring. I should've just stopped caring about you all because look at now! As soon as I did that, I turned out to be fine!
"I did what I have done to get back at our father, you say? No, Yelena. I don't care about him, or you, or mother, or Adel." I concluded.
A heavy silence hung in the room after I finished speaking. Yelena closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead for a few seconds.
anwhile, I couldn't help but wonder why in the world I got so worked up over what she said.
It shouldn't affect that much, right?
Shaking my head, I cleared my thoughts.
This is not the ti for this lackluster drama. I should wrap up the matters here and return to my training.
The vampire attack– Yes! I should be coming up with a plan to deal with the vampire attack.
As soon as I thought that, Yelena spoke up again, in a soft tone this ti.
"Get out of here," she said.
Giving her a final look, I turned around and left the room through the door.
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