Reborn in another world as a Hermaphrodite Chapter 145: Finding Katherine

When the study session finally ended, the sky outside was already completely dark.

Luqing was inside the kitchen, cooking dinner, while iya was sitting at the table right before Alex and his two sisters.

"So... You're telling Katherine is gone?" Alia asked, rubbing her ear as if she heard the wrong thing.

All three of them nodded, causing iya to sigh as she took out a small little device from her pocket.

It was a small square case with several buttons, similar to a certain device Alex had seen in his previous life.

The more he thought of it, the more he felt he had seen the item before as iya started pressing the buttons.

"Miss iya, what is that thing?" Mary curiously asked the question that all three of them had been wondering.

"It's a Chatterglass. Your mom gave it to in case we need to contact each other."

As a visible screen showing a list of nas suddenly appeared in the case, Alex imdiately realized the chatterglass was a cell phone.

"Huh. She's not picking it up... Crap."

Seeing the screen disappear, all three of them looked a little disappointed.

"Wait, how did your guy's mom suddenly go missing? I thought Katherine brought you guys back for your grandparents' birthday."

"I can explain it..."

Ten minutes later...

"So you're telling your mom went to look for your grandma, then the entire city was suddenly haunted?"

Sophia nodded as Luqing started putting down plates of food on the table.

"And after a night of haunted ghosts, you guys were sent back ho alone and haven't seen your parent ever since?"

This ti, all three of them nodded as iya started to realize how serious the situation was.

"She said you guys co back if she doesn't co back the day after, right?"

"Yeah..." Sophia quietly answered.

"I... As might as I want to help you guys, I don't think I can really do much to find her."

iya's answer imdiately disappointed all three of them, but Alex noticed she wasn't finished talking yet.

"But since your mom told you guys to go ho first, she probably knows what she has to go through to save your mom."

After a mont of silence, Alex was the first to accept their situation, and Sophia soon followed suit.

"Is there really no way we can help to find Mom?" Mary worriedly asked, still a little stubborn about doing sothing.

"There's no way to find a mage if their chatterglass isn't working." Luqing suddenly chid in before sitting down.

"Really?" iya asked in a little surprised tone.

"Yeah... Chatterglass works across every place in the world unless it's in a different dinsion.

I had seen Master Fredrick use one of those to their friends... And that friend happened to be on the other continent."

"No wonder why she gave this as a parting gift." iya quietly murmured as she looked down at the rectangular box.

Alex quickly realized Katherine's intent: to be able to call iya on the other continent when they return in the sumr.

This thought only made him more worried.

It almost seed like Katherine was already planning all these ahead of ti, knowing she might disappear one day.

"I'm sure your mom will be fine. She's probably the hardest mage to kill... Ahem, let's start eating before the food gets cold."

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As Luqing stayed behind to clean up the table, iya quickly sent all three of the kids to take a shower.

Even though it was only nine o'clock, all three of them were sent back to their bedroom after the shower.

On his bed, Alex's eyes were closed. But he wasn't asleep yet. Rather, his mind was trying to call Sarah.

Yet, there was not a single response. Every attempt to enter the inside world was blocked off.

It was clear she just didn't want to see him in particular, as he could still feel her presence over his body.

"Sarah, answer . I just want to ask a little question."

"Miss Sarah. Please. I know I have been demanding a lot, but I'm really worried for my mom's safety."

As all of his voices go into the blank darkness, Alex gives up and slowly pulls the blanket back up.

His mind was starting to feel tired from all the things that had happened in the last two days.

The Katherine situation, the contest taking place tomorrow on Monday, the final exam on Wednesday, and all of the studying before it.

"One at a ti, Alex. One at a ti..."

Slowly, Alex drifted into sleep as everything turned into darkness... Until a light suddenly appeared.

He imdiately opened his eyes back up, looking around only to find himself still in the bedroom. However, the bedroom was no longer the sa one he was in before he went to sleep.

Instead, it was the old house before it was renovated, the one where he was sharing the sa bed as his two sisters.

"Why am I back to this? Sarah? Answer ."

Despite asking it out loud in the room, there was no answer for him. Only silence echoed throughout the room.

Getting up from the bed, Alex imdiately felt everything was frozen. None of the leaves outside moved a single bit.

There was zero wind outside the window, the complete opposite of what he had experienced in the past.

He could feel a hint of emptiness outside, an empty void of nothingness, almost like a static picture. Even as he opened the window and stuck his hand out, he couldn't feel any kind of breeze blowing past.

Moving his hand back inside, he slowly walked over to the door before opening it.

There was no one in the hallway, the bathroom, or Katherine's room.

In the living room, all of the furniture was neatly put in place, and it looked the sa as every other ti he had entered this world.

"Mom? Is anyone here? Hello?"

Despite calling it out loud, there was no response—only echoes from the other two rooms.

As Alex walked over to the kitchen, no one was inside. Next, he walked over to the storage room.

Once again, no one was there. The house was just empty as he opened the door to the backyard.

His pupils imdiately started to widen, unable to believe what was right before his eyes.

A tall, cloaked figure was standing right in the distance—their direction looking in the other way.

"Mom? Is that you?"

As Alex's voice traveled to the other side, the cloaked figure turned around and revealed themselves to him.

"Mom!"

"Alex!"

With a warm hug, he finally felt warmth radiating off her body as she gently brushed his hair with her hands.

"Mom, where did you go?"

"I had always been here. What do you an, where did I go?" Katherine quietly asked as the two of them sat down on the bench.

Alex fell into silence, his mind stuck in a dilemma. He couldn't really ask the question he wanted from her.

If he asked where she was in real life, it would expose him as the 'real' Alex rather than just a copy of Alex she created in her dream.

"Alex, is everything going okay at ho?"

"Yeah... Wait——"

As Alex turned his head up to look over to Katherine, his face was in complete shock.

"Mom, y-you know I'm the real Alex the whole ti?" Alex nervously asked.

"What do you think, you silly? Do you really think I would create a clone of you in my dream?"

Seeing Alex nodding in agreent, Katherine let out a hmph before knocking her knuckles onto his head.

"Ouch!"

"Don't try to make mad, okay? I'm not that happy right now."

As Katherine's voice turned a little grumpy, Alex imdiately realized Katherine was facing so serious problem.

"Mom, what's making you unhappy?"

"What do you think? Mr.Genius?"

Katherine paused for a second before shifting her angry tone out of the conversation as her warm, normal attitude returned.

"Mommy is stuck on a task right now. I can't explain it to you, okay?"

Alex nodded again, not asking any further as he continued to let Katherine rub her finger all over his hair.

"Mom... When are you going to co back ho then?"

"Next week... No later than before the month ends." Katherine answered with a hint of uncertainty in her voice.

Alex didn't say anything back, opting to stay silent as the world around them seed to have returned to normal.

The cold breeze blew right onto the nearby leaves as it rattled the backyard, with the trees swooshing along with the leaves.

"Alex, you feeling cold?" Katherine quietly asked as the outside started to get a little windy.

"A little bit," Alex answered as goosebumps started to pop up around his elbows.

"Let's go back inside then."

As Katherine grabbed onto Alex's hand, the two slowly walked back to the house before closing the door behind them.