"…
…I don't think just 'hate' is enough to describe your stance on them."
George chuckled lightly and he noticed the slight traces of fear in Eliza's eyes, casually placing his hand on the girl's head and ruffling it.
"Hey!! I spent a while doing that this morning!"
Seeing as he had successfully turned her attention away from his earlier outburst, the man only sighed and spoke.
"Certain things are more complicated than you think, little girl."
"Complicated? I just so happen to be dating a walking Demonic Hand encyclopaedia. I doubt anything about them would remain complicated to for long.
Even without that, I'm sure I'd understand exactly whatever it is."
"We'd co back to the first part of your statent later.
The fact that you'd understand is precisely why your mother and I want to keep you from knowing."
"You always did take your elder sister's words as the law."
Eliza only sighed and retied her hair into a single ponytail, taking so strands and twisting those into a small French braid, before standing up and dusting the sugar pieces and bread crumbs off her lap.
"Ignoring the Demonic Hand issue that you were never planning on telling about, I have to admit I was initially annoyed upon discovering you had been tailing all this while.
I also know that you most certainly did tail for far much more ti than you said you did, but that's not important."
She turned and faced her uncle who was looking at her with slight confusion, staring right into his bright green eyes as she continued.
"What's important, is that you indeed saved my life that day, and for that, I thank you."
Eliza concluded her words with a 90-degree bow, sothing that had George's jaw drop in shock for a mont, in the next, he suddenly panicked and moved to raise her body up.
"no-no-no, Lady Elizabe-!
Eliza, you don't need to thank , I was just-"
"You know…even if I'm the Patriarch's eldest daughter, you're still my uncle you know? You do not have to tack on that 'Lady' title to .
Besides, there's no one else here so that's even more of a reason for you not to do so.
Why did you even suddenly revert to that way of speaking?"
"…True.
I don't know why I suddenly panicked and spoke that way. But this is for when it's just us two.
If I do not show the appropriate level of respect when we're in the presence of others, then the other families in the clan might dare to slight you."
George's words only made Eliza snort as she rose her head and spoke.
"Dare to slight ?
The current is not the kind of person those brats can dare to slight."
The man only showed a wry smile in response to his niece's words, gauging the power she currently possessed as a superior stage master and nodding in affirmation to her words.
'None of the current younger generations can match up to her.'
"Well, I may have probably been on the sa level as them if did not go along with Evan's escapades.
Speaking of which, after Evan and I are done in the beast kingdom, I think I'm gonna tell Evan about the clan and prepare to bring him over."
Every ti the na 'Evan' ca out of her mouth, George's brow twitched and the frown on his face beca deeper until he could not hold his annoyance in anymore.
"About this 'boyfriend' of yours…"
"Hmm? What about him?"
George's lips twisted awkwardly as he thought about his current mixed feelings towards Evan.
He originally did not like the fact that so random kid dared to court his sister's daughter, but that sa kid was the one who contributed greatly to ssing up the Demonic Hand's plans and dealt the final blow to the bastard who killed his sister, permanently killing him.
Even if Evan did not know about this, his evaluation in George's eyes had risen greatly.
"Do you really think he's serious with you?"
"Huh?"
"Don't forget that the boy is the son of the Pri Minister of a major world power.
Even though he's 'free' now, when he grows older, he'd no doubt be called back to his family by his father, and since he's the next Duke, they might completely disregard your relationship with him and arrange so sort of political marriage for him.
I've seen this happen dozens of tis in various countries."
The man studied Eliza's expression closely as he spoke, but the girl did not react how he had expected and instead casually sat back down before opening open another strawberry juice pack as she replied.
"Speaking of the next Duke, Evan said he planned to give his title back to his elder brother; I think his na was Arned? Arnold?"
"You really believe he's gonna do that?
Even if he has gained so level of power and influence with his recent actions, it's still not to the level of what he'd gain with the title of Duke of the Great Western Empire.
You think he'd give up the chance to get all that power and authority?"
Instead of replying, Eliza only looked at her uncle in silence as she sipped her juice before finally asking.
"You hate Evan or sothing?"
"…"
"Co on uncle, this is supposed to be my dad's job, not yours."
"If the boy truly wishes to be with you, he'd have to be screened by both , your father, and your Grandfather."
"…are you guys tryna kill him or sothing?"
"…. probably not."
"Probably?!"
George chuckled lightly upon seeing Eliza's reaction, and was about to pat her head only to have his hand smacked away by the younger girl,
"You're gonna ss up my hair again!"
"You can redo it again, can you not?"
"Yeah, but it's stressful to do it over again."
"Really? But Elder sister usually changes her hairstyle multiple tis in a day."
"Ugh…don't compare to my mother. I really have no idea how she does that."
After successfully diverting the topic to the matter of her hair, George's eyes flashed lightly as he turned towards the direction of the Capital City and thought to himself.
'Evan Del Eris, huh? There's sothing off about that boy. It makes no sense for the lifeline between his body and soul to be so out of sync, after all.
Besides that, I believe he's connected to that strange being who teleported to where that necromancer was on that morning, making fight and weaken him, as well as teleported out right after I saved Eliza.
That being did say sothing about 'Evan's story'…'
George sighed softly, deciding to put those thoughts to the back of his mind for now and enjoy so quality ti with his niece who seed to have an endless supply of snacks to share with him.
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