"Mom, we heard Sylvia's back." The one on the left said. This was Peter, he and his brother had been enraged when they had heard that Sylvia had met with pick pockets, and if not because Anna had strictly forbidden them from leaving the buiy, they would have already rushed out to protect their little sister and pummel the cretins that dared lay hands on her
"Where is she is she alright?" Paul inquired impatiently. Drake who they hadn't yet noticed was listening from behind them, they both sounded quite young.
"Seriously you two, I've told you several times to use the door. What if I was in an important meeting?" Anna shook her head exasperated.
"But we know you don't have any meetings today." Peter refuted.
"You should still knock." She asserted.
"But, that's too much work" Paul chimed in complaint
"Still knock! Don't you know it's not gentlemanly to just walk in on a lady?" she chided.
"Cough! Cough! I'm sorry, scratch that. Lady?" Peter coughed and cleared his throat interrupting. Then continued, "I hate to break it to you woman, but your days of being a 'lady' are long gone."
Paul nodded with certainty while pointing out, "That's right. In time of old, guys like us would already have had children of their own in some tribes. So you are just one step from being a grandmother." He then added, "As for being gentlemen, we are your children first, before we are gentlemen."
Peter shook his head firmly, "I'm sorry o… lady, but there's nothing we can do about it." and Paul nodded as though this fact couldn't be refuted.
The two were synced, Drake almost laughed when he saw how they played off each other. But then he suddenly felt something wasn't right. 'Hold on, did I just miss something?'
"Did you just call me OLD?" Anna's face suddenly darkened.
Crap not good! You're never to call a woman old 'that's WOMEN STUDIES 101!
The temperature in the room suddenly dropped several degrees. Drake felt his hairs stand on air and he felt a sharp aura. It was like a sharp blade pressed against his throat threatening to behead him.
Peter was startled at how her mood changed, "Old? Me? I didn't call you old. You?" he asked turning to Paul.
"No! Of course not no, she must be hearing things." Paul frantically shook his head.
"Is that so?" Anna suddenly reached her hand back touching something on the table screen, and a replay of the last few seconds of their conversation started playing.
… "I'm sorry o… lady, but there's nothing we can do about it."… She played it three times before stopping.
"Hmph!" she snorted.
A moment later Drake felt the sharp aura vanish and the room's temperature return to normal. 'Remind me never to piss her off! That was close!' he sighed relieved from that pressure, but then he couldn't help but scold inwardly 'Damn it kid, try to be more attentive next time. You almost got me killed!'
"See you were just hearing things!" Paul smiled, as though happy a misunderstanding had just been cleared. He might've sounded calm, but both he and his companion were drenched in cold sweat. Drake even thought he heard a drop of sweat falling to the ground. Only a certain level of extreme fear could make a man sweat in cold.
Meanwhile, Peter was thinking, 'That was close! He he, you think you can catch me like that? You're still a hundred years too young.' But he didn't dare to day such words out loud.
"Anyway we're getting off track. We came looking for Sylvia." Paul clapped trying to shake off the awkward tense situation and continued.
Only now did the Peter say, "Yeah, where is she anyway?"
"Maybe you would have seen her if you used the door." Anna replied plainly.
"Door?"
Ehem! Ehem!
Hearing someone clearing their throat behind them, the two turned back.
Drake finally saw what they looked like, It was a pair of teenagers, both dressed in grey suits they looked quite dashing with their black hair. As Drake observed them more, he soon realized he couldn't tell the difference between the two, they looked exactly alike. These guys were twins!
"Sylvia, there you are. Why didn't you say anything earlier?"
"Yeah, we heard you were robbed while you were out! Glad to see you're okay."
The two immediately went up to her exchanging pleasantries and carefully checking her well being. Anna returned to her seat behind the table.
As Drake watched them he was almost exclaiming, they all had outstanding looks. Sylvia and Anna could already rank among the worlds top beauties, but then these two were also extremely handsome with their starry eyes and nice facial features Drake was nearly grumbling, 'What is it with this family's genes? Both the men and women have excellent looks. It's as if God paid special attention when he was crafting them.' The only thing that kept him from being jealous was that he was confident in his own looks.
He was already very handsome normally, but then after his magic powers were unsealed his looks got even better when his body was tempered by magic energy.
"Hmm? Sylvia, who's this?" one of the twins said. Only now did they turn their attention to Drake who was standing next to the door.
"This is Drake! He's the one I just told you about."
"Oh, so you're the guy." He said the gave a quick look at his twin. Suddenly the two vanished from sight.
Drake felt something was wrong as the air around him changed, his instincts immediately kicked in and he waved both his hands, his palms slapped against the sides of the incoming fists of the twins that had suddenly appeared to his sides.
As his palms slapped the sides of their fists the twins suddenly lost their balance as he had also pulled on them so they were falling forward. They hastily tried to regain their footing, only as they did so things changed.
Drake whose senses had been heightened after being tempered by magic energy had felt the power in the incoming punches and hastily tried to deflect them. But Drake was also not one to not respond when he was being attacked and since he wasn't in the Black clan he wasn't restraining himself. He reflexively flicked his wrists and a sharp dagger appeared in both his palms grip and he swung aiming for the throats of his assailants.
Anna who had been watching at the side was stunned when the two that had just been happily joking and laughing suddenly attacking Drake out of nowhere. She hastily rose to her feet, but then she felt relief wash over her when she saw Drake successfully deflect their fists to the sides. She was really impressed by his reaction speed since she knew the level the twins were at. However, just as she was about to scold the two for attacking a guest her heart nearly jumped out of her chest from fright when she saw the two sharp blades suddenly appear swinging at the twins necks.
She hastily tapped her finger forward into space while shouting "STOP!"
As she tapped into space, a visible ripple spread out in Drake's direction.
…
Drake who had reflexively attacked thanks to his instincts self-defense mechanism finally realized what he was doing when he heard the scream. He hastily tried to stop himself once he saw the daggers closing in on their targets. But then even as he tried to stop his arms from stabbing forth, the two were still falling forward and from the look of things his daggers would still end up in their throats at this rate.
The throat was a very hard place to defend, especially since people usually didn't wear armor around the neck, Drake knew this very well, and right now neither of the twins was wearing any armor or having any kind of defense up around their necks that meant his sharp daggers would go right through their throats.
There wasn't enough time to put his daggers away, whether he liked it or not his attack was going to hit. Since that was the case then there was no point trying to stop his attack from hitting them, so he decided to change the way his attack would hit them, and so he twisted his wrists and bent his daggers so even if the attack hit, it would be the sides of the blades slapping against their necks.
Just as his blades were about to come in contact with the two, Drake saw an extremely thin silvery light sprang into existence around the bodies of the twins this surprised Drake but then he suddenly felt a certain vibration in the air around him. Before he could react he saw what looked like ripples in space, when these ripples touched him he felt himself lose control over his body.
What Now?!