Kapitel 962: Meeting My (very) distant relatives

=Wait a minute...haven't Lady Bellona and Lady Alicia been actively cultivating with those...things you gave them not too long ago? Little over two or so months?=

<More or less, yeah. Although, "things" is mildly derogatory. I believe the more colloquial term for them are...familiars?>

=Regardless, they're also at the peak Aether Master stage?=

<Last we checked, but I think Bellona might already be at the Grandmaster stage.>

=Thought so, so how did they captured by that Scale guy? They could've trounced him!

<Elementnary, my dear Logos. One of the oldest flirting tricks in history is to pretend to be weak, so that the person being flirtted can be strong and protective. Kind of like seeing a scary movie so you can go, "Kya! Hold me!">

=That...makes a lot of sense.=

<Right?? It would explain all those cute scenes in dating sims.>

....Back to the aformentioned cute scene…