Chapter 132: It’s not a family meeting without complaining about that one distant cousin
Luncheon with the Lust delegations felt like a family meeting where they force the youngster to attend and gave said youngster a lot of questions regarding the youngster’s life.
The youngster in this story was Zia.
I guessed this was the part where they try to find out what she had been up to, while also not-so-sneakily trying to persuade her to go back home. And Zia was answering them coldly, dryly, just because she must, without even hiding the fact that she was annoyed about it.
You know, like a teenager.
Not that I would know, since my relatives never barrage me with questions like that. I mostly conversed with Natha and the one playing prank earlier, Aleena, who didn’t seem to have any interest in ’interrogating’ Zia. She only butted in when the questions went too far and when Zia looked like she was about to explode.
Afterward, we walked in the garden to digest the food, since three of the delegations had never been here before, apparently. At some point, the conversation stirred to a topic about Aleena’s disguise, and it seemed like she used to do it a lot in her adolescent days.
"It’s been a while since I did it," she said in satisfaction as she recalled the shenanigans she pulled in her younger days. "Perhaps that’s why I’m getting rusty..."
To that, I finally asked the thing I had been wanting to ask since earlier. "Why are you doing it today, though, if I may ask?"
"The disguise?" she glanced at me and replied nonchalantly. "Oh, I just want to play a prank on Zia," and then proceeded to hug the little succubus.
"Me?" Zia blinked in surprise while Aleena pinched her pink cheek. She raised her brows while looking at me, perhaps because she thought Aleena did it mainly to prank me.
"Don’t you know you looked absolutely devastated when you know she wasn’t here?" I told the girl, reminding her how much sulkier she became.