(Heartfelt thanks to 'Yume no Shouyou', 'Kaede no Chōrei', 'Shao Feng Ye', 'Lei Xiang', 'Yunqi Qinggu', '', 'Seven Sins Shattered', and 'Mu Xiao Yitian' for their rewards!)
Walpurgis Royal Academy of Machinart, main gate...
At the reception room window, Brunson stood gazing into the distance, his hands clasped behind his back. He maintained that posture in silence.
Loki and Frey stood by the reception room door, watching Brunson's back. One was expressionless, even somewhat cold; the other's pretty face was slightly pale, her head lowered as though she desperately wanted to leave.
In that relatively speechless situation, a heavy atmosphere slowly spread through the air, making even the beating of one's heart feel like a burden. It made Brunson's back seem filled with authority.
Looking at that imposing back, Loki and Frey both clearly understood one thing.
Their adoptive father was extremely angry right now!
That was only natural.
After all, just moments ago, their adoptive father—a man who had once challenged for the Night Party, nearly become the Demon King, and was now the president of a rising Automaton Workshop—had been threatened by a brat still studying at the academy! And it had been the kind of threat he had no choice but to yield to!
Though Brunson usually behaved like an aloof gentleman and never displayed any obvious emotion toward anything, Loki and Frey knew that their adoptive father was far colder and more cruel than he appeared.
One could see it from how Brunson had clearly intended to discard the Hellhound Series Automatons, yet deceived Frey, gave her hope, and made her fight.
What was more, based on what Loki and Frey knew about the things Brunson had done in the past, even the things he had done to the two siblings, deception was merely a trivial