Spear Body Tower, top-floor living room.
Samael eagerly led Chloe and Ra to the dining table, pressed her into a seat, and smiled warmly and brilliantly, like a loving old father.
"Come, come, eat. Eat more."
As he spoke, a plate piled high with food was moved in front of Chloe.
Chloe forced a stiff smile and hurriedly declined.
"I-I'm not hungry. Mom made this for you. It wouldn't be right for me to waste it..."
"It's perfectly right. Why be polite with family?"
"I've been dieting lately. I don't have much of an appetite."
"Why would someone so young diet? We haven't seen each other in so long, and look how thin you've gotten."
The plate on the table was pushed back and forth. The veins stood out on the large and small hands pressing down upon it, their bones creaking.
"How... could I...!"
"You... absolutely... have...!"
The two seated figures smiled at each other, forcing each word through clenched teeth. Their expressions were indescribably savage from how hard they were speaking.
"Bang!"
At last, a delicate hand slamming onto the table interrupted this scene of mutual courtesy between father and daughter.
Anastasia's face was covered in dark lines as she asked unpleasantly.
"What? Neither of you dares eat it?"
"No, no!"
"Absolutely not!"
Samael and Chloe sat up straight and shook their heads in unison, while their large and small hands secretly pushed the plate away.
"Give it here!"
Unable to bear it any longer, Anastasia snorted and yanked the plate before herself.
"You're just afraid I poisoned it, aren't you? Fine, I'll taste it myself!"
In a fit of indignation, the silver-haired beauty grabbed a fork from the table, speared a curry pork cutlet from the plate, and stuffed it into her mouth, chewing to prove her