Listening to the sounds coming from the kitchen, where Bell and Lili were working, Noah turned his gaze back to the parchment in his hands. Looking at their status values, he frowned slightly.
Beside him, Hestia, who had been watching Noah all along, naturally noticed his slight frown. Rather than being puzzled, she lowered her voice and spoke.
"Do you have any thoughts?"
"How could I not?" Noah lowered his voice as well, but did not look at Hestia. Instead, he took out the parchment recording Bell's status and placed it on the table.
"Isn't the growth of these status values a little too unusual?"
That was right.
Bell's status values had grown somewhat unusually.
By now, Noah was no longer the clueless youngster who had first arrived in this world.
Having personally updated his own status more than once, Noah was far more familiar with status values than before.
That was why Noah knew Bell's growth was unusual.
"I remember you telling me before that in other Familias, ordinary people's status values only grow relatively quickly at the beginning. Even then, over one or two weeks, or even one or two months, the increase in basic ability proficiency normally does not exceed 20," Noah said.
"If that's the case, then isn't Bell's increase far too abnormal?"
Other people could only raise their basic ability proficiency by less than 20 over one or two weeks, or even one or two months.
But over this past month, how much had Bell's basic ability proficiency increased?
It had increased by more than 3,000!
Was that growth rate normal?
"Of course it isn't normal!" Hestia replied, but then her face immediately fell as she looked at Noah with an annoyed expression.
"Although I'd like to say that, don't forget that Bell took at