Mixed Blessing System

"Oh? Please don't bother about what I said. I was imagining a recent problem and got confused, dear." Lothur quickly dodged Viktoria's questions, not showing much of his nervousness.

"Is that so?" She observed him but did not pursue the subject, even though her intuition told her he was hiding something.

"It's good that you care about learning how to defend yourself, but don't overdo it."

"Don't try to compete with cultivators. It's pointless for a mortal to do that, even considering your recovery ability."

"You think so?" He smiled without exposing much of his fun, already imagining the expression Viktoria would make when he revealed his strength.

She ignored his jocular tone comment and touched on another subject she had discussed with Annaliese. "My sister told me about what happened between my parents and you on Friday night..."

Hearing that, Lothur lost his earlier smile and got a solemn expression. He looked at her and realized a slight concern in his wife's eyes.

"Lothur, you have to understand my mother's side. It is not easy for her in the situation we are in, and you have never helped yourself to at least look like a more responsible person."

"Give her a break, stop talking nonsense, and focus on your affairs at the academy. Then, things might get a lot better in a few months."

"Give her a break? Understand her side?" He looked at that woman feeling terrible for having heard those words.

He was apparently in this family for that organization's good and not for his own. He thought. But still, he had to understand his oppressor's side when he was merely trying to live his life?

That was absurd!

Lothur was not one to complain about the problems in his path or to have to ask others for help whenever a problem arose. But his situation in this place was genuinely extreme to the point that he felt like stating his thoughts about these setbacks.

Viktoria wanted him to think about Mabel's side, but who was thinking about his side?

"Are you kidding me?" He got up from where he was standing and started walking through the living room of that residence, indignantly looking at her. "Anna and I were just practicing in our spare time, and your mother decided to get in our way just to annoy me!"

"Get in your way? And what's wrong with that? Why do you want to train with my sister without other people around?" She, too, stood up, curious to understand Lothur's motives.

Viktoria already knew the details of her parents' conversation with Lothur and Annaliese since her sister had invited her to be the one to be with them in these exercises. But she was yet to understand why Lothur had become so angry as to say he should leave this family.

Unfortunately for her, her sister had not told her everything she knew about Lothur.

And considering Viktoria's concern about Lothur's willingness to leave the Frost family, she could not help but be curious about all this.

Leaving a noble family after marriage was naturally not simple. But if one of the parties had the intention to do such a thing, problems of all kinds could arise from this intention.

Hence the reason for her concern.

Lothur then looked at her, wondering what to say. "You wouldn't understand my motives even if I told you."

"In any case, what did your sister tell you? By the way, where is she?"

Viktoria came closer to Lothur as she clenched her fists in frustration at not being able to extract the truth from this man no matter how hard she tried.

He always escaped her 'clutches,' leaving her questions unanswered and doing only what he wanted. That was genuinely annoying for a person so used to being answered and hearing yes from just about everyone!

'This Lothur...'

'I'll talk to Karen to help me control this fellow.' She thought of her best friend, the only one she could trust regarding this delicate matter for her.

She sighed in defeat and then answered him. "I don't know what you've been doing with my sister, but she's keeping a good secret about whatever it is."

"She hasn't told me anything other than that you two are training."

'Oh? I'm glad she didn't say anything about us...' He remembered Annaliese's sweet lips but did not show his satisfaction to Viktoria.

"As for where she should be, I don't know. Today is Sunday, so she must be having fun with her friends."

Viktoria and Annaliese were practically the same age, differing by only a few minutes in favor of Lothur's wife. But due to the difference in talents between the two, one still lived like a 19-year-old, while the other had responsibilities and no longer wasted her time with certain futilities.

Because of this, while Annaliese spent part of her weekends with her friends or resting, Viktoria was always doing something related to her position in the Frost family.

She, of course, had her free moments, like this one. But she often did not have time to do the same as her sister. That was the reason for the difference between their lives, even considering the slight age difference.

"So that's it..."

'Well, I guess I'll have to talk to her about what happened...'

Viktoria noted that Lothur seemed to have nothing more to say and tried to get at least a direct answer from this young man. "By the way, how was your first mission? Did you manage to complete it?"

"Hmmm." He nodded in agreement. "I already picked up the confirmation medal. I just need to take it to the Mission Hall tomorrow."

"So, you didn't face any problems? Usually, there are relatively troublesome animals in those regions where medicine grows."

"Yes, I had some minor problems..."

"In particular, three animals got in my way and forced me to act more drastically... Lucky for me, Anna had already taught me a few tricks." He did not specify the attempt against his life.

Lothur could speak the truth to Viktoria, but in doing so, he would run the risk of this woman placing bodyguards to follow him. And as much as this would not be the end of the world, having people protecting him could very well turn into a significant disadvantage.

After all, with guards protecting him, enemies would naturally underestimate him less and use more power against him. But on the other hand, influential people would hardly ever be put on his guard, so he preferred not to be limited by other people.

He had even found a way to convince his father-in-law to remove the guards placed to accompany him earlier after his first 'encounter' with Alric. So, it would not be now that he would risk limiting his movements by telling Viktoria the whole truth.

"Is that so?" She asked with interest.

"Hmm, but the fight wasn't interesting. Believe me. You don't want to waste your time hearing about it..." He said as he looked at his spatial ring and remembered something Viktoria could help him with.

"Among some animals I came across, I was lucky enough to get some parts of a Giant Tropical Spider that seems to have died after a confrontation with other adventurers."

"Do you know where I can sell these parts? I even have the claws with the venom from that being."

Upon hearing that, Viktoria's eyes widened in surprise, shocked at how lucky Lothur had been to find that being dead in his path. "Did you get parts of a Giant Tropical Spider?"

"It is not particularly valuable from the point of view of cultivators beyond the 1st stage. But in addition to its flesh being enjoyed by people of all strength ranges, its venom is valuable to those at the beginning of their cultivation journeys."

'Is this serious? Do people in this world like insect meat?' He ignored the rest of Viktoria's comment, remembering the previous situation.

But before he felt nauseous, he quickly answered her, showing those deadly parts of his previous enemy. "Of course, dear. I wouldn't lie to my wife."

"That..."

"You have them." She commented in surprise. 'How lucky!'

"Well, since that is the case, you can sell..."