LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 626: I know nothing
Eren looked in her eyes, wondering why she wasn't saying anything. Was she still so shocked that she even forgot to react?
He wanted to see Estelia's reactions, but her bangs made it slightly harder to notice every detail about her reaction. He brought his hand close to her forehead, and gently moved her bangs behind her ears.
"I really hope that we can put this misunderstanding aside. Because I truly had no ill intentions towards you," he said, letting out a tired sigh.
With Estelia's face being so close to his face, his warm breath brushed against his lips when he sighed, bringing Estelia to her senses.
She noticed that her hands were freed and she could really move. She quickly jumped back, finally creating some distance from Eren, and brushed her fingers against her lips, wiping his scent off them.
Eren also sat up, still worried about the kind of reaction she was going to show. Was she going to attack him outright with the intent to kill? Or was she going to forgive him? He really hoped that it was the latter.
That's why, when she outright turned around, his face went absolutely stunned. She had chosen a third choice, and started running towards the mansion.
"Is she going to tell her mother everything?" Eren watched the girl run away. He knew that if he reached fast enough, he could restrict her again, but she still had a lot of time to scream.
He had already done enough for one lifetime worth of misunderstanding. If he did any more, then no amount of explanation could help him.
He stood up, and placed his hand on his waist. Since explaining to Estelia was useless, he could only try to explain to his mother in law.
"I really hope she will give me a chance to explain, and not outright kill me. Is it really the day when I am going to use that extra life I had?" He scratched the back of his head.
For him, it was an absolute loss. He thought he would have to use that extra life when fighting against some horrifying enemy in the future.
He never expected to exhaust that extra life because he was slapped to death by his so-called mother in law.
"Can I put up a fight to last for a few seconds?" he wondered, looking at his status screen. He had gathered quite a few skills, but when he thought about the horrifying stats of Trisa, the future looked grim.
The only thing that could possibly help him survive a battle against Trisa was the Echo of Eternity, but even that depended on his luck.
"If she doesn't listen to my explanation, and my extra life is exhausted, this should be the last option."
He opened his inventory, and arranged the Potion of Luck in the absolute center of his inventory to make it easier to bring it out.
"I will use the Potion of Luck before using the Echo of Eternity. That should increase my chances of finding someone useful amongst my future selves." He took a deep breath and started waiting for Trisa to come to him.
Ten minutes passed, and he was standing still, waiting for the inevitable. But nothing strange happened. Not only Trisa, but even Lysander didn't arrive to kill him.
"Is something wrong with them?" He tilted his head sideways, and observed the mansion. "This much time should have been enough for them to be informed. Why is it so silent?"
He had thought that Estelia's parents were going to come flying out of the mansion, destroying the mansion itself in the process. But all that came to him was the gentle winds from nature.
The wait was more frustrating than actually fighting the two godlike existences. With every passing second, the expectations of the unknown were making him feel worse, until he couldn't take it anymore.
He decided to check things himself, and flew towards the mansion.
He stepped inside the mansion and used his divine senses to find Lysander and Trisa. And when he did find them, his face went pale, since that presence was right behind him.
"Mother-in-law?" he turned around, and saw Trisa standing there. But the angry expressions that he had expected were nowhere to be found. Instead, her lips had a very suspicious smile.
"I saw nothing. So you don't have to worry about it. Until you two are prepared to tell me yourself, I know nothing." She chuckled, covering her luscious lips behind her fair fingers.
She ruffled Eren's hair, and walked past him, her sweet laughter echoing across the hall.
"What the heck just happened?" Eren mumbled after Trisa disappeared from his sight. Not only did that woman not kill him like he had expected, but she seemed even more affectionate towards him.
'Just what is wrong with this crazy family?' he wanted to scream out loud, feeling as if everyone was pulling a big prank on him.
He went deeper into the mansion and found Lysander next, but Lysander didn't try to kill him either. Everything felt a little too normal. They didn't even ask him for an explanation.
'Either they already know that I was helpless in that situation, or they weren't informed about anything.' These were the only two possibilities that Eren could think about when he walked across the empty hallways.
The second possibility also felt more likely based on their reaction, but that had made him more perplexed. Why did Estelia not tell them what he did?
"Did she believe my explanation? If she did, she could've just told me. I was worried for no reason."
He went to Estelia's room to thank her for understanding him, but even after he knocked on her door multiple times, the door wasn't opened.
If he hadn't used his divine sense, he really would've thought that she wasn't in the room itself. But using his divine sense, he was able to see her lying on the bed, with her face buried in a pillow for some reason.
"Is she so upset that she is crying?"