Don't Take Away My Human Record Chapter 810: Lanchi Cooks a Wrong Meal - Novel Cool

Chapter 810: Lanchi Cooks a Wrong Meal

Chapter 810: Lanchi Cooks a Wrong Meal

As the door behind them closed, the world seemed to quieten down, even the sound of the stream outside the courtyard softening.

The two walked down the corridor leading to the living room, with Talia leading the way ahead of Sigrid.

The indoor lighting was soft, illuminating the pristine corridor, and the air was filled with a gentle scent of grapefruit, rosemary, and bergamot, creating a harmonious blend.

The entire atmosphere felt like a quiet, focused melody, instantly putting one at ease.

Sigrid silently stared at the gray-haired woman, her nose twitching slightly.

It was only the absence of Kaliyera's unique scent that prevented Sigrid from being certain that the other woman was Kaliyera.

Despite the different appearance, the voice and aura of this gray-haired woman made Sigrid feel as if she had traveled back in time, completely capturing her attention.

"Have you had lunch yet?"

Talia led the violet-eyed maiden into the first floor of the mansion, paused, and asked softly, her voice laced with a hint of testing.

She seemed to want to get closer to her, yet she was also cautious.

"No," Sigrid replied, startled, as she stopped trying to smell the other woman's scent and rubbed her stomach.

After all, this was someone else's wife, and it would be a crime to secretly sniff her scent.

Indeed, ever since she emerged from the Shadow World, she had been on the move.

She had crossed the spatial gate from Southern Wanitina to Brillada, then confirmed her new identity on the second floor of the Brillada Opera House, and finally arrived at Saint Crethine Academy without having time to think about lunch.

"Let's have lunch at our place before you leave. I'm cooking right now," Talia decided firmly.

Since she was a subordinate of Yabo, a senior from their Demon World, it wouldn't be a problem to take care of a young child from the Dimensional Branch.

"Really? I'm just here to complete a task, and it's so embarrassing to have lunch at your place," Sigrid said, surprised by Professor Randall's wife's generosity.

She couldn't sense any hostility from her.

The motherly feeling within her was growing stronger, almost overflowing.

"I usually cook a lot of food, so it's no trouble to add another set of cutlery. Eat up later, and don't be shy," Talia said as she tugged at the kitchen door.

But she found that the kitchen door was locked.

And it was locked from the inside.

"In that case, I won't be shy. Thank you!" Sigrid bowed gratefully in response.

Talia tried to open the kitchen door again.

"Tata, I'll cook! I'll bring the food out to you later!" Cat Boss shouted from inside the kitchen, her voice unusually tense, transforming from a youthful tone to a girlish one, even suppressing her habitual 'meow' at the end.

"..."

This was the first time Talia had heard Cat Boss speak without her signature 'meow'.

"Hmm, is someone cooking in the kitchen?" Sigrid asked curiously.

She felt this voice was vaguely familiar, but she couldn't quite place it in her memory.

"It's our hired cook, Miss Amy," Talia explained after a moment's thought.

Cat Boss was sometimes shy around strangers.

Now that Talia was Professor Randall's wife, it made sense for Cat Boss to pretend to be their hired help.

Since Cat Boss didn't want to meet the guests, Talia wouldn't force her.

Or perhaps Cat Boss had taken charge of the cooking today, allowing Talia to take a break and chat with this young visitor from the Dimensional Branch.

"So your name is Tata? Can I call you that?" Sigrid asked, having figured out the woman's name from the voice in the kitchen, and asked casually.

"It's... kind of a nickname, but you can call me Tata if you like," Talia replied as she walked into the living room, turning back to look at the Dimensional Branch maiden.

She didn't usually use this half-true, half-false name in the Kreitine Empire.

It was a bit too informal.

However, she felt inexplicably tolerant of this young girl, and seeing her fluttering eyes, she agreed.

"Tata..." Sigrid murmured the other woman's name,

"Oh, right, I shouldn't have called you Auntie; I should have called you Sister. You're so young and beautiful, and you're Professor Randall's wife. I'm sure you're adored and welcomed at Saint Crethine Academy because you look so much like my mom, and that's why I accidentally called you..." Sigrid trailed off, realizing something, and quickly apologized.

"Call me whatever you like, I don't mind," Talia said, her lips curving slightly, her expression radiant.

Hearing the sincerity in the young girl's words, she realized that every word she spoke was true.

If any other teenage girl had called her Auntie, she might have minded, but it was fine when this girl did it. She even found herself fantasizing about how great it would feel if a child like this called her Mom.

"How is your mother doing now?" Talia asked further.

The girl had just mentioned that she resembled her mother, stirring Talia's emotions.

"She... she's no longer with us," Sigrid replied, lowering her eyes, her voice filled with sorrow.

Having grown up in an orphanage in the Northern Continent, she had never seen her mother. Only in her dreams did Kaliyera perfectly fit her imagination of a mother. After spending two dreamlike weeks with Kaliyera in the Shadow World, she almost considered Kaliyera to be her only mother.

But Kaliyera had disappeared tens of thousands of years ago.

She had to accept this fact, which she was unwilling to face. Perhaps she could only meet Kaliyera again in a gentle, fallen world, and it was impossible to see her in this present world.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring up painful memories for you."

Talia looked at the child, feeling a surge of emotion welling up inside her.

"I don't know why, but when I first saw you, Miss Tata, I felt like you resembled my mother so much... It might be very impolite to say this, but I swear I'm not lying."

Sigrid stared into the gray-haired beauty's eyes, speaking honestly.

She couldn't fathom why.

Why did Miss Tata's every expression, even her sensitive and sentimental demeanor, mirror Kaliyera's so perfectly? She was just too gentle.

"I believe you, I know you're not lying."

Talia's sincere and bright violet eyes stared back at her, making Sigrid feel even more sympathetic. She couldn't help but embrace the girl in front of her, someone she couldn't help but feel sorry for.

The truth was revealed through their connection.

How terrifying.

She envisioned the other as her daughter, and the other saw her as her mother.

Was this the work of the Goddess of Fate, bringing together two lives that needed each other?

"Miss Tata..."

Sigrid stood in a daze, feeling the warmth and softness of the other. She gently placed her hand on the other's back.

It was as if she were Kaliyera herself, the resemblance was uncanny.

At such close proximity, if the other carried that unique scent, she might have felt a temporal distortion, believing Kaliyera had been resurrected in this world.

How could there be such a similar person? Sigrid was still in shock.

Although it wasn't appropriate to hug someone else's wife, her selfishness made her want to continuously inhale the faint fragrance on Miss Tata, a scent of maternal love that she couldn't resist.

After a few seconds, Sigrid finally let go of the gray-haired woman, as if reluctantly leaving the warmth of a winter morning bed.

"Miss Tata, you must be a wonderful mother. Do you have children with your husband?"

Sigrid sincerely praised and asked.

Professor Randall was truly blessed to marry a woman like Kaliyera.

Having such a wife was a lifetime's worth.

Sigrid hadn't seen any children in this house either.

It seemed like only a couple lived in this large mansion.

Talia's cheeks reddened and she turned her head slightly to the side upon hearing this.

"I, we haven't planned for that yet..."

She stammered.

"Do you like children?"

Sigrid asked her again.

"I guess I wouldn't dislike them."

Talia thought that children, whether they were as well-behaved as Xiubao, as lively as Xiugre, or as mischievous as Lanqi, were all adorable.

"Then why aren't you trying harder?"

Sigrid nudged Talia with her shoulder and asked with a mischievous smile.

"No, no, we, he..."

Talia became flustered and couldn't speak clearly.

She now regretted oversharing with this child. Although they had just met, their conversation felt like a reunion, and subconsciously, she treated her as her closest confidant.

She had only just become engaged, not a wife in the true sense.

Have children?

How would they do that? Talia's head spun at the thought of having a child with Lanqi, and her cheeks burned as if on fire.

"Have you not..."

Sigrid seemed to have figured out the situation of this newlywed couple and exclaimed in surprise.

"I've been sleeping with him every night for the past few months!"

Talia pouted with a red face.

Even if it was just for the sake of playing the role of Lanqi's fiancee and not getting caught, she had to be firm.

She was telling the truth. Ever since she became Lanqi's Lifebound Card, whenever he rested, she would transform into a Magic Card and stay in his Soul Space, just like a couple living together every day.

"Can you tell me about your romantic courtship?"

Sigrid leaned in closer, raising an eyebrow and asking.

She had never seen Kaliyera blush, but seeing the state of this gray-haired woman allowed her to imagine it.

"We, we just went on dates, sometimes held hands, and then he would hug me..."

Talia felt both shy and sweet just thinking about their past in Paria.

...

Second Floor.

"Really, this Toriato, he didn't even confirm with me first and just sent the girl over..."

Lanqi muttered to himself in distress as he hurried downstairs to find Talia and ask her to properly host the girl from the Dimensional Branch.

He walked down the stairs, having only communicated with Toriato halfway. It seemed like Toriato had been arrested by the Imperial Special Operations Unit. They must have been monitoring something, and the Imperial Special Operations Unit surrounded and took him away as a suspect without any explanation.

"What was the surprise that Toriato mentioned? He didn't even finish his sentence."

Apparently, he had come from far away, and now they were sending the girl back, which was quite embarrassing.

Suddenly.

He heard laughter from the first floor.

It was surprisingly harmonious.

Then, Lanqi saw an apple floating towards him, propelled by telekinetic force.

It seemed to have been sent through the kitchen door on the first floor and was delivered to the stairs by Cat Boss with all his might.

On the apple was Cat Boss's carving.

Two big characters were written on it -

Run.

"..."

Lanqi held the apple, turned it over curiously, but there was no other information.

"What could it be?"

Lanqi took a bite of the apple and casually tossed it as he walked downstairs.

What danger could there be in this house? Talia was clearly on the first floor, and he could even hear her cheerful voice.

Lanqi rounded the corner at the foot of the stairs.

He saw Talia standing in the living room with a blonde-haired girl, chatting and laughing together.

They seemed to have hit it off instantly, holding hands as they talked.

"Oh, we have a guest," Lanqi thought to himself, a smile forming on his face. He waved to the girl from the Dimensional Branch, "Hello, I'm Professor Landri. I was just communicating upstairs and couldn't greet you right away."

Lanqi spoke with an open and friendly tone.

In the living room, Talia's gaze shifted from the blonde-haired girl to the stairs.

"My husband is here. He's just average, not as amazing as the Imperial Magic Engineering Department makes him out to be. I only married him reluctantly."

Talia released the girl's hands, a hint of pride in her voice.

"Let's eat together later."

Although she didn't think much of her little apprentice, she felt a sense of pride in having him as her husband.

The blonde-haired, purple-eyed girl turned around and looked towards the figure at the foot of the stairs.

"Lan..."

She was about to call out to Professor Landri, but her voice trailed off.

She paused, then took a deep breath and widened her eyes.

There was someone in this world whom she could recognize even if they turned to ash, without needing any introduction.

His aura was too familiar, and his temperament was unique.

Sigrid's eyes twitched, and she couldn't quite believe it.

She had imagined countless scenarios of reuniting with the Holy Son in the Southern Continent.

But she never expected that when they met again, he would be someone else's husband.

A loud thump echoed through the room.

The apple in Lanqi's hand dropped to the floor, rolling in circles.

Lanqi's pupils quivered.

The only sound in the living room was the flow of air, but all three of them froze.

It was a scene of stillness.

Talia was the first to move, her eyes shifting between the two.

She didn't understand why Lanqi and the girl seemed to have their brains short-circuit upon seeing each other.

Talia waved her hand in front of Sigrid's eyes, but she couldn't change the fact that Sigrid was staring intently at her husband.

After a long while, Lanqi managed to speak, "Sidda, why are you here?"

He forced a smile, his mind racing to make sense of the situation.

If Sigrid had crossed the sea to the Southern Continent, she would likely have contacted the Resurrection Church, which could have led her to the Dimensional Branch.

And the Cardinal Bishop Toriato, who was in charge of the Dimensional Branch, was well-informed about the situation in the Northern Continent. He must have known about the story of Macassi and Sigrid!

"I'll find you the perfect bride worthy of your status as Principal Loch Macassi. You won't be able to resist her!"

"Just focus on your mission in the Shadow World. When you return, I'll even use teleportation magic to bring your bride to you!"

Lanqi's memory flashed back to a night a month ago.

Every word Toriato had spoken in the theater that night echoed in Lanqi's ears like a demonic chant, reverberating in his mind.

"Ah!"

Lanqi understood everything, and he swallowed hard.

It seemed like a big problem was about to unfold.

"You can't underestimate the Holy Son. He's only been in the Southern Continent for a short time, and he's already married such a wonderful woman."

Sigrid spoke slowly, emphasizing each word.

"Wait, wife? No, it's a fiancee, no, not a fiancee either..."

Lanqi tried to explain, but Talia's gaze grew colder.

It seemed like he was denying his wife's identity in front of others, which made her furious.

Just as Lanqi paused, he heard Sigrid's mocking laughter.

"What's the matter? Are you concerned about her opinion, so you deny it? Is she that good? So much so that you want to be with her every night, not even wanting to spend a moment apart?"

Sigrid asked with a smile, repeating what Tata had told her earlier. She understood the meaning behind Lanqi's gaze.

"No, it's not like that," Lanqi said, standing his ground as if facing death. Sweat beaded on his forehead as he looked at the two formidable women before him.

If he ran now, things would only get more complicated.

"How is it not? And... do you know each other?"

Talia looked at the girl in confusion, then at Lanqi, who seemed to be in a strange state.

So, Toriato had sent someone they knew?

But Talia couldn't recall Lanqi ever mentioning a blonde-haired girl like this.

The intimate relationship between the two was palpable, and Talia felt a surge of jealousy.

"You two were holding hands and even eating together like that. Is that true?"

Sigrid continued her interrogation, each person speaking their own thoughts.

She repeated the seemingly fictional story Tata had told her, seeking confirmation from Lanqi.

The more she asked, the more she realized that Tata's story might be true.

Lanqi was at a loss for words, his voice failing him as two piercing gazes bore into him.

If he admitted it, Sigrid would explode.

If he denied it, Talia would explode.

At least one of them was bound to explode!

"Lanqi, say something," Talia urged, realizing that there was some connection between the two.

She seemed to understand why Lanqi would vehemently deny their relationship in front of other women, and the bitterness in her heart was a mix of disappointment, anger, suspicion, and sorrow. These complex emotions made her especially displeased.

"We did do that kind of thing, didn't we? You even said I was like a big gray cat that you could hug and feed for an afternoon."

Talia questioned, not caring if her words might blow up in her face. She just wanted Lanqi to admit it.

Ding-a-ling-clang!

The sound of pots and pans clattering to the floor echoed from the kitchen.

Even Cat Boss, who was listening in, couldn't hold back and was startled, causing the pots to drop due to unstable telekinetic control.

Even though Cat Boss knew that the incident in Paria, where the two of them were hugging and eating together, was a misunderstanding, it was likely that Tata had misread Lanqi's mind at the Cologne Bridge Inn. But Tata, who was always strong-willed, wouldn't back down in front of other women.

The atmosphere in the living room became even more mysterious, like a powder keg ready to explode with the slightest spark.

The distance between the three of them was only a few meters, but a deep chasm seemed to separate them.

Talia's breath was filled with unease, and even the slightest movement of Sigrid's finger joints could have catastrophic consequences.

Caught in the eye of the storm, Lanqi was like a small boat in the calm eye, about to be swept into the war that was about to break out in this house.

Finally, Lanqi took a deep breath and spoke to the two of them, "Although this matter is not as simple as it seems, one thing is certain: Miss Tata and I are currently pretending to be an engaged couple to deceive the Kreithine Empire."

Lanqi took a deep breath and explained to them, "When this happened, I had already given a full explanation to my client, Mr. Toriato. He knows everything, but there may have been misunderstandings along the way because he was just taken away."

Cat Boss eavesdropped from the kitchen, listening to the commotion outside.

First of all, panicking at this moment was useless; the more the person involved felt guilty, the more they would be misunderstood.

Only sincerity and courage could make the two of them accept and calmly explain the situation.

Lanqi spoke slowly and calmly.

Cat Boss listened to Lanqi's attempt at damage control while cooking in the kitchen.

It knew that sincerity was Lanqi's ultimate skill, one that neither Talia nor Sigrid could resist.

But Lanqi only resorted to sincerity when pushed to the brink, using it to face danger head-on.

And after being too sincere, he would start to become abstract.

But today, Lanqi could only go all out.

"I understand that this is your first time meeting in the Kreithine Empire, and I have a responsibility to explain to you. In fact, there are some things that even I can't control, which leads to mistakes. Sometimes, we think we're being clever, we have misconceptions, we get caught up in obsessions, we get hurt, and we hurt others."

He continued, bowing to both of them in apology, "I set a wrong example."

Despite Lanqi's clear and sincere apology, his slip-up had already revealed his unease.

Today's sudden situation was truly unexpected.

When he saw Sigrid, she was already in the living room, and she had been chatting with Talia for a while.

Sigrid had already reached his face on the mini-map before he noticed the problem.

He wasn't sure how to resolve this situation either.

"It's fine. Here's a good meal, and the three of us can sit down, eat, and chat. How does that sound?"

Sigrid was familiar with Lanqi's problem-solving approach and often emulated it. She pointed to the dining table.

This way, everyone's demands could be met. They would get their explanations, and Lanqi could clarify the situation while also having lunch.

She was too familiar with the Holy Son's linguistic arts to let him gloss over the issue.

And is a "big gray cat" really that cute? It's just a cheating cat!

Talia turned her head to stare at the woman, her golden eyes no longer filled with care but with a killer's gaze, as if she were eyeing someone who wanted to steal her man.

Ever since her country's destruction, she had lost everything, and now she only had her precious disciple left. If anyone dared to take her disciple away, she couldn't guarantee what she might do.

"Okay."

Feeling the heavy atmosphere, Lanqi walked over to the dining table where Talia and Sigrid were and pulled out a chair to sit down and have a proper chat with them about the whole situation.

"Come over here," Sigrid patted the chair next to her.

After they both sat down, there seemed to be an unspoken mutual dislike, leaving an empty seat between them.

Lanqi didn't dare to speak, his gaze fixed on the empty chair.

He was going to sit between the two of them...

Would the three of them really be able to eat this meal?

"What's there to be nervous about?" Talia noticed Lanqi's hesitation, and her voice softened. With a perfect smile, she said to Lanqi, "Lanqi, sit down."

With her master by his side, there was nothing to be afraid of.

Lanqi remained silent, walking around the table and finally sitting down at the designated spot, facing death.

Talia on his left and Sigrid on his right, both women were looking at him.

Lanqi sat down, wiping the sweat from his neck.

(End of Chapter)

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