Their meal together wasn’t as bad as Zich and his companions expected. Walwiss showed basic manners to them the entire time. Even though he didn’t use high-level honorifics to Zich and Lyla, he used lower-level honorifics. He also called Lyla ‘Ms. Lyla’ as Elena’s teacher every time he addressed her. Elena, who felt nervous and fidgety the whole time, slowly began to talk more as their meeting progressed smoothly.

‘If it’s not about magic, they seem to have a very good relationship.’ Zich recalled how Elena told Orland that she didn’t want to leave her grandfather’s house. ‘Well, no wonder. If her relationship with her grandfather was awful, there would be no reason for her to stay here. She could easily just stay with her father.’

From what Elena told him, it seemed as if Orland used to live in the same house as her and Walwiss in the past. However, Orland naturally moved out when he switched his school of magic, and since Elena had studied Walwiss’ Pulru School of Magic, she stayed in Walwiss’ house. In a normal family, children would usually follow their parents, but the Dwayne family was not an ordinary family—they were a family of mages. 

When the main course was finished, the desserts were passed out. Even though Walwiss hadn’t brought up any sensitive topics so far, the reason...