Seeing Erin and Elaine this time Irina and Anya were the ones that acted like fangirls.
Irina approached Erin and rose the sides of her dress as she introduced herself.
“Irina Risha, it’s a pleasure to meet an eminence for darkness mages like lady Erin!”.
Even the quiet Anya had a respectful expression as she slightly bowed her head.
“Anya Risha, it’s a pleasure to meet the “ice princess of twilight”, of the wild claw academy”.
Both Yvonne and Liliana sighed, the moment they heard their mothers were coming with them, they knew this was bound to happen,
Erin accepted Irina’s gesture with a smile, nowadays the younger generation was not aware of the prowess of a half emperor, there haven’t been new half emperors in a long time after all.
But Erin became a half emperor after her daughters were born, so her popularity among the girls with darkness affinity of generations which were close to the ones of Liz and Elaine, is incredibly high.
Elaine on the other hand couldn’t help but feel embarrassed listening to that tittle other people used to call her in her teenage years, especially because she saw Daimon laughing at her.
Of course, she did her best to keep her cool and just nodded at Anya, as the clan head she needed to keep a calm and dignified attitude in front of people from other clans.
Erin looked at the other youths near Daimon, her eyes stopped at Yvonne, Liliana and Leslie for a split of a second, before she smiled.
“Don’t be so stiff, come let’s have breakfast together, I want to hear how has Daimon been fairing at the academy”.
Erin guided them to the dining room of the now guest’s mansion, where a banquet was already waiting for them.
Everyone took their respective seats and started digging in, one side of the table was occupied by the members of the elite class and the ladies of the Risha family and Mireya, the other one was for Daimon’s family.
This time Daimon sat with Erin at his right and Elaine at his left, Erin even gave her a proud gaze as she got closer to Daimon.
Something that made Liz feel a bit bitter, but she could only sigh and munch her breakfast, while they were at the Revy clan, her mother and sister had the priority.
“Hmph once we return to the academy, I will ask him to take me to a date”, she thought.
“Say “ahh” Daimon ♥”.
Under the surprised gazes of Daimon’s classmates, Erin cut some pieces of grilled meat and offered them personally to Daimon, Yvonne and the other girls were used to see Aisha and even Liz doing it, but this time it was a half emperor which was doing it.
Irina was lost in her thoughts seeing her idol acting so close with a member of the younger generation.
“How many people in the whole wonder myriad stellar chart can say a half emperor has personally fed them… this kid is for sure something else”.
Still for Irina, Veronica and Anya this wasn’t weird, Daimon’s publicly known background was that he and Aisha were adopted by Erin when they were little, so they just thought Erin treated him as her son, just like they were a bit too motherly with their daughters.
The breakfast went on without any problems, Yvonne and Leslie told Erin about all the things that happened at the welcome ceremony, and the incidents with the Gladius, Ascott and Grayer families.
As the stories continued, Erin giggled at some and then looked at bit serious as others, Daimon knew she had a lot of questions for him, but that will have to wait because he saw the screen of his sigil lector showing him a three-word message.
“We are here”.
Erin also saw the message and she stood up along with Elaine and Aura.
“Feel at home and enjoy the many places to see at my Revy clan, Liz and Aisha will be your guides for the rest of the weekend… now if you excuse us, we will borrow Daimon for a couple of hours”.
Daimon nodded at Aisha and Liz, he stood up and they left the guest’s mansion.
Irina, turned to see her daughter with a slightly confused expression.
“Yvi, I thought this was something like a class trip, so why is that kid leaving?”.
“Mm?”, Yvonne suddenly remembered she didn’t tell her mom about how Gabriel Jolbaris approached Daimon to ask for a favor, on the other hand she didn’t know if it was okay for her to reveal something like that without Daimon’s permission, so she decided to avoid the subject.
“Well, originally it was Aisha the one who invited us, Daimon told us he had some things to attend here, anyway we came here to enjoy the hot springs”.
Irina exchanged some gazes with Veronica and Anya before replying.
“You are right dear, let’s go see the many attractions of one of the two strongest families in the beast faction”.
Veronica then looked at her daughter and giggled, before hugging her daughter.
“A mother and daughter weekend with my Leslie is also not that bad, I needed something like this to forget about all those stubborn old geezers”.
Leslie tried to get her mother off her, but as a star mage how could she possibly break free form an Archmage, so at the end she could only accept it.
“This is going to be such a long weekend… at least those two will share my pain”, she thought looking at Yvonne and Liliana which were also being toyed by their mothers.
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Outside of the guest’s mansion Erin and Elaine were each one hugging Daimon’s arms as they walked towards Erin’s mansion.
Erin noticed Aura’s slightly jealous expression and she stuck her tongue at her, sparks seemed to fly between them which made Daimon sigh.
“Be nice you two, we have some guests to deal with right now… speaking of that who is that hidden half emperor, do you know him?”.
Erin snorted.
“How could it not know her; she is from the same generation as me after all”.
Daimon frowned.
“She?”.
Aura chuckled.
“Right, I forgot to tell you, the other half emperor of the Jolbaris is the woman who used to be Erin’s rival at the academy”.
Without noticing they arrived at Erin’s mansion where a white carriage with an emblem which had a tiger and lightning patterns was waiting for them.
The door of the carriage opened and Gabriel came out from it, followed by a tall woman which was wearing a white long dress.
For a moment the world seemed to lost its color, Daimon’s sixth sense made him rise his guard, with his truth seeker eyes he could see that woman’s mana clashing with Erin’s, it didn’t last for too long just a split of a second because Gabriel tugged the sleeve of the woman.
The woman then looked at Erin before her gaze focused on Daimon,
Daimon returned the gaze to the woman while he evaluated her without letting her intimidate him.
The woman had long white hair with black stripes similar to Gabriel’s, her tiger like ears and tail identified her as a member of the Jolbaris family.
The woman’s sharp eyes glowed with admiration for a moment before a melodious but sharp voice could be heard.
“It seems we are still tied Erin… how many years has it been since we saw each other, two or three hundred years?”.
Erin smiled before saying.
“Don’t misunderstand Leena, I gave you a friendly reminder a moment ago, your mana has gotten weaker so I can assure you are no match for me right now”.
Leena’s eyes narrowed a bit before electricity started crackling around her body, Erin responded in kind as a black mist gathered around her.
But before things could get out of hand, a relaxed voice interrupted their quarrel.
“Enough”.
Daimon’s voice was calm, but his tone was firm, Leena was about to reply when she saw Erin dispelling her mana, then when she looked at Daimon just to feel a shiver running down her spine.
There was a dim violet glow in Daimon’s eyes which made Leena feel as if a powerful magic beast was targeting her, the electricity also dispersed and she remained silent.
Gabriel on the other hand was screaming in his mind.
“No way, they both actually stopped”.
Right in front of his eyes, two half emperors listened to a star ranked mage so of course he was going crazy right now, what he didn’t know was Erin would of course listen to Daimon, as for Leena… her instincts made her feel the aura produced by Overlords pride which was boosted by the fear Agramy and Clarens felt due to him.
Seeing that both of them took a step back, Daimon dispelled his aura and then pointed at Erin’s mansion.
“If there is nothing else, then I suggest we start with our negotiation”.
