Now that Camila wasn’t a threat for herself and for the other people that was in the castle, Lilia dispelled the barrier,
Of course, there was a slight agitation, the maids thought the supreme elder was attacked by the new patriarch, or something along the lines, surprisingly the guards didn’t flee and instead surrounded the whole area which used to be blocked by the barrier.
When Lilia dispelled the barrier, Aster judged their expressions, although all of them were clearly intimidated their faces revealed they were ready to fight.
The maids which Aster met yesterday left the crowd and immediately stood next Camila, whispering at her.
“Young miss, are you okay… did he do anything to you?”.
Rya laughed from the mind space finding the situation rather amusing.
“Their worries are logic, you are surrounded by a lot of girls all the time and you just left Camila’s room which is a mess, in their eyes you probably forced the supreme elder to “surrender”.
Aster didn’t know whether he should laugh or cry, the maids were just earth origin realm cultivators so of course he heard them and Rya added salt to the wound.
“I wonder if I really look like some kind of “silk pants young master”, for others”, he thought, remembering Alessia’s worries when he offered them a way out of the book.
Rya contemplated things for a second before answering.
“Well, in Alessia’s case it was just distrust, but now it could be related to all the “yin” you have stored without refining… mmm for some women you have a certain aura which makes you either interesting or dangerous, depending on their perception”.
“I don’t know too much about it, but is something often used by dual cultivators to find partners”.
Aster shook his head, “I really need to find a good dual cultivation technique, I have so many things to do”.
Camila felt a bit embarrassed understanding what her maids were suggesting, so she hurriedly explained the situation to the guards and the maids to avoid a misunderstanding, once things got cleared, they apologized and left.
“Please don’t take it against them, those girls and the guards are actually part of my family branch… Isaac did everything in his power to keep them in the lower side of the clan, because he didn’t want me to have too much authority”.
“No worries, I’m rather impressed because they didn’t coward unlike the elders, perhaps I was unfortunate to meet the wrong Wolfsteins”, said Aster with a contemplative expression.
Lilia had a cunning smile as she invited Camila to accompany them.
“Camila, how about you come take breakfast with us, the woman which will give us cooking lessons will be at the restaurant anyway, so we can also arrange the meeting at once”.
Camila happily accepted and before she could react, they disappeared from the castle, once she noticed what happened, she looked at her surroundings and then took a deep breath of cold air.
“This is Ghaleria… but how is it possible, we were at the Wolfstein castle a second ago!”.
Sarina had a weird expression, she understood the surprise that Lilia’s methods could bring to “normal” cultivators, teleporting in such a short amount of time and without a spirit formation is out of question for anyone below the void manipulation realm, so for them is a thing only heard on legends.
She patted Camila’s shoulder to help her calm down.
“When you are around Aster, I suggest you to keep your mind open, it’s not good for your health to keep getting surprised at every moment”.
Camila remembered the fantasy like thing that happened to her, and also the bracelet in her wrist which was suppressing her even as a “legendary” star tribulation cultivator and she nodded.
“Thanks, I’ll keep it in mind”.
Ghaleria is under the management of the Ghale family so after all these years, they had built a private entrance reserved for Aster and his family, he was the son in law of the city lord after all.
And the one in charge of it was the guard that once gave indications to Aster, Arthur ascended him to be a supervisor once he learned that the guard was the one that told Aster about Aria’s inn, which indirectly made them meet and end up together.
The guard greeted Aster as soon as he saw him, before he opened the gate for them, not without giving him thumbs up when he saw the new “companions”, Aster brought with him this time.
Aster today was a bit lost in his thoughts., “A simple bump with someone which makes a huge difference in one’s life… I guess that’s also karma”.
As they previously discussed the first stop was the fragrant pavilion, in a nostalgic occasion Aria guided them to the restaurant.
The old woman which everyone called fragrant senior received them at the entrance of her establishment, she couldn’t help but steal a couple of glances at Aster.
“To think the little kid of some years ago… just killed a star axys cultivator and took over one of the four bigger families in our star cluster, thanks to the heavens I didn’t offend him back then”, she thought.
The old woman personally took them to a private room on the second floor and took their orders before leaving to prepare the food.
In a surprisingly sisterly act, Alice didn’t fight with Aria for the seat next to her brother, Lilia of course took the right place, Aria sat on the left, Sarina and Alice at in front of them with Camila and Kana took her place on Aster’s lap.
Seeing Lilia happily hugging her son’s arm, Camila couldn’t help but remember the scene of Aster carrying her like a princess, making her blush in the process.
Then she suddenly remembered what Aster told her about the current color of her yes, before she looked at Kana.
She knew Kana was Sarina’s daughter, their hair color was the same… but her eyes were, like the ones Aster affirmed to have, her imagination ran wild before she couldn’t contain her curiousness.
It was due to Kana looking so happy around Aster, that she took the bet of telling him about the chest after all, which ultimately led to her receiving some kind of inheritance from the Wolfstein ancestor.
“That little girl is your daughter right, is Aster her…?”.
Sarina laughed understanding what Camila was thinking, Kana was quite close to Aster, so from others point of view she looked like an affectionate daughter.
Aster was flirting with Lilia an Aria so, while they waited for the food, Sarina didn’t mind telling Camila a bit of their story.
“She is only my daughter, Aster met her when they arrived to what you all thought it was a secret realm, due to a certain situation he ended saving both our lives and he also accepted us as a part of his family”.
Sarina’s eyes were filled with love as she looked at Aster, before she continued with her story
“In fact, if he didn’t appear, our galaxy and probably yours would have turned into a lifeless wasteland, in my galaxy there are star tribulation cultivators, but… the enemies were above that”.
Camila tried to discern if Sarina was telling the truth or not, and after a couple of seconds her instincts helped her reach a shocking verdict, she wasn’t lying.
Which confirmed her suspicions about Lilia, Isaac was a lot of things but modest wasn’t one of them, so of course he bragged with the elders as soon as he got the marriage agreement with Gerard, and of course explained them why becoming in laws with a sea of knowledge cultivator was something to take pride in.
Indirectly Isaac’s bragging broadened the horizons of the Wolfstein family elders, at least now they knew what came after the star tribulation realm.
“Teleportation and they defeated the “sea of knowledge” cultivator, Isaac was so confident on… I wonder how stronger is Lilia”, she thought.
The food didn’t take too much time to arrive, the waiters of the restaurant brought plate after plate of different dishes.
Aster saw Kana’s big eyes glowing as the delicious smell of the food filled the room, something he found rather cute, Alice on the other hand looked like a ferocious predator.
He patted Kana’s head and then everyone dug in.
With the first bite both Kana and Sarina were surprised by the taste, after a moment they started eating as if there was no tomorrow.
Something Aster has always been curious off, is that after visiting other places in the azure sky planet and even the food of the royal castle back at Prasil, couldn’t compare with the one prepared by the owner of this restaurant.
“Mm?”, Aster felt a little tug on his sleeve and he saw downwards just to see Kana offering him a spoon of the stew she was eating.
“This taste really good, try it big brother!”, she said.
Aster smiled and accepted the offer, making Alice frown her brows as she noticed the little smile in Kana’s face.
“Innocent my ass, she learns quite fast”, she thought.