Chapter 23: Mother and Daughter

When the figure on the sofa stood up, everyone in the room looked up at her.

This was an exceptionally tall witch, a full two meters tall. Just as her face turned over, Alice beside Dorothy let out an exclamation.

"So beautiful, Sister, this big sister looks a bit like you."

And Dorothy, even though she was full of impatience, couldn't help but calm down a bit when this face appeared in her line of sight.

Humans are always exceptionally tolerant of beautiful things, and the beauty of this tall witch was absolutely worthy of being called beautiful. It was simply on par with the beauty of the pure white angel witch she met in the bookstore before. The two could be ranked as the second most beautiful people Dorothy had ever seen in this life.

Like that pure white angel witch, this tall witch named Euphilia also had a high degree of evolution, so high that some non-human features inevitably appeared on her body surface, such as the pair of dragon horns on her head that looked like a crown, or the pair of cold vertical pupils that shone like gold.

However, these non-human features not only didn't damage her beauty but instead added a bit of wild and majestic charm. Coupled with that expressionless, exquisite face, she looked wild yet cold, beautiful yet dangerous, with a unique temperament that was awe-inspiring and inviolable.

Even though she had seen this face once in her memory, seeing it again now, Dorothy was still amazed by this beauty.

It's just that such an emotion was only for a moment. Dorothy was least lacking in resistance to beauty, so she just frowned and completely resisted the charm of this "demonic face." She still stared at this witch with an unkind expression, her gaze firm without any wavering.

And seeing Dorothy, the cold gaze of the tall dragon witch softened a bit.

"....."

She opened her mouth, seemingly wanting to say something, but stopped again. In the end, she only spat out a few words.

"Long time no see."

"But I don't really want to see you, Euphilia."

Dorothy, however, had no intention of appreciating it and retorted with sharp words.

Upon hearing such merciless words, the dragon witch frowned. Her gaze condensed, and a shocking momentum rose from her body, but in the end, it disappeared before reaching Dorothy, leaving only a breeze brushing her face.

"Whether I come to see you is up to me, it has nothing to do with your will. Dorothy, go pack your things. You're coming back with me today."

She restrained her temper and just spat out such words coldly in the end.

"Who are you? Why should I go with you? Please do as you please, don't drag me into it."

Even though the suddenly erupted momentum before made her whole body tremble, Dorothy still didn't back down at all. She sneered and mocked this big shot in front of her.

"I am your mother."

The dragon witch, whose temper didn't seem too good, finally erupted. She raised her voice and roared. Under the loss of emotional control, the originally soft and pleasant female voice was even accompanied by a dragon roar, carrying amazing momentum.

"I don't have a mother."

Dorothy also roared back, not to be outdone. She, who had always been gentle and calm, was rarely out of emotional control now, so much so that the mana that had always been bound by her will erupted with the venting of emotions.

This made her pupils shrink, turning into dragon-like vertical pupils. Her voice became somewhat similar to the dragon witch opposite, also like a dragon roar, but it was the roar of a hatchling—crisp, but lacking a bit of majesty.

And such a change in herself also made Dorothy feel annoyed. There were some things that objectively existed regardless of whether she admitted it or not.

After taking a deep breath, she regained her calm, and the abnormalities on her body dissipated.

It was just that the atmosphere of the mother and daughter confronting each other was a bit oppressive, which made Alice, who had been standing beside Dorothy, run to her parents' side, shivering. It was the first time she had seen her sister so irritable since she grew up.

The petite mother, Annie, who was not much different from her daughter in stature, reached out and hugged her daughter. The atmosphere of the mother and daughter confronting each other on the side didn't count for much to her. She just looked at her husband on the side coldly, signaling this useless man to hurry up and solve this matter.

This made the elegant middle-aged man, who had always been silent, look bitter, but he still gritted his teeth and stood up, wanting to say something.

But before he could speak, the overbearing dragon witch gave him a fierce look, making him sit down again.

"It's not your turn to speak here, Adam. Now all this is the mistake you made in the first place."

The dragon witch's words made the man's face turn pale. He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but couldn't make any sound under the pressure like a mountain.

After all, he was just a human mage. Even if he was powerful enough to be called a legend among humans, he was really not enough in front of a witch, especially a Peak Witch.

"This is my home, you're the one who should shut up, Euphilia. Since you chose to abandon us back then, why look back now? Please leave immediately and don't disturb our family's peaceful life anymore."

Dorothy walked quickly to her father's front, struggling a bit but finally carrying the pressure like Mount Tai pressing down on the top. Although under this pressure, every cell in her body was screaming, fearing, and shouting for her to leave quickly, to escape quickly, Dorothy still ignored this survival instinct of her body. She said this firmly, word by word.

Fortunately, the terrifying pressure soon disappeared. The phantom on the dragon witch, who had almost completely turned into a terrifying giant dragon in Dorothy's superior inspiration just now, also dissipated one after another. She returned to normal, as if the anger just now was just an illusion.

"As expected of my daughter, Dorothy, you are very good. Your talent is even above mine. My divination back then was indeed not wrong. Although Adam, this piece of trash, has poor strength, his genes are indeed the most compatible with mine."

The dragon witch was still expressionless, but the golden pupils looked at Dorothy with appreciation. Then, a smile finally appeared on her cold face, but it was a mocking sneer.

"I abandoned you? Dorothy, so this is how Adam, this piece of trash, has explained it to you for so many years? I have been looking for you for sixteen years, my stupid daughter. Perhaps you should ask your good father why he wanted to take you and run away from me back then, and ran for sixteen years."

Uh...

Regarding such inexplicable words, Dorothy was stunned. She turned around and looked at her father behind her in disbelief, but the middle-aged man was lowering his head at this time, not daring to look at her.

Damn...

At this moment, Dorothy's whole person went numb. Was her life experience so complicated? Could it be that she had hated the wrong person for so many years? ===== CHAPTER 24 =====