Chapter 69 Reunion Pt. 1

"Alright then come here." Seras waved her hand and signaled for Exedra to come next to her so they could teleport.

Exedra frowned when he saw the way his teacher was beckoning him.

The last few times she'd tried to take him somewhere, she'd put her hands on some dangerous places.

"No thanks." Exedra gave her a brief refusal before his body became wrapped in shadows and he disappeared.

"Tsk. You're finally talking after all this time and that's all you have to say?"

It was worth noting that Seras' frustration came from Exedra's behavior over the last few months.

While the first month was fine, during the second month he started to feel the absence of his family more.

He became closed off and spoke to her less and less and when he did his replies were short and simple.

In the third month, he stopped speaking altogether.

He simply was not interested in conversation in the slightest.

Everything Seras asked him to do he did efficiently and without complaint.

He behaved as if the only thing that was separating him from his family was whatever task he had in front of him at the moment.

Seras began to feel slightly discouraged, but her stubbornness was what brought her to where she was today!

She didn't believe she couldn't make him fall for her in the next year or so!

What did his wives have that she didn't?

If she only had a mirror she would've noticed two distinctive areas where she was sorely lacking.

With her will burning anew, Seras also teleported to the castle.

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When Seras appeared beside Exedra in front of the castle, she broke him out of the small trance seeing his home after so long had put him in.

Slowly, he walked past the guards who were already bowing and was about to walk through the front door when he sensed a presence that he knew incredibly well.

Exedra turned around to see a little girl with long black hair, and purple and red eyes flying towards him.

The girl was covered in blood and was carrying a small cat in one arm and the carcass of a shade panther in the other.

Exedra was immediately alarmed when he saw the small girl covered in blood, but with one whiff of the air he knew none of it was hers.

"DADDYYYYY!!"

Mira let loose a loud cry of surprise and happiness before she dove towards her father like a bullet.

Exedra smiled held out his arms, prompting Mira to dive right into her father's embrace.

"You're back! You're really back!!" Mira had forgotten all about her fresh hunt and her small cat and dropped both to wail in her father's arms.

"Yea… I'm here my daughter."

"Meow!" ( How could you just drop me like that!) Megumin cried from atop the body of the panther.

"I-I did like you said and I got strong!" She cried through choked breaths.

Exedra wasn't paying attention at first, but now he could feel it clearly.

His daughter that wasn't even seven years old yet, was already stage 1.

'Analyze.'

< Status : Proud

< Race: Lightning Dragon

< Age : 163

< Times Evolved: 1

< Health: 60,000

< Strength : 20,080

< Endurance : 21,421

< Agility: 24,739

< Mana : 24,500

'So you did it too my love…' his pride from seeing that not only his daughter, but his wife had evolved while he was away brought him an indescribable joy.

"Mommy! Daddy is back!" Mira cried from her beside her father.

When those simple words left her mouth, the space suddenly became deadly quiet and everyone looked for the source of the voice.

As if she was unwilling to believe what she'd just heard, Lisa turned around slowly to see her daughter standing happily next to the man she loved more than anything else in the world.

"H-honey?" Her disbelieving voice came out as no more than a whisper.

Instead of answering, Exedra vanished from the spot where he stood beside Seras and Mira and appeared right in front of Lisa and pulled her in for a kiss that contained all of his months of longing.

Lisa was only briefly surprised before she returned his kiss in kind and a tear of joy slid down her cheek.

Almost as if that was the confirmation they needed, the guards began to cheer for the return of their Young master.

"T-the young master has returned!"

As cheers and rounds of applause filled the training grounds, only Seras was in a less than joyful mood.

'Bastards just get a room already!!'