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"Noah! What are you doing!"
Seeing Noah's hand on Irene's smooth abdomen, and Irene biting her lip with a look of endurance, it was hard not to associate this scene with the phrase "forcing a good person into prostitution."
Erza's fiery temper immediately flared up.
A flying kick landed squarely on Noah's face. Without even giving her man a chance to explain, Erza, while Noah was on the ground, unleashed a barrage of furious kicks.
Mira stepped forward and pulled Irene away, shielding her tightly behind her. She looked at Noah with a resentful expression. "I didn't expect you, Noah, to be such a person. You've truly disappointed me."
Noah, wriggling on the ground, grabbed Erza's leg and tried to explain, "Erza, Mira, listen to me, it's not what you think!"
"Then what is it?!"
Seeing that Noah dared to talk back, even Mira couldn't hold back. She stepped up and stomped on Noah's face. "In the middle of the night, you, a grown man, ran into a single woman's room and did such things to her..."
"Erza, we must teach Noah a lesson today! I'll attack his kidneys, and you stomp and kick his third leg!"
"Alright!"
Erza and Mira exchanged glances and immediately reached a consensus on Noah's punishment. He can reorganize cells, so even if it's stomped off, it can probably recover.
Brutal, truly too brutal.
Hearing Mira and Erza's words, Noah shivered in fright.
Although the two of them couldn't even break his defense, if he were dealt with like this, how would Noah ever face people again?
Catching a glimpse of the still-confused Irene out of the corner of his eye, Noah was like a drowning man grasping at a straw. "Irene... Mother-in-law, please help me explain! If they really cripple me, what about your daughter's happiness for the rest of her life?"
It was Irene, who had finally regained her senses, who smoothed things over. "Noah was just healing an old scar for me from a long time ago. It's really not what you think. Please let him go."
Erza and Mira's movements froze in mid-air. Noah's words almost caused their brains to crash.
What did Noah call Irene just now?!
Mother-in-law???
Mira's eyes were full of shock, her face blushing slightly with embarrassment, while Erza herself had fallen into a daze. It turned out they had misunderstood from the very beginning...
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.
"Ha... haha, Noah, we were wrong, please don't be angry." Mira helped Noah up while awkwardly smiling.
This time, it was Noah's turn to be unforgiving, but he knew there were still important matters to attend to, so he could only deal with them later. At that time, a thousand pushes of the cart each should be enough to compensate for his emotional distress.
Noah pulled the slowly recovering Erza and told her the reason he came to find Irene, as well as Irene's past and their relationship.
The Queen from four hundred years ago.
The creator of Enchantment.
The Mother of Dragon Slayers.
One great deed after another, yet they couldn't stir Erza's heart. Only upon hearing of Irene's terrible experience after being cruelly betrayed, Erza's heart couldn't help but feel sadness and bitterness.
She had fantasized countless times: if she could meet her relatives, what would she say to them?
Would it be resentment? Or would she acknowledge them?
Erza had struggled for a long time without finding the answer in her heart, because she had never experienced the familial bond of blood.
This doubt was finally confirmed at this moment.
When it was confirmed through Noah's words that Irene was her mother, Erza felt neither resentment nor the hatred of being abandoned; she just felt like crying.
She had dedicated herself wholeheartedly to the country, only to be verbally attacked and criticized by everyone. How desperate she must have been at that time.
Even at that point, she still had to endure torment to protect herself...
As for Irene's later attempt to possess her body through Personality Enchantment which failed, Erza didn't believe that explanation at all.
Given Irene's mastery of Enchantment, did she fail because Erza lacked talent in Enchantment, or was it because she simply couldn't bring herself to take her daughter's body?
Erza believed it was the latter.
Seeing the mother and daughter speechless, Noah knew that both of them were strong-willed individuals, and with more people around, they would be less willing to speak. So, it was better to leave them some space...
After leaving Irene's room, Noah used his Magnetic Field Power and indeed heard the mother and daughter begin to talk, which made Noah feel that his good deed today was not in vain.
However... Noah's gaze shifted, landing on Mira. "Mira, weren't you and Erza already asleep? How did you know I was in Irene's room?"
Mira's expression was awkward. "Erza and I were sleeping soundly when Irene's two maids woke us up. They said you and their mistress were having a secret rendezvous..."
Noah suddenly understood. He wondered why he hadn't seen Irene's two maids in her room; it turned out they had run off to report... no, to spread rumors about him.
And Erza and Mira actually believed them!
Coming so aggressively to catch him in the act, Erza probably never expected to catch her own mother...
Indeed, like mother, like daughter.
These two, when it came to being deceived, truly ran in the same vein.