"Huh? You don't have a darkness ability?" Alex asked, stunned.
"No," Anna replied, still confused.
"Then how about a bloodline?"
"Well, I don't know. Even if I have one, I don't seem to have awakened it, though," said Anna, with a thoughtful expression on her face.
'I don't know about the bloodline, but it should be impossible that she had no clue about her darkness ability. Everyone has an instinctual knowledge about their powers the moment they awaken them, so how can she not know about her ability?' contemplated Alex.
'For her bloodline, it's actually normal that she doesn't know about it, though,' remarked Alex.
The reason he thought it was quite normal for Anna to not know if she had a bloodline or not was the fact that, under normal conditions, information about the bloodline was generally held by a family's upper echelon.
They were the ones who explained how to awaken your bloodline or how the bloodline worked, those sorts of things. That was exactly why Anna didn't know if she had a bloodline or not, as she was considered to be an orphan.
Anna was actually found by Ava when she was on one of her missions. Anna was barely 8 years old at that time and had lost her memory, so she didn't know if she had parents or such, thus she just consider herself as an orphan.
The only family she ever knew was the Eswald family.
'Even if she knew about her bloodline, I doubt she would know how to awaken it,' thought Alex, as he knew that most bloodlines had an awakening requirement.
Actually, from what his father once told him, the Eswald family also possessed a bloodline. However, the requirement to awaken it was being at level 7. That's why no one knew about it, not even the current patriarch, as Alex's father was the sole Eswald, beside their ancestor, to have attained level 7.
'Well, there is Grandma, but since she isn't a born Eswald, she doesn't count.'
So, the only person knowing about their bloodline was actually Alex.
'From what the old man said, it should be a sort of strength multiplier bloodline. I guess that's why he was actually stronger than regular level 7.'
All of that to say that Anna not knowing about her bloodline was normal. However, the same formula didn't apply to her ability. Her not knowing about her ability meant that something was wrong. It was either that she was lying - which he doubted - or that something was terribly wrong.
"Is something wrong?" asked Anna, seeing Alex's frown deepening.
Hearing her question, Alex decided to tell her about his findings. Since he couldn't do it without telling her about the artifact, he had no choice but to tell her about it - not like he was going to keep it a secret from her anyway.
"I see," said Anna after hearing Alex's story, from him finding the artifact to the fact that he needed to sleep with women to become stronger, to how he knew that she had a bloodline coupled with a darkness ability that she didn't even know she possessed.
'That should be a lot to take in, I imagine,' thought Alex as he saw that Anna seemed to be in deep thought.
However, contrary to what he expected when she finally spoke it wasn't about her bloodline or ability.
Anna looked at him and said in a cautious tone, "So, you have to sleep with multiple women to become stronger, right?"
"Yep."
"Does Mistress Lilia know?"
"Yep."
"Is she okay with that?"
"Yep."
Hearing his last response, Anna seemed to be a little conflicted, so Alex asked her, "Does it bother you that I need to be with other women?"
"No, not particularly. If Mistress Lilia is fine with it, I don't see why I should be the one bothered by it. What troubles me is how she will react when she finds out about us."
Hearing her, Alex just shrugged his arms to show that he didn't have a clue about that. "I don't know about that, but what I do know is her reaction when she sees that you are late for your work."
It wasn't until Alex hinted at it that Anna finally glanced outside. The moment she saw that it was already morning, she quickly got out of bed and rushed to the bathroom while saying repeatedly, "Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t..."
Seeing her like that, Alex chuckled in amusement, knowing well that Lilia would probably do nothing to Anna even if she was late.
'I should probably also head out and go see if Mom has prepared the cores as I asked.'
'Although the fact that Anna doesn't know about her ability worries me a bit, I will have to ask Aunt Eleanor to check and see if there is something wrong with her mind.'
'Ahh... it's been so long since I saw her,' thought Alex while dreaming about his aunt.
Eleanor was the daughter of his grandfather's third wife and also the youngest of the siblings. She was also the first crush of Alex.
'I will definitely need to make her mine.'