And just like that, the Homun Family sent Leyvi and the group to prison. The guards imprisoned them in adjacent prison cells.
"I knew it. That Dorin girl is a trouble. How did we become her kidnappers? And the Homun Family guards didn't even listen to our explanation." Leyvi complained. His impression of her keeps getting worse. He didn't resist because he thought they would listen, but no.
"That's weird. I'm pretty sure I already sent the message to inform Norin before we leave the Holy Cat City. Maybe it didn't reach her due to the chaos." Anda speculated.
"Darling, this place smells. How long they will keep us here? I want to shower." Nala whined.
"At least they didn't seal our Qi and confiscate our belongings. This means that they are not entirely sure whether we are the kidnappers or not." Leyvi said.
"Should we just break out of this place?" Valenia asked.
"Val, please don't. They might consider us the kidnappers for real if we break out." Leyvi rejected.
While they were talking, Lilian was enjoying herself in the garden.
A few hours later, footsteps could be heard coming to their prison cells.
"Anda! It really is you!"
It was Norin. She had come to the prison to release Leyvi and the rest after she came to know about the situation.
"Hehe. Norin, it hasn't been that long, and we met again. Maybe you have a destiny with my husband." Anda joked.
Norin chuckled. She had expected Anda to say something like this. Although she had only known Anda very briefly, she could already grasp her personality.
Soon, someone brought them to a guest villa to clean themselves. Since they were Norin's friends, they were treated like important guests. Leyvi and the others were sitting around a dining table filled with delicious-looking dishes. Norin was also there, sitting with them, accompanied by her two maids.
"So, what is going on? How did we get treated like kidnappers?" Leyvi asked Norin while eating the food that was prepared for them. Although it was good, the maids' food was better and naturally they couldn't compare to Tasya's.
Norin sighed. "About that.... there's so many things that happened during that disaster. My father had tasked an elder to protect Dorin secretly. He said that after the Alchemy Competition ended, she quickly left the Grand Stadium and went somewhere with her followers."
Leyvi nodded. Dorin was indeed far away from the city center.
"When the attack happened, the elder immediately went back to the city center because he was worried about us because we were very near to the attack. Since Dorin was far, he thought she would be safe."
"After the Law Enforcement team came to deal with the demonic beasts, we managed to retreat to the south gate. After making sure we were safe, the elder returned to the place he left Dorin to fetch her, but she was gone and two of her followers were killed and the other three were unconscious."
Leyvi frowned. He could already guess how the story would develop. He didn't kill them because he felt that it was unnecessary, but now it almost bites them in the ass. Sigh, what a dilemma.
Sure enough, Norin recounted how the elder arrived at the scene and was shocked by what happened to Dorin's handsome followers and his spiritual sense that was spread to the maximum couldn't determine Dorin's whereabouts. He healed the three pretty guys who were still alive and asked them what happened.
Realizing that the elder questioning them was someone from the Homun Family, they became terrified and immediately framed everything that happened to Leyvi. They were making up stories about how Leyvi attacked them, raped Dorin, and kidnapped her.
"What?" Leyvi stood up from his seat. "They even said that I raped her? Where are they? I'm going to let Mr. Bison ram them to death!"
Even Leyvi, who has an easygoing personality, got triggered by such a heinous accusation. He had so many women plotting to defeat him in bed every day. Why would he go and rape someone else?
Suddenly, the temperature in the room becomes increasingly hot.
Anda, who was listening silently, felt enraged by what she heard. How dare they try to frame her husband as a rapist? She had already sentenced the three losers to death. In fact, death wasn't enough. She must think of a way to keep people alive while torching them for as long as possible.
"Anda, please calm down." Sensing the change in the room temperature caused by Anda, Leyvi went behind her and started massaging her shoulders. Feeling Leyvi's comfortable hands on her shoulder, she calmed down again. Simultaneously, the temperature in the room also returned to normal.
Anda smiled. "Calm down? What are you saying? I didn't do anything. I am completely normal." She acted like she never got mad.
Leyvi exhaled a mouthful of air. He could only get angry for a few seconds before he noticed the air becoming hot very fast and it probably wouldn't stop. He instinctively connected the dots and moved to calm his panda wife. He knew very well his wife's personality. If he himself managed to get angry, god knows what level of fury Anda must be feeling. This panda wife of his was very overprotective of him after all.
What surprised him was how Anda managed to heat up the surrounding temperature that quickly. Did her fire concept level up again? It was already scary right now. If she got out of control, what kind of menace would his wife become in the future? He couldn't let that happen.
Leyvi wasn't the only one who was shocked. Norin did as well. She knew that Anda doted on her husband very much, but she didn't expect it to reach this level. Her survival instinct reminded her that she must never offend this woman in front of her.
"Don't worry Anda, I know Mister Leyvi won't do something vile like that." Norin tried to assure Anda that she didn't think of Leyvi like that.
"Ah, Norin. Before we leave the Holy Cat City, I sent a message informing you that Dorin wanted to follow us. You didn't get it?" Anda was curious.
Norin showed a wry smile. "Actually, I received your message probably at the same time you were captured. I had already escaped the city with my father when you sent the message, so our array communication devices were out of range. That's why the devices reconnected when you were near my place and delivered the message. That's how I knew you were here and came to release you immediately."
Leyvi was speechless. He didn't expect that the situation could become so twisted like that. It never happened to them before, so they didn't realize that the array communication device functions like that. Was there really no way to do long-range communication?
"So, can we go now? We have things to do." Nala chimed in. She wanted to meet her old comrades but got interrupted by this silly situation.
"I'm sorry, Miss Nala, but you can't go yet. We must report this to my father first and clear up the misunderstandings." Norin apologized. Leyvi's relationship with a woman from the West Region intrigued her quite a lot. Men here usually prefer fairer women.
"Norin, since my husband was accused of raping and kidnapping Dorin, does your family take no action about it? Nobody comes to rescue her?" Anda was confused about this.
For a powerful family like theirs, it shouldn't be difficult to gain information about Leyvi and track him down to rescue their young lady. However, it has been a month since then, and they have never encountered anyone from the Homun Family.
Norin's expression immediately turned downcast. "My father.....he....He had given up on Dorin."
BANG!!
The dining table was destroyed. Anda had slammed it into pieces. Everything got scattered on the floor. Her anger that had calmed just now flared again.
"Let's meet your father right now," Anda said. She seemed unusually calm outwardly even though she had just obliterated a dining table.
Norin felt surprised. She didn't expect Anda to act like this because of her sister. When her father told her that he had given up on Dorin, she was furious as well. She tried to leave the territory to look for Dorin, but they prevented her from doing so. As a result, she had been feeling terrible for a while now.
"Let's go. I'll bring you to him." Norin decided to score her father again. This time, with a friend.
Leyvi felt awkward. He was still holding two big plates of dishes in his hands. He saved them on reflex when Anda smashed the table. At this moment, two beautiful girls came to Leyvi while giggling and they each took a plate from him. They were Norin's maid, Lia, and Tia.
Leyvi thanked the two ladies. After he paid more attention to them, he felt that Norin's two maids weren't that simple. They were not that much older than him, but their cultivation had reached the late stage of the Core Formation realm.
Is this the level of maids from a powerful family? Leyvi felt amazed.
Soon, they arrived at the Patriarch's headquarters.
When they entered the room, Leyvi immediately saw a middle-aged man with a handlebar mustache sitting on a grand-looking chair. He exuded a domineering aura, probably intending to intimidate them.
The middle-aged man was Tordin Homun.
"Are you Dorin's useless father?" Anda mocked Tordin without wasting any time.