Chapter 722 Stop this nder now


    "I know what they did to you is unreasonable, but we still have a problem at hand. You can wait forter and settle scores."


    The hot-headed yet softhearted us marveled at her beautiful and warm smile. In his eyes, she was akin to an angel lost in hell. Perhaps it was because no one had shown us kindness, since everyone in here was a lunatic. That was why he was so moved by Lilou''s words.


    <nulli>''Oh, gracious,'' he thought. <nulli>''If only she knew they treated me like some sort of circus.''


    When ude regained hisposure, he moved closer to us and warned him. "Uncle Hell will kill you if you caused him inconvenience."


    "This little --" us bit his tongue, suppressing the swelling anger in his chest at ude''s audacity. He shouldn''tsh out at him now, since ude might change his mind.


    us remained calm and held his anger in until the ropes around his wrist loosened. He hissed in satisfaction, but when he spread his arms, he winced. Being bound for days numbed his muscles, giving ude time to undo the bounds on his ankle.


    Unlike what us, Lilou, and ude expected, us justy t on his back like a dead tuna. ude, who already had his hand on his dagger just in case us would assault Lilou, furrowed his brows in bafflement.


    "Fuck..." us breathed out, closing his eyes to rest them for a bit.


    "Feeling better now?" he reopened his eyes when Lilou''s voice caressed his ears and then turned his head on her.


    "Yes, but damn... I feel exhausted." He clicked his tongue, letting his stiff muscles rx and enjoy this freedom that was taken away from him for days. If he didn''t feel numb, us would have sprung to his feet and knocked ude unconscious, before running amok to settle scores with Samael and Fabian.


    Although he was aware he would end up being tied up again. Worse. Fabian would bury him. But us just had enough of those two and their crazy schemes.


    "Are you hungry?" asked Lilou, pleased that us was surprisingly keeping his word. If only she knew he didn''t n to, but his body was so beat, she wouldn''t be smiling so brightly.


    "I haven''t had breakfast," she exined. "And it seemed they had left the manor. You can join me for brunch. I don''t think I have ever seen you eat."


    "I''m good in here." ude waved weakly, walking back to the crate. Taking out two daggers, he grazed their des against each other to sharpen them.


    Lilou pursed her lips and sighed. Looking at ude gave her this immense feeling that she couldn''t point out what exactly. But what she was certain of was that this man seemed to be close to her and the distant air around him felt... upsetting. But she simply tossed that thought at the back of her mind to ask Samaelter.


    "Let''s go." She pushed herself up and raised her brows. "I''ll be making food. Don''t refuse the blessings. You wille too."


    ude furrowed his brows as she turned on her heel and skipped her steps. He just told her he didn''t feel like eating, but the way she stressed herst remarks sounded a little threatening. For a moment, ude felt his Auntie Lilove talking.


    "Is she... good at cooking?" us mumbled as hezily dragged himself to sit up. His nose scrunched up at the light breeze his movement caused and allowed him to get a whiff of his rotten scent. "Ugh... I smell like a dog --"


    us flinched when ude suddenly sprung up to his feet. Gazing at the man who was a part of his abduction, the line in the space between his brows deepened.


    "What?" he asked impatiently, catching the slight panic in ude''s face.


    "She''s cooking," ude mumbled and without further ado, he marched to follow Lilou.


    "Oy, wait!" us yelled, stopping ude''s tracks. "What do you mean by that?"


    Thetter slowly turned and looked at him in dread. "She''ll poison us," were the only words that came out of his lips before running after Lilou.


    Meanwhile, us cocked his head to the side and scrunched his nose up. So he meant that naive girl was a terrible cook? Not that us felt the need to panic just like ude, but with his rumbling stomach, eating terrible food for the first time after a long time was not the best way to celebrate his freedom.


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    "You''re a great cook." Lilou was in awe as soon as she had a taste of the stew ude prepared himself. "That''s surprising."


    ude simply nced at the woman across from him and kept silent for a moment. "I learned it from him." He tipped his head to his left, where us was gobbling his food five seats away from him.


    "Huh?" Stuffed with food in his mouth, us looked at ude in dismay. He pounded his chest as he swallowed down the food in one go. "Hey, you. I don''t know you, alright? Stop this nder now. I don''t remember teaching anyone to cook — I don''t cook!"


    "In Monarey..." ude''s voice was low, almost faded into the sound of us''s cutleries hitting the te. "... it''s part of the survival training."


    While us didn''t hear ude''s remarks because of how busy he was shoving down food in his mouth, Lilou heard him loud and clear. Her eyes softened, pursing her lips into a thin line, eyes at ude, who was barely touching his food.


    She felt like a hand was clenching her heart the more she observed the man''s demeanor. How could someone carry himself in such an intimidating way, but at the same time, feel like he had deemed himself as nothing?


    <nulli>''Why am I so worried about him?'' she wondered. If this was Law, she would understand. But this man... looked like he was much older than her. With all that untrimmed beard and his rough hands, she should feel like he was her uncle of some sort. But s, she felt this motherly concern towards him.


    <nulli>''Law is my firstborn... as far as I remember...'' she thought, sighing at the throbbing pain in her head.<nulli> ''Knowing nothing, but feeling something is surely starting to get annoying. Just who is this man, and that other person for him?''


    Lilou darted her eyes between the meek ude and the glutton us. The familiarity she felt towards Samael was the same as with these two. Although it wasn''t the same attraction, her heart... recognized this familiar affection. But it seemed ude was the only person who retained his memories and us was just the same as her.


    <nulli>''My head hurts...'' He shook her head mildly, focusing on her food since she believed it was because she skipped breakfast.