Primordial Soul's Rebirth

Damien who heard Alice's question and saw Max, Grace, and Lily standing up in their seats, backed away a little.

He didn't want to get in between something important, and it was not his meeting anyway.

Max, Grace, and Lily stood up and directly bowed their heads.

"Thank you for saving our lives!" X3

All three of them spoke at the same time in a loud and clear voice as they bowed their heads to Alex.

"You don't need to thank me for that, you know? Whoever put the bomb was probably targeting us as well, so I was going to handle it anyway."

Alex spoke as he waved his hand but there was a light smile on his face.

Max had already informed Grace and Lily about the bomb in the café.

Yes, Lily as well, he had decided to let Lily see the real world, so the first thing he needed to show her was the dangers in the real world.

Lily was a little shaken, but she calmed down soon enough shocking both Max and Grace.

But it was better, so they just praised Lily and went into the café.

Right now, Alex knew what they were talking about and why they were thanking him, but he needed to play dumb.

"It is not because of that," Max spoke as he, Grace, and Lily sat back in their seats.

"I was thanking you for saving their lives during the gate break in 'Style Haven Market'."

Max spoke as he patted Lily's head with a loving smile.

Lily was sitting between, Grace and Max, the same as Alex, who sitting in between Alice and Ann.

"You guys were there as well?" Alex asked as he leaned forward with a raised brow.

"Yes, I was the lady with a little girl you saved that day, thank you again," Grace smiled gratefully as she bowed her head again, which accidentally showed her cleavage.

Alice and Ann who could see it as well, snapped their heads toward Alex, but they didn't see any change in his expression, so they nodded inwardly.

"Oh, I see…." Alex nodded his head with a thoughtful look.

"You guys were wearing a disguise-type item, a high-ranked one I guess," Alex spoke out loud.

"Yes, we can't go in public without that, you should know why," Max spoke with an exasperated sigh.

"Yes..." Alex nodded his head, and so did Alice and Ann.

"I see, so this is why you were trying to help us get our images better," Ann finally spoke with a contemplating look.

"It was nothing in front of what you have done for me, even if we don't count today's event," Max smiled as he spoke those words with a sincere expression.

"But why are you doing that?" Suddenly Alice asked.

The meeting was starting for real now.

Till now, Alex, Alice, and Ann already knew everything, but now starts the part where they get to know why Max was doing all this and what he wanted to achieve by all this.

"Huh?" Max let out a confused voice as he didn't understand the point of that question.

Damien who was standing on the side listening to the conversation also got a bit confused but then they all saw Jamial and some other waiters bringing the rest of the four pastries and some other dished suck as snacks and cakes.

"These are the last of my best work, but if anyone wants more, please say it, I will get them ready for you."

Damien spoke hurriedly since the number of Product S left was just 4 but the people around the table were 6.

He could make an item better than product S without much of a problem after the note Alex gave him, so he was ready to make some right now if needed.

Alex and Max's eyes happened to meet and both of them smiled at each other with a nod before they spoke together.

"It's alright." X2

"I'm full, so I won't be eating much now," Alex continued.

"Same here, let them have it," Max added as well.

"All right then, you guys go back," Damien nodded and spoke to Jamial and the waiters to go back.

The waiters bowed their heads and left the hall.

After the waiters moved away, Alice spoke.

"Now, back to the question, why are you trying to get our images up?" Alice asked as she took a slice out of the Product S placed in front of her.

"To help you guys?" Max spoke unsurely.

'Did I do something wrong?' Max didn't understand what was going on.

"We know that, but what she wants to know is what is this thing you are helping us with?" Alex explained and Max finally got what the question was.

He smiled widely as he spoke.

"To help you guys build your empire."

Max declared proudly, after all, this was the only conclusion he could get after a lot of research.

He thought that he had found out the reason why the Crimson Lotus Guild was helping people around the world without asking for much.

How could he have known how wrong he was?

"Huh?" X3

It was time for Alex, Alice, and Ann to get confused now.

It was like they had question marks floating above their heads.

"When did we say that we wanted to create an empire??" Alice asked in an utterly perplexed tone.

"You never said it, but after observing your actions and comparing them with Argon Hart's, we found many similarities, so it was not hard to guess what you were trying to do."

Max told them about how he came to that conclusion.

Argon Hart also went around saving people for free and in the end, he built his own empire, so like many people out there, Max thought that the Crimson Lotus Guild or Alice to be precise wanted to create an empire.

"We didn't want to create an empire…." Alice spoke in a low voice.

Some people might call them people with no ambition, but it is what it is.

'He did all that just because he thought that we were going to create an empire….' Ann just sighed inwardly as she thought about it.

"Huh???" Max tilted his head to the side as he got confused again.

"We don't have any intention of creating an Empire," Alex spoke again.

Max who heard that finally realized that he was not hearing it wrong.

"So, I was doing all that for nothing??" Max asked in a dumbfounded voice.

"Unfortunately, your answer is yes," Alex answered Max's question with a sigh.

'Here I was hoping that maybe it was something interesting," Alex muttered inwardly.

The whole purpose of his coming here was because he thought that there would be some deeper conspiracy here.

Max who heard the answer looked at Grace who was equally shocked as him.

Max then turned back toward Alice, Alex, and Ann, and looked at them before he asked in a perplexed tone.

"You have the power, why would you not want to make an empire of your own??" He couldn't see a reason why they would not want to do that.

Alex and Alice exchanged a glance and Ann just sighed as she knew what the answer was going to be.

"Well, it's...."

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