NOVEL NEXT Chapter 470: Leo
"Leopold Griffith, 18 years old. His mother, Lara Griffith, is a mortal. He has an older brother, Greg Griffith, 22, a mortal who works for RINNE's company. The younger sister, Laura Griffith, 15 years old, is mortal. She's in high school," Arabel briefly ran through the information she received from Esma, who, in turn, learned it from Irene.
"As Dan suggested, Leo is a natural unregistered awakened one," Arabel said with some admiration.
She was already on her way to Leo's family's place of registration, where, as indicated, he lived.
"I wonder what kind of System he has?" Arabel asked, reading the details about Leo. "Because of his excess weight, Leo is not only shy, but also introverted. He doesn't leave the house for days."
"Then how did he appear outside the capital? A Rare System? This is already interesting," now that Idan was not around, Arabel herself analyzed the information she received, not inferior to him in this.
"No one but me, Dan, Esma, and Irene should know that Leo is an awakened one, not even his family," Arabel concluded after briefly reviewing the information about Leo. Arabel understood that Irene had gathered information about Leo with extreme caution, trying not to attract the attention of others.
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In one of the residential areas in the east of the capital, in a multi-storey building, in one of the apartments, a fat man was sitting in one of the rooms. The room he was sitting in was a mess, with a small mountain of trash piled up in a certain corner. But that didn't bother Leo at all.
Leo was enthusiastically munching on instant noodles, without taking his eyes off the screens in front of him. He was so immersed in studying the information on the screens that he did not notice the taste of noodles.
There were many screens in front of him, on which flashed reports, articles, and even soft music in the background. However, all these various media materials had one thing in common — information about a mysterious Guild called the Kingdom, which suddenly appeared yesterday and became the main topic of the day.
Two familiar names caught Leo's attention: Ethan Goldwing and Isabella White.
He was very familiar with them. He had first heard them more than twenty days ago on the outskirts of the capital, during a major fire incident.
Leo will never forget what happened back then. That day, someone finally found out that he was an awakened one and what his name was. Since then, Leo has lived in fear that someone would come after him and his life would change. He didn't want to leave his beloved room and his family.
Fortunately, no one came. But over time, he found out that Queen Irene, whom he admired so much, was looking for him. Remembering Idan Fein, who was the first to discover his identity, Leo was able to put two and two together and figure out how she could have found out about him.
In fear, he threatened her that if she bothered him and his family, he would reveal her secret about her son, which she had been hiding to everyone for so long. As well as her affair with Arlan, a descendant of the Morgan family. And, of course, in this threat, he mentioned Idan's affair with Ethan's fiancee.
But after so many days, Leo was confused.
After the incident on the territory of the Stone family, it became known to everyone that it was Ethan Goldwing and Isabella White who participated in the fight against the so-called outsiders.
Due to his System and abilities, Leo wouldn't be Leo if he couldn't reveal all the secrets that the Association and the Federation Government were hiding.
Leo did everything so that even the famous "Eye of the Web" could not detect his tracks. Although recently, the "Eye of the Web" has made many attempts to find him.
However, Leo was sure that the "Eye of the Web" would not catch him.
After what happened to him, Leo began to suspect that the "Eye of the Web" was just like him, awakened with a system connected to the web.
Leo found out from the secret information received that the government of the Federation and the Association suspected that none other than Idan Fein and Arabel Morgan were hiding behind the identities of Ethan Goldwing and Isabella White.
"System-chan, do you think this is true or false?" Leo asked his System.
[The probability of this being true is higher than the probability of it being false], the System replied.
"But how is this possible? We saw Ethan outside, outside the flame zone, and Idan was inside. How can he be in two places at the same time?" wondered Leo, recalling the events of that evening.
[┐(︶▽︶)┌]
"And also the information that Isabella White is Arabel Morgan?" — Leo reread these lines for the umpteenth time and could not believe his eyes. He was looking for evidence, but all he had were just the words of the awakened ones who were there that day.
"How could I miss all this?" Leo lamented, realizing that he had missed such an exciting sight.
Even the secret reports that he managed to get his hands on were surprising to him. With each new piece of information, he wanted to know more about the two who had fought in the Stone family's territory back then.
After finishing eating the noodles, Leo turned his attention to another screen where the broadcast of the report was suspended.
He started the video and studied it carefully. It was the same report where Idan and Arabel in the image of Ignis and Elsa got off the plane last night. To date, this report has become the most viewed.
"A Guild called the Kingdom, right? The King and Queen..." — the more Leo listened, the more he liked it all. Having grown up on games, anime, and novels, he always dreamed of something like this.
"I wonder who these King and Queen are?"— Leo was burning with curiosity. He had spent the whole day searching for information, but so far he had not been able to find anything worthwhile.
"This is the Duke of Light, Ignis. He looks so cool, and his manner of negotiating with the representatives of the Association is just great. If I were him, I wouldn't even dare to lean out of the plane," Leo commented, without taking his eyes off the screen, trying to catch something that he had missed earlier.
[ヽ(•‿•)ノ] — Leo's system sent him an emoji.
"And this is the Duchess of Darkness, Elsa..." — Leo's eyes could not take their eyes off Arabel in the image of Elsa. At first glance, Leo realized that the clothes worn by Ignis and Elsa were not earthly, but unique. It fascinated him, awakening hidden desires.
"Look, System-chan, how these clothes suit her! The way she accentuates her figure, it's just ah..." Leo blushed and even started to get embarrassed through the screen, looking away from her.
[(*￣ii￣)] — The System sent an emoji, nose bleeding, agreeing with Leo.
"Duke of Fire Ethan and Duchess of Ice Isabella," Leo repeated the names that were shown on the screen. He wasn't sure if Ignis was telling the truth about Ethan and Isabella really being members of this guild.
"Tell me, System-chan, what would I be called if I joined this guild?" said Leo dreamily, referring to his System.
[Fatty Duke?]
"No, System-chan, it's not funny," Leo said with displeasure.
"I'm not fat, I'm thrifty," he said. "I'm preparing for the Third Disaster to survive it."
[Thrifty Duke?]
[Bear Duke? (´(ｴ)ˋ)]
"What kind of nicknames are these? Fatty Duke? Thrifty Duke? And Bear Duke?" Leo began to get angry at his System for not being able to come up with a proper nickname for him.
[Host. Penetration detected]
"Huh?" Leo, who was annoyed with his System, abruptly straightened up.
All the screens in front of him began to change one by one, showing different scenes inside and outside their apartment.
One of the screens zoomed in, and the System showed a recording made a few seconds ago. On the recording, the door of their balcony opened and closed for a very short time, but no one was seen.