Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?

Chapter 26: The Mantis Stalks the Cicada


Aachen University Hospital Affiliated.

When Aske and Nora arrived, they saw Eleanor sitting pale-faced on the hospital bed (mostly from fright), with Medea and Sigrdrifa standing nearby with displeased expressions.

The latter quickly went to check on Nora's condition, while the former faced the girls with a sort of scummy man's instinctive panic, yet still mustered the spirit to greet Medea and Sigrdrifa.

Medea smiled at him, while Sigrdrifa's gaze was as if she had locked onto prey. However, Aske ignored their resentful or hateful looks and went directly to Eleanor's side.

"It's indeed quite bad," Nora quickly concluded after her examination, "We need to operate, and reconstruct three times... Don't worry, we won't need to cut; I'll use my Evolution Law to manipulate it. It's just that the fetal cell differentiation is quite intricate, so we'll need to extend the treatment to allow the child to adapt during development."

Upon hearing this, Eleanor's face immediately brightened, and she held Nora's hand tightly, shedding tears of gratitude.

"Nora!"

"Ellie!"

The two girls gazed at each other affectionately, as if the competition for a man did not exist at all.

Little Lilith ran over to Aske's side, examining his appearance carefully.

Hmm, not bad, decent looks. I permit you to be my dad.

So she spread her arms open and sweetly called out:

"Daddy!"

Aske was still thinking about Eleanor's child and forced a smile upon hearing this, patting little Lilith on the head.

Little Lilith: ???

No way, could there actually be someone who doesn't like the cute little Lilith?

"Want a hug!" she said angrily.

"Oh." Only then did Aske realize and hastily picked her up.

Medea and Sigrdrifa couldn't help but share a smile: Haha, this little Lilith, usually she drives others to fury, but she didn't expect to be made angry herself.

Then, they watched as little Lilith clung on Aske's shoulder like a koala, secretly casting a taunting smile at them.

Eh hey~

Medea, Sigrdrifa: !!!

Wow, why do I suddenly feel a wave of jealousy?

"Want a kiss." Seeing the two getting riled up, little Lilith pushed her luck, cooing at Aske.

"Alright, kiss." Aske kissed her forehead.

"Aww!" Little Lilith was overjoyed and looked provocatively at the two again, but saw Medea and Sigrdrifa sigh with relief, revealing expressions of "She's just a child" on their faces.

Ha, that's it.

Little Lilith: ???

After soothing Eleanor for a while, the group left the ward, allowing her to rest a bit.

"Now we can talk about Aske's situation," Medea said coldly.

"So you called us just to lure the Squad Leader and me out?" Nora suddenly realized.

"Or if you'd rather, we could barge in on you directly," Sigrdrifa said murderously.

Fight, fight... thought little Lilith, still on Aske's back, I want to see Auntie fight!

"Wait, stop arguing," Aske thought he shouldn't remain too passive, so he said, "At least let me, the person involved, share my thoughts."

The girls were taken aback. Indeed, that made sense.

"So who do you choose?" Everyone pressed Aske to answer.

Aske: ???

"How about you continue discussing?" He held little Lilith as he slowly retreated.

"No way, you have to choose one today!" There was no way they were letting him off so easily.

"Run, silly father, run!" Little Lilith hurriedly whispered in his ear.

So Aske turned and ran, with the three girls in hot pursuit.

Ahead lay the hospital corridor's end, no way out, only a window.

Aske, holding little Lilith, leaped out the window, with Medea's shout echoing from behind:

"If Lilith gets a scratch, Aske, you're dead meat!"

"Hahahahaha!" With her father holding her as they plummeted, little Lilith screamed in excitement.

Aske used the Plunder Skill, suddenly growing wings to lift them both, but Sigrdrifa's North Wind Axe was already hurling towards him, forcing him to quickly retract his wings to avoid getting them cut off.

If Miel foresaw this future, then Mia would soon be sent out to save me!

This thought flashed through his mind, and suddenly the scene shifted, transporting him to the sea.

Aske: ???

He turned around, finding himself standing on the deck of a ship.

Grown-up Mia stood behind him, looking at him with a certain longing in her eyes.

"Big scumbag, you still know to come back?"

...

It took Aske a few minutes to realize what had happened.

Sure enough, Miel calculated he'd soon be cornered, thus telling Mia about his return.

So Mia immediately used the Black Hole Law, first opening a space door near Aachen Hospital, then arriving, using a Ripple Sword to appear below Aske, teleporting the father and daughter to the door's entrance, and then flashing through the door again, transporting them onto a ship in the Mediterranean.

"And this is..." Mia said, hands on her hips, looking at little Lilith in Aske's arms with a slightly disdainful eye, "This is the daughter Medea had with you? Hah, just by her hair color, I could tell..."

"Auntie Mia, hug." Little Lilith's eyes rolled a few times and she sweetly spoke, having guessed her identity.

"Would you like to hug her?" Aske asked with a smile.

"Huh? Me?" Mia hesitated immediately.

Though she's that red-crowned crane Medea's daughter, she was just so cute, so sweet-sounding that Mia couldn't bring herself to dislike her.

But to hug her... Mia was a bit lacking in confidence since she didn't have much experience with kids.

Seeing little Lilith open her arms, she could only cautiously take her from Aske's hold.

After a while, having somewhat adapted, Mia left aside Aske, the big oaf, and began twirling around the ship with little Lilith.

"Call me the Great Sister Mia." Mia attempted to coach the child.

"Auntie Mia!"

"Nope! It's Mi~a~Sis~ter~"

"Auntie!" Little Lilith giggled.

"It's nice." Miel stood by, watching Mia dash around with little Lilith, "They seem just like sisters."

"Yeah." Aske was touched.

"You shouldn't have said those things," Miel hinted, "You would've been better off taking a backseat. Proactively saying 'I want all of you,' that was just too much of a scumbag move."

Why didn't I think of that at the time? Aske was left speechless.

Meanwhile, Aachen University Hospital Affiliated.

"Where did they go?"

"Where did they go, where did they go?"

"Where's the huge Squad Leader?"

Sigrdrifa had already jumped out the window and landed, fiercely looking left and right quickly.

Nora and Medea had expanded their Mind Vision, searching for Aske's traces.

However, they found nothing.

"Wait!" Nora suddenly realized, "When he vanished just now, I seemed to see something."

"What was it?" Medea asked.

"I'm not sure, it just flashed by..." Nora said, exchanging glances with Medea. Both felt a jolt in their hearts as they thought of a certain name at the same time.

"Mia!!!"

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