"Yes!" Luis nodded frankly. Which made Alicia frown.
"How and when did you and that Elven Princess get to know each other?"
When Alicia asked this question. All eyes were focused on Luis, waiting for his answer.
Ronald and Lumine knew that although their father, Henry Suarez, had a friendship with the King of the Elven kingdom, as they were both heroes who fought side by side in the Great War. Luis had never been to any world-class social events. So it was hard to imagine how he could get to know her.
But Luis' answer was quite unexpected to everyone.
"I only met her for the first time after the ability test was over."
Ronald and Lumine looked surprised. Because, from Luis' interaction with the Elven Princess in the test, it didn't look like they were shortly acquainted.
David just stood there looking at Luis sharply, waiting for Alicia to deal with him first.
Alicia's frown deepened as she asked while folding her hands, "If that is the case, how come the two of you look so familiar with each other?"
Luis rolled his eyes, thinking, 'From where does it look like we are familiar with each other? She is just being careful around me.'
After a bit of thought, he said, "Well, it was just a coincidental encounter that later turned into a deliberate interaction."
Observing the changes in everyone's expression. Luis felt explaining it was rather troublesome. So he uttered while exhaling a sigh. "Hah, it's better to just let you see."
Placing a hologram projection device on the table and then tapping on the mana bracelet, he said.
"Lily, open the video of my interaction with Emily at the Ice cream shop."
{Core Target Folder! Emily Steve! Permission requested to open the file in the presence of others?}
"Granted!" Luis said with a flat expression. He didn't have reservations about Lily mentioning something about Core Targets in front of them. Since he was going to explain a few things regarding his plan, anyway.
Luis wasn't strong enough to deal with everything on his own. He still needs a lot of help from his parents and Alicia's dad. Even though they have absolute trust in him and will help with his requests, regardless.
It still was not a good idea to hide his intentions and plans from them completely. Of course, he won't reveal anything related to the game information. He will just give them a vague understanding of everything for now and slowly reveal things in the future when needed.
For now, the image of the mysterious, intelligent and genius son is enough. If he reveals some information that shouldn't have been possible for him to access, then no matter how much they trust him. His actions will still arouse their suspicion and doubts.
No matter what happens, he could never let them find out that he isn't the real Luis. Rather an imposter living in their son's body, impersonating him and living his life.
...
Lily's words attracted everyone's attention and aroused their curiosity. They wanted to ask Luis, but the video had already started, so they held back their questions and started watching.
The video started with Emily's rude remarks to the Ice cream seller.
"As expected of the rotten princess. She doesn't hold back at all. She must have a long list of haters." Ronald said with an amused expression.
"Dear, although she is a bit too hard on him. I think his Ice cream menu does have some problems." Lumine said with a disgusted expression when she heard the term Booger Ice Cream.
"Honey, we can't judge other people's preferences. Maybe people from other races like that Ice cream," Ronald said while touching the tip of Lumine's nose.
"Yes, you are right," Lumine said while squatting away his hand. Then a soft smile appeared on her face.
The other people in the room pretended to ignore them and focused on the screen. By this time, Luis had already gone up to the counter to order an Ice Cream.
"Oh, here she comes!" Ronald exclaimed when he saw Emily approaching Luis first. But Emily's question made the room fall into an awkward silence.
All eyes looked at Luis for a moment, but no one said anything. After the video ended, everyone understood how Luis dealt with her and the entire situation between them.
Alicia had already marked Emily as a perverted girl who was mentally sick. Lifting up her head to look at Luis, she said with some relief.
"So you aren't interested in her!"
Luis was dumbfounded for a moment and looked at Alicia speechlessly. "What gave you that impression?!"
Alicia turned her head away, showing her dissatisfaction, and said, "Well, you didn't eliminate her and were fawning over her with Miss this and Miss that. So I thought you might be interested in the Elven Princess. It seems I misunderstood?"
Luis' lips twitched as he said in a complaining voice.
"Of course, it's a misunderstanding! Why would you even think of that? I already have the most beautiful fiancee I could ever get! Why the hell would I be interested in other girls?!"
His words were extremely confident without any hesitation, which shows that everything he said was from the bottom of his heart and those were his real feelings.
Alicia's heart started thumping faster and all her dissatisfaction from before disappeared. His words 'the most beautiful fiancee' kept ringing in her mind. Her entire face turned red as she avoided making eye contact with Luis.
She wanted to say something, but no words came out of her mouth. Because she didn't know what to say at this moment, she had no idea how to ease her embarrassment.
It's not the first time she had heard herself being praised in this way, rather she is used to being called beautiful, but when those same words came out of Luis' mouth along with the word fiancee added to them, they became the happiest sounding words for her that she had ever heard.