Cain cast a glance at Alen, who had been utterly silent, his vacant gaze resembling that of someone trapped in one of Anya's illusions. Irritated by the lack of response, Cain lightly smashed Alen's head against the ground once more.
Boom!
"Hey! Answer me! Are you deaf?!" Cain's voice was sharp, his patience wearing thin.
Despite the blow, Alen remained unresponsive, his empty eyes staring into nothingness. Frustrated, Cain struck again, this time with more force.
Boom!
This time, the impact cracked Alen's forehead, causing blood to stream down his face and jolting him back to his senses.
"Huh?" Alen became confused because when he came back to his senses, his vision was blurry and had a red color effect as blood was all over his face.
"Answer me!" Cain slapped his right cheek as he was irritated that Alen acted like nothing had happened before.
Alen became more confused when he saw that Cain slapped his face blatantly when they had just become friends.
He then looked at the head butler and found out that he was also in a similar situation as him.
"What just happened? Why are you doing this to us? We did nothing wrong!" Alen asked Cain with an angry expression.
'Did this guy get an extreme shock that he forgot what happened from the moment I smashed his head?' Cain thought Alen was so shocked that his mind was blank for a moment.
"I asked you, So what if you're from the Flarehart family!? Does that give you the right to act so arrogantly, expecting everyone to clear the way for you?
Even if this is your territory, does that justify stepping on others just because they're in your path?" Cain asked with a serious expression and glanced directly into his eyes.
"I-It was just a misunderstanding, we cleared it up before-" Alen answered without an ounce of guilt in his face.
"Do you think I'm as dumb as you?! It was a 'misunderstanding' because we're strong enough to defend ourselves!
If we weren't, we might have even lost our lives! Do you think your power gives you the right to trample on people whenever you feel like it?" Cain interrupted with a sharp gaze.
"I-It was really…"
Before Alen finished his sentence, he was cut off by Cain.
"Shut up! I don't want to hear any words from you anymore. I'll forgive you this time, but mark my words–if I find out you've pulled a stunt like this again
I swear to God I'll find you, and you wouldn't even be able to hide even if you go to the corner of this world! Do you understand?" Cain said as he slapped Alen's cheek once more to make him remember his words clearly.
Alen nodded his head in response, as he wasn't stupid enough to go against Cain and Fenix, who could even overwhelm the head butler, who had reached Low-level King Rank Awakener completely.
Boom!
"Answer me properly!"
"I-I understand." Alen answered hesitantly with a low voice as he was embarrassed.
Boom!
"I can't hear you, what did you just say?"
"I understand, Young Master Cain!" Alen immediately shouted loudly with a firm voice as he was already embarrassed at this point.
"Good!" Cain nodded satisfiedly before he let go of Alen and waved his hand, indicating to Fenix to let the butler go.
Boom!
Fenix smashed the butler's head so hard that it made a big crater and cracked its skull.
"Y-You!" The head butler was taken aback because Fenix smashed his head out of nowhere as he didn't even make a sound, let alone a move.
"What? You got a problem with that?" Fenix smiled playfully at the butler.
"N-No problem," The butler stammered, "But why?" Read new adventures at empire
Boom!
"Why? Because you're his butler. Shouldn't you take responsibility for his actions too?" Fenix smashed his head once more with a kind smile as he couldn't wait to smash his head again.
Realizing he couldn't win this argument, the butler gave a forced smile, raised his thumb, and said, "Fair enough."
"..."
"..."
"..."
The bystanders were left stunned, their jaws hanging open. None could believe their eyes.
The young master and head butler of the mighty Flarehart family had been thoroughly humiliated by two strangers in front of an audience.
"So, do you want to do it by yourself or should I do it for you?" Fenix glanced at Alen's servant, who was still sitting on the lion's back after he let the butler go.
"Let me do it by myself, sir!" Alen's servant immediately jumped on the ground and banged his head on the ground by himself three times.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
After his head was smeared in blood like Alen and butler Hu, he stopped and looked at Fenix in relief as he saw Fenix seem to ignore him as he walked towards Cain.
Looking at Fenix, who was walking towards him with a smile on his face, Cain instructed, "Scratch your palm so that we can blackmail—uh, request compensation from the Flarehart family."
"Oh, what a fun plan!" Fenix immediately smiled widely as he hadn't thought that this trip would be this fun.
He then made a light scratch on his palm, enough that it would be noticeable without making it bleed, before he used his strength to suppress his regeneration on his palm so that it wouldn't be healed.
"Lead us to your place," Cain demanded, glancing at the butler, who was feeding Alen a healing pill.
"We'll need proper compensation for the physical and emotional damage you've caused."
"What do we do now? Should we really take them to the palace?" Alen asked with a worried face after he wiped all of the blood from his face.
"What's done is done. We have no choice but to inform the family head and let him prepare."
The butler then took out a red token from his storage space, infusing it with energy to send a detailed message to the Flarehart family head about the unfolding situation.