"Yes, it's my first time here," Gudako said, smiling at Tia's Mom, "but when I was little, my house had the same decorations as here. My Dad told me my grandparents used to live here, but they left later."
Seeing Tia's Mom taking the initiative to talk to her, Gudako didn't know where the courage came from, but she directly said what she wanted to say but didn't dare to.
"Oh? Really... That's a poor child. Just like Tia, she never met her grandparents," Tia's Mom said, following Gudako's words.
Tia looked speechless.
She wasn't even sure if she had grandparents or not.
"Okay, everyone, come in first," Tia's Mom said, leading Tia and the others into the living room.
Tia's Dad was sitting in the living room as usual, doing his usual things.
When Gudako and the others saw Tia's Dad and Mom like this, they were all a little at a loss. Maybe after hearing about pity and returning, Gudako and the others had been imagining the two beasts still keeping their beastly forms at home and living with Tia, and even Tia continuing to live like this without reacting to her Dad and Mom's beastly forms.
"Sit down," Tia's Mom said, and then went to make tea.
"Tia, you're back," Tia's Dad said, still as usual, without much to say. "You all sit down, don't be shy. Since you're Tia's friends, you're our guests."
Tia let everyone sit down.
"You all should be Casters, and it looks like there are Servants among you," Tia's Dad said. "Tia is getting more and more amazing, completely different from the past."
Tia scratched her head and smiled shyly.
"So Tia's Dad knows I'm a Servant? That's amazing! Tia's Dad must have very high magic skills," Katsushika Hokusai said, following Tia's Dad's words.
Tia and the others immediately looked at Katsushika Hokusai, all thinking something similar.
How could you say something like "Tia's Dad's magic skills must be very high" to Tia's Dad?
"It's nothing, the magic crest has already been passed on to Tia. Without the magic crest, I can't use much of the Root's magic. To perfectly use the Root's magic, you still need to look at Tia's magic crest," Tia's Dad said to Katsushika Hokusai.
"Really? So when you had the magic crest in the past, was Tia's Dad much stronger than Tia?" Katsushika Hokusai then asked.
"Ahahaha~~~ Of course," Tia's Dad said. "Just call me Gai, and call Tia's Mom Marte. Don't be polite."
"Hahaha~~" Katsushika Hokusai also scratched her head a little embarrassed and smiled, then introduced herself, "I'm Katsushika Hokusai, a Servant."
"Katsushika Hokusai? The ukiyo-e painter? Very impressive, but what's your class? Caster?" Tia's Dad said.
At this time, Tia's Mom came back carrying several cups of tea, placed a cup of tea in front of everyone, and sat down next to Tia's Dad.
"No, I'm a Foreigner, an extra class among extra classes," Katsushika Hokusai said. "My spirit origin has a god from beyond Earth, but for some special reason, it can't leave my spirit origin."
"A god from beyond Earth?" Tia's Dad looked at Katsushika Hokusai a few more times. "Is that so? So it's that kind of thing? That's a pretty scary existence. Thank goodness it's controlled by Miss Katsushika Hokusai. You're worthy of being Katsushika Hokusai! Amazing, amazing!"
Tia's Dad kept praising Katsushika Hokusai.
"No, no, it wasn't just me who relied on it back then, but also Tia, the Knight of the Lake, and Miss Aozaki Touko," Katsushika Hokusai said, also mentioning the people around her.
"Oh, good, Tia can defeat that kind of thing," Tia's Dad nodded, then looked at Aozaki Touko. "You're the Grand puppeteer Miss Aozaki Touko? Amazing, amazing."
Tia's Dad said the same thing to Aozaki Touko again.
Aozaki Touko gave a forced smile: "It's nothing, nothing. Compared to Mr. Gai's achievements, I'm nothing at all." Aozaki Touko said to Tia's Dad, then changed her tone and said, "Besides, the ones who most want to see you aren't me or Katsushika Hokusai, but these two little girls."
Aozaki Touko said to Gudako and Mash at the end.
"Oh," Gai Tia turned to look at Gudako and Mash, and his expression didn't show anything abnormal at all.
But Tia was very clear about the conversation between Gai Tia and Gudako and Mash in the Grand Temple of Time in the Final Singularity, and the scene of Gai Tia's final one-on-one fight with Gudako, where Gudako tore Gai Tia apart with her own hands.
"Hahaha..." Gudako looked at Gai Tia and smiled awkwardly.
Mash also scratched her cheek, because Mash didn't have much of an extremely disgusted feeling towards Gai Tia.
"Um... have we met before?" Gudako directly asked Tia's Dad.
"Senpai!" Mash wasn't nervous at first, but when she heard Gudako's words, she instantly became nervous.
"Huh?" Gudako didn't think there was anything wrong with what she asked.
"It's nothing, we really haven't met before, don't be nervous," Tia's Dad didn't reveal anything suspicious at all. On the contrary, Gudako and Mash had already revealed a lot.
Only Katsushika Hokusai wasn't affected at all and could still talk calmly, while Aozaki Touko quickly diverted the topic away from herself.
"Drink some water first," Tia's Mom said gently at this time.
"Oh~~ Oh~~~" Gudako nodded, picked up the tea and drank it.
Mash, like Gudako, picked up the teacup and drank it.
The others, seeing this, also took a sip of tea.
Tia also casually took a sip and put down the teacup, not feeling anything was wrong, but the others didn't think so.
"This tea..." Aozaki Touko looked at the tea with shock on her face.
"How was this tea made? What's the tea leaf?" Katsushika Hokusai suddenly asked somewhat seriously.
"So good!" Gudako finished it in one gulp, completely unable to detect anything abnormal. She just felt that her body and mind were instantly relaxed, and she wasn't scared anymore.
"What great tea, I've never had tea like this!" Mash took a sip and said, then finished the tea in one breath.
"The tea I made with my Root. I'm very happy that you all think it's delicious," Tia's Mom said as if she was deliberately telling everyone this.
(End of this chapter)
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