The Strongest Assassin Reincarnates in Another World
Chapter 202 - 202 - Olivia is joining too?!

"I repeat, why do you want to join my family, when you are already part of a founding family."

While she said that, she applied constant pressure on Lilia wanting her to respond right away as she didn't want to hear some fabricated answer.

However, Lilia still hadn't been able to find a good reason to go ahead and join that family, well, apart from the real one.

'Fast, fast, fast, I need to think of something.'

Then, as her mind went everywhere with all sorts of different ideas, someone else spoke up.

"What about me? Can I join your family?"

This time, it was Olivia who had just spoken up, it seemed that she was also interested in joining a founding family. However, her reasons for doing so weren't for power or anything related to that.

In fact, she could even care less about power and those sorts of things, what she wanted was to get closer and closer to Aiden which all things considered was the same reason as Lilia and Emma.

'What's happening, why does everyone want to join my family?' thought Melinda, not understanding where they all found the guts to ask such a thing.

However, she knew that it would not be a bad thing to recruit the people from the Inter Family Tournament, as everyone participating is pretty much assured to be talented. That's why Melinda did not outright refuse all the offers that she just received.

'I know, that I'm part of a founding family, but it's still weird for all of them to be so interested in joining one.' thought Melinda as she started to think about the reason that all those girls wanted to join her.

Then, she finally understood why those two girls wanted to join her family.

The reason had been right in front of her this whole time, it was because of her latest recruit, Aiden.

Melinda had finally caught on, to what was happening as she noticed all those looks that he was receiving.

'He doesn't even seem aware that all those girls are in love with him, though,' thought Melinda, laughing to herself.

How could he be so oblivious regarding those things when he was great at fighting and observing stuff in general?

"You want to join my family, huh? And why is that?" asked Melinda, already knowing the answer to that question.

Nonetheless, she wanted to see if they would have the guts to tell her, especially since they were in front of Aiden.

"Um, the reason? Isn't it obvious, I want to follow Aiden there," said Olivia, not caring about this whole thing at all.

Melinda was surprised that she would say such a thing in front of him, however, when she looked in Aiden's direction, it looked like he didn't even care about what she had just said.

"And what family are you a part of?" asked Melinda as she knew that she would have to go and ask them if it was okay for her to join.

However, Olivia's response once again surprised her.

"Don't worry about my family, they won't even notice if I'm gone," said Olivia, seemingly determined to join the Emberbane Family.

Melinda nodded, hearing that, unsure whether she was telling the truth. Nonetheless, she knew that she wasn't part of a founding family, which made the task of accepting her a lot easier.

"Then, I guess you can join, it's not like we're missing space," said Melinda, truly not minding someone else joining her Family.

In fact, it could only help her in the long run, since having more members couldn't be a bad thing in regard to resources and stuff like that.

"Yay! Heard that Aiden, we'll live together. You won't even need to go visit my family!" said Olivia as she jumped right into Aiden's arms, making sure that Aiden could feel her.

However, Aiden was just confused about this whole thing.

'Why is everyone joining the Emberbane family? Why is Melinda even accepting them?' thought Aiden as he remembered that he had to spend his wish to win the tournament to have Emma join it.

It just didn't seem all that fair now.

'And what is she doing in my arms?' thought Aiden, as he simply dropped her on the ground, not even looking at her.

"Argh, why did you drop me? At least tell me about it first," said Olivia, teasingly, still smiling even when she noticed that Aiden wasn't even looking at her.

In fact, Aiden completely ignored what she had just said as he continued to look at Melinda, a little angry about this matter.

"Why are you accepting her and even considering the others?" asked Aiden, angrily.

Melinda was confused as to why was acting this way and was speaking to her in such a tone.

"Is something wrong? Do you want me to refuse her joining the Emberbane Family?" asked Melinda.

However, Aiden quickly shook his head.

"No, that's not it, I don't care whether she joins your family or not. But if you accept her, then my request from earlier is literally useless, said Aiden, mad that his reward for getting first place had been useless.

Sure, he didn't have many ideas on how to use it, but he would have preferred the protection from the Nightshade family.

Melinda understood why Aiden was reacting this way and decided that it was only fair for Aiden to have his other request respected.

"Then, don't worry about it, your other request will be respected," said Melinda as she was only trying to please Aiden as much as she could.

She didn't want to make him mad at all, she only wanted to support him.

"Um, alright, thank you," said Aiden, happy that Melinda accepted to protect him from the Nightshades.

The ones who were around them were confused about what that second request was, however, no one spoke up as there was still one person who hadn't been accepted inside the Emberbane Family.

It was Lilia Nightshade, and she was still thinking, even after all this time.

"So, what about you? Why do you want to join my family?" repeated Melinda once again.

It seemed that no matter how many times she asked, the only thing that she would get was silence.

Then, she finally found something plausible to tell Melinda, however, she wasn't sure if that would work.

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Please read the Author's Note, thanks.