The Goddess Of War

Chapter 149 - Robin and Andrew Lloyd

"Anna, what are you thinking?" Andrew Lloyd flicked his finger right in front of Anna's face as he saw the girl looking dreamy.

Anna glanced at and looked at Andrew's face in confusion. He was automatically not too familiar with his stepbrother because they did not live in the same house building since they were children.

And again, as Anna recalled, Andrew was not this kind of person. He was very different from the picture of the memory Anna had of him.

"Since she's admired you" Robin Lloyd said of the fact that Anna was confused.

Andrew punched his brother in the arm driving beside him. Her face flushed red, she felt embarrassed when her brother said the thing he asked to keep secret from Anna.

Anna looked back at Andrew's head as she punched Robin in the arm and stared out the window next to her chair, hiding her blushing face.

"Is that true, Andrew?" ask Anna. He then advanced his body until he could see the side profile of Andrew's face.

Andrew nodded his head without looking.

"Why don't you just sit in the back with me? There's still room for one person here." Anna said as she patted the empty space beside her.

Andrew turned his head quickly to look back at Anna, but was shocked to see Anna's face was already nearby, so he hurriedly rewinded his body.

Seeing her step-sister seem misbehaved, Anna rewinded her body again and leaned back in her chair. "You're gonna have to ask Robin to pull over for a second." Said Anna again who then chuckled.

Andrew looked at Robin with a cheerful face. "Can you..."

"I'm not your driver." The real Robin did not mind and was just lazy to pull over his car, saying first cut Andrew's speech.

Sighs...

"Why are you talking to me now?" asked Anna who was curious why her step-sister was not what she had imagined. "You've had a lot of chances a long time ago to do it, right?"

Robin glanced at the speechless Andrew while playing his own fingers between his knees with a blushing face.

"He's ashamed" Robin said again, as Andrew did not answer the question. "You know, he even printed a big picture of you guys on the playground and put it on display in his room."

"Well?!" Knowing this surprised Anna. Anna then recalled the only memories of her and Andrew going to the playground when they were 9 and 10 years old.

Meanwhile, Andrew hits Robin's arm again harder than ever. Andrew knew his brother wouldn't be bothered with the punch of a novice Hunter like him, so he did so without hesitation.

"You're a traitor...!" sumpat Andrew.

Robin Lloyd glanced at Andrew. Both his eyebrows were cringing. A moment later he glanced at the rearview mirror near his head to look at Anna's facial expression.

Andrew realized his mistake, then he looked down again because he felt guilty.

The word 'traitor' would probably be very painful for Anna who was already let down by their father and mother, especially Cassey who was very close to her.

Andrew finally turned around and looked at Anna to apologize to her half-brother, but Anna's gentle smile made him speechless and the words stuck in his throat.

"No problem. I don't want to remember anymore."

The atmosphere became quiet afterwards. Each of them drifted in each other's minds, but not with Anna.

Anna really doesn't care about Brandon, Joana and Cassey Lloyd anymore. He is busy sending Miyuki messages to look for CCTV footage at the location that Joana Nankins told her, which is where Joana was picked up to go and have meetings with her secret organization.

Unfortunately, Joana only knows the pickup location near the port of City C which is in the suburban area of City C.

After they meet there, Joana and some of her colleagues will be given a special helmet that makes them unable to see and know where they will be taken.

To be sure, as Joana remembers, they would eventually have a secret meeting in a damp, cold basement.

If Miyuki can find her CCTV footage, Miyuki may be able to trace the travel routes of the people from the secret organization. That was the only way Anna could find their hiding place, then uncover the existence of creatures that he suspected came from the demon race which is the cause of the emergence of Dungeon gates throughout the world.

What makes Anna convinced that the demon must be connected to the person who gave Joana the perverted pill was because of the evil Mana energy that was inside the pill that Joana and Cassey were consuming.

That perverted Mana energy was the same as the Mana energy Anna felt from Damballa and her two companions, also from the 3 demons residing in the third raid team Dungeon.

Anna suspects that a secret organization called Joana is subordinate to the demons. Joana also says that they have a grand plan that the woman does not yet know in detail.

If Anna could find them, she might be able to know where the demons were hiding and prevent the secret organization plan that she could have guessed, it would definitely cause chaos in the Hunter world.

While Anna is still texting Miyuki and some other friends, Robin talks back to her.

"Anna. I'm really sorry for not reporting the incident directly to the Association. I'm..."

"It's okay. You can forget it from now on" said Anna, cutting Robin's line.

Anna knew Robin had a very difficult choice. If Robin had reported it at that time, it was certain that the reputation of the Lloyd family would have been instantly destroyed by then and there.

There are many parties who are harmed if the family with many branches of the business is destroyed. This is evident when Anna uncovers the crimes her father and half-sister committed against her. The stock of all Lloyd family businesses immediately declined sharply even more severely than when they lost 25% of assets buried in a Dungeon.

"Is there anything you want to say to me, Andrew?" Anna tries to divert the conversation to break the awkward atmosphere that occurred, since Andrew said the wrong sentence accidentally.

Andrew straightened his sitting position hurriedly. He somewhat stammered his half-sister's question, "I-I'll be going to the Academy as well next year."

Anna furrowed her brows, it was not an important thing Andrew had to tell her. "That's all?" ask Anna again, when Andrew didn't say anything else afterwards.

"W-can I have your contact?"

"Huh?" Anna was surprised when she did not expect to hear that ridiculous question and made her almost laugh. He finally asked for Andrew's phone when Andrew again looked wrong, which Andrew quickly gave, then Anna entered the number.

"May I also ask for your contact?" robin asked after Anna returned Andrew's phone.

This time Anna could not hold back her laughter anymore. Poking her hand against Robin's chest, Anna teased him, "I know you liked me a long time ago. You always give me the earliest birthday present on anyone's appeal." Anna then looked at the two of them alternately, "Why didn't you guys ask for my number from the first time?"

Hearing that question, Robin and Andrew looked even more misbehaved.

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The sedan they were driving stopped at an apartment area on the outskirts of C and Anna got off there.

Robin and Andrew go out to deliver Anna, but Anna asks them not to because she still has to wait for her friend near the gate.

"You want to go with your friend again?" robin asked, looking at the clock on his arm. "It's two in the morning."

"We have a raid schedule."

Robin looked at Anna with a look of amazement. She knows Anna is different from her half-sister two months ago. Although he was actually curious how Anna could become so powerful in just two months, he did not want to ask that. Robin felt she had no right to ask things that Anna herself did not seem to want to tell.

He only knew enough that the power Anna had was even stronger than Kevin Jung, one of the colleagues in her stepbrother's new guild, which even ranked very high.

From the news that Robin had always followed, he also already knew how powerful the Hunter-hunters within the Nine Bears guild had managed to overcome the 3 dungeon breaks without any help from any party, either, they included Wang Zhu Ming and Ronald Stewart who could not help much even though they were also at the scene.

"Be careful." Robin Said. That was all he could tell Anna.

"certain."

"Am I also allowed to join the Nine Bears guild if I have already graduated from the Academy?" asked Andrew with sparkling eyes.

Anna laughed for a while. However, his face suddenly turned serious shortly afterwards.

"We plan to end all of this in the near future. Maybe before you graduate from the Academy."

Hearing that, Robin also looked at Anna with a serious face. Andrew who previously looked cheerful also suddenly responded to her seriously.

At that moment, some people approached them slowly, as if not wanting to surprise or disturb them.

Anna turned to the three people, who were none other than Ren, Lucy and Yola. "Please wait a minute."

The three nodded their heads and then waited in a place a bit far away.

Robin looked at the three teenagers in amazement. He could feel how much Mana energy the 3 young men had, which was even much greater than he had.

Robin then looked at Anna and she became even more amazed at her half-sister. He knew that Anna was the one who had made the teenagers have great strength at a very young age.

"Well, I have to go now. They've been waiting for me." Said Anna.

"May I visit where you live?" Andrew asked quickly.

"certain. I live in tower three, unit one hundred and sixty-eight. You can call me if you want to visit" said Anna, who then turned to the back of the car in the passenger seat, looking at an old man she had made 'sleep' while directly talking rudely to him once they were all in the car. "Tell Grandpa not to see me again. I'll send someone to him to return all the money and shares he gave me."

Anna then looked at Robin. Heir to the Lloyd family business, after Brandon inevitably gave up his responsibilities as head of the family after he stumbled over a legal case. "You too, don't get too influenced by his discrimination."

"I'll try to do my best." Robin Sahut.

Robin then turned to Andrew who was still staring at Anna as if he did not want to quickly part from her.

"Well then, we're leaving now." Said Robin while patting the shoulder of Andrew who was immediately surprised by it.

Robin and Andrew turned around and headed for the car, turning to Anna, who kept waving her arms.

The two men seemed to be stepping their feet very heavily as if there was something they still wanted to say, yet they did not dare to say it.

As the two had already opened the car door and looked at Anna one last time, Anna shouted at them, which made the two brothers' faces cheerful instantly.

"Robin, Andrew.., it's nice to still have you as family members."

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