Son of Chaos 78 Main Family

"Uncle", Lin greeted Carl first, before greeting the others. During this time her face kept it's cold look, without any reaction to whom she greeted. The only exception was Jenny where some warmth could be seen in her eyes, whenever she looked at her aunt.

"Well, now that you have greeted everyone, how about telling us about what you gave to Ivan.", Jenny brought the focus of the conversation towards, what had interested her the most.

"If you don't want to make it public, you can just ignore your aunt.", Carl said. He felt that it would be impolite to force her to talk about it, if she didn't want to.

"Don't worry, uncle. It's no problem to tell what is in the chest. To be honest I feel it is better to do it in person anyway. And everyone here is family, so it is ok.", Lin reassured her uncle. She then turned towards Ivan.

"I guess you haven't opened the chest yet right?"

Ivan nodded.

"Good then let's start at the beginning. I'm sure that aunty has already guessed that it has something to do with the Tang main family. But most of you may not be aware of what it means to be a member of the main family.", she now addressed everyone in the room. And she got many nods as confirmation to her guess.

"As you may know the Tang Family in this realm is only a branch of the real Tang Family, which is located in a higher realm."

These talks about realms confused Ivan, he hadn't heard about it before, but the others didn't seem to be surprised, so he could only keep in his curiosity, while deciding to check it out later.

"As such there are a multitude of rules the members have to follow, and one of the most important ones is that we have to follow the prophecies.

Not everyone will get one, but it is said that the ones who have gotten one and didn't try to fulfill them didn't have a good end. As such whenever the family treasure emits a prophecy everyone tries to fulfill them to their best capacities.

And when I was born, I got a prophecy, which told me to give a chest filled with specific items to the one who managed to make me call out my pet during the alliance tournament, which would happen while I was sixteen."

Jenny looked at her nice and then asked, "So you entered the alliance because of this prophecy?"

Lin shook her head, "No, I did enter this alliance because of grandpa. Besides in the prophecy there wasn't even specified, which alliance tournament it was."

Jenny nodded relieved. She really hoped that her niece hadn't made such an important decision based only on some prophecy. As such the confirmation that she had chosen this alliance not because of a prophecy, but because of her grandfather, was a relief to her.

"So after Ivan forced you to use your bear during the tournament and you send him the chest,the prophecy is now fulfilled?", Jenny asked.

"Yes, this was the requirement for the prophecy. Of course there is still the matter of the chest's content."

"Then what is in it? And why did you have a servant give it to him?"

"The servant part is because of some family rules. Because of the content I couldn't deliver it myself, but had to get someone to do it for me."

"Then what is it? Can I open it?", Jenny asked eagerly. The way these two behaved was completely opposite to the expectation Ivan had, because of their age and status in the family. It seemed like Miss. Tang was the more mature on, while Jenny acted like a little girl sometimes.

Lin seemed to already be used to her aunt's behavior so she only looked questioningly at Ivan, letting him decide.

Since Ivan had no idea what was in the chest, he had no issue with her opening it.

"Sure, if you want to."

"Yay.", with a happy squeal Jenny grabbed the chest, as well as Ivan's hand. She then pressed his finger onto the lock and had him confirm that he wanted to unlock it.

She then opened the lid of the chest. The frame of the chest was decorated with silver runes, which were part of the space skill. Where there would normally be the space inside of the chest, there was instead a shimmering black membrane which was infused with cyan colored swirls. It was a beautiful sight, which made Ivan want to admire it for a while.

"Let's check what's in this. I'm sure that it is something great.", Jenny was really happy as she pulled out the first item from the chest. It was a black briefcase, which she directly opened and turned over, so that it's content spilled on the small table.

It was a certificated as well as some key card.

"This is the certificate for a house and these cards, should be the keys then?", she looked at the document and then asked the girl sitting besides her.

"Yes, it is the house I won. Since I have already gotten my own home from my grandpa, I don't need it. And I think Ivan would have been able to win it, if I hadn't participated, so I think it is only fair to gift it to him."

"So it was your own decision and not because of the prophecy?"

"Yes. These item's are something else.", not wanting to spoil Jenny's fun she didn't mention what the items were and whether there were other things inside the chest, which weren't in there because of the prophecy.

Jenny then pulled out the next item from the chest.

Chapter end