Curse The Mainframe - Chapter 416

Before she could get very far in approaching Alec, she was pulled back by her good friend, who looked a little anxious. Her friend had been her around enough to know what she was about to do.

Le Xuan knew Katherine. While the girl’s looks might make her look amiable if she was not in one of her moods, her personality was anything but.

If she had to describe her, this girl was like one of those domineering CEOs personified. She was usually unbridled and arrogant, charging through obstacles or trampling on people that she didn’t like.

It was usually fine since she was part of the Klein Clan, but now she was causing trouble *in* the Klein Clan!

“Kat, don’t.”

Katherine shook off her friend’s hand angrily. “Why not?”

Le Xuan frowned at her, then whispered into her ear. “You don’t know whether or not he’s a Sin. Besides, it’s not like he’s done anything to you, right? Just let it go this once. The only reason why you’re targeting him—”

Katherine glared at her angrily, cutting her off. “Just look at him… standing there all smug. I can’t stand it. He’s not even a Sin. I can’t let uncle face this injustice.”

Le Xuan’s brows furrowed a little as she continued to try and convince her, but Katherine wasn’t having any of it.

She knew that it would be hard to convince this stubborn girl, but she was willing to try anyway. This was the Klein Clan, where she’d be looked down on if she lost!

She didn’t even do any scoping of the other party’s ability, only judging him based on how he seemed.

Le Xuan felt like she was going crazy from frustration.

Katherine stalked over just the same, and Le Xuan looked at her helplessly from behind. She didn’t make any moves to stop her friend.

Katherine E. Klein, member of the Klein Clan, was a Sin that had yet to prove herself, and she was already rankling at the thought that her uncle’s attention would be snatched away by someone else.

She usually acted unbridled and without a care of the consequences that came with her actions since no one cared about her.

The girl couldn’t stand the fact that someone new had come in and swept up her uncle’s attention just like that.

Her uncle used to drop by every few days, but since Alec had suddenly popped out of nowhere, he hadn’t come by at all.

Her uncle –

There were a few mocking looks that were shot in Katherine’s direction, which Le Xuan didn’t miss.

She frowned delicately, with worry.

Katherine had yet to come of age and prove herself, but she was already rankling at the treatment that she was undergoing. She was becoming rasher by the day, but she didn’t curb herself at all.

It meant that more and more people were looking down on Katherine’s behaviour, but she didn’t change the way she acted at all, remaining completely stubborn down to her very bones.

Even now, before anyone could confirm that Alec was a Sin, she had already charged up as a sacrificial piece.

If this wasn’t showing how she was short-sighted and rash, then what did? It was only something that young Sins who hadn’t experienced much did, but she was already old enough to know better.

Already, the way that they were looking at Katherine changed from neutral to slightly disdaining.

Alec had lowered his head to eat when he suddenly saw a shadow fall across his plate.

Calmly, he looked up, seeing a teenaged girl’s face that was very familiar.

This was the little girl that had been sneering at him and mocking him in the crowd earlier, not particularly loudly, but not softly either. And she had come again to get in his way.

Inwardly, Alec was very annoyed. He just wanted to eat in peace, and he had specially sated his bloodl.u.s.t so that he didn’t feel the urge to explode when faced with perpetually hormonally charged teenagers that would no doubt get in his way, but he hadn’t expected that the first one that would come out would be this little girl.

She put her fair but toned arms on her h.i.p.s and glared at him arrogantly, obviously looking down on him.

“Fight me!” she said coldly.

Her eyes seemed to spit fire as she glared at him with heat.

Alec just blinked, seemingly confused.

There were more eyes on them than before, which made him smile faintly at her.

“Fight you? Why would I want to do that?”

What was this girl’s problem? Why was she so hostile to him, anyway?

Couldn’t she see that the rest of the Sins were mostly adopting a wait and see attitude towards himself? He even thought that he would perhaps get out this evening unscathed.

Katherine glared at him harder. “Are you even a Sin?” she said mockingly, “I don’t think you are. Why would a Sin from our clan not have our red eyes? You must be some other Societype!”

Alec maintained his smile. What kind of shitty provocation was this? He couldn’t even bring himself to feel angry. It was so damn elementary. It was like a kid scolding an a.d.u.l.t.

Katherine just seemed to get angrier.

“My name is Katherine E. Klein, and I challenge you to a duel.”

The place fell into a hush, and more than a few people raised their brows.

A duel?

A duel was considered sacred in the Klein Clan, and it was taken quite seriously as they were putting their honour on the line.

Unlike spars or battles that didn’t have consequences, a duel was something that adhered to regulations strictly.

Alec smiled sweetly at her, which was out of the Klein Clan members’ expectations. Usually, a duel was something that called their honour into question, so it was something that was taken very seriously. In certain circ.u.mstances, it could even be seen as an insult to the other party.

Unless… Aeden’s son didn’t know about how serious it all was?

That made more sense. After all, Aeden’s son had not grown up in their clan. Even if Aeden told him about it, how seriously would he take it?

A lot of people were very interested in watching the duel now.

Katherine saw that Alec wasn’t responding to her, so she prompted him. “Do you accept?”

She looked at him, egging him on, as if she were mocking him for not daring to accept her challenge.

Alec inwardly rolled his eyes. Her provocations really needed some work.

“I, Alec Neil, accept,” Alec said simply, sealing the deal.

Katherine’s eyes flashed with pleasant surprise. She hadn’t actually expected that he would accept. She thought that she would humiliate him when he declined it, saying that he was too weak, but it looked like he was more daring than she thought?

Going up against a Sin was no joke.

At least he had courage, she thought in her heart, letting out a ‘hmph’.

Her eyes rove around and finally landed on Aeden’s form.

Aeden and Annalise were already looking over in their direction, and Katherine’s heart skipped a beat.

Did her uncle hear the words that she said to his son? While she didn’t know about the extent of his affections for a son that suddenly popped out of nowhere, it shouldn’t be as much as the affection he had for her and her brother, right?

Thinking up to this point, she calmed herself down, reassuring herself.

Le Xuan silently came up behind her and worriedly tugged on her shirt quietly, causing her to be confused for a few brief moments.

Then, she felt quite a chill coming from behind her, and she froze directly in place.

She slowly turned around, feeling the familiar chill, and her blood cooled when she saw her brother standing there, smiling at her.

Her brother was standing with his friend, Gareth Hade, who was looking at her with a raised eyebrow.

Suddenly, her brother’s words flooded back into her mind. Crap. She didn’t think that her brother, Regis, would come to this dinner banquet.

After all, he hated attending things like this the most.

In the end, the worst thing had happened!

“Brother,” she said nervously.

Beside him, Gareth smirked. “Regis, you’re scaring your sister.”

Katherine glared at Gareth. “Who are you calling scared!”

But she still turned to Regis nervously, seeing if he’d taken any offence to her words.

She only calmed down a little when she realized that he still had the same expression.