The Legendary Pseudo-villain - Chapter 174

The next day, Hecathe was the first to wake up in the morning and as soon as he woke up, he immediately went to the kitchen and requested the landlady to pack three breakfasts which she agreed to.

He took the meat from the fridge and went up to feed the Dorgon who was patiently waiting for the food to be served.

“Master, why are you in such a hurry today?” The Dorgon asked as he looked at Hecathe curiously but Hecathe only smiled and gave him a vague reply.

“I have to go somewhere for work.”

The Dorgon was a bit confused as he heard this and he clearly wanted to ask a few more questions but before he could say or question anything, Hecathe was already out the door.

Hecathe first knocked on LeiLei’s door and abruptly woke the girl up.

“Get ready! We are leaving in the next ten minutes,” He didn’t even wait for the door to open as he announced.

Hecathe then continued to knock on Marvin’s door and woke the boy up as well..

As expected, Marvin also didn’t open the door at first and Hecathe had to somehow force the boy to come out.

“We have to leave. Get ready,” Hecathe sighed as he announced and the boy simply looked at him with disinterest clearly evident on his face.

“Why are you up so early?” Marvin whined as he yawned.

“Because only the early birds can catch the worms.”

“I’m not interested in catching worms,” Marvin dead-panned as he shut the door on Hecathe’s face.

Hecathe took a sharp breath in and tried to remain calm as he patiently knocked on the door once again, “Open up, Marvin. I might just break this door if you don’t open it.”

Hecathe waited for a solid minute to see a reaction from the boy but when he got no response, he sighed as he got ready to kick the door open.

Somehow, Marvin seemed to have guessed this and opened the door at the exact moment.

“Give me five minutes,” Marvin sighed as he stated with much annoyance and Hecathe smiled in satisfaction as he heard this.

“I’ll be waiting downstairs with a timer,” Hecathe replied as he didn’t wait around and headed down the stairs.

Marvin felt tired as he slammed the door once again, but this time, he wasn’t idly trying to go back to sleep, he was actually getting ready to head outside.

“You all going somewhere?” The landlady asked as she saw Hecathe being in such a hurry since morning.

It had been pretty awkward between Hecathe and this landlady after the last argument the two had and hence, it was a bit surprising to hear this question coming from her.

“We are going to visit LeiLei’s old house,” Hecathe answered the woman with a warm smile as he acted normal.

It was better if the two ended the awkwardness between them and forgot about the conflict.

“She used to live nearby?” The woman asked as she raised her eyebrows and Hecathe nodded his head as he confirmed this.

The landlady looked to be confused as she saw this reaction and she couldn’t help but comment, “She doesn’t look like it though.”

People from different places looked different and this was certainly the case for LeiLei as well.

Although the girl was from Ocasia, she really didn’t look like one of the locals here. If anything, it looked like she had migrated here at a very young age.

“I guess you could say that,” Hecathe shrugged his shoulder as he muttered in response.

“Did her parents sell the old house?”

Hecathe gulped as he heard this question and although he didn’t know the exact answer to it, he could still guess what had happened and he answered the woman according to what he had guessed.

“Her parents died when she was young and since then, she had lost the house. It is owned by someone else now. We’re currently trying to find out how this came to be.”

“I see… What an unfortunate child. It must have been hard on her to live without her parents. To think that she was even thrown out of her own home… It is certainly a cruel past,” The woman sighed as she commented and although Hecathe kinda agreed to her, he still couldn’t help but frown as he heard this.

“But, is that normal?” The woman asked as she added with a bit of confusion, “Shouldn’t she get ownership over the house after her parent’s death? That’s how the law works around here. Or has the law been changed over the years?”

“I guess she was too young for ownership rights,” Hecathe shrugged his shoulders as he responded and the woman shook her head as she disagreed with this.

“The age doesn’t matter. As long as the house belonged to her parents, it would naturally belong to her as well even if they didn’t legally proclaim her as the heir.”

Hecathe frowned as he heard this and he couldn’t help but feel a little suspicious now that he thought about it like this.

If this was really the written law in this place then how could anyone throw LeiLei out of her own house…?

“Are there any exceptions to this law?” Hecathe asked curiously as he looked at the woman with great interest.

“Exceptions?” The woman repeated as she pondered over it for a few minutes, “Well, I guess you can say that there are a few. If the house originally belonged to someone else and was only rented down to the tenants, the house would naturally belong to the rightful owner and their heirs.”

Hecathe’s frown deepened as he heard this but he didn’t say anything and patiently waited to hear the woman continue.

“And I guess there is one more thing that can be considered as an exception but I don’t think it would be applicable in this case.”

“What is it?”

“If the child is also said to have been deceased after the parent’s death or gone missing for more than a few weeks directly after their parent’s death. In that case, even if the child returns after a few years and tries to claim the house, the case would not be approved and the house would not be claimed.”

Hecathe’s eyes widened ever so slightly as he heard this and he couldn’t help but have a foreboding feeling in his stomach.

“There can also be a third situation which can sit fit in LeiLei’s case,” The woman spoke as she added with great interest, “If the child was adopted to the family, but was not registered in the family registry.”

Hecathe felt as if all three exceptions could be perfectly fitted into the story that had been put together till now about LeiLei’s past. However, the sad part was that all three of them weren’t really happy scenarios.

“Do people usually adopt without adding the child to the family registry?” Hecathe asked casually and the woman nodded her head.

“They do. Of course, some do, but those are very rare cases where the situation does not let them add the children into the family registry. I guess you can call them peculiar cases of child adoption.”

As Hecathe heard this, his mind automatically started connecting LeiLei to the dead willow of spring once again.

According to LeiLei, that was not her father but since there was a chance that she had been adopted, she could very well have been related to that man without even knowing that she was related to him.

But, as soon as this thought arose in Hecathe’s mind, he immediately cursed at himself and tried to erase it as he felt that LeiLei would not be too happy to hear that Hecathe was yet to let go of this.

It would be best to just forget about it and not try and connect the girl to that man.

“What do you think happened with her?” The landlady asked as she leaned in forward with great interest in this gossip.

“Who knows?” Hecathe sighed as he muttered, “Could be anything really and in the worst-case scenario, maybe it could be all of this combined as well.”

The woman frowned as she heard this and opened her mouth to say something but before the words could roll out of her tongue, she was suddenly interrupted by Hecathe who was yet to finish.

“Have you heard about such a situation happening around here almost… Six years ago or something?”

The landlady took a few minutes to think about it before she shook her head and explained, “Ocasia might be small but it’s not that small. I would naturally not know it and even if I did, since it has been six years, I would not be able to remember it.”

Hecathe sighed as he felt a little disappointed to hear this.

“You’re right,” Hecathe nodded his head as he looked down at the table and spoke, “It must be hard for you to remember.”

The woman nodded her head once again as she confirmed this.