Chapter 136 - Do You Know Who? (1/2)

The landlady came back at night during dinner time and she had a bright green umbrella with her that she neatly folded and kept on the broken umbrella stand that was still manageable.

”You were really out?” Hecathe asked with surprise as he looked at the woman who had returned so late.

He had only come down to see whether the Landlady had returned or not but it was still a surprise to see such perfect timing.

The woman smiled as she heard him and instead of giving a straightforward answer to the question, she asked him back, ”Am I not allowed to go outside?”

Hecathe pursed his lips into a thin line as he heard this and looked down at the woman's eight legs as he asked, ”I don't know. Are you?”

The landlady chuckled as she heard this response and shook her head as she spoke, understanding what Hecathe was probably thinking about, ”It doesn't matter. There are not many people outside in such bad weather.”

”You sound like you're in a bad mood. Did something happen?” Hecathe asked with a small frown.

”Bad mood?” The woman repeated as she tilted her head and spoke with a small smile, ”How can that be? I'm actually in quite a good mood today.”

Hecathe found that a bit hard to believe as he saw her face that looked rather tired.

”Are you sure about that?” Hecathe didn't drop the topic as he asked.

The landlady nodded her head as she closed her eyes and spoke, ”I'm actually in quite a good mood. After all, I just got to meet someone that I've been wanting to see for a long time now.”

Hecathe was a bit surprised as he heard this and his surprise was not caused by the fact that the woman had gone to meet someone. Rather, he was surprised by the fact that the woman was lying so straightforwardly without any guilt.

She was certainly not lying about the fact that she had gone out to meet someone nor was she lying about wanting to meet that person for a long time now. She was, in fact, Lying about her mood for some reason.

It was crystal clear that she was not feeling as happy as she said she was.

”It's not any of my business so I won't ask who it was but you should probably not go out in such weather to meet people,” Hecathe spoke with a sigh, sounding a bit worried about the woman, ”You could easily get sick.”

The landlady chuckled as she heard this and nodded her head, ”I never knew you were such a caring person.”

”Cause I'm not,” Hecathe shrugged his shoulders as he stated.

”Then I guess I really should listen to you since you're usually not this caring,” The woman spoke with a soft chuckle and didn't wait for a response from Hecathe as she continued, ”I'm quite tired today so I won't be making dinner. I'm sure you can manage on your own. Is that okay?”

Hecathe nodded his head as he replied, ”That's okay. I already came here with the purpose of cooking dinner. If you want, I can cook some for you as well.”

”I appreciate the offer but I'll pass for today,” The woman smiled as she spoke and didn't bother waiting around as she headed up the stairs.

Hecathe looked at her moving back and he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

He didn't know whether this uneasiness was caused by the fact that the woman was climbing the stairs with all her eight feet or by the fact that the woman looked as if she was covered in a dark aura of depression.

”Is it okay to leave her like this...?” Hecathe muttered a question to himself but in the end, there was nothing else that he could do.

She had already said that she was okay so it would be meddlesome of him to go and pester her further.

Hecathe sighed as he started cutting up the vegetables and decided to make dinner.

He had certainly lied when he said that he had come down to cook dinner. The real reason why he had come down was to check whether the woman was back yet or not and if she had cooked dinner or not but now that he saw how tired she was, he decided that it would probably not be right to expect her to cook dinner for them.

At the end of the day, cooking was not something hard to do and even though Hecathe wasn't a professional at it, he was still not as bad as LeiLei who could burn a perfectly good chicken sandwich into such a state where it looked as if it had transformed into charcoal.

After the woman was gone, LeiLei came down the stairs and looked to be a bit confused as she kept glancing back.

”Sir, what happened to the landlady?” LeiLei asked with an apparent frown on her face and it seemed that Hecathe wasn't the only one who had noticed the weird behavior and depressing aura that the woman displayed.

Hecathe pursed his lips into a thin line and shook his head as he spoke, ”She probably had a bad day but refuses to tell us the details.”

”Did you ask her about it?”

Hecathe nodded his head as he informed, ”But she refused to say anything. It's better to let her be.”

”That's... A bit shocking,” LeiLei spoke as she sat down on the dining chair, ”She's usually very lively and open.”

”That's true,” Hecathe frowned as he muttered, ”I wonder who could it have been...”