Curse The Mainframe! 423 Watch Over Them

"What do you want to talk about?" Alec said, sitting down on the bed.

Gareth gave Regis a subtle look, but Regis ignored him.

"I heard you've been hanging around Katherine a lot lately."

Gareth kept his face straight. He heard no such thing. There might have been people talking about it subtly, but no one had realized the extent of it which was what Regis had done. Regis had come to a conclusion all by himself.

He might not have stated it expressly, but Regis somehow was able to keep an eye on Katherine's every move.

Gareth wondered if it was because since they were young, the two of them had been mostly stuck together.

There were little things. Regis was mostly tight-lipped about his childhood, but he'd managed to gleam that the man hadn't had an easy one. Apparently, he'd been stuck in a place far away without being able to see his sister for a long time before coming back stronger than ever.

What exactly happened, he didn't know. The man was far too quiet to take the initiative to let things leak. It seemed to hold some bad memories for him, so Gareth didn't ask.

As far as he had managed to deduce from Regis' behaviour, he had a bit of a sister complex, even if no one could tell. Perhaps Gareth was the only one close enough to tell.

Even Katherine herself thought that Regis didn't have any strong feelings for her even though she was attached to her brother.

But Sins fixated strongly, and it came without any warning, so Regis was used to hiding his weakness. Sometimes, it came in childhood, and other times, it appeared only later in life. But it was undeniable that they fixated, and they never stopped fixating.

Maybe, in her entire life, Katherine would never know.

"Katherine has been learning from me, yes."

Regis' smile widened a little. "You're an Awakening type too."

Regis said it like a statement, not a question, and Alec inclined his head a little.

Seeing how Alec wasn't taking Katherine's apparent wors.h.i.+p for him very seriously, a part of Regis relaxed. They were cousins, sure, but what did blood count for between Sins?

People might say that Alec didn't seem like a Sin at all, just like how Regis himself didn't seem like a Sin to them, but Regis was quite clear that… it was just hidden deep down.

In his opinion, Alec was a Sin through and through, just like him. He just had good control over himself and wouldn't act randomly like Katherine or the rest of them

Part of him was wary, but the other part was appreciative.

Many thoughts flashed through Regis' mind, and he put down a few of his worries. In the end, it was still that Brian…

Regis nodded at Alec and turned around, leaving a startled Gareth.

"Eh…" Gareth looked between Regis' retreating back and Alec's calm figure, and he hastily bid Alec goodbye before chasing after his friend.

"You're not going to ask him anything else?"

"No need,�� Regis said, "I've already obtained what I wish to know."

Gareth looked at Regis in confusion. They barely exchanged two sentences with each other. What did he know, exactly?

Regis spoke up again at this time. "Help me gather more information about Brian Klein. I'll deal with him personally if it comes to it."

His friend was shocked, but he still answered affirmatively. Gareth raised a brow in sympathy. He actually didn't think that Brian was too bad. It was just that his previous girlfriend had trapped him in a relations.h.i.+p with her, and she hadn't been giving into his attempts at breaking both of them up.

Regis was probably worried that the previous girlfriend would cause some trouble for Katherine.

This sis-con!

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Alec looked at them going down the stairs. He could hear their conversation outside, even, and he briefly wondered.

Had something happened to Katherine while he was unaware?

As far as he knew, she'd gone out on a date yesterday.

But was the person she went on a date with someone that Regis didn't approve of?

Even though Regis hid it well, he could faintly sense that the other teen still cared deeply about Katherine, even coming all the way here to inquire about her and see Alec's reactions.

When he heard that Katherine was studying under him, he had actually loosened up a lot.

There was a quiet strength to Regis that he couldn't place.

Ye Sha came down from above and leaned lazily on the doorframe, looking at him teasingly. "You must have attracted the attention of that sis-con," he said.

Alec raised a brow.

"Katherine. There's always someone watching over her from the shadows. Don't you already know?"

Alec nodded. He had already noticed long ago. It was just that he didn't think much of it. He always thought that it was his father's doing, but apparently not.

It seemed that Regis was more unfathomable than he thought.

"That Regis isn't so simple. I can't get a proper read on him," Ye Sha said.

Alec actually frowned. There was something that Ye Sha could not do? Ye Sha had already taken over as a 'motherboard', and his authority was even higher than the d.a.m.n mainframe, yet he couldn't read Regis accurately?

"Does he have a System?" Alec asked.

Ye Sha spread out his arms. "I don't know. Like I said, I can't read him."

"You can't read him to that extent?"

Ye Sha nodded seriously. "I don't know what part he will have – if he will even have a part of it in the future calamity."

Alec looked at the wall, thinking.

If they were back in their original realm, he would have gone to find Lily to see whether she could impart any information about the future calamity to him, but both of them had been worried about whether the future would change one she spoke.

It was akin to a b.u.t.terfly flapping its wings creating a hurricane in the future.

While he thought that he could shoulder the hurricane, if it implicated the people close to him, he really could not bear to do it.

However, things had come to this point. It gave him more pressure, and he found that he hadn't been decisive enough previously.

His eyes narrowed.

"Fine. Ignore him first. He's in this realm, while the calamity is back in our own realm."

Ye Sha's eyes were strangely unreadable. "We will never know. But I'll still keep an eye on him. He's rather strong, but he hasn't noticed my probing yet. He feels like a Main Character, but I truly cannot get a read on him at all. I could even read your father, who's at the Grand Meister realm, but I couldn't read Regis at all."

Alec stood up, starting Ye Sha.

Seeing the look of intent in Alec's eyes, Ye Sha felt a chill go down his spine. As Alec approached him, he hurriedly backed away.

He had a bad feeling about this!

Sure enough, Alec quickly caught up with Ye Sha, grabbing the back of his collar before he could get very far.

"Forget about other people we have to train and do our best."

"We?" Ye Sha said nervously. "You mean you, right?"

Alec didn't even bat an eyelid. "No. You heard me right."

Ye Sha silently despaired when he heard Alec's words. He had a feeling that it was going to be even worse this time around…