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Chapter 196 Why Don’t You Cry?

Finally, the teachers split into two groups. Instructor Hurst went to the dormitory to find Daniel, while Teacher Wolfe went to find the city's security team to check out the black-hearted pharmacy where Lucas got the potion.

It was because Catherine pointed out that such pharmaceutical experiments involving human body modification were illegal and that there was something wrong with the store owner.

"How could you do this!" Lucas was really anxious. "I already said I volunteered!"

He thought he had done a good thing and worked hard all day, so it was fine if no one thanked him in the end, but why did they destroy his job? !

"You are not an adult yet, Lucas." Catherine was indifferent to his panic. She made way for the teachers to leave first. Suddenly, there were only three of them left in the infirmary.

"Such an immoral drug experiment cannot be accepted just because you say so. The pharmacist's motives are unclear. Fortunately, the teachers discovered it early. Who knows what he will come up with in the end and who he will harm. We are doing this for your own good..."

"For my own good?" Lucas's face was full of disbelief, and he seemed to be amused by this remark. "Haha, that's what you said when you drove us out of our home."

Catherine pursed her lips, and a sad look flashed in the depths of her eyes.

"My parents followed your parents' orders, but what did they get in the end? They were driven from the coast to the middle of Ozler, and then driven out of Ozler, constantly migrating inland. But no matter where they went, they were hated and expelled. They were forced to move again and again, doing the lowest-ranking jobs that others were unwilling to do."

"Men can at least make a living by their physical strength, but what about those displaced women? Do you understand, Princess?

Lucas gnashed his teeth and stared at Catherine fiercely. Most of the sea people had pretty faces, but he was the only one who knew how much effort he had put in since he was a child and how many beatings he had received in order to block those malicious prying eyes and prevent them from being involved in danger after his father's death.

"Anyone can say that it's for my own good, but you and your hypocritical parents are the least worthy of saying it!!"

"Lucas!" Lilith shouted.

She could usually sense Lucas's vague hostility towards Catherine. Even when they sat at the same table, they rarely communicated with each other. But today was the first time they were so confrontational.

"Haha, that's who I am. Is this the first day you've known me?" Lucas grinned at Lilith desperately, "Whoever pays me is qualified to say that they are doing good for me. Who is she--"

"Why am I not worthy?"

But Catherine didn't need Lilith to mediate. Any criticism about her mother would make her lose her mind. She threw away her usual calm and gentle shell, and stood up with her thorns, and actually quarreled with Lucas -

"Who do you think gives you your allowance? Do you know that everything you eat and use now comes from taxes in Ozler? No matter how difficult it is over there, the allowance here has never been delayed for a day. Don't I have the right to say anything about you?"

Lucas was stunned as if he was struck by lightning.

He had always disdained to flatter this hypocritical princess like everyone else. He had secretly made up his mind that no matter how hard it was, he would never make a living at the hands of such a black-hearted politician.

But Catherine's words were like a slap in the face, crushing the last bit of self-esteem he had left.

Lilith was also stunned for a moment, and then she suddenly realized. No wonder the seniors had to go to Ozler for a few years of internship after graduation. Wow, it turns out that the trainees were assigned to revive the local economy after graduation!

Lilith didn't even bother to stop the fight. She looked at Catherine with starry eyes full of admiration - she was so advanced, so advanced!

Catherine felt a little uncomfortable with Lilith's burning gaze, and seeing Lucas' distraught look, she stopped being aggressive, turned around, pushed the door open and walked out.

"...That's not Catherine's fault." They were the only two left in the room, and Lilith said to Lucas who was sitting on the bed.

"I have asked her about the Sea People. Duke William made this decision in the hope of ensuring your safety. They thought you could have a new life. But those filthy and ominous rumors that came later had nothing to do with them. They were spread by the Church of Light—"

Lucas turned his head away awkwardly, seeming to feel very embarrassed.

Lilith was silent for a moment and was about to leave. Before leaving, she remembered something and turned around and asked curiously, "Why aren't you crying?"

Lucas: ...?

"Tsk... That's enough!" Lucas forced out a cold laugh and glared at Lilith with his neck stiffened. "Do you really want to laugh at me, Lilith? Why are you crying? I didn't do anything wrong. I make money with my own ability--"

"That's not what I meant." Lilith waved her hand to interrupt his passionate speech.

"Canyon, oh, that's Catherine's brother! He told me that due to the pollution on the east coast, there has been no production in recent years, and the price of pearls has risen sharply. It can now be exchanged for an equal weight of gold. If you mermaids cry, won't you drop small pearls?"

Lucas:…

"If you want money so much, why didn't you cry in exchange for some pearls when you had the atavism phenomenon before? Wouldn't you have become rich long ago?" Lilith wondered.

Lucas:…

He slowly turned his head and looked at the place where Teacher Phoebe had been standing before. The last bottle of experimental potion that had been confiscated had been used up by Phoebe, leaving only an empty bottle casually discarded on the laboratory table.

"Why... didn't you say so earlier..."

Lucas' teeth were chattering as he spoke. He recalled the tearing pain he had felt every time he changed over the past six months, and how stupidly he had bitten the sheets tightly in the dead of night and tried not to cry. He felt so regretful.

"Who knew you were such a big shot in private?" Lilith glanced at him, puzzled.

When Lilith walked to the first floor and left the castle hall, she could still hear the wailing echoing throughout the castle in the silent night.

“Ahhhhhh——! Pearls!! Those are pearls!!!”

“Pearl!!! Aaaaaaaaa——!”