Author: M_W Cancer 

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

"Can you repeat it again? It seems like I didn't hear it right. Did you just said you're inviting me to join the Mischievous Lion Guild as one of its Executives?" Elmont was having trouble believing what he had just heard from Leo. 

"That's exactly what I have just said," Leo said in confirmation. 

"Hmmm..." Elmont pretended to be calm. Deep inside of him, he really doesn't know how to react. It wasn't really something impossible to do for him, but at the same time, it was also not something that he could just decide to accept right off the bat. This kind of decision should be considered thoroughly lest he would regret accepting it. In spite of that, he can't hide the fact that this was really interesting, so he continued, "I'm not rejecting your offer, but I will be considering it. What I'm really curious though is why do you want to invite me to join the Mischievous Lion Guild?"

"Is it because I'm one of the princes of the Evergreen royal family, thus you could easily establish a business relationship with us? But that shouldn't be the case, right? Especially considering the fact that you can even call my father as uncle, and not to mention you have also chosen one of the exchanges after exchanging a Galaxy-level Magical Beast to the Evergreen royal family for a chance to establish a business relationship with us. Just with those two things alone, it completely negates the possibility that you are inviting me to join the Mischievous Lion Guild for benefits from the Evergreen royal family,"

"So, there should be another reason for this. And I'm guessing it is not as simple as because I'm a capable person or something minuscule as that," Elmont finished speaking as his expression showed his obvious deep curiosity for Leo's reason for inviting him. 

"Just like what I expected from you, Brother Elmont. You are not only smart but also a wise person," Leo can't help but form a smile on his face. If it was someone else, then they would definitely think the same as what Elmont had said first. After all, inviting a prince to join a Guild indeed offers a lot of benefits to the Guild. However, that was obviously not his reason. He continued, "In consideration of our relationship, I will not be hiding the exact reason for you. This also concerns your safety, so the more reason why I should be telling you this,"

Hearing Leo mentioning that this also concerns his safety, Elmont immediately became serious. He was still curious, but the thought of preventing danger from happening to him was what he really focused on at this point.

"I'm guessing that you already know the meaning of Special Mage, right?" Leo wanted to know something first before proceeding with his main point. 

"Yes," Elmont nodded his head, he then explained, "Special Mages are the type of Mages who possessed unique capabilities that the majority of the Mages don't possess, thus the reason for the word 'Special',"

In the next second, Elmont suddenly thought of something, "Are you saying that I'm actually a Special Mage?! But how? And what is my unique capability? No! This is impossible! I know myself better than anyone else, especially since knowing my capability is one of the requirements of being a battle fanatic-"

Elmont wanted to keep on talking, but Leo quickly interrupted his sentence. He said, "Yes, you are a Special Mage. And the reason why you are unable to notice it might be related to you being a battle fanatic,"

"What does it got to do with me being a battle fanatic?" Elmont doubtfully asked. 

"I'm not exactly sure if I'm indeed correct or not, but has there ever been a time where you feel like your body is going to explode with Mana all of a sudden? Like you have a high risk of experiencing overconsumption of Mana, which I'm guessing, is one of the reasons why you will find someone to battle against," Leo knew for sure that Elmont was the holder of the unique capability of Gluttony. After all, the God of Fate will not suddenly activate his unique capability to communicate with him if Elmont wasn't really exactly what he thought him to be. So, last night, he thought of using a much more convincing and simple method to persuade Elmont, and this was what he had come up with. 

"How did you know?" Elmont asked in surprise. He clearly remembered that aside from his father and Selina, he hasn't told anyone else about the strange thing that would suddenly happen to his body. But he quickly changed the topic, "No.. that is not important. So you mean to say that this sudden spike of my Mana inside my body is what makes me a Special Mage?" 

Elmont paused for a moment before repeatedly nodding his head while muttering, "No wonder you had said that this also concerns my safety as well. But how dumb is my luck for me to actually receive such a stupid unique capability? Other Special Mages gets a unique capability that allows them to execute something really powerful, yet my own had increased the risk of me dying,"

Leo really doesn't know whether he should laugh or punch Elmont right now after labeling his unique capability of Gluttony as 'Dumb luck' and 'Stupid'. In his mind, he can't help but thought, "Brother Elmont, if only you know of how powerful exactly is the unique capability of Gluttony, you might even host a celebration every single day for a year or two straight,"

Aside from what he had mentioned before about the power of the unique capability of Gluttony, there are still other things that are better to be left experienced than to be explained. Not because he doesn't want to explain or that he can't explain it, but rather because it is much better for Elmont to show it himself.

"According to the book I've read about Special Mages, your unique capability shouldn't just be as simple as a sudden spike of Mana inside your body," Leo didn't hesitate to clarify what exactly was Elmont's unique capability. But of course, he wasn't going to reveal the truth about the unique capability of Gluttony to Elmont yet. It is much better to be unsure about what exactly the unique capability is so that he can further persuade Elmont to join the Mischievous Lion Guild using the excuse of further learning more of his unique capability. 

"Oh, then it seems like I misunderstood my unique capability," Elmont can't help but heave a sigh of relief. He really doesn't want his unique capability to be something akin to suicide. 

At this point in time, it was very obvious for Leo to see that Elmont now believes his claim. But as to how deep exactly is his belief about it, that is something he doesn't know yet. Anyways, as long as Elmont believes his words, no matter how deep it is, the only thing that really matters is that he believes him. 

As such, Leo continued explaining, "Do you remember it back then that I decided to stay in the kitchen?"

"Now that you mentioned this, I'm indeed really curious as to why you still decided to stay in the kitchen while the others had long decided to leave that place as if it was a place that will take their lives away from them," Elmont replied. 

"Well, it was because I noticed that your unique capability seems to be related to food as well," Leo didn't hesitate to mention what Elmont really dislikes to talk about, specifically 'Food', or to be more precise, 'Cooking'. 

"There are so many things that you could have mentioned, yet why did you specifically bring up cooking? I know that this is insulting, but is there perhaps something wrong with your brain right now? Do you want to taste my cooking again? If yes, then I don't mind cooking a dish for you. Do you want fried chicken? Braised pork? Or perhaps another serving of my vegetable soup?" Elmont said, obviously displeased about the mention of cooking again. Back then, he had specifically locked them inside the kitchen and forcefully made them taste his cooking so that they wouldn't mention making him cook again. Yet in the end, it seems like his effort was still not considered enough. 

"Don't misunderstand what I meant, Brother Elmont," Leo quickly defended himself so that Elmont wouldn't really do exactly what he had just said he would do. The memory of that vegetable soup that Elmont had cooked to them alone was already enough to make them have nightmares, so he really doesn't want to have a taste of that again. He soon continued, "I tried cooking a vegetable soup myself after all of you have left the kitchen. But since I didn't see how exactly you had cooked your vegetable soup, hence I simply tried to cook it in a way that will result in a really bad vegetable soup. No matter how badly I tried to cook the vegetable soup though, it still resulted in something edible-"

"Yeah, yeah, I understand. Even if amateur chefs tried to cook something really bad, the result of the dish that they cook would at least still be something edible, compared to mine which is unedible," Elmont interrupted. 

"That is not the point here, Brother Elmont," Leo quickly changed back the topic. He continued explaining, "So, I scoop a spoonful of your vegetable soup and added it to my vegetable soup, thinking that by mixing the two, it might give me the result of a vegetable soup similar to yours,"

"So, did it became similar to mine?" Elmont quickly asked, a bit anticipating of the result of Leo's experiment. 

"Yes," Leo didn't bother hiding anything, and there was also no use hiding anything. He continues explaining, "But, alongside that discovery, I discovered something else. Something that allowed me to find the possible reason for that sudden spike of your Mana inside of your body,"