The Strongest Curse Master-Chapter 400: McSuile Family’s Inheritance Jade Seal

"What are you doing?" I asked Mandy as she used her shoulder to try and nudge me into the pool. If it were Danny, her trick would have worked, but she chose the wrong nephew as the target of her mischief.

"Cough! You are stronger than you look," Mandy said, using a fake cough to hide her embarrassment while her arms unconsciously grabbed my forearms, trying to cup a feel of my rock-hard triceps through the t-shirt.

"You have gotten very comfortable around me," I remarked, suddenly picking up Mandy into a princess carry without any warning. Then, holding her above the pool, I wished her, "Have a great dive," before dropping her into the pool.

"No, Ace! Don’t you dare!!!" *Splash*

Mandy’s cries were drowned out as she sank into the pool. Standing by the edge of the pool, I smirked as Mandy tried to rush to the surface. Then, taking out my cursed smartphone, I sent out a couple of texts to a set of contacts. It has been a while since I physically sent texts. I usually had Dame Wasp handle them. She made a great secretary. I miss her.

"What are you doing?" I looked down and asked Mandy whose hands were grasping my ankles, trying to pull me into the pool.

"I never noticed, but you have great legs," Mandy made up an excuse while her hands traced up my legs, feeling their muscles.

"You said the same thing during the pool party," I reminded. With my high-spiritual stats, my memory had gotten a lot sharper, from average to good.

"Come on, get into the pool, I wanna see those abs, nephew! " Mandy invited me into the pool while unnecessarily batting her long lashes and bringing her arms together to make her wet chest area seem more prominent. The sight was tempting, but I should be trying to increase my curse energy control, not goofing around with my little aunt.

However, I folded my pants up to my thighs with some help from Mandy and sat at the edge of the pool, dipping my legs in it. Mandy spread my legs wide and, turning around, she rested her back against the pool wall while her arms were on my thighs. Then, gazing at the bright sky above, she remarked, "Nephew, your thighs make a great armrest. If only I had my sunglasses and had my sunscreen on, this would be perfect."

"I’m on it. Until then, what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked, running my hands through her wet blonde hair. Was I crossing a line? I had no idea, but I knew, at present, I did not feel any carnal feelings for my little aunt. And I felt it was the same for Mandy.

"Don’t act ignorant. You know what I want to talk about," Mandy said, tilting her head back to look at me. Locking eyes with her, I assured, "If it’s about the demo, we can get started when Pam gets back. My mother and Pam can try the pills out first."

"If a mama’s boy like you is willing to feed that pill to your mother, then I can be assured about its origin. Now, all that remains to be seen is if it can deliver what you promised," Mandy commented, nodding her head to my proposal for the fasting pill demo.

"Also, the R&D dept has developed a line of Zero-sugar candy with multiple flavors, which can be produced using almost the same ingredients as the Fasting pills. I, myself, am yet to taste them, but the R&D dept vouched for its taste," I informed Mandy, speaking of the elusive R&D dept to assure Mandy my products were all legit and I wasn’t just selling her roadside snake oil pills.

"Can the R&D dept prepare a batch of those candy pills for the upcoming demo? As it happens, we have a child at home to taste them and give us an honest opinion," Mandy asked as I handed her her sunglasses, a towel, and sunscreen that Emi fetched for me and answered, "Yes, they can."

Mandy was surprised, but resting the glasses and cream by the poolside, she used the towel to dry her face and hands, and said, "It would be better if I had a mojito."

"How about I just bring the entire bar over?" I scoffed, shaking my head with a smirk. Give them an inch and they ask for a foot.

"No need to be snarky. I babysat you guys so many summers, and this is how you repay me. My sister was right, all you Lander men are truly ungrateful," Mandy expressed her fake disappointment as she passed me the towel and reached for the sunscreen.

Without bothering to respond to her, in silence, I bundled her wet hair in my grasp and lifted it to whip her upper back and neck. Then, resting the towel by the poolside, Mandy poured enough sunscreen into my palm. I rubbed it on her back, neck, and behind her ears carefully.

"Aw, how romantic? I wish I head a underaged hunky nephew to rub cream all over me too." A playful voice broke the silence by the poolside. It was Janice. She was dressed very modestly in a less revealing sundress compared to her usual style. It seems my mother and Pam’s judgmental looks got to her.

"Want me to lend you mine?" Mandy asked mischievously.

"I don’t use secondhand goods, but since it is yours, sure, why not?" Janice accepted her friend’s offer. Then, retrieving her cursed tool shoes into her ear rings and pulling up her frock, she sat beside me, dipping her legs in the pool.

"What are you looking at? Didn’t you hear her? Rub sunscreen on me, too," Janice yelled, extending her arm.

"Why are you here?" I asked Janice unamusedly. Knowing that she should be busy forging curse tools to meet her quota as the end of the month neared. Instead, she was here. It means something was up.

"To give you your core inheritance jade seal, you can use it to remotely go through demo version of arts in my family’s library, but if you want to redeem the complete arts, you will have to find me or anyone with the true inheritance jade seal, or you can go to one of our schools," Janice informed passing a small oval green jade stone with a eye icon, the McSuile family crest, engraved on it using gold.

I admired the seal for a second under the curious gaze of Mandy and stored the seal away in Emi’s talisman, wondering how fancy the true inheritance seal would be if the core inheritance seal was so grand. Then, seeing, Janice wasn’t done, I asked her to continue, "Anything else?"

"It’s my uncle. He is very pissed about the stunt you pulled yestarday. He can’t prove anything, but that won’t stop him from coming after you like last time. Don’t worry, I warned him not to involve your family this time around, but we can only hope for the best," Janice said, shaking her head, implying she did everything in her power, now it was up to him.

I wasn’t surprised, I knew the risks when I traded the information with Janice. Even a child would be able to connect how I got my hands on that information. Fortunately for me, Elinor was unavailable at present. Otherwise, her testimony would have changed things. It wouldn’t hold up in any court, I would see to that. However, it would buy her father enough time to openly turn my life upside down.

Meanwhile, Mandy got off my thighs and applied sunscreen on her bestie’s thighs and arms. Not paying attention to our conversation. I don’t think she will be this indifferent if she learns that Lyra has joined our club.

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