After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 66

After so many days without a clue of Althea, Ansel had unfortunately come to a conclusion that it was time to thicken his face and ask this guy for information

Anyway, the more annoying pompous fatty-slash-spokesperson wasn’t here to bloviate on the lord’s greatness. No one would be mocking him for asking for help.

Ansel patiently waited for Micheal to finish his speech before coming to find him. Ansel stood at the path of his exit, trying not to appear as pompous as he usually did.

"How may I help you?" Micheal asked, as friendly as always, while his cronies didn’t look at him very well. This was understandable, he rejected their lord after all.

Ansel took out the family photo on his wallet. "I’m looking for my family. Especially… my siblings."

Micheal nodded and gracefully took the photo. The man’s blue eyes stayed on the picture for a moment longer than others.

"Your sister is very beautiful." He finally said after a pause. "And your brother looks… very powerful." He tacitly didn’t ask about the others and just assumed everyone else had passed.

Ansel was taken aback by the comment. "You could tell?"

"Hmm…"

"Then?"

The enigmatic man looked at his cronies and showed the photo, and they shook their heads in response.

"Sadly, none of us here are familiar with either of them." He said, "May I know their names? Lords could see the names of anyone in the territory." _{fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm}

Ansel was surprised that he was so generous in telling him this, and his impression of this guy increased a step.

In the end though, after Ansel told of their names, Micheal still shook his head apologetically.

Ansel sighed, shoulders slumped. "Well, thank you anyway."

At the very least, now that he was certain Althea wasn’t here, nor had she had any intersection with anyone in this place, there was no point in staying…

He needed to go somewhere else. Ideally, another territory.

He voiced it out as soon as they got back to the dwelling after eating. The others looked at him in surprise.

"Are you really leaving?" Tom looked at Ansel who was really ready to go. "Now?"

"Isn’t it good to just wait for news here?" Artie asked with a puzzled frown.

Ansel shook his head. "She’s in her third trimester. No matter how capable, she is in a weakened state. What if she’s waiting to be saved somewhere?"

The team were surprised to find the state of his sister, and they even mused about the chances a pregnant woman had in surviving.

The odds weren’t very good, but they didn’t voice it out.

"I can only ask you to make her stay if you encounter her here. If I don’t find her in the next territory, or even get a clue, I will come back to see."

Tom and the others looked at each other, wondering how they’d make him stay.

However, even if they had only been together a few days, the experiences they had together made for deeper bonds than a lot of friendships back in Terran.

So… they knew there was no talking things out with him.

Tom sighed and they patted his shoulder to express his blessings. "Be careful. Stay alive."

The other two did the same, expressing their well-wishes. Little Lily even went to give him a sweet hug. "I will come to you when I grow up. You must marry me!"