The Strongest Curse Master-Chapter 408: Madison Got Maddie!
Chapter 408: Madison Got Maddie!
If given a choice between becoming a Curse Master and a Curse Slave, I believe anyone with a sane mind would choose to become a Curse Master. Unfortunately, it wasn’t actually a choice. So, this was not a question one could ask someone. However, I strongly believed that with time, I would be able to ask this question to my loved and trusted ones.
Therefore, even though I could help Mandy become a powerful Curse Slave overnight, like I did in Layla’s case, maybe even better with help from Lyra’s Vyasa’s Womb, I did not suggest it to Mandy. Because if she chooses the Curse Slave route, she can never return to this crossroads to choose the Curse Master route. There would be no turning back.
I am sure within the Curse Council’s infinite wisdom, there were numerous ways for a Curse Slave to ascend to higher tiers and increase their lifespan. But it wouldn’t be as easy and safe as in the case of a Curse Master. Otherwise, those methods would be widespread by now. At least their names would be.
I know what Mandy wants wasn’t up to me to decide. However, since I cannot present her with all the facts about why I did not want her to take the Curse Slave route, I believed it would be wrong of me to let her make a choice without being fully informed. As her favorite nephew, I believed I earned this much meddling rights in her life.
“Ah-ha! You are not telling the complete truth,” Mandy accused her nephew of not being completely honest with her as her furious expression suddenly regained composure and calmness.
There were two reasons for her sudden outburst, one being her nephew’s unacceptable patronizing attitude, and the other was to get a better read of his thoughts. He was good, but she was his aunt; as such, she caught him unprepared with one irrational move. Confirming he wasn’t being completely honest with her, now all that remained was to figure out what he was hiding and why.
Meanwhile, Lyra, who held Mandy in her embrace like a little girl holding an oversized doll, brushed her blonde hair, whispering cheers in her ears, “That’s my little badger!”
“Now, why would I do that? And Lyra, can you stop being creepy?” I said in annoyance. Two grown women acting like little kids. However, it worked. Also, I wanted to grab Lyra and ask whose team she was on—well, there were no teams here, but if there were, we three would be in the same team.
“You tell me!” Mandy snapped while Lyra remarked, “I am happy to see Maddie is still there. I thought with her fancy new blonde hair and six-figure paying job, Mandy killed Maddie.”
Being referred to as Maddie, Mandy ruthlessly bit on Lyra’s arm, holding her. However, Lyra did not scream in pain but sighed in awe, “Aw, she still likes to bite. Maddie, big sister, missed you.” With that, Lyra wrapped Mandy in a bear hug from behind.
Seeing my sister reminiscing and Mandy trying her best to free herself, I couldn’t help but laugh.
Maddie was short for Madison. When we were young, way back when, I thought I had two sisters, Lyra and Mandy. I called her big sister Maddie, as everyone endearingly shortened her name to Maddie. Heck, for a long while, I thought her name was actually Maddie.
We knew Mandy was Auntie Pam’s little sister, yet in our innocent little minds, Lyra was the oldest, Madison was the middle child, and Danny & I were the youngest. The hierarchy only became complicated when Maddie realised she was actually our aunt and not our sister.
Before that, Maddy and Lyra were inseparable but also always at each other’s throats. After all, they were just too different. Maddy has always been pretty, even before her makeover, as for my sister, her body matured quicker than her mind.
Despite Lyra being the older one, Maddy was mature and conscious of the gazes that followed them. However, Lyra did not mind using her physical advantage to get her way which always pissed Maddy off. She would fight back, but her twig-like physique was no match for Lyra’s developed body.
So, Mandy had no choice but to fight dirty. Due to all her pent-up anger and frustration, she developed a vicious and cruel side. Once, she almost bit into Lyra’s flesh, breaking her skin. The latter had to get nine stitches, but she did not learn her lesson and would continue to antagonise her. One that worked the most was the taunt she came up with, “Madison Got Maddie!”
It was a clever play on words for some who had just began to read at middle school level. Whenever young Mandy would get angry, Lyra would further taunt her, chanting aloud, “Aw, Madison Got Maddie!” She would even sing that line with the tune of the popular ad jingles back then. It annoyed little Maddy a lot, but Lyra wouldn’t stop. Things developed to a point where Mandy almost bit off a chunk of Lyra’s thigh, alerting the adults, who had to take Lyra to the emergency room and change the name Maddie to Mandy. Fearing that if some kid in Mandy’s school were as creative as Lyra, they would have a similar situation on their hands in the future, but with far greater consequences.
“Let go of me, you bear,” Mandy yelled, finding that her jaws started to hurt from biting on Lyra’s arm, but the latter did not react to it.
Lyra tightened her hug, gently brushing the latter’s hair and softly whispering, “It’s okay, my little badger, you are safe here.”
“This is not funny, Lyra! Let go of me,” Mandy said, her initial furious tone was now slowly changing into a helpless one. What puzzled her was that no matter how much strength she applied, it did not make any difference. Despite her small build, she can bench 80 lbs. Yet, she was helpless against Lyra
“Stop, you gorilla hands, you are smothering me.” Mandy had given up struggling, but her tone continued to remain defiant, though the resistance was not as strong as it initially was.
“Ace, come join us,” Lyra invited her baby bro, ignoring Mandy’s pleas to have mercy on her poor physique. Only to hear him reject her in disgust, “I think I aged out of hugs long ago. And you guys, too, should stop.”
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