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Chapter 236 No dating allowed before the age of 18!

Chapter 236 No dating allowed before the age of 18!

"What does it matter?" Hecate asked back. In her mind, a powerful mage like Rune could completely ignore worldly views. Moreover, in ancient Greece, women could get married after their menstrual period started, which was after the age of 11. Girls like Raven's age would be called old maids in some city-states.

Rune glared at the magical avatar: "Times have changed! And does the Raven even know what love is now? She's spent her whole life working under a bunch of priests; it's a miracle she even knows what menstruation is!"

"So what?" Hecate remained indifferent. She couldn't understand Rune's anger, just as she couldn't understand why Hades betrayed her. Over the years, she had never taken the initiative to understand the thoughts of mortals.

But Rune was different; he had some understanding of female psychology. Some girls fall in love with their teachers in school, or with their drill instructors during military training.

"Falling in love with the driving instructor while learning to drive, falling in love with the doctor while seeing a doctor..."—They didn't really fall in love with the person, but rather with the person's domineering attitude towards them at a particular moment. Rune said helplessly, "As for me, I saved Raven, and I also taught her; perhaps I'm not bad-looking either—"

Hecate rolled her eyes upon hearing this, but didn't refute it. The reason Rune dared to say that was because he didn't look like this in his previous life. Now, he doesn't even want to look in the mirror, because when Rune looks in the mirror, he always feels that the person in the mirror is not himself at all, so he can objectively evaluate his appearance.

"But that shouldn't be the reason she fell in love with me. She didn't see my flaws, she didn't see my ugly, wolfish nature. If I respond carelessly, both of us will go through a very long period of suffering. We will torment each other. What's worse, both of us possess considerable power. Have you thought about what the consequences of that will be?"

Rune looked at Hecate, watching as the woman gradually became serious.

"In my opinion, love, or rather, true, passionate love, is a complete disaster. I can live happily on my own, studying magic, playing with heroes from other dimensions, and watching them fight one terrible villain after another—but then one day, I truly fall in love with someone, and then I never have a moment's peace. I become so deeply infatuated with that person that everything around me becomes utterly boring."

Rune shook his head finally: "Forget it, what's there to say? But I must warn you, Hecate, don't try to play matchmaker—I mean, don't shoot Cupid's arrows indiscriminately. You can't afford the consequences!"

After saying that, he left the workshop without looking back. What Rune didn't see was that the raven came out of the room the moment he left.

"I don't like him because he was once my teacher, or because he's more powerful than me," the raven muttered to itself.

Although her voice was soft, it was perfectly audible to someone of Hecate's caliber. But unusually, she didn't try to do anything; she simply patted the raven on the shoulder.

"What a heartless man," Hecate sighed. "Has he been hurt in a relationship by anyone?"

Raven shook her head. Clark had said that many people at school had written him love letters, both men and women, and some had even confessed their feelings to him, but Rune had rejected them all. At the time, she was quite relieved, but now, after hearing his views on love, Raven suddenly felt sad about her future romantic path.

It seems like there's been some progress, but it also seems like the raven is just being delusional.

Hecate stared blankly in the direction Rune had left, wondering if she would have done something wrong if she had been as insightful as him.

The more lavish the meal last night, the more perfunctory this morning's meal was: bread with cheese, bacon, lettuce, and tomato slices.

Then I baked it until the cheese melted, made a new dish of mixed shredded vegetables, added the braised pork that I didn't finish yesterday, and the pecan pie and cookies that Masha made before, which together made up this morning's breakfast.

For Chinese people, eating braised pork for breakfast would be quite greasy, but for Europeans and Americans it's just right.

Clark acted as if he had never heard of being a Kryptonian, casually sitting on the stool and eating his meal, while the Kents behaved as usual.

"Where's the raven?" Clark asked, stuffing a large chunk of meat into his mouth. The sweet and salty flavor, the melt-in-your-mouth fat, and the chewy, springy texture of the lean meat satisfied him greatly. He'd heard that this pork was specially bought from an Eastern country by Rune, who said that pork from his country had a strong, unpleasant smell.

"They should be out soon, right?" Rune thought for a moment and said. But Raven didn't emerge from the workshop until they had finished eating halfway through, and he looked very downcast.

Martha asked Raven why she was so sad, but Raven gave an irrelevant answer and asked about the minimum marriage age in Kansas.

"Kansas allows minors aged 14-15 to marry, but parental consent and court approval are required." It wasn't Martha speaking.

It was Jonathan, whose sheriff friend often complained to him about this kind of thing. But he immediately added, "Raven, you're still officially my adopted daughter, so if you want to get married before you're 18, you'll have to ask my opinion."

That's what he said, but Jonathan's expression was very serious. He also glanced at the shotgun hanging on the wall. Clearly, the man who wanted to marry Raven now had to withstand a round of shots from Jonathan's shotgun.

Raven glanced at Rune, and Jonathan and Martha's eyes widened in surprise.

Clark stuffed a piece of toasted cheese bread into his mouth while watching the other four people's reactions with amusement. Before, Rune always watched him and Lana make a fool of themselves, but now it was his turn to watch them make a fool of themselves.

Considering the school bus was about to arrive, Martha and Jonathan were finally willing to let Rune go. After he left the bedroom, Raven came over with small steps to apologize. What could Rune do?

"I also want to emphasize that if you want to date before you turn 18, you need my permission first."

Rune's requirement directly changed Raven's marriage condition to a love condition, and also changed the difficulty from dealing with ordinary people with guns to defeating a powerful being of the level of a Godfather, but Raven didn't care.

She admires Rune, a powerful being of the Heavenly Father level, so far she doesn't feel hopeless about the future; on the contrary, she feels that Rune cares about her.

Rune had no idea that Raven was having so much going on in his mind. Tonight, he was not only going to attend the superheroes' victory celebration, but also to find the Serpent and Odin to divide the spoils.