“I’m her uncle!” Toph claimed.

The PE teacher thought for a moment and then crouched down to ask, “Do you know him, Sephy?”

Toph frowned and said, “Hey, you! You don’t believe me?”

“I’m sorry,” the teacher replied with a courteous smile. “It’s a rule at the kindergarten that we must be familiar with those picking up the children. The bodyguard and nanny usually come, and sometimes it’s her parents or grandparents.

“There was even an uncle and an aunt named Lena who came once, but I’ve never seen you before. So, I have to be cautious about handing her over to a stranger.”

Toph was rendered speechless.

He had never picked up his niece before. He wouldn’t have bothered if it weren’t for his curiosity about his romantic rival’s appearance.

The PE teacher asked again, “Do you know him, Sephy?”

Toph gestured to Persephone.

and

to threaten her, baring his teeth as if he was going to playfully strangle her. It was a game they often played, behaving like children, fighting over toys, food, stationery, and notebooks, and sometimes even

today seemed like an

mischievously, then smiled and enunciated clearly, “I don’t

almost jumped up. “You little

to grab her braid, but the PE teacher thought he was trying to harm her. Swiftly, the teacher grabbed Toph’s wrist and forcefully pushed

cried out in

embraced Persephone and looked at Toph in

security guards surrounded him

doing? I’m just here

a brazen human trafficker! How dare you attempt to

sure whether

not, you’ll

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