Hoffen focused on figuring out this mystery, though Althea was a bit more stretched in different directions.
However, regardless of the field, Althea had learned a balance and didn't let it consume all her time anymore.
The children were growing so fast—one moment, they were already talking, the next, running.
She thought: Would they fly away the next time she blinked?
This was why she stopped doing excessive overtime despite having so, so, much to do. She limited her working hours to the usual working hours plus one to two hours of overtime at the maximum.
This caused the master to grumble a bit at first, but seeing the twins immediately softened him up.
Master Hoffen was never quite the liker of people—one could imagine how he was with children.
However, even with their eccentricities, it seemed that the babies had grown on the old man. During the few times he was not in the lab, the Master would often visit her in the house and hang out there.
