Chapter 49: The Falling House of Diner

The Diner ducal house was thrown into chaos when an unexpected letter of refusal arrived from Finu, stating she had no intention of helping anymore.

“You’re the one who said to buy Thesea, and now look at this mess!”

Banaji, consumed by rage, shouted at Reina.

“Don’t be ridiculous! I never said to buy it. I only told you my sister said Thesea was a good land! This is your fault, isn’t it!?”

“What did you say!”

In a fit of anger, Banaji slapped Reina’s left cheek hard.
A loud crack echoed, and Reina collapsed to the floor.

“What are you doing! That’s awful! Even Father and Mother never hit me!”

Clutching her cheek, Reina wailed loudly.

“It’s your fault for deceiving me! Your divine gift isn’t even that great!”

“You don’t even have a divine gift, so don’t act all high and mighty!”

Reina hurled the fan in her hand at Banaji’s face.

“I’m done with this. I’m leaving this house!”

“Wait, where are you going!”

“Anywhere’s fine!”

Spitting the words, Reina stormed off and locked herself in her room.

(Damn it, this wasn’t supposed to—)

Banaji roughly ruffled his hair.

Just then, the steward approached.

“My lord, a guest has arrived.”

“Can’t you see I’m not in the mood!”

“But it’s someone from the bank. They say the payment due yesterday hasn’t been made, so they’ve come to collect.”

Banaji’s shoulders flinched.

“Send them away. Say I’m not here.”

“But your argument just now was loud enough to be heard outside.”

“I said, tell them I’m not here!”

Snapping at the steward, Banaji fled deeper into the mansion.

(At this rate, I’ll go bankrupt. What do I do…)

Trembling, he suddenly realized he was in the lounge next to the grand hall—the place where he once locked Finu and Hawk.

[Will you not regret this?]

The hallucination he’d been hearing repeatedly lately seemed to echo again.