The Author's POV

"What's going on in here?"

When I got back from my trip, I was greeted by a thick cloud of smoke.

"Did the mansion catch fire?"

…but how was that possible?

Looking at Amanda, both of us made a dash for the main hall in an attempt to locate the source of the smoke.

Arriving at the large wooden door, I smacked it open.

Clank—!

"What's going on in h—eh?"

In the middle of my sentence, I had to pause in order to rub both of my eyes. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't interpreting what I was seeing incorrectly.

'I'm not high, am I?'

"I'm almost out human. Give me another pack."

"I've already given you two."

"What about it? Can't you see that I'm already almost done?"

"Smoking harms."

Bang—!

"Damn it human! Don't fucking test me!"

"Test you for what? You haven't even paid me anything for the packs!"

"Ah, so it was about the money! Why didn't you say so? I'll reward you handsomely for another pack, so hurry up and give it to me."

"No. I only have one left, and that's for me."

"Damn you human!"

Bang—!

The table fell apart, and the Duchess got to her feet immediately. The anger visible on her face was accompanied by a heaving motion in her chest.

In her mouth was a half lit cigarette.

"Didn't you just say that you'd sell it to me? You a swindler?"

"When did I say I was ever going to sell it to you? I just pointed out the fact that you took two packs from me for free."

"Bastard!"

She cursed again.

"Do you have any idea as to who I am?"

"I don't care."

"I'll fight you!"

'What in the world happened during the time Amanda and I were out?'

I pinched the middle of my brows.

The room was a complete disaster, and the scattered pieces of what appeared to be chairs, in conjunction with the conversation that I had overheard, helped me get an understanding of what was happening.

...It's just that I found it hard to believe.

'I can't believe this is what I return to...'

Before stepping in between the two of them, I let out an internal sigh. Despite how entertaining it was, I had no choice but to put an end to this.

There were more important things at hand.

you going to sell it

"No."

"You fuck—"

this

maybe I shouldn't have

glared at by the two of them, I was at a loss of what to make out of the situation. It was,

hands and tried to calm

understand the problem. When I have time, I'll

appeared that the solution was fairly straightforward. Everything would get back to normal as long as the Duchess was pleased

"Really?"

eyes lit up and she became noticeably less angry as a result. As soon as I saw this, I let out a sigh of relief and glanced over at Jin

did he start

guard, but I quickly shoved the thought to the back

aside. I've already completed what I set out

"Huh?"

what I had to

already? This

already completed

her face. She then took the finished cigarette out of

was the response that she had hoped for, thus her expression changed to a

she looked

don't believe you. It's just that I still didn't receive any news from my side, so

"That's understandable."

time to explain it to her, she would eventually

Onto

clapped my hands and stared

in her direction, she immediately retreated one

"What are you doing?"

going to hurt you, we've already signed a

to hold any effect on the Duchess as she still stepped

what are you doing? Why do you want to suddenly touch

soon find out.

"Sto—hgkh."

froze on the spot, and my hand soon came into contact with her head. After a

appeared to be millions upon millions of spheres of varying hues filled the space in front of

with my hand and having several of them fly in the

"This is it."

inspecting the contents contained within, I channeled my mana, causing a layer of dark threads to begin covering the orb, which I then tossed

"Next."

the next few minutes, I looked around for any orbs that might have contained recollections of the others and

around me. I had long since lost track of

she had of the others and myself completely from her mind. It was something that needed

a genuine

"This should be all."

and dispersed. With another wave of my hand, my vision

Thump—!

body fell next to me. Jin was able to grab hold of her just in

for a brief moment, he turned his attention back

"What did you do?"

at

"You worried about her?"

"No."

"Then..."

"Just answer."

sighed and

made her forget about us

"I see."

that had been left on the ground. He flicked his hand, and it vanished

you also want to erase all evidence of us ever coming into contact with

I smiled at Jin.

pick things

pointed out all of the blunts that had been thrown around. There were quite a lot

did the

rid of all

"What about the mess?"

at the broken chairs and

"Good question…"

a moment, I eventually waved my