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.

to sell it to

"No."

"You fuck—"

stop this

I shouldn't

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

hands and tried to

I more or else understand the problem. When I have time,

straightforward. Everything would get back to normal as long as the Duchess was pleased

"Really?"

angry as a result. As soon as I saw this, I let out a

did he

shoved the thought to the back of my mind and focused

completed what

"Huh?"

Duchess heard what I had to say, her expression

finished already?

already completed

looked at me with a suspicious expression on her face. She then took the finished cigarette out of her mouth and flicked it in Jin's direction before

him to narrow his eyes at her, but if anything, this was the response that

she looked back

just that I still

"That's understandable."

I didn't go into further detail. Whether or not I took the time

then. Onto

my hands and stared at the

extended my hand in her direction, she immediately retreated one

"What are you doing?"

worry. I'm not going to hurt you, we've already signed a

hold any effect on the Duchess as she

Why do

soon find out. Don't worry

"Sto—hgkh."

hand soon came into contact with her head. After a moment, a bright

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

glanced through them very quickly before reaching out with my hand and having several of them fly in the direction in which I

"This is it."

the contents contained within, I channeled my mana, causing a

"Next."

looked around for any orbs that might have contained recollections of the others

since lost track of time and was thus unaware of how long I had

and myself completely from her mind. It was something that needed to be done in order to make sure that everything worked perfectly, and it was imperative that

a

"This should be all."

hand, the spheres moved away from each other and dispersed. With another wave of my hand, my vision shifted, and I suddenly found myself back

Thump—!

hold of her just in time and

moment, he turned

"What did you do?"

looked at

"You worried about her?"

"No."

"Then..."

"Just answer."

sighed and

about it. I just made her forget about

"I see."

nodded, then picked up the blunt that had been left on the ground. He flicked his hand, and it vanished

to erase all evidence of us ever coming into contact

I smiled at Jin.

pick

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

how much did the

of all of

"What about the mess?"

at the broken chairs and

"Good question…"

pondering for a moment, I