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 me or

"No."

"You fuck—"

this for

maybe I

a loss of what to make out of the situation. It was, if anything, a

and tried to calm

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

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

"Really?"

she became noticeably less angry as a result. As soon as I saw this, I let out a sigh of relief and

when did

the thought to the back of

aside. I've already completed what I

"Huh?"

Duchess heard what I had to say, her expression changed

finished already?

I've already completed

suspicious expression on her face. She then took the finished cigarette out of her mouth and flicked

narrow his eyes at her, but if anything, this was the response that she had hoped

she

wrong, it's not like I don't believe you. It's just that I still didn't

"That's understandable."

detail. Whether or not I took the time to explain it to her, she would eventually figure it out

then. Onto the

happily clapped my hands

I extended my hand in her direction, she immediately retreated

"What are you doing?"

hurt you, we've

any effect on the Duchess as she still stepped

so, what are you doing? Why do you

find out.

"Sto—hgkh."

contact with her head. After a moment, a bright white glow appeared on my fingertips, and

appeared to be millions upon millions of spheres of varying

reaching out with my hand and having several of them fly

"This is it."

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

"Next."

few minutes, I looked around for any orbs that might have

was finished, there were one hundred pitch-black spheres floating around me. I had long since lost track of time and was thus unaware of how long I had been doing

memory she had of the others and myself completely from her mind. It was something that needed to be done in order to make sure

a genuine

"This should be all."

waved my 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 in the

Thump—!

Jin was able to grab hold of her just in time and

a brief moment, he turned

"What did you do?"

looked at him

"You worried about her?"

"No."

"Then..."

"Just answer."

and waved

it. I just made her forget

"I see."

then picked up the blunt that had been left on the ground. He flicked his

also want to erase all evidence of us ever coming into

I smiled at Jin.

pick

blunts that had been thrown around. There were quite a lot of

how much did the two

rid of all of

"What about the mess?"

pointed at the broken chairs and

"Good question…"

a moment, I eventually