Zich simply snorted when he heard that an envoy representing Count Flaud had come and didn’t place much attention to it. He didn’t care even when he was sure that the envoy had come to the Steelwall Estate to take his side.

‘Of course, it’s not for my benefit, but for theirs.’ Their plan to make Zich—who was related to them—Steelwall’s Count and use him somehow for scheming was so transparent that it only made him laugh. Zich felt even less affinity or bond to the Flaud family than he did for Steelwall.

‘Why would I care for the guys who declared war when their daughter and grandson were in enemy territory?’ Due to that, his mother—with her already terrible temper— had exploded into new proportions and made him a complete outcast in his youth. Zich had no plans to go out of his way to beat down the Flaud family for this reason, but he also didn’t plan on heeding to their words either. In the end, Zich led Lyla and Hans back into the Steelwall Estate. Zich cleared all the thoughts he had about the envoy from the Flaud family and he assumed that Count Steelwall must have chased the envoy away by himself.

“I finally found you, sir.” Somebody hastily approached Zich. It was Trell.

Zich stared...