"Aventurine, judging by your features, if I'm not mistaken, you should be one of the Evigin people from Sigonia-IV." Oswald spoke in a deliberately casual manner, though his tone carried calculated contempt. "That universally despised race known for honeyed words and hidden daggers, endless lies, and using pretty faces to win sympathy."
"So what if I am?" Aventurine replied coldly.
"Then I finally understand why your people ended up like this." Oswald continued unhurriedly. "As far as I know, the Katica people were responsible for the extermination of the Evigin people. After that massacre, it was the IPC that stepped in and wiped out those criminal Katica people. Yet as an Evigin survivor, not only do you feel no gratitude toward the benefactors who avenged you, but now you're even making false accusations, spreading claims that the IPC promised to aid the Evigin people but failed to act, leading to their destruction. What exactly are your intentions?"
"You...?!" Aventurine had not expected Oswald's skin to be this thick. It was thicker than even the Amber King's walls!
"So worked up. Did I hit a sore spot?" Oswald's smile deepened. "Then again, besides Evigin people like you, who are accustomed to fabricating lies, who else would slander others without a shred of proof?"
"Make up a story about the 'IPC promising aid,' and you can easily smear a department head, gain sympathy, and perhaps even extort a huge compensation payment from the IPC. There's no business in the world more profitable than that."
"But what I'm more curious about is whether you got your current position through the same method—by swindling it from my sworn enemy, Diamond?"
A string of viciously aggressive words spilled from Oswald's mouth.
Every sentence was meant to cut to the heart.
He had not only belittled