Kill her? That would be letting her off too easily.
Fire her? That was no longer punishment—it was a reward.
The cruelest punishment for Raine was to make sure she could never slack off again and erase all her vacations.
Then give her best friend Misari a vacation.
'You fear your brother living in hardship, but you also fear your brother driving a Land Rover.'
Your own failure might be regrettable, but your brother's success was even more despair-inducing.
When it came to tormenting people, Chii really knew what he was doing.
As Raine listened to Chii's judgment, her once-smug little face gradually went from pride to pallor, from pallor to panic, then to despair, and finally to the ashen gray of utter hopelessness.
"No~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
"Lord Chii, you can't do this! This isn't fair to me!"
"I'll die like this! I really will die!!!"
"My lord, I'm begging you! I really am begging you!!!"
Raine dropped to her knees before Chii, clutched his hand, and began wailing in anguish, despair, and helplessness. She looked so pitiful, so heartbreakingly adorable!
At that moment, only a few crucial phrases remained in Raine's mind.
Misari's thousand-year vacation,
A thousand years of White Ice Palace official duties,
White Ice Palace external affairs,
All shouldered by her alone!
Was this supposed to kill her?!
Was this hell? This was definitely hell, wasn't it?!
A thousand years of official duties plus external affairs, without Misari's help—th-this-this... this was fatal!
She was wrong! She had truly been wrong!!!
Misari, standing behind Chii, watched Raine's agonized wails, and a trace of reluctance flickered through her eyes.
Only someone who truly knew Raine could understand just what kind of punishment this was for her!
This punishment was ten thousand times more terrifying than killing Raine and sending her back