"I really didn't expect Meijia's family situation to be this complicated."
After sending Meijia "back to her room" to rest, Sakuya also came to Duanmu Huai's room, and they began chatting.
"Meijia rarely mentioned her family situation to me before. Now that I think about it, there was probably a reason."
"There are always more complications in a big family. The more people there are, the more things happen."
Duanmu Huai stretched lazily and looked out the window.
"Looking at it that way, it's a good thing we don't have so many relatives."
"That's right. Having too many relatives makes all sorts of problems more likely, but you can't exactly cut ties with them."
At that, Duanmu Huai snorted. Although they were technically considered a prominent family in this world, in reality, there were only Duanmu Huai and Sakuya, with no distant relatives who had nothing to do with them. Of course, even if there had been any, given Duanmu Huai's temper, he would have beaten them into submission.
If that didn't work, he could just make them disappear. After all, Duanmu Huai himself was also one of the Old Ones.
"In any case, let's rest for now. We'll talk about it tomorrow."
"Okay. Good night, Brother."
After saying good night, Sakuya returned to her room. Duanmu Huai played with his phone for a while, but found it boring, so he decided to go to sleep...
"Tap, tap, tap..."
"Hm?"
Just then, a tapping sound came from outside the window. Duanmu Huai turned his head and saw that it had begun raining outside at some point. He opened the window and saw that everything outside was pitch-black. Howling wind mixed with raindrops blew straight into his face, and even the vines covering the outside of the mansion swayed with it,