Make Lux his private sponsor?
Jayce blinked, staring blankly at the smiling girl in front of him. For a moment, he had no idea what to say.
"I already have someone sponsoring me—the Jayce family is stable and generous." After a long while, he finally stammered, "Thank you very much for appreciating my work, Miss Lux—but if I can't obtain the council's approval, there's no way for me to establish a private laboratory in Piltover. Even with a sponsor, it won't work..."
"If it won't work in Piltover, then why not try Zaun?" Lux dropped another bombshell. "Compared to the fairly decent Piltover, Zaun is the place that needs magical power more."
"How is that possible?!" Jayce blurted out. "Miss Lux, it's fine if you don't want to help, but you don't have to make fun of me with Zaun—the people in the Dark Alley are all the worst sort! They're ignorant, lawless, and have no respect for knowledge. If that Zaunite brat hadn't come along, my laboratory wouldn't have been blown up!"
The moment he brought up Zaun, Jayce became agitated. Perhaps because he had just drunk a little, his face flushed red, and he made no effort to hide his contempt for Zaun.
"Those people living in garbage heaps are nothing but vermin destined to roll around in the mud. If Miss Lux thinks my idea is absurd, you can say so directly. There's no need to use those Zaunites to mock me!"
Jayce's words made Lux sigh helplessly.
Yesterday, she had witnessed Zaunites' attitude toward Piltoverans. Today, she had witnessed Piltoverans' attitude toward Zaunites.
When Jayce had said that he would "bring Hextech to everyone," Lux had initially thought he might be the same kind of person as her. But after he mentioned Zaunites, she had to