After nearly an hour of negotiations, the group of uninvited guests finally took their leave from the courtyard gate of the house belonging to a certain troublesome little girl.
No one knew what the Kingdom's Third Princess, Lana, and her party had discussed with the terrifying little girl whose identity had gradually become public knowledge inside that mansion. In any case, the only thing the Kingdom nobles and Eight Fingers members watching the matter saw was that Princess Lana and the others left the house with strange expressions. From their less-than-relaxed faces, it wasn't hard to guess that the meeting hadn't gone very smoothly.
But whatever the case, and whether it had gone well or not, the contents of their negotiations with the little girl remained secret. Aside from the four people who had taken part, no one knew how they had negotiated or what sort of result they had achieved!
What was even more worrying to certain interested parties was that, in the two days after Princess Lana met with someone, the Kingdom still hadn't taken action against the mansion or its owner. It was as though those outsiders' contempt for the Kingdom's laws and their brutal beating of an official, leaving him crippled, had never happened at all.
But none of that mattered. At least, it didn't matter to some people.
For example, today the Kingdom's Third Princess, Lana Tyelle Charlton Ryle Vaiself, once again invited her elder brother, the Kingdom's Second Prince, Zanac Valleon Igana Ryle Vaiself, to her palace. She had also invited one of his close allies, one of the Kingdom's Six Great Nobles, whose influence was the greatest of them all and who was mockingly known as the "Bat": the cunning Marquis Raeven. The three of them were holding a secret conversation in her