"Um... my lord..."
"I... Tsukuyo and I..."
Onigawara Rin took a deep breath, as though steeling herself.
Then.
She finally raised her head, though her eyes remained tightly shut, and shouted:
"We got into a fight outside!"
"With people from the Soma Familia!"
"And... and we almost got arrested by the Ganesha Familia's military police!"
"The Military Police Captain let us go for your sake in the end, but... but we disgraced you! And caused you trouble! We're terribly sorry!"
With that.
Onigawara Rin dropped to her knees and prostrated herself, knocking her forehead hard against the carpet.
"I'm truly sorry!"
The sound was loud and sharp.
Even Hestia, who had been rolling around on the sofa, stopped in surprise and poked her head out to look over curiously.
"A fight?"
Haimo wasn't angry. Instead, he repeated the word with interest.
"Yes..."
Onigawara Rin lay prostrate on the floor, her voice muffled and heavily nasal.
"They were the ones bullying someone first... that poor little Supporter girl was being beaten so badly..."
"But I was too impulsive. I couldn't hold back and attacked..."
"Miss Tsubaki said that in Orario, familias can't just fight each other, or it could start a war between familias..."
"I'm an idiot! I couldn't control my temper! Please punish me!"
Onigawara Rin spilled out everything that had happened that afternoon.
She concealed nothing and offered no excuses for herself.
She had even prepared herself to be expelled from the familia.
After all.
Getting into a street fight on only the second day after the familia was founded, and antagonizing another familia at that, was a grave taboo in any organization.
When she finished, the entire hall fell deathly silent.
Onigawara Rin kept her eyes shut, her body trembling slightly as she awaited the punishment to come.