The journey she had already travelled was portrayed extensively through her excessive imagination and the ton of information she had to report to her sister. She even explained her doubts regarding the successive beast attacks that occurred with her as the target.

Violet too doubted that the beast attacks were purely coincidental. She believed that a beast tamer might have used his skills to target Clara through those beasts. The situation could only be explained in such a manner. Moreover, the beast tamer had to be at least a Class A Tamer since the beasts that had attacked Clara out of nowhere were not weaker than A level.

While Violet believed that the earlier statement was true, she didn’t have the time or the ability to deduce the identity of the enemy responsible for hiring the beast tamer. Windsor family had been in the Kanewea state for too many years and it had its roots spread out everywhere within the bounds of the state. Therefore, Windsor families had a corresponding number of people who were dissatisfied with them or had declared their open enmity towards the family. Moreover, there were many families who were just waiting for the Windsor family to falter so they could take over the Windsor family’s position. Every step had to be taken with enough caution since wrongfully accusing any family would only end up being detrimental to the Windsor family be accumulating the ire of the other families. As such distinguishing the one responsible for the attack on Clara and her group was not at all possible currently. ｏｖ𝚕．ｃｏ𝚖

Violet decided that she would let it be for the time being and would keep an eye on the potential enemies who stood to gain from Clara’s demise. She believed that she would be able to find the culprit before long and would then be able to pay them back in their own coin.

Kanewea State was considered to be one of the richest states of the Hina Empire. There were hundreds of elite families that were well versed in either business or the magical arts. These families fought each other for the resources for their own interests so as to expand their influence. In doing so, the emergence of both allies and enemies was only natural.

Clara was doubtful of Zach’s identity but she hadn’t been in any position to ask questions. She needed to rely on his promise to get her home safely after all. Therefore, she had kept those suspicions about Zach’s identity to herself and only revealed them in front of her sister after she was home safely and out of the reach of that assassin.

While Violet couldn’t be sure that there truly was a beast tamer targeting Clara, she couldn’t push down this recurring thought that Zach might not be an ally either. His timely appearance and uncanny strength to deal with those beasts effortlessly proved that he wasn’t as simple as how he described himself to be; ‘a traveling merchant’. She was even thinking if Zach was an accomplice of the hidden assassin sent for Clara and was only trying to gain her trust so he could infiltrate the Windsor family to target the core personnel. This had in fact been one of the reasons why she had settled Zach and his entourage away from the main estate.

Violet believed that Zach must have left some traces of his true identity and got some people to look into him with the help of all the resources of her family.

After learning about him from various sources and through various analysis of their own, the Windsor family girls finally found a portrait of Zach that seemed like it would yield them a lot of good luck and wealth. After accidentally matching it with Zach’s image that the two of them had seen, they came to understand that the portrait was in fact a crude attempt to gather his good features on the canvas.

The portrait depicted the countenance of a brilliant dark mage from Elizabeth city who was on the run after coming in conflict with the royal prince.

Previously, a wanted order was to be issued against Zach but the royal family fortunately hadn’t lost all their marbles yet and kept such a thing from happening. At the same time, they punished Prince Kolt who was responsible for the loss of goodwill between Zach and the royal family.

The Windsor family managed to get secret information like this.

Just as they barely managed to figure out Zach’s identity, a coughing sound entered their ears from afar. The doors that were completely shut for fear of any disturbance were flung open by a pair of hands from the outside. The coughing didn’t stop as if it was the signature of the person entering the room.

Of course, both the sisters were quite familiar with that specific signature. After all, it belonged to their father who had been sick for a long while.

The old man was the leader of the Windsor family and Violet and Clara’s father. Although his face looked extremely pale and lifeless, his eyes were still sharp. His breathing was ragged from taking a walk despite his illness but he refused to give in to the disease. His confident expression never left him despite knowing how vulnerable he was to his enemies due to his sickness.

While the world thought that Violet was already accomplished enough and could hold the mantle of the Windsor family by herself, the old man wasn’t too confident in his daughter. He had raised the girl but he too found holes in her judgment from time to time.

For example, this time the old man felt that Violet was too lacking in ability when she dealt with Zach’s matters. She should have found about his background and true identity a long time ago. She had invited the wolf into her home without even scanning his background and was even willingly nurturing him and his people in the family’s estate. She should have found the true identity of the Luther family sooner instead of engaging in speculation by taking in question the morality and reciprocation of good intentions based on their act of saving Clara from the dangers she encountered during her journey this time.

“So you have finally managed to figure it all out, huh?” the old man taunted the two girls as he sat down with elderly grace which was already waning due to his advanced age.

The sisters didn’t dare to say a single word in response as they silently listened to the old man’s criticism and nodded their heads in acknowledgement of his words every time he said something. They didn’t want him to push himself since his health problems were really quite serious.

“Father, you should be resting. Why are you out an about? Don’t you trust us to handle everything regarding the Windsor family?” Violet wanted her father to rest but the tone of her voice turned quite aggressive without her knowing.

The old man’s face turned red with anger as he hit the top of the table with enough force to break it to the ground but the furniture turned out to be quite sturdy enough to handle a hit from the old master.