Should We Do More While We're at It?

“I'm telling you, this is so unfair. I didn't do anything!”

“Get lost, you criminal bastard. If you hadn't done anything wrong, would you have been plastered all over the news?”

“...Even you don't believe me? Your supposed best friend?”

“Friend? Don't bullshit me, you shitty orphan. I only kept you around for a while because I felt sorry for you. Don't call that friendship.”

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“Ooh……”

It was time for a proper tour of the capital residence.

Even so, it was an impressive place, as you'd expect from a Grand Ducal residence, and quite large.

Though its master was away for most of the year, the servants seemed to have done a good job keeping it in order.

I looked over the servants, all standing in a row to welcome their young master, who was visiting for the first time in years...