Chapter 110

"Thank you for saving my daughter, Snow, Elymas-kun. This city of Lacolina has seen one dangerous incident after another lately. It's most troubling."

Marquis Harden said.

"...I'm sorry to have worried you, Father-sama."

Snow bowed her head.

"No, that's quite all right. A candidate to become the next head must be ready to risk their life. Whether they resort to underhanded tactics or simply have luck on their side, whoever wins the people's support... and survives will succeed me."

Marquis Harden said this with a laugh, without even looking at Snow.

His words suggested he wouldn't care if she lost her life as collateral damage in the struggle for succession.

If anything, he seemed to be taunting her, implying she had survived only through sheer luck.

"Does that mean you consider even the incident at the 〈Tower of Mythical Beasts〉 acceptable as part of the succession struggle, Marquis Harden-sama?"

"E-Elymas, you! How dare you say that to Marquis Harden-sama!"...