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92 - 09 Talking with Jimmy Radiak ②

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The day of Mitra's marriage is the day after the auction, which means...

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The day after Jimmy bought the mansion at the auction the day before, thereby also putting Mitra's future at Jimmy's disposal.

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That seems to have been what he meant.

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In other words, this marriage...

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"I want to play with a woman of great nobility's blood.

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The purpose of this marriage was to "play with a woman of great nobility's blood.

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Jimmy Radiak was the one who was making the arrangements on his own.

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Jimmy heard that the house was to be sold at auction in two months.

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By purchasing the house where they live, he seems to be trying to take away Mitra and Clarice's freedom.

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Mitra, who is blind, cannot leave the house she is accustomed to living in.

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So Mitra was willing to accept this and let Clarice alone out of the house to be free.

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This was probably the reason why she knew all Jimmy's plans and pretended to Clarice as if this marriage was a happy one.

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However, Mitra's thoughts were in vain.

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It seems that Jimmy intends to get the sisters and the mansion all together...

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This time, Clarice found out what Mitra was hiding from him.

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What the hell is wrong with you!

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Jimmy's guards, perhaps sensing the danger of an angry Clarice, draw their swords in unison.

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In contrast, this one was intended to be a friendly meeting, so everyone was unarmed.

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This was not the same as when we were dealing with Noppoi's troops in the underground labyrinth.

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This was in the middle of a residential area.

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And they were nobles.

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Even if we were to fight, even if we were to win.

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If we messed with the nobles, we would become wanted men, and eventually we wouldn't be able to continue to live in this mansion.

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Burgess held Clarice down on the floor as she tried to jump on Jimmy.

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Burgess was indeed a masterful man.

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He is a man of advanced age, and he seems to understand that he can't just beat Jimmy here.

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As a former holy knight (paladin), he must have been exposed to the tyranny of the nobility in King's Landing.

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However, Burgess himself also seems to be suppressing his anger.

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He gritted his teeth and stared at them with eyes filled with quiet anger.

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I was just being selfish," Burgess said. I thought my sister would be happy and I would be free to live.... Maybe somewhere in my heart, I felt that my sister was a burden to me. I'm the worst...I'm the worst!"

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Clarice was sobbing raggedly and tearfully under Burgess.

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Jimmy looked at her as if he were watching a sideshow.

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I asked Jimmy, "Can I ask you one question?"

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I asked Jimmy.

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All eyes turned to me at once.

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But Jimmy gave me a mocking look, and then turned around as if nothing had happened.

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That was just a joke.

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I guess he didn't want to have a conversation with the waiter.

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The blue-haired man with the guard there..."

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I knew I couldn't have a conversation with Jimmy himself, so I called out to Blaine (there).

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What is it?"

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He seemed to be willing to have a conversation with me, since he answered anyway.

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The house belongs to Kilt Warren, Mitra and Clarice's father, I believe. It should be up to him to decide whether or not to put it up for auction.... Are you really saying that he is going to sell off this mansion?"

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Even though he is a slave. Would he so easily discard the mementos (daughters) born to the woman he loved enough to give her a mansion?

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Truly. You don't seem to know anything.

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Jimmy's guard told him that Kilt Warren had already died a long time ago.

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'Oh no...'

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Clarice is aghast, though.

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Perhaps Mitra already knew of her father's death.

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He was sitting there with the same attitude as before.

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And for the past few years, the family had been headed by a dark, firstborn son, who also died half a year ago.

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Gilbert Warren, the second son of Kilt Warren, Mitra and Clarice's father, is currently in control of the Warren family.

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Gilbert is the half-brother of Mitra and Clarice. He had already distinguished himself since his father's generation, and even when his elder brother was in power, he was in charge of the entire family business.

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As soon as he finally took complete control of the Warren family after his brother's death, he went around completely suspending all unnecessary expenditures.

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Furthermore, Gilbert increased the salaries of family members with useful skills by several times and promoted them to executive positions one after another.

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On the other hand, they were unmotivated or were resting on their laurels of privilege from the past. For those family members whom he judged to be a negative influence on the Warren family, he mercilessly cut their salaries or gave them time off.

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And in just six months, he reformed the Warren family's internal structure.

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For this reason, he is said to have a reputation both inside and outside the company for being quite a doer...

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But this was not a good thing for Mitra and Clarice.

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It was in this vein that aid to Mitra and Clarice was cut off, with Gilberto taking real power six months ago.

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And Gilberto is also about this mansion that is just useless and does not produce a single mana.

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He thought it would be ridiculous to continue to rent it out for free to his sister's people, whom he had never met, forever, so he was going to put it up for auction this time and quickly turn it into manna.

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Without informing the people who live there...?"

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'I am sorry, Mr. Albus. I (I) have heard about it for a long time.

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Mitra interrupted him.

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Mitra had known about my father's death for a long time. She had been in contact with Gilberto's emissary several times over the past six months.

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He had been in contact with Gilberto's emissary several times over the past six months. My sister and I were at our wits' end.

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It was then that Clarice met Burgess.

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Under Burgess' tutelage, Clarice quickly developed her skills as an adventurer, and soon she was earning enough mana to support herself.

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I (I), who can't live on my own, will surely continue to cause trouble for Clarice.

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Even the treasure hunt, in which she had been pinning her hopes on a silver lining, had yet to yield the six million mana that she had hoped for.

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And it was then that I received this offer from Mr. Jimmy.

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Jimmy Radiak bought the mansion at auction from Gilbert Warren and surrounded Mitra there as his wife.

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It was a story that Mitra could not have wished for.

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If Jimmy could buy the house at auction, Mitra would not have to leave.

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In other words, Mitra could continue to live in the house she was accustomed to, and Clarice would be free from Mitra's constraints.

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It was the best deal for Mitra.

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And it was.

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If only Jimmy Radiak wasn't such a bastard.

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So, I guess Mitra was ready for it.

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Ready to accept this marriage, to make it look like a happy one...

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I don't care what happens to myself after the marriage.

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She would be bought with mana like a slave as an addition to the mansion, and her life would be trampled by this man who called her (Mitra) a "slave. That's enough, he thought.

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I (I) am prepared to do so. I was prepared to do so.

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But...

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Jimmy was a far worse son of a b*tc* than Mitra had ever imagined, and even that had fallen apart.

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Hearing this story, Clarice had begun to sob quietly.

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'Anyway, can you go home today?　We've already accomplished your goal of seeing Mitra's face today, haven't we?"

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I said. Jimmy and the others started to prepare to go home after a while of babbling on and on and on.

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A blue-haired man who looked like Blaine was the last to leave, and he was looking at Burgess with a disapproving eye.

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We're leaving, Dacoras."

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Then he was called by his master, Jimmy Radiak, and he left at a bit of a run.

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Later, with a sobbing Clarice.

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Burgess quietly angry.

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And Mitra, who didn't know what to think, was left behind.

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This...how shall we put this to rest?

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