Aurora coughed.
Then she dropped her glass on the table with a frown.
"Do you mind me asking why?"
I set mine down and began. "The only people in your party are the Royal knights and the children of the three dukes of the Lumierian Empire. My party joining yours will just put all of us under them, and we do not want that."
The influential parties operated a bit differently from the other parties. There is a lot of hierarchy among them. And unlike the other parties where everyone partakes in stuff like hunts and watch duties, in the influential parties, except for times of large-scale operations, the low-ranking members are the ones used for all the tedious work.
If we were to join their party now, Leon is the only one who'd be regarded as a high-ranking member. The rest of us, as the lowest in the party, would just be used for errands and have our abilities exploited.
