Chapter Fourty-One
"Lily, huh?"
I murmured, my voice dropping to a cold hum.
I watched as the boy's shoulders tensed. His fingers gripped the fabric of his tattered trousers until his knuckles turned white. The air around him seemed to thicken.
"Haaah... You're just eleven years old and you're already plotting to take my daughter away from me, you little brat?"
The sheer audacity of it. How dare he, a mere SSS-Rank prospect, eye my SSSS-Rank money bank with such possessive intent? Lily was my ultimate asset to discover mana stones in the vast range of mana peaks without exerting myself to come up with a magical equation. I didn't appreciate competition, especially from someone whose head barely reached my waist.
"I was there for Lily before you even knew of her existence, Your Grace," Zien replied.
