Chapter 10: The Cliché Annulment Scene
However, the Taeharin family's elders, who never involved themselves in such matters, had brushed them off ambiguously.
But instead of understanding this as a rejection, the other family had deluded themselves into believing they had secured an engagement with the Taeharin family.
More than twenty years later, that family learned that the eldest young master of the Taeharin family had developed health problems, causing his magic level to decline, with little hope of recovery.
They decided to cancel the engagement, unwilling to let a "useless" young master drag down their promising young lady.
And so, the public witnessed the dramatic scene of an annulment.
If this were true, then things were about to get interesting—wasn't this just a real-life case of playing the victim while being the perpetrator?
Illiya couldn't help but laugh at the imagined backstory of this annulment.
Surely, there couldn't be anyone that foolish on this continent, right?
During Illiya's brief moment of distraction, the annulment incident was finally reaching its conclusion.
After the eldest young master of the Taeharin family swore a venomous oath before the statue of the God of Magic, the onlookers' opinions became overwhelmingly one-sided—no one believed the group that had come to break the engagement anymore.
Swearing before a deity was a sacred act.