Chapter 297 - 208: Calculations
Hiddell looked at the people in the dance floor and felt an inexplicable sense of annoyance.
In The Capital, there were many families nobler than Hiddell’s, but as the offspring of an influential Earl, Hiddell never had to be subservient to anyone, except for the four Dukes or the respected His Majesty the King.
Therefore, when his peers sent their dance partners into the dance floor or the chatting area beside it, Hiddell instinctively felt that they were not discussing "The Old Man and the Sea."
No sooner had he made contact with that Malin Gast than he started to feel that these guys were treating the Renard family’s child like a clown.
However, among them was his old friend; Hiddell didn’t want to burn bridges, although Malin was his cousin’s boyfriend and seemed to have gained the approval of his aunt by marriage—no easy feat, for she was a Legendary battle Mage.
So Hiddell genuinely didn’t want to get involved, although he had already boarded the "thief ship," but after all, there was still the God of Justice in this world. He was confident that he could extricate himself from this damned affair, but... having boarded the "thief ship," he could only feign ignorance now, hoping these guys had enough sense not to force him to turn hostile.
With this in mind, Hiddell glanced at Shelton Brice dancing with his partner in the ballroom—thinking it over, this big guy was living the life, everyone knew that as a giant, he would definitely support Malin, who also had giant blood, so there was never any intention to recruit him from the start.
Of course, it wasn’t that they didn’t want to, but both Hiddell and the others felt that if they tried to recruit him, they would be in trouble even before Malin was, without any need for him to do anything.