Chapter 15: Here Comes the Storm
It was a strange day to come across friends and foes on one narrow road but I had to go with the flow and keep it all together. I couldn’t risk failing a quest to this System whose existence is veiled in mystery and is the center of all the strange things I have been through.
Even though I was drowning in my nose in problems, I managed to put myself into a new one. I was supposed to get back on my feet in society first but it seems that some people fear not only me getting back, but even me having the chance to do so. With them around every corner, I was at least suspecting some trouble but not to this level of nastiness.
It all started last night when I walked out of the auction house. That night when I was first hit by the storm.
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—Last Night after the Auction—
Victory!
Small as it was but a victory is still a victory.
Vivian was ready to kick off a celebration because of what happened earlier that night. She fulfilled her mission of knowing who was going to interrogate her and bought the Spirit Lotus, which her father lured her to buy. She even trash-talked to her heart’s content and left some deep slaps on some of those who tried to bully her.
"What a time to be alive!" She exclaimed on her way out.
Alas, she can’t attend the dinner party after the auction, the De Clare family is famed for their parties but with the Prince and the Heroine around, Vivian must tread carefully.
"Hm? Where is the carriage? I want to go home." Vivian said as she waited with Logan and Esmeralda outside the auction.