Chapter 195

Once the performance was over, Rumdrax, Cho, and I headed back to the capital, Brume.

"Let's go straight to Irenber."

Rumdrax said, breathing hard through his nose. We'd just heard that some of Irenber's vassals had cut ties with the house the moment the full mobilization order to find me came down.

"No need to get worked up, Rumdrax. We knew that would happen going in. What about the bank, anyway? You've been away far too long."

"Let the bank go under for all I care. I'd honestly welcome it. Then I could finally live freely."

Rumdrax had spent a good long stretch of his life as the head of Phoenix Bank, and yet he seemed to have not the slightest attachment to that life.

"You're heading straight back to Chorni, aren't you, Auntie?"

"I should. I need to send agents back out to the plague-stricken regions. What about you?"…