"Father, what do you think will happen to the Ragestride's family after this?" The son asked his father.

"What else do you think Richard?" The old man asked his son back.

"When first and second elder brother come back there won't even be a single speck of the Ragestride's family left." His son said.

"That's a pretty good guess. However, we may not even need their help. As somehow healers as well as blacksmiths are not allowing their presence within their area. The old man said.

"After this what will happen to our family father?" The daughter asked her father this time.

"We shall become the number one noble family in this kingdom. There will be no one that is able to challenge us, we may even be able to rival the king. After taking over the economy of the Ragestride's family, we'll have enough to repair what we have lost after the war ends." The old man said once more.

"Honey, aren't you worried other people will eavesdrop on us? How can you casually talk about such things in public?" His wife asked him.

"Wife, have you been focused too much into eating that you haven't realized that everyone has already left the third floor? There is only us four on this floor." The old man said as he held his wine glass.

"Em, I am here as well." A little girl's sweet voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Who!?" The old man said as he immediately got off his seat and turned around to find the culprit.

"Me?" Sylvie said as she sat at her chair while she was sipping juice.

"A little girl? Where are your parents? What are you doing here alone? And… Why is there a tree right there…?" The old man asked all the questions that were stuck in his head.

"My parents? I haven't seen them in a while. I am here alone because my caretaker only let me eat apples today, and I am very hungry. And as for why there is a tree there… Ask Lily." Sylvie replied to the old man.

"Did you hear everything we were talking about though little girl?" The old man asked as he secretly started using one of his unique skills he had on her.

The skill that allowed him to detect all lies, however he used this moderately as he did not want to get too corrupted from its uses and would be unable to differentiate right from wrong.

"Un, I heard everything. Why?" Sylvie asked him as she tilted her head.

'... Why did you admit it so casually? Little girl, why are you so naive? Most people would've said no because they would be frightened if they knew some secret information that people could kill them to silence them.' The old man's eyebrow started twitching as he just realized he had wasted his unique skill as there was a wait time until he was able to use it again.

"Little girl, can you promise me that you won't tell anybody about what was heard here?" The old man asked her as he couldn't bear to kill such a cute loli.

"Sure? I don't really have anybody to tell it to anyway?" Sylvie said with a puzzled expression on her face.

"Alright, if you tell somebody you'll be in big trouble. Your parents will be in very very big trouble. Alright? Make sure you don't tell anybody. Not even your family." The old man said as he walked over to Sylvie and started to pat her on the head.

"Un." Sylvie said as she wanted to resist his headpats but didn't in the end.

"Alright, have a nice meal. I'll pay for you since your parents aren't here, and because you are a good girl that won't break promises." The old man said as he left some money on her pink table.

"En, thanks." Sylvie said.

*poof*