Tiamat stood in front of Darius, preventing him from advancing. Meanwhile...
"Are you not going to stop him?" Veronica asked her father, who stood with arms crossed, observing the "execution."
"Why should I do anything?" Albert spoke into the wind, his tone so indifferent that it startled everyone, except for the older ones like Noah, Liam, and Xenovia.
"B-but! He killed Vigil!" Veronica tried to counter-argue but was interrupted by Xenovia. "The rules are absolute in the family, even if our father wanted to stop it, it's impossible. The patriarch's seal doesn't allow going against it. The rules of the first patriarch were absolute, 'Never compromise the Family.' That was his motto, and these three... are simply disgraceful." Xenovia concluded. "Do you even know why you're fighting each other? All of this was a big joke from your distorted minds." She said with a sharp look at the confrontation.
