Finish the target quickly before other influential noble arrive and get back to his work after the short vacation. The quicker he executed the plan, the less obstacles in it.
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At the same time, in the mansion of the Kerr family.
Qino, the elder who was humiliated and beaten up by Rae, was seated on the chair in his room, dissatisfaction and anger evident on his face.
When he happened to come back defeated after failing in trying to recruit Rae, he had to answer to the family head.
Qino, being a cousin of the family head, and being one of the powerful elders in the family, he had great authority too, increasing his accountability at the same time.
The head of the family did not humiliate him, only showed anger and slight disappointment in Qino. But that was not it, the family head had also ordered for the steep decrease in the resources allocated to him.