Corvus lifted his upper body up and shook his head.

The punch, even though it was supported by the skills, only managed to break his nose that was bleeding profusely staining his black and white clothes with amaranth blood.

"L-lord Pomegranate, why are you doing this...?"

He asked with his ears still ringing from the blow.

"Why...? WHY?! Oh, the gull of this lying bastard...!"

The avatar of wrath's face twisted into the expression that perfectly suited his title.

He was furious, overwhelmingly furious.

The older man was clenching his fist, trying to contain his anger that was already boiling over, and shaking with ire.

"Master, stop! Think about the condition of your body!"

One of the servants cried and all three of them grabbed onto the old man and activated their skills.

"My older brother picked you up from the streets!"

But as if the two men and one woman doing their best to hold him back were just some feeble kittens, lord Wrath was pulling them together with him as he was approaching Corvus menacingly while growling through his teeth.

"When he passed away I took it upon myself to brought you up just as he would wish for! I treated you like my own!"

"Kyaah!"

Lord Wrath raised his right hand again, and the female servant holding on to it yelped pitifully as she was lifted off the ground as if she was merely a feather.

"And... THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME, YOU SNAKE!"

Lord Wrath roared readying for a swing.

"I... I don't...!"

"YOU....!"

"KYAAAH!"

Corvus trembled and raised his arms to protect himself from the next hit, but that miserable act had only added the fuel to the fire of lord Wrath's anger and triggered the swing instead, causing the poor female servant to cry in panic as she swung back and forth from the man's arm.

"Father! Stop this, right now!"

That was the moment when young Mika has thrown herself in between her father and the object of her unrequited love in order to protect the young man.

*smack*

"Ughh...!"

But regardless of Mika's efforts, the bundle of neatly written papers that her father had thrown, flew right past her right ear and smacked Corvus square in the face, exploding into tens of pages that began slowly floating back to the ground.

"F-father...?"

Mika asked confused, stubbornly standing between the two men, and looking between them both.

"WHO THE HELL IS MOURNING ANYTHING, YOU LYING SLOB?!"

Lord Wrath shouted, putting his hand down slowly, mindful of the shaken female servant still grabbing onto it.

"Little Cranberry had been raising hell right since the lull ended, dueling adventurers, becoming an adventurer herself, almost frying the royal prince's brain with a charm skill; wiping off almost entire main branch of the Envy family, and finally going missing almost three months ago!"

Lord Wrath shouted it all in one breath and had to pause to get some air while his daughter and Corvus were both left stunned unable to progress the slew of information presented to them.

"I have entrusted you completely with everything concerning little Cranberry, and what did that bring me?!"

The older man continued shouting as the veins on his neck and forehead were both bulging on the verge of bursting.

"Your weekly reports were filled with nothing but lies! Do you have any idea how much shame I had to suffer through when an official from the royal family arrived at our door asking for the current location of the girl and her corpse puppet, and I have foolishly responded with 'at their family mansion, of course, I just received a report from my most trusted pupil'?!"

Lord Wrath gritted his teeth as a sudden spasm had twisted his hand in an unnatural direction.

"Graargh...!"

"Master...!"

He growled, twisting his hand back how it should be while one of the male servants holding him back, gasped and started using a healing skill on him.

"The face he gave me then felt worse than this damned sickness...!"

Lord Wrath growled and closed his eyes from the pain coursing through his limbs.

"F-father, I'm sure that Corvus never meant anything wrong... ah...!"

Mika tried to protect the white-haired man but when her eyes accidentally met with the eyes of the third servant holding her father back, the man holding lord Envy from behind, she got scared and hurriedly looked away.

"Never meant anything wrong?! Then why did he lie in every single report he had made since three months ago?!"

Lord Wrath snorted, so mad, that he started laughing.

"Even while bedridden and under all of that awful medication I've found it odd that this snake was home so often, but I made the mistake of believing his lousy explanation!"

He shook his head, gritting his teeth with disgust.

"What do you have to say in your defense, you two-faced brat?!"

Lord Wrath growled, looking over his daughter's shoulder, at the clearly ashamed Corvus, who didn't even try to stop the blood pouring from his broken nose anymore.

"I...! But... but...!"

Corvus couldn't get himself to even look in Pomegranate's eyes and turned his head to the side.

"The things I wrote... that was her exact behavior during the lull! Three and a half years of just sitting perched on a tree and observing some spoiled girl bitching about the so-called misfortune while being surrounded by luxury! There was no point in guarding her at all...!"

Corvus gritted his teeth and complained while clenching his fists, crushing the flowers in between his fingers - all without looking at lord Wrath or any other person there.

"...you...!"

The avatar of wrath trembled and his face twisted from all the building-up aggression.

He tried to come closer to the shameless young man, but both his daughter and the sudden spasm twisting his right foot prevented him from doing that.

"...Ti...! Go...!"

Lord Wrath gasped through his teeth.

Although it sounded like just a weird grunt of pain, it was actually a name.

"..."

The woman grabbing onto his arm blinked in surprise but then nodded and disappeared into the thin air within the same heartbeat.

...she used the high-level blink skill...

*SMASH*

"GUHUAH!"

The female servant appeared right in front of the moping Corvus, and with a single slap to the face, she slammed him into the ground so hard that he bounced up in the flurry of ripped petals.