[Private to Servants and Family]

[theheadmonarch]

Okay.

Saikou. Akae. Euphie. Souha. If you guys don't mind, I'd like you to limit going outside, and if you need to go out, take a buddy with you, so to speak, whether it's with servants or each other.

Also, Euphie, we're going to have to have a talk about holding onto a Number you know is dangerous.

Sadame, keep to your usual work schedule for school, but if you can help keep an eye on the family until this whole Barian-Judgeman-Dark Mist nonsense sorts out, if it's not too much trouble to ask??

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[snakebitesbythebeach]

What do you mean, Da Eiza.

[theheadmonarch]

And that's another thing. My name isn't "Da Eiza". It isn't "The Ultimate Lifeform". Or the word Mother said sarcastically, or hollowly.

If you're going to be protected by me, as a member of my household, regardless of Jean clearing you, if you want to protected by all of your enemies, you're going to have to make a few changes.

Or you can leave the estate. But the moment you do, you're Persona Non Grata, Euphemia the Observer.

THINK very long and hard about it.

[snakebitesbythebeach]

...

But there's probably half a dozen monsters in this city that are bounty hunters that would take my head and give it to someone who didn't care, and I'm not offensively oriented.

[theheadmonarch]

I'm aware.

Which is why I'm not tossing you on your ass right outside. I put my reputation, my dignity, my family's lives on the line for you.

I let you come into my house. I let you wear my clothes. Use my money. Eat my food. Clean yourself with my water.

And you repay it.

By using a Number you knew was extremely malevolent. For what.

Research?

What was so important about that research?

[triade_oscura]

Rank-Up-Magic! It's extremely important! It's one of the rarest kind magics that exists! My name would go down in history if I could create a grand unified thesis and if Rank 13 exists, and...!

[theheadmonarch]

But was it worth it?

Don't answer it.

I want you to tell it to my face in the morning. After you sleep on it.

But let me be very clear, for the foreseeable future, you're not going to be a witch anymore.

Until you learn responsibility.

[snakebitesbythebeach]