“Blast it!”

Rayana heaved a ragged breath, having wrecked everything in the room yet still not sated of her anger.

She had intended to give Tanashia a blow, but instead, it was Rayana who got hit.

The fact was unbearably infuriating.

‘If an ordinary person took that much of a beating, they would surely be crippled.’

She never intended to let Askan off lightly from the start. Hence, there was no mercy in her assault from beginning to end.

However, no matter how much she hit Askan, not only did he not utter a groan of pain, but while his blood flowed, it felt like his bones were unharmed.

Rayana had a lot of experience assaulting people. As time went on, she felt something was off.

“Wait, you guys get out. We’ll handle the rest.”

“Yes, Miss.”

She sent off the men she brought specifically to verify the doubts that sprouted in her mind.

The reason Rayana didn’t merely stop at assaulting Askan, but also used wind sorcery, was due to a certain cause.

She wanted to test Askan.

How would he react?

Would injuries from sorcery remain?

She realized instinctively, compared to ordinary people, Askan’s body was too robust. Hence, Rayana was trying to satisfy her curiosity.

But unluckily, Tanashia appeared and interrupted her.

‘No, it’s not like I reaped nothing.’

Due to Tanashia’s arrival, Askan used the power he had been concealing all along.

It was the power to manipulate fire, one of the four elements.

The mere fact that a lowly slave possessed sorcery was, in many ways, unbelievable.

‘Yes, my suspicion was indeed correct. There was a reason Tanashia treasured Askan. It was impossible for her to treat such a lowly slave so specially without any reason.’

Rayana’s suspicion turned into conviction. There was undoubtedly a hidden secret within Askan’s body.

Seeing that Tanashia quietly retreated and did not disclose this incident, it made Rayana even more eager.

‘What on earth could it be? Askan’s true identity……’

Right now, because Tanashia held a weakness over her, she couldn’t act rashly. However, if Rayana also found a weakness, she could equal Tanashia’s standing.

No, perhaps she might be in an even more advantageous position.

While Rayana was pondering over various thoughts,

Shasha, who had been silently watching Rayana’s wild behavior until now, opened her mouth with a fearstricken expression.

“Whwhat if Lady Brelof doesn’t leave us alone? Looking back, I think we’ve acted quite recklessly…”

“Shasha.”

Rayana looked at Shasha with an irritated expression.

People always had a way of losing their nerve belatedly when the milk had already been spilled. Fortunately, Rayana had learned how to deal with such people through numerous experiences.

“Do you regret what you did to Lady Brelof?”

“Well, it’s not that I regret, but if we go and apologize now…”

“Go ahead then.”

“Really?”

“Of course. You don’t need to worry about anyone, just do what you want.”

Just as Shasha was about to leave the room with a relieved expression,

Rayana, who was leisurely leaning against the wall, manicuring her nails, resumed her conversation.

“Ah, but you see. That fellow who was beaten by us last week has boldly lodged a complaint. His family is making a fuss about compensation, is it okay if they contact Shasha’s family?”

“What? But I wasn’t the only one who hit him!”

“That’s because Shasha is still inexperienced in wielding a cudgel. If you can’t believe it, prove it in front of everyone.”

“That, that’s…”

Shasha stopped in her tracks, giving Rayana a gloomy look.

Rayana was inwardly sneering, but on the outside, she tried her best to put on a benevolent face.

The reason for beating people wasn’t solely for the purpose of relieving stress. Of course, it had become enjoyable over time, that’s a fact.

Because Rayana was a bastard child, she had little influence in the Creisha family, and as her mother was a courtesan, she didn’t even have maternal relatives.

The only subjects Rayana could exert power over were slaves or commoners.

Therefore, she used them to capture the weaknesses of other noble youths.

Having spent her childhood beside her courtesan mother, what Rayana learned from the streets was how to capture a noble’s weakness and extract money.

At first, she would approach them friendly, then invite them to secret games. The nobles who learned new things always made mistakes.

Reiana was expanding her network through that vulnerability. And that was her power, having nothing at all.

“Even so, I thought Tanashia was really a friend….”

Reiana recalled the past and unwittingly smiled a bitter smile. Business approaches were the right way, it was a loss to give her heart.

Shasha trembled in fear, her body shaking like a trembling aspen.

“If, if the family learns about this, I may be, be driven out….”

“Really? It’s unfortunate. Ask Duchess Brellof to forgive your wrongdoing and solve the issue.”

“What?”

“I thought we were friends, so I looked into various ways to take care of it for you. But if Shasha has different intentions than me, there’s no reason for me to step in.”