"I didn't want to hear that now."

Anne tells George with a voice that contains a little anger.

... Surely, you would also be angry if they told you to keep yourself and your mother cold and that you now care about them, etc.

But if Mr. George's words were true, I guess that was something he couldn't help but protect Anne and her mother, Mr. Serene.

Disputes involving succession sometimes take even the lives of relatives.

I am also an aristocrat today, so I remember those stories in my ears.

Even if it wasn't as noble - if it was also the handover of the Great Chamber of Commerce, it would have been necessary to dare to turn away to protect lives.

"Anne."

I speak to Anne.

"Now... why don't you not just be angry, but just chill out a little bit, and listen to me?

"... Fari, why not?"

"It's - I don't know, I don't think it's a good idea as it is. I think you can let anger curse you even after you've heard the story. You can resent and despise later. So now I want you to at least make sure that George is really who he is."

When I say, Anne snorts, like, maybe.

I see how Anne is listening to me, and Mr. George starts talking again.

"I can also understand how Anne resents Nong. Non did, on the surface, treat Serene as coldly as any other mistress. I sent enough money to live with the house, but it would have been lonely compared to the wealthy lives of the women who gave birth to the inheritance!

"I'm not talking about money!

Anne absurds her voice, but calms down immediately...... no, she manages to control herself as if she were forced to calm down and talk.

"My mom liked you. Once in a while I called him back and he went out looking happy. That's why Atashi didn't turn you down. As much as my mom wanted me to be with her more if she needed me."

Forced to calm her voice, but seeped anger in her expression, Anne says.

It's a look we've never seen, a look we feel somewhere dreaded.

"Even life, I never had a hard time. I appreciate your help getting into Hunter School. Atashi thinks you're someone else, but because my mom says you're her father, the president of the Kaulman Chamber of Commerce has desperately told himself that Atashi's dad is her dad. So I was convinced of everything! But!"

Anne stares at Mr. George with a sharp eye.

"If you really liked your mom, how could you not have come to see her when she died!... That's all my mom wanted to see you for the last time. I wanted you to tell me you loved me, and that you missed me the last time you said that! I couldn't treat you with just the money you help me with, because of the disease! He's dying!... How come, if you really love me, you didn't come to see me. I didn't cure your mom's illness...... Huh!