VERENETTA CHRISANTYNE

"ARE YOU CRAZY?!" the sound of table being banged echoed in the Great Hall. I stand up as my eyes glaring at the old bastard in the chair across the big table.

"Please, Lady Phidelphilla, no violence. You should calm yourself first" the white-haired woman beside me fixing his glasses while giving a side eye to me. Clearly annoyed, but I'm more than frustrated about how this meeting is going.

"Hah! Calm? How the fuck I should CALM in this situation, Huntley? What the hell are you thinking about?! Sending me as a representative from The Clock Tower to join the war?!" I shouted. I see Vienna, the girl with a brunette hair, open her mouth, "You are the most suitable for thi-",

"YOU CLEARLY SENDING ME TO MY OWN DEATH!" she fixes her glasses and shut up. Her mouth closed almost quickly as she look down the moment I snapped.

"It was an absolute decision. It's rude to change it, you should know it better than us, Lady Phidelphilla" that old bastard, Logan, another Huntley, gave me a glare while speaking in a flat tune, surprisingly calm enough as if he's already won, considering that he was safe becauseEmmanuel, leader of this forum didn't come in this Great Hall.

"I've already told everyone, haven't I? That damn Feudrix are trying to awakening the root of their magic, and it was a curse art!" I snarled.

"Oh please mind your manners Lady Phidelphilla, just because you're the Phidelphilla's Favorite doesn't mean you can't do as you please" Logan Tiago Huntley roll his eyes, as if he was annoyed dealing with some of a little brat, and he better didn't think about me.

"Do you think the way Phidelphilla chooses their successor is solely depends on biased person?" I was about to snarl at that damn old Huntley, before I got cut by someone who step in the Great Hall, the place where the High Council of Lord of The Clock Tower held, Logan immediately look down, shut his mouth as if he's hiding the way he gritted his teeth. I sigh, and then sit down as that old man walk from the door to the chair of thir lord.

"You're late, Sir Hannes Evander Phidelphilla" I roll my eyes, "Thanks to you, I got bullied by the so called 'Lord of the Clock Tower', being an unwanted guest is really annoying" I give him a quick glare. Hannes, one of the Lords of the Clock Tower and my 'benefactor'. He smile, a meaningless smile with empty eyes.

"I apologize for my late arrival, Emmanuel sends a message about his absence for today meet, he has a thing to do-"

"Always" I roll my eyes, Hannes stop talking as I cut his words and give me a little glare, but I don't care anyway. I see on my corner of my eyes, the brunnete hair shifting her position in the chair before she finally speak,

"So it seems like just the four of us, if we really want to talk about Feudrix's betrayal, it doesn't seem to be very effective, because the witnesses and those who know the family didn't come,"Vienna Alexis Zargetta. A female mage that fill in the position of 2nd Lord of The Clock Tower's chair, replacing the former Lord, Salagar Vladimir Feudrix, who passed away a week ago in a mysterious way, leaving a huge shocking will about the secret of The Root, a True Magic. She seems a person who have soft heart, very contradictive in this environtment. I always wondering how she managed to survive in this harsh social environtmen of magus society by being a replacement for the former 2nd Lord.

Hannes nod, smiling warmly, "Meeting will still going, I'm not bringing that topic anyway, I'm here for telling you guys something else". I frown, what does that mean? I was told by The 1st Lord to come in this meeting, to share the thought of how Feudrix Family looks like for now, only to be choosen as a sacrifice under the pretext of an emissary of The Clock Tower to plunge into a some stupid Holy Grail War, and now what is this bullshit run through this atmosfer? I look up to see him, only to see him smirking while glancing at me from his chair.

"From now on, I, Hannes Evander Phidehphilla, Head of Phidelphilla Family, gave up my position as Lord of the Clock Tower, and as a replacement, I appointed my stepdaughter, Verenetta Chrisantyne Phidelphilla, as the new Lord of The Clock Tower's Third Chair".