The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 44
When the major magic families heard that the Romano family had completely changed hands, none of them could sit still.
Originally, all those treasures had been in my hands alone.
In that case, they would have only needed an excuse to surround me personally.
But now, those treasures had become resources belonging to the entire family.
That made it much harder to simply snatch them.
A whole group of them grew frantic.
Something they had almost had within their grasp had suddenly vanished—who could possibly accept that?
And just then, someone came to their door and handed them a pretext.
So before long, people from the major families had gathered outside the Romano territory.
Under the banner of seeking justice for the former leader and elders, they demanded Grandmother step down and return the family to Lani, the former leader’s biological daughter.
They said Grandmother had seized the position through bloodshed, that she had slaughtered her own kin and was unfit to lead.
Strictly speaking, those words weren’t entirely wrong.
I really had used violence to take the family from its old rulers.
But so what?
If no blood was spilled, how would old things ever move aside?
They had occupied those positions for far too long.
Faced with the accusations, Grandmother’s expression didn’t change in the slightest.
The family members stood firmly behind her.
She had only been in control for a few days, but their lives had already improved noticeably.
There was more money in their hands.
Resources were distributed more fairly.
During training, the people above them now actually taught them.Â