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This tenderness moves Diana, and Cassion proposes to her. Diana then advances her plan with Cho Hala to shake the Phoenix Bank. While solving the mystery of the rats in the mansion, she learns that her maid Janice can talk to rats and tells her that she believes her.","key_events":["Cassion scolds Diana for standing fearlessly before Queen Julia out of worry, and Diana thanks him feeling moved.","Diana confronts Janice about rats in mansion and Janice confesses she can hear and talk to rats since childhood.","Diana reflects she risked her expendable life since regression while Cassion genuinely worries for her.","Diana reassures Janice she believes she is not a witch and would not dismiss her even if she were.","Diana and Cho Hala spread cash-crisis rumors via Chorni Guild and lure depositors with triple interest to ruin Phoenix Bank.","Cassion holds Diana's hand and proposes marriage, Diana feels joy but decides to remain cautious."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"...HUH?\n...Y-YOUR HIGHNESS?\n\nYOU, SERIOUSLY...! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW CLOSE YOU CAME TO DYING?\nYOU STOOD BEFORE QUEEN JULIA WITHOUT AN OUNCE OF FEAR...! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!\nYOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL AROUND QUEEN JULIA!\n\nONE WRONG MOVE, AND SHE'LL KILL YOU! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!\nW-WERE YOU WORRIED ABOUT ME?\nWHAT?\n\nYOU WERE WORRIED ABOUT ME, WEREN'T YOU, YOUR HIGHNESS?\nD-DON'T LAUGH!\n\nHOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KEEP FROM LAUGHING?\nSince regressing, I'd thrown myself at my goal without stopping to breathe.\n\nFor its sake, I was even willing to die.\nIn this child's body, I'd been risking my life against the people who had destroyed me.\nBut the life I'd treated as if it were expendable...\n\nCASSION HAD GENUINELY BEEN WORRIED ABOUT ME.\n\nTHANK YOU, YOUR HIGHNESS.\nFOR GENUINELY WORRYING ABOUT ME.\nMAYBE THIS WAS EXACTLY THE COMFORT I NEEDED.\n...OTHER THAN WORRYING ABOUT YOU, THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO.\n\nTHAT'S MORE THAN ENOUGH.\nAND I LIKE IT WHEN YOU HOLD MY HAND LIKE THIS SOMETIMES.\n\n...DIANA.\nYES?\n...LET'S GET MARRIED.\n\nMARRY ME.\n\n...WHY DO YOU LOOK SO STUNNED?\nIT'S NOTHING.\n\nPrince Cassion wants to marry me~!\n...IS WHAT I WANT TO SCREAM, BUT...\nHEHE\nIT WOULD BE WISER NOT TO LET MY GUARD DOWN JUST YET.\n\n...ANYWAY, I DID EXACTLY AS YOU ASKED.\nI KNEW I COULD COUNT ON YOU, AUNT CHO.\n\nFor the past week, Aunt Cho and I had been laying the groundwork for our plans involving Phoenix Bank.\nWE HAD MEMBERS OF THE CHORNI GUILD SPREAD A RUMOR THAT PHOENIX BANK WAS FACING A CASH CRISIS,\nTHEN LURED ITS LARGEST DEPOSITORS TO A SAVINGS GUILD WITH THE PROMISE OF TRIPLE THE CURRENT INTEREST RATE.\n\nAS A RESULT, PHOENIX BANK'S CUSTOMERS ARE POURING THEIR DEPOSITS INTO THE SAVINGS GUILD INSTEAD.\n\nIT MAY HAVE STARTED AS A RUMOR, BUT AT THIS RATE, IT WON'T STAY ONE.\nEVERYTHING IS GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN.\nBUT WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO FIND ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY ALL THAT INTEREST?\nIT'S NOT TRIPLE THE PRINCIPAL. IT'S TRIPLE THE INTEREST.\nI HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH.\nARE YOU REALLY THIRTEEN? I CAN'T DO BUSINESS WITH YOU. YOU'RE WAY TOO RECKLESS.\n\nYOU'VE GOT IT BACKWARD. YOU SHOULD BE DOING BUSINESS WITH SOMEONE LIKE ME.\nSOMEONE WHO WON'T TAKE A HIT IF WE GO UNDER.\n\nHUH...?\n...A RAT?\nTHERE HAVE BEEN RATS ALL OVER THE MANSION LATELY.\n\nIS SOMEONE BRINGING THEM IN FROM OUTSIDE...? WHAT ARE RATS DOING IN A MANSION THIS SPOTLESS...?\nCOME TO THINK OF IT...\n\nJANICE USED TO MENTION RATS ALL THE TIME, DIDN'T SHE?\nDIANA, YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH NOW. I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU A PERSONAL MAID.\nREALLY? I'LL HAVE MY OWN MAID?\n\nYES. IS THERE ANYONE YOU FAVOR?\nHMM... TARA'S SPIRITED, AND JANE'S SWEET, BUT...\nI WANT JANICE.\n\nJANICE?\nJANICE... WAS SHE THE GIRL WHO WOULD SOMETIMES STAND FACING A WALL AND SAY THE STRANGEST THINGS?\nHER ODD BEHAVIOR SENT HER FROM HOUSEHOLD TO HOUSEHOLD,\nUNTIL YOUR MOTHER TOOK A LIKING TO HER AND HIRED HER AT IRENBERG, OR SO I HEARD...\nWHY JANICE?\n\nSHE SEES THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY.\nYOU ALWAYS SAID SO YOURSELF, FATHER.\nIRENBERG BRINGS OUT THE FULL POTENTIAL OF THE PEOPLE WHO SERVE IT.\n\nI WANT JANICE TO BE MY FIRST PERSON. I WANT TO HELP HER MAKE THE MOST OF WHAT MAKES HER SPECIAL.\nYOU’LL BE A FINE HEAD OF THE FAMILY ONE DAY.\n\nVERY WELL. THEN BE KIND TO JANICE.\nI THOUGHT I KNEW JANICE...\nMY LADY, I’M BACK.\nDID YOU ENJOY YOUR CONVERSATION WITH AUNT CHO?\n\nBUT WHAT IF THERE'S MORE TO JANICE THAN THE SIDE OF HER I KNOW?\nI TRUST HER... BUT THIS IS TOO IMPORTANT TO LEAVE ANYTHING TO CHANCE.\n\nTHAT'S ODD, JANICE. I NEVER TOLD YOU WHO I WAS MEETING TODAY...\nSO HOW DID YOU KNOW?\nHOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY KNOW?\nAH, WELL...\nI DID THINK IT WAS STRANGE.\n\nSHE ALWAYS SEEMS TO KNOW WHERE I AM AND WHAT I'M DOING.\nI HAVE MY WAYS OF FINDING THINGS OUT~\nTHE RATS TOLD ME!\n\"THE RATS TOLD ME,\" SHE SAYS...\n\nSURELY NOT...\nJANICE IS A WITCH...?\nJANICE, TELL ME THE TRUTH.\n\nYOU'RE HIDING SOMETHING FROM ME, AREN'T YOU?\nH-HIDING SOMETHING...?\nTHEN HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE RATS ALL OVER THIS MANSION?\n\nIF RATS ARE RUNNING AROUND THE MANSION... PERHAPS THE CLEANING HASN'T BEEN DONE PROPERLY?\nRATS ARE COMMON IN THE PETRORA KINGDOM, AFTER ALL.\nIS THAT SO? THEN SHALL I MENTION IT TO MATTHEW?\n\nHE'LL SUMMON EVERYONE AND HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE STATE OF THE MANSION.\nARE YOU SURE THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT?\n\nM-MY LADY...\nJANICE, I'LL BELIEVE YOU NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY.\nSO PLEASE, TELL ME THE TRUTH.\nEVEN BEFORE MY REGRESSION, JANICE WAS ONE OF MY MOST LOYAL PEOPLE. SHE RISKED HER LIFE FOR MINE.\n\nI WANT THERE TO BE NOTHING SHE FEELS SHE HAS TO HIDE FROM ME.\n...IT'S TRUE, MY LADY. I CAN TALK TO RATS.\nBEFORE MY REGRESSION, I'D DISMISSED JANICE AS ECCENTRIC AND FLIGHTY.\n\nBUT IF SHE REALLY HAD THIS ABILITY, THEN EVERYTHING SHE'D DONE SUDDENLY MADE SENSE.\nBUT... I'M NOT A WITCH! PLEASE BELIEVE ME!\n\nWITCH.\nA PERSON WHO USES EVIL SORCERY OR THE POWER OF DEMONS.\nIN THE PETRORA KINGDOM, ANYONE WITH SPECIAL POWERS WHO ISN'T A MAGE IS BRANDED A WITCH,\nLOCKED AWAY IN A TEMPLE, AND FORCED TO SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIFE REPENTING.\n\nI WAS TREATED AT THE TEMPLE WHEN I WAS LITTLE. YOU KNOW THAT, DON'T YOU?\nI WAS BAPTIZED, TOO.\nTHAT'S RIGHT. THEY SAY WITCHES FEAR HOLY POWER AND CANNOT STAND IT.\n\nTHEN JANICE REALLY CAN'T BE A WITCH...\nTHEN... HOW CAN YOU TALK TO RATS?\n\nMY LADY. I-I'M NOT CRAZY.\nI CAN HEAR THEM... I'VE BEEN ABLE TO SINCE I WAS A CHILD.\nI DON'T KNOW WHY I CAN HEAR THEM, EITHER.\nIT'S TRUE. PLEASE DON'T CAST ME OUT.\n\nJANICE...\nI BELIEVE YOU.\nYOU DO?\n\nI BELIEVE YOU WHEN YOU SAY YOU'RE NOT A WITCH.\nEVEN IF YOU WERE, I WOULDN'T CAST YOU OUT.\n\nMY LADY...\nTHANK YOU FOR TELLING ME THE TRUTH.\nNOW, GET UP.","bubble_count":123,"pages_count":43,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Cassion scolds Diana for her boldness before Queen Julia, but he is actually worried about her.","spoiler_summary":"Cassion scolds Diana for her boldness before Queen Julia, but he is actually worried about her. This tenderness moves Diana, and Cassion proposes to her. Diana then advances her plan with Cho Hala to shake the Phoenix Bank. 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