"The Monstrata, huh…"
Hearing Lucques mention that certain term, a wave of memories immediately washed over Valyr's mind, prompting him to recall similar memories from the past that he'd long decided to bury deep within.
In terms of which among the two was worse, Valyr thought of the debt collectors as mere minor nuisances, being nothing more as a small tribulation that would eventually disappear from both Meria and Lucques' lives.
After all, the money they would make from Greater Beyond in the future far surpassed the amount of debt their family had accrued from the debt collectors.
And that was even including the near-extortion levels of interest those collectors had added later on.
However, unlike the multiple debt collectors that hounded them, as far as Valyr could remember, the Monstrata stood at the pinnacle of ruthlessness when it came to debt collection.