Chapter 300 A Bill

Catherine Stuart stood among the crowd, her heart trembling slightly. Her mind was blank. Even though she had mentally prepared herself fully, when her turn came, the feeling still left her despairing.

Her father had broken his leg in the Silent Forest a while ago, and her mother was earning a mere hundred paper boxes per copper at the North District docks. She also had two younger brothers, relying on her to bring some leftovers home from Jini Cottage.

"Catherine's family needs her more, let me go," said a male Trickster, who secretly admired the girl in the gray robe, as he stood up nervously, "My brother is there to take care of my parents."

The gray-robed Trickster, Catherine, gave the rash young man a grateful yet helpless glance.

"This is not for you to decide." Outside the circle, the owner of Jini Cottage coldly and cruelly rejected the boy's request, "Every choice in the world has its reason. All we can do is try our best after making those choices."