Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 985

Chapter 985: Chapter 985 - Taming Bargains

"This chamber has today documented a series of rewards regarding ownership, leadership, and resources that have been extensively disputed between the Day faction and the Night faction of the Starweaver family."

Luna said it with the voice of someone carrying responsibility that exceeded her years, and not with performed gravity, just the tone that came from meaning what you were saying.

"Many of those disputes have their origin in my father’s absence and in the management of family resources during that absence. But primarily in your desire to control the family entirely."

The hall was completely still.

"So I propose to resolve now the majority of those disputes, and in a single exchange."

A meaningful pause, during which she raised the sealed document she had just received.

"I offer Lord Orion Starweaver the leadership rights over the Day faction and the associated territories I received in this session."

The silence changed in nature.

Not the silence of a room waiting for the next procedural step... But the silence of a room that had just processed something unexpected and was still deciding what it meant.

"In exchange for one thing."

Luna looked at Orion not just with hate for the first time since they had entered the hall. Not even with the cold temperature she had maintained throughout the session, with something different. Something older than politics and simpler than any argument that had been formulated in the last several hours.

"The white crystal... My mother’s heart."

Orion didn’t respond immediately.

The hall broke into murmurs, not the discreet kind, the kind that happened when a room stopped being able to manage its reaction.

Julius had the expression of someone who hadn’t expected that something as extreme as what Larissa had suggested was actually possible to be something that would happen, who was processing the tactical implications simultaneously, and something else that wasn’t tactical implications at all, something that took longer to process precisely because it didn’t belong to that category.

If Orion actually released the white crystal, then...

Arturo was looking at Luna with a face that was difficult to read because it had too many things on it at once, layers that hadn’t finished sorting themselves into an order.

"Everything non-budgetary that they gave me today," Luna repeated, with the same flat voice, the same precision of placement for every word. "In exchange for the crystal."

Orion looked at her.

Luna held his gaze.

Somewhere in the hall, someone who was not part of this specific conversation breathed in a way that did not correspond to the state of someone sleeping.

♢♢♢♢

The hall processed Luna’s offer for exactly as long as Orion also needed to read what the hall was processing.

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