"Seventh Elder, we'll pay the rent right now! At the highest market rate!" The young man from the Spirit Cat Clan hurried back inside and brought out all the chests filled with Crystal Stones.
The young man from the Porcupine Clan did the same. "Seventh Elder, we were ignorant and foolish before. It's mainly because if we didn't listen to the Gray Parrot Clan, they'd send people to cause trouble in our shops.
We just wanted to do business peacefully, so we had no choice but to bite the bullet and go along with them."
"Bah! A likely story! You sure put in a lot of effort when you were causing trouble. Weren't you just trying to hide behind our Gray Parrot Clan to get a piece of the action without taking any of the blame?
Now that there's trouble, you're piling all the blame on us?" The young man from the Gray Parrot Clan bristled with fury.
The Seventh Elder just watched them bicker, finally feeling a sense of vindication after so many years!
