Erin stepped forward, pointing at Kania with a look of disgust and hatred. “Shameless bitch! You just got home from the hospital and you’re already causing trouble! This room isn’t your place! Your place is in the back room near the laundry! And these clothes... You used Dad’s money to buy all this, didn’t you?!”
Kania didn’t answer right away. She slowly turned around, straightened the silk dress in her hands, then looked at each member of the family standing before her with an utterly cold, calm, and sharp gaze.
【Warning: Psychological Pressure from 4 Targets Detected.】 【Activating System Passive: “The Goddess’s Charisma—Level 1.”】
“Stealing?” Kania chuckled softly. The sound was extraordinarily elegant, yet laced with a biting note of reproach. “Why do you always assume the worst of me? Are your brains incapable of considering any other possibility?”
“You insolent brat!” Juno, the eldest sibling, snapped as he stepped forward, trying to intimidate her. “Speak respectfully to your parents, Dewi! You’re getting more and more ungrateful by the day!”
Kania stared straight at Juno. Her gaze was so piercing that Juno instinctively stopped, feeling the back of his neck suddenly turn cold.
“This room is empty,” Kania said in a flat voice, yet with absolute emphasis. “As the eldest daughter of this household, it would be absurd for me to sleep in a damp, dusty servant’s room while this luxurious room sits unused. Starting tonight, this is my room.”
“What did you say?!” Diah nearly exploded with emotion. “I order you to get out of this room right now! Narti! Where’s Narti?!”
“Narti is busy moving the rest of my things,” Kania cut in quickly, crossing her arms over her chest. “And as for these clothes... they were bought with my own money. Not Dad’s money, and not Mom’s either. I didn’t touch a single cent of your filthy money.”
“Liar!” Erin shrieked jealously when she saw a gold-laced dress that was clearly far more expensive than the birthday dress she was wearing tonight. “Where did you get the money, Dewi?! You’re nothing but a parasite in this house!”
Kania took one step toward Erin. Her tall, graceful posture made Erin instinctively retreat half a step behind her father’s shoulder.
“Watch your mouth, Erin,” Kania whispered softly into the cold night air. “You used to be allowed to trample all over the weak Dewi. But the Dewi standing in front of you now... will never let you—or anyone else in this house—lay a finger on her again.”
“And besides, don’t I also have the right to receive money from Dad? What will people say if they find out the eldest daughter of this family isn’t given a proper allowance? I’m not the one who’ll be embarrassed. You are!” Kania said firmly.
Kania then turned her gaze toward her father and mother, who stood frozen. “If you object to me occupying this room, then go ahead and throw me out publicly in front of the media and your business associates tomorrow morning. Let’s see what the public says when they learn that a wealthy businessman abandoned his own daughter in a servant’s room after she nearly died in the hospital.”
Kania’s words struck home with devastating force. Her father froze, realizing how badly his reputation could be ruined if this scandal came to light. Diah clenched her fists tightly, never imagining that the obedient child who had once always cried in fear could now argue with such devastating, terrifying precision.
“Get out of my room,” Kania ordered coldly, pointing toward the door. “I need to rest.”
Without waiting for their reaction, Kania walked to the door and slammed it shut—leaving the family standing stunned in the corridor outside amid a suffocating silence.