After glancing back in the direction of the manor's main building, Emma couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly.
"I guess I'm not as good at enduring as I thought I was."
...
Was that... the crest of the Golden Hibiscus Family?!
Following Emma's gaze, Leon spotted the emerald green crest of a golden cuckoo on the second-floor curtain wall, along with workers dismantling the wall with the Bauhinia Family motifs, and was immediately taken aback.
In theory, the Golden Hibiscus Family and the Bauhinia Family had a closely-knit relationship, with intermarriages being very frequent over nearly two hundred years. The Golden Hibiscus Marquis himself had gained the right to control the Northern Border trade routes through such family ties.
