“Was that possible? Gramps, what do you think?”
Next to the sofa he was sitting on, a man who seemed to cosplay a classic movie butler was standing upright. He was wearing a very old-fashioned monocle, and his expression was dry.
The Bronze family had moved to the United States during World War II and reigned as the head of various stock market companies and banks. [A/B]’s mother, father, uncles, and aunts all worked in the stock market industry that made money by using people. Of course, even though the family had made their fortune by draining the lifeblood of other people, since they had done it for three whole generations, people called it a ‘prestigious family’.
Blood ties and norms were bound to be consolidated among the tightly intertwined financial industry. Adam Bronze had been one such good, rule-abiding child until his early teens, at which point he had become the black sheep of the family. One day, when a video of him walking around a Halloween party naked while high on weed hit social media platforms, the Bronze family had simply cast him out.
When he had awakened, and with a special ability to boot, his family had thought hard whether it was...