"No," she said quickly. "Sorry. I wasn't questioning anything."
Ash looked forward again, already locking onto a priority target as his interface lit up with combat prompts. "Good. The decision to partake in porn was yours. You signed the contracts. Furthermore, your father should be joyous to have an A-tier in his commoner family. You bring in more money in a month than he did his whole life. He's retired from his commoner job with the funds you brought home, so slap him around if he acts like that again. You don't get to judge the breadwinner of the family."
"… Let's just focus on this for now," Brittany sighed.
They crested the final rise together, the terrain opening into a wide kill zone already marked with scorched earth, shattered stone, and half-dissolved monster remains. Ash's team was there ahead of them, spread out in a loose formation that balanced efficiency with camera coverage, interface icons hovering faintly above each member as combat data streamed in real time.
