Back at the Taylor family mansion, Leo Taylor was contemplating death for the first time in his life.
Well, perhaps that was a slight exaggeration.
But after seeing the airship advertising his birthday celebration earlier that day, he was beginning to wonder whether there was any point in continuing to live if his father intended to keep humiliating him like this.
It wasn't as though Leo was unfamiliar with extravagant birthday parties.
Growing up in one of the country's most prestigious families, he had attended countless celebrations. Expensive gifts, influential guests, and lavish banquets had been part of his life for as long as he could remember. When he was younger, his birthdays had been celebrated on a grand scale almost every year.
However, things had changed after a certain incident.
Now that he thought about it, this was the first time his birthday had been celebrated so extravagantly since then.
The day he first met Rin Evans.
