In the living room.
Serena Sherwood watched the drama unfold from the sidelines. When she felt the time was right, she hurried over, took James Vaughn's arm, and gently patted his back to help calm him down.
"Uncle, please don't be angry. My sister has never been to school, so she's just very blunt. She doesn't mean any harm."
"No harm?" Her words only fanned the flames of James Vaughn's anger. "She means no harm, yet she brazenly steals your room? She doesn't greet her elders, she's utterly insolent, and has no manners whatsoever. If she stays in the Sherwood Family, she'll bring disaster upon us all sooner or later!"
He glared at Iris Dalton, his eyes filled with a dark, piercing glint. "You ignorant little brat. Someone like you wants to get into the advanced program at Lumin-Umbra High School? Do you have any idea what kind of place that is? Are you even worthy? You should crawl back to whatever hole you came from!"
With that one sentence, he had sealed Iris Dalton's fate.
