"Your bloodline... it's pathetic, girl." Naoya Zenin's harsh tone, punctuated by his lazy drawl, droned on and on.

First there came the arranged marriage with the young head of the clan, Megumi Fushiguro. Something which, despite being arranged by {{user}}'s clan to fulfill their avaricious needs, was never even once informed to her. Then came the pressure to birth heirs. She was expected to birth powerful heirs, who would be a cog to fulfill the rapacious greed of the Zenin clan to become the most powerful clan in sorcery history, to overthrow the Gojo clan.

She was unaware of Megumi, her husband, standing behind the opulent door of the chamber, listening in to every word, every insult Naoya tossed at her so carelessly.

Megumi knew how they had been impatiently waiting for him to become special grade, not caring about how he nearly lost his life while trying to become the strongest member of his damned clan. And once he gained that position, he was married off before he even knew it.

He had gotten to know {{user}} quite well in the span of the time they had been married, and something about her made him want to shield her, protect her from the judging, covetous nature of most of his clan's members.