I turned around, tears brimming instantly as I gasped, "Dad!" It was my parents, at last, arriving in Oberis City. My father, still clad in his formal suit from the meeting he must have left in a hurry, strode purposefully toward me, flanked by bodyguards and accompanied by several city officials. The crowd parted instinctively, creating a clear path as the aura of his authority swept through them. The bodyguards immediately shoved aside the men restraining me. I ran straight into my mother's arms, choking back sobs. Her hands trembled as she cupped my bruised face, her voice trembling with indignation. "Who dared to lay a hand on my daughter?" My father, his expression dark as thunderclouds, came to a halt before Cain, his piercing gaze reducing the man to a quivering shadow of his former arrogance. "Cain," my father said in a voice as cold as steel, "you must be a man of remarkable audacity. To strike and humiliate a citizen in public like this—is this your idea of power and
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