Genshin Impact React (Book 1)

Knives out (Part 4)

[Tearing down the private road, away from the house. He's still laughing, she's still shell shocked. Slowly, his laughter eases to a stop. A moment of silence]

Ganyu: What does he mean by that??

Ningguang: "This is the best thing the can ever happened" he said

Mona: They hate him, he hates them easy as that

Ransom: Ok seriously though, what the hell?

Candace: Even he doesn't know what's going on

Heizou: Not true.....

Nilou: What do you mean

Diluc: I agree with Heizou, the family said he wasn't at the funeral and when the will is read he laughed

Kaeya: He knew he wasn't getting the will and yet he still looks giddy, there's something else

Nahida: And he had an argument with Harlan, maybe that's what it is

Yanfei: That doesn't explain why, Harlan would love him unconditionally and support him through everything

[She shakes her head, looks at him. What the hell indeed.]

[The Porsche parked out front. Of a restaurant. Tucked into a dark corner, Barbara is miserable. Ransom is bemused, but regards her closely. They sit in silence. A waitress sets a sausage plate down.]

Rosaria: Barbara is on the edge here

Noelle: Well,she got a huge bombshell dropped on her so I wouldn't blame her

Ransom: (to the waitress) Could we get an extra bowl please? (to Barbara) You look like you're gonna pass out. Have you eaten all day? Eat.

[She joylessly shovels food in her mouth, starving.]

Barbara: This is a nightmare.

Ransom: Uh huh. So why.

Barbara: Why

Ransom: Why. Hey, this is everything. There has to be a bigger reason why and you know it.

Barbara: Well Ransom how about it had more to do with you guys than with me.

Ransom: Yeah. Yeah that's the only thing that makes sense.

[Barbara is unexpectedly effected by this. The waitress breezes by, sets an empty bowl on the table.]

Barbara: Did he tell you anything?

Ransom: Just I wasn't getting a cent.

Barbara: He wanted you to build something from the ground up, like your parents

Ransom: something from the ground up, like my parents.....Yeah. My mom built her business from the ground up with a million dollar loan from granddad. My dad owns none of it, and mom made him sign a prenup. He lives in fear. I know that's what granddad wanted to protect me from by doing this, and I know I shouldn't say this out loud but when he told me, Jesus Christ I coulda killed him.

Ransom: After I left the party, though. I was driving fast, nowhere, just in the night. And I got this weird...clarity. That from here on I was going to have to do for myself. And that felt... good. The old bastard.

Arlecchino: A sense of clarity?? Really?? I'd hardly believe that

Paimon: Yeah, no one gets a feeling of clarity after getting kicked out of the will