"What happened to him?! He was alright when we came back hours ago!"
"I have no idea, my lady! He suddenly started vomiting and he just... It was sudden."
"What did you feed him?!"
"Nothing, nothing! I swear! I would never poison him! <Sniff >! I don't think it's anything he ate. He just..."
A sombre atmosphere overwhelmed the household.
The death of a normal person had a sense of mundaneness that gave it a more impactful punch.
Not facing defeat by the sword.
Not facing the veil by the maw of a Cluster beast nor by some magical phenomena that scrambled the body...
There wouldn't be any tales told about one's extraordinary exploits.
For this simple, rich home populated by six people – a man, a woman, their three children and a house maid – the loss of the father figure was a hard blow.