Situation: Diffused.

Translations, panel 4:
“My-?!”
“Kei! Stop! Let Tai handle this!”

For the record, Tai giving him coins is less about paying him off – it’s not enough for him to care – and more just intended as a gesture of apology from one lord to another, since that would be assumed to be where the money had come from.

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