"So you have a helper after all." Nawa nodded, seeming both surprised and not. "Luo Geng told me that even when we have victory in our grasp, we can't relax. We have to destroy every card you're holding. It looks like he's made the right move, one step ahead of you again."
Before she turned to leave, she gave Maiya another look up and down. "From the Wind Horn Family? You have terrible judgment. You've picked the wrong side. Can't you even tell who has the upper hand?"
...If her situation hadn't been hopeless before, it was now.
"We're doomed. She's going to report to Luo Geng, isn't she?" Maiya muttered. "To think I really did pick the wrong side."
Milady, lost in her own thoughts, didn't hear a single word.
Luo Geng, for his part, was swift to act. It felt as though Nawa had been gone only a moment before Luo Geng was striding purposefully toward them. A gust of warm air washed over them before he even arrived.
