"In fact there was never such a thing to begin with, but if I really went and asked Eirin myself, the nature of this whole matter would become completely different…" Gu Mo thought back a little and felt a chill; he really had been a bit careless, but Her Highness the Princess was honestly way too lacking in martial ethics.
She lied! She ambushed!
And she picked the moment when his mind was in chaos, with too many things splitting his attention, when he was already at his wits' end… with just a bit of carelessness he really might have fallen for it.
Penglai Mountain Kaguya said faintly, "Since you never asked, how do you know that there was never such a thing?"
"Your Highness…"
Gu Mo was momentarily at a loss for words, looking at the long‑haired black‑straight girl who kept her head lowered and continued browsing the Spell Scrolls; for a moment he couldn't quite get a read on her.
