Her voice cracked mid-sentence, slicing through the air like a whip. Her expression was frozen, eyes wide, breath caught somewhere between shock and fury.
"He bet his life on that?! For Areon?!"
Selena's disbelief hit the air like thunder. Her voice trembled half outrage, half confusion as if her brain itself refused to process the information.
"...He did what?" Areon finally asked in a stunned whisper, his tone low, nearly inaudible.
His mind had officially stopped working. It was like someone had upended a bag of punctuation in his head a thousand question marks flying in all directions.
Is the Elder lying...? No. That doesn't make sense. Why would a saint... not to say dignified a dragon saint lie? But then again why would that guy... That bastard do something like this?!
He was still reeling when
Selena moved.
Without warning, the Saintess who'd been standing at his side turned and grabbed him by the collar.
"H-Huh?!"
His voice broke, eyes going wide.
