Naturally, Shien had no way of knowing about the connection between Sophie and Maki.
If it had been before, he might have become curious about their conversation, taken an interest, and looked into it a little.
But now, Shien had no such mood.
Right now, he cared about only one thing.
"You may step down."
Shien spoke to Sophie.
Sophie immediately turned her head and looked at Shien.
She wanted to say something, but swallowed the words back.
There was no other reason than the fact that Shien's expression was still as indifferent as ever.
That told Sophie that this man of another race had no intention of letting the matter rest.
Thus, Sophie unconsciously stepped back.
Meanwhile, Shien had already started walking at some point. Under everyone's gaze, he slowly approached Maki.
Seeing Shien like this, the disdainful smile on Maki's face gradually vanished.
It could not be helped. He was the only person in thousands of years who had made her admit defeat and even suffer a loss.
Even now, Maki still found it difficult to accept that she had fallen into the hands of a human man who had been completely unknown not long ago, whom she had known for less than ten hours, and whom she had only provoked once and toyed with once before she even had the chance to use her methods to torment him.
But Maki also knew that, at this point, no amount of unwillingness would help.
"Are you finally going to kill me, Count Poztut?" Maki said mockingly. "Or are you planning to have some fun with my body before killing me? My arms and legs are broken, so I can't resist anyway, you know? Want to give it a try?"
Such filthy words made the Elves present unable to help