Afterward, Shien told Vivian and the others everything about his conversation with Laisha at Hanamaru Mansion.
Of course, Shien had only revealed part of it. He had not mentioned that he would be working with Laisha to destroy the Old Demon Faction's main force.
If he told them all that, Vivian and the others definitely would not agree to it, would they?
"Cooperating with a wanted criminal of such grave offenses... If word of this got out..."
Just thinking about it made Shien feel that things would go very badly.
Shien even wondered whether this had been part of Laisha's scheme.
Otherwise, if Laisha had revealed her identity from the start, Shien would have thought twice and then thought again. He would never have agreed to something like this so easily.
Still, Shien made Laisha's personal intentions very clear.
"That woman seemed to have been avoiding the Old Demon Faction's pursuit all this time because she didn't want that thing to be misused. So, she probably didn't come to Lamigium for any particular purpose."
Shien at least conveyed that much to Vivian and the others.
Though, if he could, Shien wanted to complain about one thing.
"If she didn't want that thing to be misused, then why did she steal it from the royal capital in the first place?"
She really had nothing better to do.
Naturally, while that was what he thought, Shien knew very well that there had to be some deeper secret behind all this. Otherwise, things would not have ended up this way.
And Shien might already have become somewhat involved in that secret. If he continued making contact so actively, he might uncover something.
Unfortunately, Shien had no intention of doing that whatsoever.
"The more you know, the more dangerous it gets. Any secret that