After an urgent round of discussion, they still failed to determine where Riezel had gone.
But they had more or less guessed that Riezel might not have been abducted. He might have gone out on his own.
Only that could explain why his disappearance had been so completely silent.
And besides Riezel, Saintess Bertie had vanished as well. No one could find her.
Merlot and Naisha's expressions changed dramatically. Without thinking, they both blurted out their conclusions.
"His Excellency must have gone out with Saintess Bertie!"
"Saintess Bertie must have secretly asked His Excellency out!"
The first person to react to those words was none other than Percips.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
For some reason, the usually frivolous prince looked especially agitated.
"Yes, yes, impossible, impossible. Big Brother, please stop talking."
Lilithia grabbed Percips and stopped his body, which looked like it was about to leap into the air from excitement, dragging him off to one side.
But even if Percips had said nothing, Merlot and Naisha's reactions were no less intense than his.
"So that saintess was behind this..."
Merlot looked grave. Like Naisha earlier, she wore the expression of someone facing a formidable enemy, as though someone had robbed her blind from behind her back.
"I knew it...!"
Naisha, meanwhile, gritted her teeth bitterly. Rarely, she had begun to feel dissatisfied with her own savior.
There was no helping it. Her savior had actually concealed this from her and run off with a saintess from a rival faction in the middle of the night. There was practically nothing more devastating than that.
After all, Naisha had always been highly wary of Bertie, yet she had still been caught off guard. Not being shaken by it would have been impossible.
Of course, the most important thing was the pressure she