"What!? Kili was captured?!"
Amy, who had also been keeping an eye on Li Qi's movements, couldn't help crying out when she heard the news.
Although the two of them seemed to have truly become strangers during this period, with neither contacting the other, Amy had still been secretly watching Li Qi because of certain "unspeakable" thoughts.
She knew everything he had done, whom he had befriended, and what his current strength was.
She simply hadn't met him again.
Thus, Amy was one of the few people who knew about Li Qi's capture at the earliest.
She was stunned for a long while before immediately asking the subordinate responsible for gathering information:
"Who captured him?!"
"I heard... it was the Royal Guard."
"Why did the Royal Guard capture Kili?!"
"They seemed to say that Kili was a spy, and they were taking him back for investigation..."
The subordinate answered Amy's questions one by one.
This time, Amy was speechless.
A spy...
Kili could indeed have been a spy. After all, Amy didn't know what his true purpose had been in coming to Inglis.
But that had only been Amy's suspicion before. Amy no longer believed that Kili was a spy.
Had she ever seen a spy who, after arriving at an important place where intelligence could be obtained, didn't work for more than half a year?
Kili was the student jointly chosen by Julie and Derien. Given their identities and titles, Kili would have been able to obtain countless pieces of information from them with even the slightest connection.
Not to mention that he was now their student.
Yet during this period, he had done nothing at all. He had simply studied what he was supposed to study, just like a genuine student.
Let alone going around gathering information, he