Sara was fairly friendly toward Su Yang. After all, Su Yang was No Name's main force, and his own status was extremely formidable.
"So, you know that when Salamandra held its Birth Festival a month ago, a Demon King appeared, right?"
Sara nodded, frowning as she wondered why he was bringing this up. "Of course I know. Even though I had already left, it was still the community of my hometown that came under attack."
"Then let me ask you, as a former member—did you know that Salamandra itself was the one that connected the Demon King?"
Asuka shot to her feet and cried out excitedly, as though she wanted to interrupt their conversation outright. "What did you say?"
She had never imagined that the deadly battle they had joined had actually been a farce orchestrated by those people they had believed were allies.
Sara's expression stiffened, then she shook her head. "This is the first I've heard of it, but Father really could have done something like that. He is the sort of person who, even knowing it would kill his companions, would order his subordinates to act as long as it benefited the community.
"So even if Sandora might die during the Birth Festival, he would think it could be resolved as long as he returned to his position."
"But I heard that the former leader had been bedridden the whole time," Black Rabbit hurriedly asked. She did not want to believe that most horrifying truth.
Sara sounded somewhat disdainful. "If he did not feign weakness like that, how would the people lurking around us lower their guard? And with my father's personality, if he were truly critically ill, he would instead keep forcing himself to hold on.
"If he was not ill, or if it was nothing