"What do you mean?" Vayne stared coldly at Lanaia.
"I owe Vayne a favor..." Lanaia said flatly. "So I can't let you abduct the little guy she has her eye on..."
Vayne: "..."
Gou Dan's eyes lit up when he heard that. He hurriedly shrank behind Lanaia. My savior! She actually saw through it!
"When did you see through me?" Vayne's face blurred and shifted several times before becoming a faceless visage. She looked extremely eerie.
"The first time I saw you..." Lanaia said calmly. "You imitated her gait almost perfectly, but you couldn't hide the assassin's aura around you. I'm very sensitive toward my own kind. It's rare for me not to recognize one..."
That wasn't a lie. The young members of the Sanctuary Family's current generation had encountered countless attacks from assassin families after entering the world, especially attacks from other young members of the same generation.
Many people were dissatisfied with the Sanctuary Family's reputation. In the past, the Sanctuary Family had been powerful, so some people hadn't dared provoke them openly. But things were different now. With no elder powerhouse stationed in the Sanctuary Family, young assassins who wanted to prove themselves no longer had any reservations.
After all, having killed a member of the Sanctuary Family would absolutely be the best entry on an assassin's record...
Since entering the world, Lanaia had lost count of how many attacks she had suffered from young assassins of her own profession. Her careless brothers and sisters had all died. Besides her talent and strength, the reason she had survived was that she had always maintained an extremely sharp vigilance.
"Is that so?" Maya said with a smile. "Then why did you expose me outright? As an assassin, shouldn't you make use of this information gap? Or do you