"Do you think Lord Vinos is hiding something?"
Only Vinos went to the Magic Beast Academy. Everyone who followed him, whether the assisting priests or the princes and princesses like Tyrande and Xie Yue, had been left behind.
The reason was perfectly valid. There might be something dangerous inside, so for their safety, they were not allowed to follow him in.
The explanation seemed quite reasonable, but Xie Yue still sensed that something was wrong.
"Stop your baseless speculation, Xie Yue!" Ili Bo Er stared sternly at Xie Yue. "Even if Lord Vinos is hiding something, it's for the sake of the bigger picture!"
"For the bigger picture?" Xie Yue looked at him with an ambiguous smile. "Including abandoning you back then?"
Ili Bo Er paused, then looked at Xie Yue and said solemnly, "Yes! That was part of it too!"
"Oh?" Xie Yue's smile grew even brighter. She looked toward Tyrande, who seemed as though everything ahead had nothing to do with her. "Aren't you going to say something?"
"Big Brother is absolutely right. What is there for me to add?" Tyrande did not even turn her head, the same tranquil smile still on her face. "When I wasn't here, Big Brother was the most outstanding one. Lord Vinos devoted himself to nurturing Big Brother without hiding anything. After I was born, I became the most outstanding one, so Lord Vinos chose me. Of course it was for the sake of the bigger picture!"
As she spoke, she turned back to look at Xie Yue. "Isn't it only natural for the strongest person to become Emperor?"
"That does sound perfectly reasonable." Xie Yue smiled sweetly as she looked up at the sky above the Magic Beast Academy. "But Fourth Sister, have you ever considered that one day, someone might