Hughberlian tightened her grip on Cat Boss slightly, as if asking what was going on.
Cat Boss averted its gaze.
Lanchi had indeed spent every day with Sigrid for the past month or so. On the way to the northern border, Sigrid had protected Lanchi; on the way back to Helrom, Lanchi had protected Sigrid. During their long escape, they had even taken turns keeping watch at night. They had basically never been apart.
But it didn't dare tell Hughberlian about Lanchi's journey north.
Hughberlian seemed to know only about Lanchi's achievements at the academy and in politics. She knew nothing about his achievements in the Church—the things Lanchi had done in the Protos Empire that had nearly cost him his life.
Not only had he crossed swords with Nirvana Bishop Askesang, but his relationship with Sigrid, the Ba Tian Sect's Holy Son, had also become rather impossible to explain!
The more Cat Boss thought about it, the more it felt that its true great sin had yet to be discovered by Hugh Treasure. Tormented by its conscience, it simply fled and hid, trembling, beneath a distant sofa.
Besides, it felt that Sid had deliberately chosen those words just now!
She had wanted to tell Hughberlian about the relationship between her and Lanchi.
"..."
Thus, Hughberlian could only look toward Lanchi.
Sigrid also watched Lanchi's reaction from the corner of her eye, pretending not to.
She remembered this Countess from Milford Territory. She was the Countess whom they had encountered that day at Rock Junction Station on Box Mountain, when the Nirvana Branch had stopped her.
But this Countess seemed not to have recognized that the Nirvana Holy Son and the female prisoner she had met at the station were the two of them.
Sigrid didn't know why the Holy