Meeting at Heavenly Pillar 3

Xia Ya felt somewhat uncomfortable and asked, "...What's wrong with you two?"

At his question, Jiliang's body seemed to twitch slightly, as though she had just been startled awake from some train of thought.

She avoided Xia Ya's gaze and lowered her head.

"...No, it's nothing." Her voice was very soft, carrying a trace of stiffness that was hard to detect.

Lacus Clyne gave him a smile instead, one that looked as gentle as usual.

"It's nothing," she repeated softly. "We were just thinking about what would happen next."

"...That's good, then."

Although both of them had denied anything was wrong, their unnatural manner left Xia Ya slightly confused.

They clearly did not look like nothing was wrong.

But since they were unwilling to say more, it would not be appropriate for him to keep pressing them.

He gave them one last look, then turned and headed toward the Dominion.

What exactly was going on with them? Xia Ya pondered as he walked.

The expressions on their faces looked neither angry nor sad.

It was a more complicated state, an emotion that perhaps even they themselves had yet to sort out.

...Could it be because that Rondo Mina Sahak had shown an interest in him just now?

The thought flashed through his mind, and Xia Ya immediately found it rather absurd.

Mina was currently standing on the stage under the male identity of "Rondo Sahak."

To conceal her gender, she had probably wrapped strips of cloth tightly around her chest, hiding the ample breasts that could expose her identity.

Combined with the heavy cloak concealing her figure, her shoulders appeared much broader than those of an ordinary woman.

Aside from people like Muruta and Cagalli Yula Athha, who already knew the truth, and someone like himself who knew the plot,