I wasn't a member of the Splinter Family?
I was from the Empire's Binote Family? My real name was Anna Binote?
At those words, Anna froze on the spot. But she quickly cast this absurd claim to the back of her mind and coldly rebuked Sellviya:
"That's impossible. I clearly remember everything about how I grew up. You must be lying!"
"Believe it or not. After all, I have no reason to lie to you, do I?"
Sellviya shrugged indifferently. In truth, she had anticipated this reaction the moment she opened her mouth.
After all, if the Allied Forces had managed to secretly abduct a descendant of the Binote Family and even successfully enroll her in a military academy, then anyone with half a brain could tell that the people nominally responsible for raising her, but actually monitoring her growth, must have brainwashed Anna from childhood.
If she could undo twenty years of brainwashing by the Loran Kingdom with a single sentence, that would be a miracle.
The reason she had said it was merely to plant a seed of doubt in Anna's heart in advance.
Later, once the two surviving monsters of the Binote Family met and clashed on the battlefield, that seed of doubt would take root, blossom, and drive Anna to seek the truth.
By then, once Anna understood her true bloodline, what would she do after realizing she had been deceived by something called "lies," given the pure, almost foolishly righteous character she had displayed earlier? Sellviya was rather looking forward to it.
Of course, what she wanted to see even more was the expression on Laiya's wooden face when, someday in the future, she encountered Anna on the battlefield—a girl whose appearance and Formula were nearly identical to that idiotic, violent woman.
It was hard