"You are..."
She stared at Annan. She remembered what had happened after Olmedo Just Right found her, too. But when had a male Succubus appeared? And why did he seem so close to both ladies?
"I'm Lady Biross's most loyal and dependable subordinate."
Rus, who had always considered herself the backbone of the command, stared blankly. "Then who am I?"
Annan was about to answer when the Six-Armed Snake Demon interrupted them. "Rus, tell Lady Lilith what happened to you among the Ratfolk."
Rus began recounting what had happened after she left Free City.
Annan listened closely while watching the Succubus Queen and the Six-Armed Snake Demon. Strangely, neither of them reacted.
Had something changed?
Annan already knew how Rus's story ended: the High Priest discovered her. Though she revealed her identity at once, the High Priest still cursed her into a Brownfur Rat.
There was no helping it. This fell under the "understanding between the two sides" that the Succubus Queen had mentioned.
If anything, the fact that Rus was still alive showed both the High Priest's cruelty and the High Priest's mercy.
Annan recalled how he had once had the chance to capture the Ratfolk Elder but had backed off when his instincts warned him. "That makes us even. I could've killed the Ratfolk Elder during the breakout, but I didn't."
"That happened?" Biross asked.
"I wounded the elder badly. The elder lay on the ground begging me for mercy. I figured we were allies, and I didn't know how you or Her Majesty would feel about it, so I let the elder go."
Rus looked faintly confused. "But I remember..."
Annan shot Rus a vicious glare. "Oh, right. When I brought the Incubus back, she even tried to resist—"
"Now I remember! That did happen!" Rus cut