"Do you really think I could have kept anything?"
After drying the water from her face, Iris actually seemed less angry. She took off her hair tie and hairpins, letting her beautiful hair fall over her shoulders, then took a peach wood comb from her handbag and combed through her damp strands. "By the second day, the Sword Demon's belongings were no longer in our hands. By now, they've been inspected by at least five institutions. Even without me, someone else would have snatched them. Last time the Sword Demon disappeared in the Distant Void Domain, didn't the Administrative Office almost succeed?"
"And did you really never search through the Sword Demon's things?" Iris sneered. "Weren't you curious about the Sword Demon's secrets? How much nobler than me do you think you are?"
Lois's expression darkened. They actually understood too. After Sonia's Wanted Order came out, all of Sonia's personal belongings would definitely be taken away for investigation. Whether Iris had been involved or not, that once-lively four-person Dormitory would, in the end, only have three people's echoes left.
"I'd accept it if the Administrative Office came and took them away, but what right do you, Iris, have?" Adele said bitterly. "You represented your family's chamber of commerce when you came to Sonia for endorsement cooperation. When did Sonia not put your family's work first? When did she not do her best to make it perfect? Other people can be shameless, but you're the one person who has no right!"
"Did my family not pay her? She wasn't some free prostitute!" Iris snorted coldly. "Quite the opposite—she was the expensive kind."
"You—"
Adele was so furious her stomach almost burned through, and she summoned another Water Ball and hurled it over. But at that moment, the Shield-Axe Artificer removed his