"Greg, why haven't you said anything? Don't tell me you can't answer?"
Yelina's normally gentle voice now sounded to Greg like a terrifying death knell, tolling in his ears once again.
Greg knew perfectly well that he couldn't keep silent any longer. Dragging this out would only make things more awkward.
He took a deep breath, then spoke.
"No, it's not that I don't know how to answer. I was just thinking about how to put it accurately."
Greg raised his head, wearing the expression of someone who had given the matter serious thought:
"My relationship with Victoria is certainly a little unusual, but not in the way you might be imagining."
He looked at Yelina and spoke candidly:
"Yelina, you said just now that we seemed close, and I won't deny that. Although there were indeed some misunderstandings between us at first, after going through a few things, we managed to clear them up. That was how we became friends. Later, she became my Junior Fellow under the same teacher, so naturally, we grew even closer."
Greg continued:
"But I can assure you that my relationship with Victoria is entirely innocent right now."
His gaze was open and honest as he said this.
Yelina propped her chin in both hands and tilted her head at him, a thoughtful glimmer in her bright eyes. "Are you really not lying?"
Greg said, "Of course not. Victoria and I just poke fun at each other now and then, but we also help each other out when it matters. If there really were something secret going on between us, we wouldn't act so naturally in front of everyone, would we?"
After hearing this, Lilith tilted her head slightly, and the suspicion in her eyes gradually began to fade.
Thinking it over, she felt