He had been fooled.
It was a trick so simple it could not have been simpler. It cost almost nothing; just a few words had divided two people who should have been thinking on the same side, making them watch and guard against each other.
But this also meant that the other party had gathered ample intelligence beforehand, because only by truly understanding the state of their relationship could he create a split in the simplest possible way.
Besides, the other party had openly told you he intended to assassinate someone, so you naturally followed his line of thought, wondering who would be a suitable target. Then he chose an adult thunder dragon.
The Dragon Clan identity created a blind spot at this moment, because as long as Laio revealed his true form, assassination was virtually impossible;
after all, assassination and surrounding someone to kill them were hardly synonyms.
Kallen also felt that, in the other party's original plan, he and Lord Aoji should have been excluded, because the other party had even known that Laio would invite Miss Daina to a private discussion.
The small unexpected development lay with him... and with Aoji. Both seemed to have sensed something wrong through their own means. To soothe these two alert "children," each had been given a candy to hold in their mouths and savor slowly.
While savoring it, they had no time to open their mouths and speak, so naturally, they fell silent.
Just as Kallen had instinctively begun observing in silence after Lord Aoji supplied the latter half of his sentence.
And that was precisely the result the other party wanted when he tossed out the candy.
At this moment, after a brief pause, Lord Aoji immediately rushed out of the private dining room.
Kallen hesitated, then raised a