"What did you say?!"
Vanessa's eyes widened in shock, and then she visibly began to panic.
Lillian was an [Immortal] the Lord had personally recruited, and Vanessa had actually frightened her into madness just like that?!
D-doesn't that mean I'm in huge trouble...
"N-no way, right? I only said a few things, and she went mad?"
Vanessa certainly disliked Lillian.
But that had extended only to feeding her Dorothea's cooking. She had not even planned to let her go hungry for a few meals, much less ever considered frightening her into madness.
She was also somewhat puzzled.
"She's supposed to be a very powerful supernatural person, isn't she? How could she be so fragile that a few words drove her mad?"
Vanessa felt she had not said anything particularly harsh. Didn't Lillian claim to have experienced many histories? How could she take it so badly?
"What did you say to her?" Flora looked at Vanessa with some curiosity.
"Nothing much, just some ordinary rebuttals..."
Vanessa briefly recounted their earlier conversation.
Flora frowned. "It sounds as though her beliefs collapsed. Going mad over that would be understandable. Have your beliefs ever collapsed?"
"Yes. After I graduated from university, I found that the diploma I'd worked so hard for was no better than wastepaper. It didn't help me find a job at all..."
Vanessa scratched her head. "But I didn't have a mental breakdown over it..."
"That's not on the same level."
"Think about it. If something you'd worked toward your whole life turned out to be wrong, and the world you wanted to save had instead been destroyed by your own hands, going mad would be normal."
Everyone fell silent for a while, their gazes returning to Lillian, who was scattered all over the floor.
Indeed, that explanation did make some