The smile on Dr. Karl disappeared as he sighed. He had expected the Lady's reaction. She might have not known the entire history of her family, but never to be this cold at her father's work.
She could not be blamed, he thought. Duke Grandis once told him that his daughter would become the Empress instead of doing the dirty work for the royal family.
He remembered looking at the Duke's eyes as the latter ordered him to never let Cailina into this place. It was a promise that he could not keep as who would succeed the Duke other than his daughter?
He needed to finish what he started and the those under him that shared the same goal. If it were to tell something that might put him in danger, he would.
They should pay for what they had done.
"I believe that my Lady has no knowledge of the reason why your father, the Duke, did this."
