The walk to the Throne Room was silent. Layland was putting up his guard against Eliseus but Eliseus behaved like she didn't know what was going on. Layland would have believed her if she wasn't a Demon. Like him, she was a Demon, so he was sure everything she showed him hid some things that she didn't want him to know.
If his guess of her identity was correct, at this point, she should've already figured out he was a Demon King Candidate. The stunt Ilschevar pulled showed his favouritism over him and it should have planted some seed of jealousy in the hearts of the other Demon King Candidates.
Eliseus didn't seem to be an ambitious character; however, it was hard to think that she wouldn't think of Layland as her enemy. Therefore, if she was what Layland thought she was, she would eventually point her sword at his neck someday and he needed to be ready for that.
Thud!
