The senior doctor recognized who was talking to them, moreover, by the presence of an HR-17 robot.
"My apologies, My Lady," said the senior doctor while bowing.
She intended to curry favor with and incite Ivy to send Lucy and the two young girls away, then place them on the plantation.
The young woman accompanying the senior doctor did the same thing. Likewise with Lucy, Miska, and Xian. But the last three did all that just plain pleasantries.
"Well," Ivy said with a bit of a gesture and a look that emphasized her status to them. "I heard some unpleasant screams. Can you tell me what happened?"
At least, from the conditions that are currently in front of her eyes, Ivy can predict that the three women standing to the right in front of her are the people Aldi and his friends want to save. It couldn't be that arrogant and cynical woman on the left, she thought.
"These maggots—"