Upon seeing Sofia nonchalantly breaking into his territory again, Ilya glared at her. It's just that she mentioned something strange. He even snorted at her for it. "The Mirage Queen consumed half of your crest? How could that lowly cheating witch get to you?"
"…Audrey Gillard had tricked Domino into delivering the Mirage Queen's crest to her. She had taken over it for quite some time now." Nicholai wasn't shocked by the intervention of the Ashen Queen. He had gotten a whiff of her scent from afar; Ilya was just too distracted to miss out on her movements. "That is also one of our concerns as to why we came to this part of the globe, Lord Vasiliev."
"And Solar? Tell me she has not surfaced yet again." At the looming reality that Ilya didn't want to accept, he slowly asked. It's just that Nicholai only gave a little smile at him. However, the smile was not assenting to what he meant.
