Lev had seen many confident people in his life. He had seen especially those who would pretend to be such an amazing person when it turns out they were nothing more than a pebble rock beside a castle. There are many of those people who claim they could control the world, confidently assuming that everything is underneath them, but Ilyana's words weren't born out of mere confidence. She had uttered her words in conviction, knowing that her words had bore no lies and was simply the truth. She was the person who control Shanghai and she also know Shanghai would be unsafe without her.
"Even more than the police?" He inquired, finding her who smiled. Unable to control the spiciness of the medicine on his skin, he winced even further, stifling the sound of his cry on the back of his throat.
