"Then just use Ansel's name." Seraphina hadn't thought it through. "Just say Faust wants these devices here, and anyone who messes with them will be killed. I'd like to see any idiot dare."
"...Do you think Mr. Faust will keep his eyes on this place all the time?"
"Uh..." Seraphina was taken aback. She awkwardly scratched her cheek. "Probably not, but even if he doesn't, no one would have the guts to—"
"One day, someone will." Marlina interrupted Seraphina. "Maybe it will work for a while, but eventually, there will be someone bold enough to touch the forbidden, and Mr. Faust will most likely not be watching."
She gazed into her sister's increasingly evasive eyes, her tone unconsciously becoming sterner. "Once it happens, everything will revert to how it was, with no change at all."
"Is…is it really that serious?"
