In the moment when Annan's image overlapped with that of Vladimir.
Selicia distinctly smelled the scent of death.
She was acutely aware of it.
If she really had answered Vladimir back then like she did, if she had given that response that seemed to question, "Duke? What Duke?" she would truly have died.
Perhaps with a dignified cup of poisoned wine, or maybe through a public execution.
The girl she was back then, so naively young, was no longer.
Annan was serious.
She knew that the young new Duke would never forgive someone who had once committed the sin of rebellion and still showed no willing submission.
So, a new thought emerged in her heart.
I don't want to die yet.
The "Solomonik" of those days could be set aside.
Back then, Solomonik truly wanted to devote everything to his teacher from the bottom of his heart. After becoming Selicia, her first reaction was also that "I can help the teacher even more now."
But now, she had met new companions.
