A certain Emperor and his Daughter

"Lies.

You are avoiding Evan, aren't you?"

Laurene easily dismissed his words and spoke ones that hit the nail on the mark, with Arnold barely holding himself back from clicking his tongue upon seeing the glowing crest in her eyes.

'When did she even turn to face me?'

Deciding that there was no point in trying to lie to her, Arnold just silently nodded in affirmation, with a wry smile appearing on Laurene's face as she asked.

"Would you tell me why?"

"…"

Arnold momentarily pictured the scene of him telling Laurene that the person inside his brother's body, wasn't his brother and neither was it the Previous Second of the Seven heroes, but a totally different entity with ties to the goddess who governed their world, and that he got this information from 'Aidos'.

'No way in hell I can say that.

How am I going to explain how and why I was told this information by 'Aidos'?'