A Blatant Refusal

"I never thought he would be such a coward, sacrificing his own friend like that. This is quite unbelievable…" Lily mumbled in a low voice as she looked at Zane's lifeless body, blood dripping from his neck where Valeria's sword had sliced clean through.

"He wasn't just a coward—he was also a betrayer. He turned on his own friend… and if it ever came to it, he'd probably betray his own family too," Vanessa responded with a soft smile, feeling a little uncomfortable watching such a horrific scene.

However, as the former Empress of the Lionheart Empire, she had experienced countless such events in the past—some even worse than this.

Thus, she managed to hide her discomfort behind the faint smile on her face, and deep down, she was relieved that a threat like Conrad had been eliminated by Yuan.