Argument

Leguna shuddered. He turned his head around with great difficulty but still didn't dare to meet Annelotte's gaze directly.

"I... I was only curious. Do you know anything?"

"I don't," said Annelotte coldly.

After hearing her denial, Leguna breathed a sigh of relief. But, seeing how he was acting, the rage the girl felt only rose.

"Even if I did, I wouldn't tell you."

"Why?" asked the boy, his voice slightly louder than before.

Her words had apparently struck a nerve.

"Because you would only act recklessly and it wouldn't help the two at all."

"Don't you care about whether they live or die at all?"

The boy's rage boiled in his words.

"I do—"

Annelotte said as she forked another piece of roast meat and plunged it into the special spicy dip.

"—It's precisely because I care that I can't tell you. Your recklessness will only mess everything up."

When she finished, she flung the piece of meat into her mouth...

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