I couldn't help it.
The words slipped out of my mouth before I could think twice.
"You guys knew… didn't you?"
Silence.
Tense. Hesitant.
Freya was the one to break it. Her smile was tight, strained — not from amusement but from guilt barely disguised.
"We found some evidence," she said, voice brittle. "At a black market. That was… where we found Amelia. She'd been trapped by some real shady bastards."
I blinked.
Once.
Twice.
"Wait. She was trapped? Where the hell was I when this was happening?"
Art sighed — long, dramatic, and thoroughly unnecessary. "You'd gone berserk, remember? While you were busy butchering regionalF crime syndicates like a damn possessed executioner… Amelia was kidnapped."
I blinked harder this time. My brow twitched.
Zyon added in, his tone more serious, face dark. "At the same time… Lady Liana was abducted too."
Oh.
I was starting to see the outlines of it now.
