Bab 554: Challenges Daphne’s version (part 5)

Naturally after listening to such words, it was impossible for the Valas Princess to not react in a positive way, as the light that flashed on her pretty blue eyes, suggested, however, as young as Daphne is, she isn't naïve.

Or at least, she isn't as sheltered as she used to be, since she experienced betrayal by the guys that were assigned to her team back at the beast hunt, which wasn't her neither the Duchess having a bad eye for people.

Those guys were probably prepared behind the scenes by Arlion through Triten, and one has to give it to that old cunning bastard, after discovering the betrayal of the young masters and misses of those vassal families, Annete did a throughout investigation on her own and found that the old generation wasn't aware of them being brought over to Arlion's side.