Became a Strategist with a 100 Intelligence and 100% Accuracy

I repeated my question several times, asking Serpina if she was truly serious.

I had considered the possibility, but now that it had actually happened—

I couldn’t believe it.

"What would I possibly gain from lying to you?"

Serpina smiled again.

She wasn’t testing me—

She wasn’t trying to provoke a reaction.

“You have the look of a discarded hound.”

“A hound…?”

A deep sigh escaped me.

“I doubt I was ever Lady Yuri’s hound to begin with.”

After all—

She had never truly used me.

I hadn’t been in her service for long, but even in that short time, I had spent more time teaching Reika than performing actual missions.

In truth, I had been more idle in her army than I ever had under Lyn’s command.

Serpina remained silent as I sorted through my thoughts.

So Yuri had chosen to abandon me and save Anima instead.

She might not have known that Reika was with me,

But she certainly knew that Airen was accompanying me as a bodyguard.

And despite that—

She had made this choice.

In the end, to her, neither I nor Airen were worth more than Anima.

I didn’t find it incomprehensible.

The Aishus Five had a bond that no one could break.

Yuri, Anima, Emma, Epinnel, Hernandorf.

The entire foundation of Aishus was built upon those five.

If I were to be honest with myself—

I wasn’t particularly shocked.@@novelbin@@

Nor was I about to lament about how my lord could do this to me.

Because the truth was—

I had never truly served her as my lord.

Yuri had always been a temporary figure in my life.

My loyalty had always belonged to Lunarian.

So I had no intention of playing the tragic victim now.

Doing so would be pathetic.