Of course, Vivian was somewhat dissatisfied with Shien’s expression.
“What else did you think I mean?”
Vivian intently stared at Shien as if trying to see through his mind.
“N-Nothing!” Shien hurriedly shook his head and then, as if trying to change the topic, “I did indeed do what you just said, but what’s the issue with that?”
“Of course there’s an issue.” Vivian kept staring at Shien, “Based on what the knights said, you claimed that you used a magic item that I gave you for defense to create such destruction and subjugated the suspicious person, but I don’t remember doing something like that at all you know?”
Vivian was here to make certain accusations.
Unfortunately for her, Vivian was wrong there.
“I never said that you were the one who gave me a protective magic item, right?” Shien corrected her righteously, “At the time, what I said was something along the lines of ‘used a magic item that a senior from my current party gave me for self defense’.”
“Used a magic item that a senior from your current party gave you for self defense?” Vivian stopped a moment and immediately realized, “You want to claim that the one who gave you the self defense magic item was not me, but rather someone else in the party?”
As she spoke, Vivian turned around and gazed at the other members of the party.
“I… I didn’t!”
Lumia immediately shook her head in a panic.
“It wasn’t me either! I didn’t have a magic item like that!”
Melika also denied any connection to the matter.
Vivian’s gaze was thus focused on Diere.
Facing that, Diere wanted to answer, but she didn’t get the chance.
That’s because someone else got there first.
“It was given to me by miss Diere!”
Shien suddenly pointed at Diere as if he was pointing out a criminal.
“Eh?”
This time, even Diere was stunned.
“So was it you who gave it to him? Diere?”
Vivian was rather surprised.
Never mind Vivian, even Lumia and Melika showed completely surprised expressions.
“I…”
Diere really wanted to deny it.
However, before she could, Diere saw Shien making a sign as if begging her behind Vivian’s back, so she stopped herself.
A little bit later, Diere gave Shien a vicious glare before finally turning back and answering quietly.
“It was indeed me who gave it to him.”
Diere thus became Shien’s accomplice.
“Whew…”
Shien once more let out a sigh of relief.
Yesterday, after using that excuse, Shien had already considered begging Diere to help collaborate with his lie.
After all, Dire was the only person in the party who more or less knew about Shien’s hidden true abilities. Based on the attitude she showed before, she should be willing to help Shien hid the truth.
And that assumption proved true. Shien was right. Diere did accommodate him.
However, the members of the party were unsurprisingly astonished by this.
“I never expected Diere would actually…”
“Even though we’ve never seen Diere use magic items before.”
Lumia and Melika looked at each other.
Vivian also wrinkled her brow, took another look at Shien, and then gave a look at Diere. Within her eyes was a gaze full of resignation and mirth that no one else could see.
“Well, whatever. Since you guys said this much, then I won’t pursue this any further.” Vivian gave such a statement, “Either way, we’ve already basically confirmed the identity of the person Shien subjugated, so Shien did indeed perform a merit rather than having done something bad.”
Hearing that, Shien paid a bit more attention.
“So that person’s identity has been verified?”
Shien so questioned Vivian.
“Indeed.”
Vivian nodded.
Then, Shien heard the following statement.
“He should be a member of the Old Demon Faction.”