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"It was still too dangerous."
I had watched the situation from the start. I warned Rubia when she chose to enter the match herself, but because she asked me to trust her, I hid among the crowd and only watched.
"Why didn't you tell me beforehand?" I asked.
Rubia smiled lightly. "You just said it was dangerous. I was afraid you'd scold me or stop me, so I didn't tell you. I thought this was the best way."
She dipped her head a little, stealing a glance at me as if gauging my mood.
"No, it's not as if I…"
In the end, the choice had been hers. Regardless, I had still fretted until the last moment. To prevent her from getting into harm's way, I hid in the middle of the stands, ready to leap out at any moment. Only when Kirk's neck broke twice in succession did I finally breathe out.
I finally understood what had happened when Rubia explained everything to me slowly. Since securing her footing in Erast, her political sense had become nothing short of admirable. Rubia had been murdered again and again, but only because her circumstances were so much worse than her brilliance.
"You're… not angry, are you?"
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