"Ngghh…" Stefany let out a groan as she gradually opened her eyes. "Where am I?"

She looked left and right, noticing that she wasn't inside the cave anymore. Instead, she was inside what looked like a tent.

Lowering her head, she noticed her clothes had been changed.

"What is going on? Where am I?" she muttered, trying to regain her composure. She wondered whether she had been saved or if she was still kidnapped.

Her answer soon came from the outside.

"You have been saved, but I don't think I can say that either."

"!!!" Stefany raised her head, recognizing Luci. She had recovered to a certain extent, but without a recovery pod, she hadn't fully recovered. Her arm was bandaged and hung because it had a crack. And her ribs also suffered the same thing, so she was assisted by Melody.

"Lucifania… Melody…" Stefany gasped. She finally realized that Clovis had managed to get her back somehow.

No method appeared in her mind, but one thing was clear. She had betrayed this group, and they managed to get her back.

Stefany looked dejected, as if she had completely lost. "It looks like I have lost."

"You are not going to justify yourself?" Luci asked while taking her seat next to her and checking her condition.

"Justify myself? What's there to justify? I worked together with the so-called third party without realizing that I was being used by them. Now, nobody believes me anymore.

"If I were the Libation Fiesta or the Three Swords, there is no way I would believe the woman called Stefany.

"And once the people under me learned about this, they would doubt me, thinking they would get abandoned as well.

"After getting captured like that, I realized everything. Clovis Hacfield never betrayed Vina. In fact, he was kind enough to show me the clue to see who would pick up first, me or Vina.

"Clovis Hacfield was trying to train her to become a proper leader, wasn't he?

"I might not have the greatest mind, but I wasn't so foolish that I couldn't understand when things had become so obvious.

"Stefany, the leader of the division that is known for its connection, had betrayed her own group. I was in a division where trust should be number one, yet I betrayed that very concept.

"It's all over." Stefany shook her head helplessly. No matter how they were going to twist it, what she had done completely ruined her career.

It was understandable for her to be in despair. From this point onward, whenever she started something, people would know she had betrayed them.

High-ranking people would definitely do that level of a background check before working with her.

"That might be true." Clovis' voice suddenly echoed as he entered the tent with Vina.

"!!!" Stefany raised her head, stunned. However, she soon lowered her head as if she had resigned herself to her fate. "So, what do you want to do now? Humiliate me? Let me live so that I can suffer for the rest of my life? Or do you want to kill me now?

"I personally prefer to die right away. There's no future anymore, so why not?" Stefany shrugged.

"That was what I wanted to do." Vina actually agreed with her statement. "Unfortunately, this guy didn't allow me to kill you or even beat you up."

"Huh?" Stefany turned to Clovis with a dumbfounded expression. "Are you pitying me? Although I'm confident with my beauty, I don't think I'm beautiful enough to the point where you would drop such a matter to get me as your woman or something."

"That is true." Luci nodded. Melody just tugged Luci's arm while smiling wryly, as if telling her it wasn't appropriate to make such a comment.

Luci only shrugged as if she had never done anything wrong.

"Can you make a room for us?" Clovis asked.

"Give me eleven seconds." Luci raised her hand as she continued to examine her.

Exactly eleven seconds later, she noted down the last thing and explained, "Her condition is fine. Because of the drug that keeps her asleep, she is in a weakened state. Even if she tries to run away from here to get herself killed by the beast, we will probably notice it first.

"However, she should have a light meal to at least let her recover enough to eat a proper meal."

"Translation?" Melody asked. She needed to support her, so she wanted the explanation to be simple so she knew what needed to be done.

"Just deal with it fast. I'll be back after fetching the medicine."

"Thank you." Clovis nodded with a smile.

Once Luci and Melody exited the tent, Stefany couldn't help but ask, "Why do you not want to kill me? What I have done should be enough to provoke your wrath. Or is the Hacfield family that forgiving?"

"Oi!" Vina tried to stop her. It was definitely something she shouldn't have said to someone who chose not to kill her.

Clovis simply explained, "You have definitely done something that can't be forgiven. However, there were only the one-eyed swordsman, R.A.I.D., the Three Swords, and the Libation Fiesta who witnessed that betrayal."

"!!!" Stefany raised her eyebrows as if she understood what Clovis was trying to imply.

"As long as the Three Swords and the Libation Fiesta, the affected parties, claim you have never betrayed us, everything will be fine."

"Are you insane?" Stefany couldn't help but raise her voice. Even Vina couldn't believe it either. Clovis wasn't the type of person who forgave others so easily.

"I am a kind person." Clovis smiled as if he were an angel. Obviously, the two stared at him in disgust.

Clovis chuckled before raising one finger. "It looks like you have missed one thing… the most important aspect in this trial."

"Hmm?" Vina pondered, wondering if she had missed any. "What do you mean? While the mission is not finished yet, we have everything we need to complete it, no?"

Stefany, on the other hand, noticed something weird before figuring out what she had missed. There was one detail she had never considered. "No, wait. You… never trusted me from the beginning! That was why the expedition this time consisted of 20 people from the two groups instead of 40 people to represent me and Vina!"

"!!!"