Chapter 148: The Tin Knight and The City of Scales (8)
From Dorothea’s perspective, it would have been more convenient if Adelaide and Sophia had stayed quiet.
Getting involved in the power struggle between the Lion Duke’s bloodline and the Kingdom of Heaven, and having a conversation with the lord of Justitia, which would bring no benefit to the current situation.
Both carried considerable risk and could potentially involve Dorothea as well.
In that sense, she could have restrained them, telling them not to do unnecessary things and to stay put… but Dorothea didn’t do that.
“What can I do if they want to do it?”
That was the kind of group Dorothea’s party was.
The main goal of the party was collecting the eight sacred treasures, but strictly speaking, only Dorothea absolutely had to accomplish this.
The Tin Knight was bound by contract to accompany Dorothea, Adelaide had come along to grasp at even a small lifeline lest she become Giselle’s decorative piece for maintaining power if she stayed in the domain, and in Sophia’s case, while she didn’t express particular dissatisfaction, it was Dorothea’s circumstances that had her traveling together in the first place.
Since they weren’t a party bound by a single purpose from the start, the logic of “don’t do that because it’s a loss for the party as a whole” didn’t apply.
Unlike before, when most of the party was close to being baggage, now her companions were providing considerable help to Dorothea’s goals, so it would be unfair not to treat them accordingly.
After all, witches valued contracts.
After finishing calculations that the Tin Knight would have summarized as “You’ve just grown fond of them and gone soft” if he had been listening, Dorothea went out to the streets.