Chapter 315: Bread and Dagger (13)
Aviang lay unconscious, a faint groan escaping her lips. She was sprawled across a sofa set up in a corner of Emma’s workshop. The sight of the woman, bound at the wrists and ankles with rope evoked a strange sense of pity.
She looked like a girl who had only just become an adult.
It wouldn’t be weird if a stranger were to immediately report me to the guards. After all, I had tightly bound a delicate young girl’s hands and feet.
I, of course, had my reasons.
First and foremost, she was not human—she was an Elf.
That meant she was both an enemy of humanity and a spy who had infiltrated the Academy. She was the one who the guards should apprehend, not me.
Moreover, she was a skilled combatant.
Had I been her opponent, it wouldn’t have been necessary to restrain her
No matter what she attempted, it would have been difficult for the Elf to slit my throat. Besides the clear gap in our abilities being proven thus far, the Elf’s primary expertise seemed to be in magic.