At the peak of Hera's fury, Leo, who had been silent and merely observing, suddenly spoke. He uttered one simple sentence: "I don't know you."
Those four words, said to Silvia, were what ultimately saved him from being murdered by his own wife. Only later would he realize just how close he'd come to losing his life. Had he continued to stay quiet and simply stare at Silvia, Hera might have snapped.
Thankfully, his instincts for danger remained intact, even with his amnesia. Perhaps, deep down, he felt the need to make it clear that he truly didn't recognize Silvia, not just because of his memory loss, but because he had never paid attention to her before, not even prior to the accident.
At first, he had briefly considered the possibility that Silvia was the fiancée he kept remembering in fragments. That was why he looked at her more closely, searching her face for a hint of familiarity.
