The one called Vela, a burly man who looked to be in his middle years, had gripped me tightly.
"My apologies, Lady Levina," he said as he released me, a smile lingering on his face. "Was he supposed to speak when you and the Lady are speaking?"
"Even if he was not supposed to," Lady Levina replied calmly, "it is still my decision what to do with him."
"Please, forgive my action." He stepped back, and the smothering Bloodlust he had been radiating finally began to fade.
I had wondered about this before, but the question pressed harder now.
Why does Lady Levina keep stopping them from killing us?
Doesn't the Shadow Realm forbid death?
...Unless it does not exactly work that way inside Jorō's domain. Maybe we really will die if we are killed here. After all, she has never asked us to fight anyone to the death in this place.
