[A part of her wants to ask if the disappearance of one measly noble will truly affect things in such a manner, but even Sayaka knows, from her limited experience with nobility, that of course it will. Because nobility is stupid, it's so incredibly complicated and she didn't want this and he was right but he didn't have to say it--

Sayaka's still shaking when Hubert holds out his hand, half expecting the so-called peaceful gesture to be a trap and for him to dispose of her. Just like her father told her, and she tenses.

Only for the next words to hit her ears, and like a fool, the knife drops from her hands. Mostly in shock, and that's--]

You... [Sayaka looks completely thrown. Every part of her is wary and she can't pick up that knife again because he'll probably see it as a threat and change his mind, and one can probably tell that her mind is racing.] Are you...serious, Lord Hubert?

[She doesn't understand. She doesn't understand at all, and she--]

...What is it that you want from me?

[In return, she means. She wants to move, to bolt from all of this, because she cannot possibly trust him, and she looks little more than like a feral animal right now.]

My father's estate? My life? I...I don't have anything I can...