256. Optional Betrayal_3

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"Conducting unauthorized observation and recording of the experiment, as well as detecting experimental props, without the permission of the experiment host, is a serious criminal offense in violation of the law. If it turns out that Marslank indeed acted on the instructions from your second brother to pry into our experimental results, I hope you will not obstruct my law enforcement actions,"

"I know..." Selena said, becoming noticeably distressed, "I'm sorry, I didn't anticipate that Sidney would go to such an extreme."

"Selena, let me be frank. Sidney Pomida has done more than just this one overstepping action. Do you think I can't guess that it was Sidney Pomida who acted as a go-between for you and Dickler Fegan? If he hadn't manipulated things, would you have offered yourself to Dickler Fegan, all for the sake of a Ten Rings-level meditation technique?"

Selena fell silent, obviously struck by Noland's words.