As he saw even Commander Botrelle surprised at his statement, Aran could not help but smile on the inside, he had chance to get out of this yet if he played his cards right. He had to be very careful however, one wrong word could get his project killed... or worse it could get him killed, so he took a deep breath and rose from his chair as the two knights moved in to seize and escort him towards her office to probably interrogate him on what he said.

As he was being escorted, Aran thought of what he could say that would allow him to get him the best results, something that would not get him fired, or worse, killed and something that would also allow him to continue his project unhindered. As for the knights, he could hear one of them talk, the Elcove one, but he did not really pay attention to either of the two, he had studied them and so far, he did not really see anything in them, though the Norrevinter girl did have quite the will, maybe she would be useful in his experiments later down the line, though he doubted the government would just hand them their star to possibly die.

He simply took a breath to calm himself down and looked ahead as they walked, whatever he would do, it would better be good or he could lose his job and his head.

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Darrien was not shocked at all to hear what the Alchemist had said, he always figured that Erubesco did things like these behind the scenes, after all, if all they did was to act honorably and the like, they would lag behind in technology and they would die, after all, he had read that human experimentation was the best way to find out a human's weaknesses and help develop something that would help cover for said weakness and while everyone there acted in their own way, all of them were outraged, he looked to see that even his own sister was glaring at the Alchemist like she was ready to kill him on the spot.

He mentally sighed, he supposed he had to act accordingly to his reputation, or people would start to question things about hi, and that was never good. He rose from his seat and glared towards the Alchemist, he supposed that would be enough, however, he imagined that he had say something as well, condemning the man's statement, or something of the sort.

"If what you say is true, Alchemist, then I will personally have your head for ending the lives of our own people!" he nearly shouted, looking quite outraged, he imagined people would not suspect him for this, however before he or anyone else could add anything else, Commander Botrelle ordered him and Kora to escort said Alchemist, named Aran Sairan to her office. He kept his angered glare on the Alchemist for a few more seconds before nodding towards the commander at the issuing of the order.

And so, he moved next to Aran, who rose from his seat willingly, though it must have looked rather odd, as the alchemist was quite a bit taller he or Kora. He moved by himself and there was no need to drag him along, the man even walked a few steps ahead of them, caught in his own little world, probably worried about his punishment, or trying to find a way to get himself out of his situation with his head still attached, any conversation with the man would probably be useless, so instead, he turned his head towards Kora to speak with her instead.

"Hello, Kora, glad to finally meet you again, partner, though I wish it were under better circumstances." he wore a sad smile on his expression, of all the people he had to share company with, Kora was one of the most enjoyable ones he ever had and he genuinely enjoyed the two's time as partners before his own sister was assigned as his partner. "How has the limelight been treating you lately, hmm?"