I meant that Hodgekiss didn't seem to react at all to Anna's name. Like either he ignored it on purpose because he knew CSFB! was trying to irritate him, or he didn't care.





I posted it anyway - not to mess up the Hooded Hood's plot, but because after reading it I realized a large portion of the first chapter of Mysteries of Faite started in the recent past (ending right around the time Anna, Lara, Chiaki, and Liu Xi returned home).





For that, Faite might remind him to remember who his allies are, or at the very least, who his enemies aren't. She doesn't rely on threats - she tries to appeal to his intelligence.





The point was that Liu Xi has heard it before and doesn't really worry about it.





I didn't know she was dead. That kind of changes things, because the dead can be manipulated.





Like I said, Lara is biting her tongue because she's afraid of what telling the truth will cause. She knows just how dangerous CSFB! can become if he's out-of-sorts enough to believe Lara is saying that because she's turning against him, or if he believes all his friends are.