According to this dipshit, apparently if you steal a piece of gum from a convenience store... you might as well just kill the employees, because you are a "criminal" either way.
If she truly needs protection for this task, then she should tell the lord that it would be a conflict of interest for this man to escort her, as he has previously said that he hates her.
@yannickq Who's to say he's even a villain in this story, anyway? The MC is currently treating him as one because she knows what he becomes, but that's just the end result.
@Kurogwane Yea, I'm aware. But you need to give readers a couple of chapters after you initially hook them before you throw the "explanatory flashback" in if you don't want to drive them away.
If she's really dead and they don't have a way to resurrect her, I'm going to be very pissed. She's a lot more interesting of a character than her little sister.