[ Natalia musters a smile back. She refuses to abstain out of cowardice, and let the VIPs convert more people, which means she's going to vote no matter what. She is a princess, one day to be queen, and that means having responsibility for other people's lives on her hands. ]

That would be all the more reason to confirm it, wouldn't it? Everyone was convinced, yet Levi was innocent. If there was a possibility that someone [ or some dog, rather ] who we all trusted was actually lying, that seems more dangerous to me than wasting a night investigating the detective.