"What!?"
The sudden change left every girl present staring in shock.
"Mr. Shien!"
Merika, especially, cried out at the unexpected turn of events before her.
Blood splashed from Tier's hand as it pierced straight through Shien's shoulder like a sharp spear.
"!"
A sharp pain tore through Shien, drawing a muffled grunt from him. His hands abruptly released their hold, and he instinctively lashed out with a kick, striking Tier hard in the shoulder.
"Bang!"
With a dull impact, Tier was blasted away by the powerful force and rolled across the ground.
Shien immediately dropped to one knee, a bloody hole opening in his shoulder as blood continued to pour from it.
"Tier!"
Lumya let out a mournful cry toward the Tier who had been kicked away.
"Mr. Shien! Mr. Shien!"
Merika looked helplessly at Shien as he bled without stopping, as though she were about to cry. She simply could not keep up with what was happening.
Vivian, on the other hand, raised her shield and protected Shien, Lumya, and Merika behind her.
"Get back!"
Rare anxiety appeared on Vivian's face.
But no one had even processed what had happened. How could they possibly follow Vivian's instructions?
Shien especially found it hard to believe as he felt the intense pain in his shoulder.
His disbelief was not merely because Tier had attacked him, but because his resistance skill had actually been broken through.
"Tier, you..."
Shien looked in Tier's direction, yet he could not even finish a sentence.
The sight before him was simply too unbelievable.
"----"
Tier, whom Shien had instinctively kicked away, rose slowly to her feet like a puppet being tugged by invisible strings, her body twisting with cracking sounds in ways that defied human anatomy.
"Rumble..."
The air around Tier shook violently, stirring up surging