Garen drew his blade, and the already tense air instantly dropped to freezing point.
"Change into your battle suits!"
Judge shouted, completely igniting the hair-trigger tension at the scene.
The moment his words fell, Judge, Ichiji, and Niji simultaneously flashed with strange light, each revealing a technologically advanced battle suit.
Then, Judge turned his gaze toward Reiju:
Unlike the three father and sons who had already entered combat readiness, the eldest daughter of the Vinsmoke family seemed completely unaware of the great crisis facing her family. She merely sat blankly at the round table, her eyes lowered as she stared off into space.
"Reiju?!"
Judge called out in dissatisfaction, urging his daughter to react quickly.
But Reiju merely raised her head slightly and looked over her tense-faced father with somewhat vacant eyes, saying nothing.
Thinking of how her arrogant, selfish, stubborn, and cold-blooded father had sold her like merchandise for profit, unaware that he himself had long become prey trapped in someone else's snare, she felt a twisted sense of pleasure.
Caught up in that peculiar delight of revenge, Reiju not only made no move to help, but a faint, almost imperceptible sneer appeared at the corner of her lips.
"Reiju, what are you doing?!"
When he saw that his daughter still had not moved, Judge's anger surged.
As a cold-blooded man who treated his children as tools and regarded human emotions as nothing but burdens, he had no interest in what his child might be thinking.
In Judge's eyes, no matter what decision he made, Reiju should obediently follow his orders.
And Reiju had always done that well, never defying him from childhood until now.
Until this moment.
Though the situation had become extremely perilous and Judge had already shouted at her furiously, Reiju still did not move.
She