"You heard it."
Su Mu Lian's expression made her look both like a delirious madwoman and a saint offering herself in sacrifice.
Though she was trussed up tight and curled in the corner, she spoke in the tone of a supreme judge delivering a final verdict. "You and Lü Siya are destined to destroy Dragon City in the near future!"
"Wait—"
Unable to hold it in any longer, Lü Siya asked, half amused and half exasperated, "Countless people have accused me of countless crimes, but this is the first time I've been charged with something as serious as 'destroying Dragon City.'
"Since it's the 'near future,' may I ask how you know, Miss Mu Lian?"
"I saw it. No, more precisely, I experienced it myself."
Su Mu Lian said, "In countless nightmares, I personally experienced that terrifying future you destroyed!"
Meng Chao and Lü Siya fell silent.
However, the reasons for their silence were worlds apart.
"You... dreamed it?"
Lü Siya found it hard to believe. "Just because you dreamed that I would destroy Dragon City, you meticulously planned to murder me? Th-this hardly sounds like a mature, rational decision!"
"I know that what I did looks utterly insane, but if you had gone through what I did—if, from the time you were babbling your first words, you had been swallowed by incomparably real nightmares on countless nights, dying again and again amid the blazing flames of doomsday—I swear that you would have made the same choice I did!"
Fear appeared on Su Mu Lian's placid face, fear she had never revealed even while enduring the most agonizing wounds and illnesses. Trembling, she said, "No, I am certain that wasn't a nightmare. It was the future—a future that truly existed. For some inexplicable reason, I merely saw it ahead of