This was bad... She couldn't move now, couldn't dodge...
Angel tried to get up from the ground, only to find that with a person and a table pressing down on her, she could barely move anything except her head and the right hand shielding her chest.
Kavi had already passed out from the combined impact of the bomb and the workbench. She lay limply atop Angel, becoming the greatest obstacle to her counterattack.
Slumber Charm... dagger...
One usable item after another flashed through her mind. In the end, she realized the only thing she could use was Bloodthirst, which she had dropped while dodging the bomb.
Watching the approaching figure, Angel slowly moved her right hand at a pace too subtle for anyone to notice, feeling around beneath herself and Kavi for the revolver that had fallen somewhere.
Perhaps her slight movement caught Tomaz's attention. He stopped around three meters away from the two women.
"I mean no harm."
Angel had expected a few taunts. She had not expected Tomaz to say something like that, and she nearly laughed aloud.
If that old man who'd been mistaken for an Artisan weren't lying on the floor, if I hadn't nearly been shot in the head and blown up by a bomb, I might actually have believed you...
At last, her searching fingers closed around the ice-cold Bloodthirst.
Slowly moving her right arm, she gradually pulled the weapon out from beneath herself. She made no sudden movement, merely watching Tomaz quietly to see what else he intended to say in his defense.
"I only came for the Beyonder Characteristic. She refused to cooperate, so she had to die."
"As for you, I don't know what you came here for. But if you'd quietly left from the start, I wouldn't have had the