Gadis Entangled by Green Grass

"Deliberately spared? No way, right?"

Minina belatedly said something, then let her imagination run wild. "Could that Soul Reaper named Chiba Makoto be one of His Majesty's people planted in the Seireitei?"

Liltotto crossed her hands in an "X" before her chest and refuted it. "How could that be? Giselle was taken out without the slightest hesitation."

Unlike her violent style of using her Schrift, "The Power," to casually tear up buildings and hurl them like cannonballs, Minina asked somewhat blankly.

"Then why does Liltotto think we were deliberately spared?"

Gadis, most of whose face was hidden beneath her hat brim and long green hair, slowly said.

"Because... the gap was too great. Even after using our 'Schrift,' the difference between us and that man was still so vast that it was impossible to even look at directly!"

At those words, Minina unconsciously nodded, while Liltotto instinctively felt her mouth ache and sting again.

After a moment of silence, Minina still asked in confusion.

"Then why did Chiba Makoto spare us? If there's any biggest difference between us and Giselle, it seems to be that Giselle's gender is Giselle, while ours is female."

Hearing that, Gadis subconsciously reached out and touched the round scar on her abdomen again.

At that moment, the lightning sword in her hand had been only inches away from Chiba Makoto, yet the sharp wooden spear that had pierced her abdomen, along with Chiba Makoto's utterly unchanged expression...

Gadis understood that the true distance between them was heaven and earth.

"Perhaps it's because we were too weak. So weak that man couldn't muster even the slightest killing intent. It's like watching a cute little kitten bare its fangs—we wouldn't think the kitten was angry, much less feel threatened."

Gadis's expression darkened further. For her proud and