Obviously, Alice's main purpose was to prevent his injuries from becoming too severe to treat in time. She really was doing it for his own good. She had already broken the loop. She...
She had done it on purpose!
Klein glared furiously at Alice.
During this process, Cynthia's body, as tall as a tree, collapsed into a mass of flesh covered in brownish-green tumors. The members of the General's Guard and the male attendants around her all fell to the ground.
Alice seemed encouraged by the sight. Pointing at the ground, she said, "See? I told you I was doing it for your own good!"
Her voice was utterly righteous, resonating with Cynthia's echoed words from within that mass of flesh:
"General, I want to have a child with you..."
Klein immediately felt that immersive terror again. To keep Alice and Cynthia from becoming a pair of repeating machines, he decisively changed his appearance into Gehrman Sparrow.
At the same time, he used Creeping Hunger to distort Cynthia's desire, turning "General, I want to have a child with you" into "General, I only want to have a child with you."
The branches winding toward Klein paused for a second. Having lost their target, they lashed wildly in every direction, as if trying to grasp something.
Cynthia's lines finally changed:
"General, where did you go...
"General, where did you go..."
Wonderful response—Alice spared no applause, successfully interrupting Klein's train of thought.
Klein glared at Alice. Alice silently withdrew her hands, along with the smile on her face. Only after glancing at Cynthia did she say:
"Purify her."
That was practically a death sentence for Cynthia. Klein had expected it. He looked pityingly at Cynthia's head within the mass of flesh as Creeping Hunger became stained with pure, dazzling light.
Klein spread