"Huh?"
Mine's pupils contracted. The amount of information was too much for her brain to process.
"Lilith! Take your hand off her!"
When Lilith told Mine that she was pregnant, she had whispered it into Mine's ear. Aside from Leona, no one else had heard.
But Tatsumi saw Lilith's hand roaming over Mine's abdomen.
He could not tolerate that.
If he had not been afraid of hurting Mine, he would have charged over with his spear and wished he could split Lilith in two!
"Hehehe~ Looks like your little boyfriend is getting anxious~"
Tatsumi's shouting did not make Lilith turn around to look at him.
"You're lying to me. I'm not falling for it!"
Mine's voice trembled slightly. She remembered that she had indeed slept with Tatsumi, but... it could not be that much of a coincidence, could it? Was she really pregnant?
Yet sometimes, the things one prayed would not happen came to pass anyway!
"It seems you don't believe me. Then let me show you—the Pulse of Life!"
Lilith's right hand continued to stroke Mine's abdomen, while her other hand covered Mine's eyes.
Then... Mine saw it.
She saw the pulse of life Lilith had spoken of!
Thump~ Thump~
The instant Lilith's hand covered her eyes, Mine vaguely seemed to hear the sound of a beating heart beside her ear.
Then, she saw burning Life Fire!
Whether it was herself or her Night Raid companions, white, sacred flames burned upon their bodies within her "vision."
Life Fire!
She instinctively understood the name of those sacred flames.
What shocked her most was the Life Fire on Lilith's body.
If their Life Fire was like torches in the darkness, then Lilith's Life Fire was the sun in the sky.
The immense difference gave Mine the illusion that Lilith could extinguish