I knew that Five Rivers Shiori and the members of Fraxinus behind her had been secretly working toward conquering her...
If everything had truly been exposed without reservation.
That would probably have been the most dangerous thing of all!
This was a serious problem!
"Think of it positively... She doesn't mind."
"Think of it negatively... She's just playing with her sister. Everything is within her grasp..."
"..."
That made her even harder to predict.
Five Rivers Kotori felt a headache coming on.
As expected, this was an incredibly difficult challenge from the very beginning!
It was simply too much to ask of Five Rivers Shiori.
Even though she knew she shouldn't.
She still felt that perhaps she ought to force herself to endure the Fifth Spirit's violent power and go to Five Rivers Shiori's side, providing her with at least some assistance.
If the other party truly harbored hostile intentions.
Although she was no match for them, she should at least be able to hold them off.
If they bore no hostility... then, as the Commander, she might be better off negotiating directly after revealing herself.
Most importantly!
She possessed the special status of being a Spirit herself.
As a Spirit, she could communicate with them.
They would surely take into account that she was one of their own and refrain from being too unreasonable.
Precisely because they were all Spirits.
Perhaps... with her endorsement and guarantee.
They would be more willing to hear them out.
They had to prepare for several possibilities.
Even while merely watching from here, they felt that Little Griseo and Anna were extraordinarily troublesome. Their favorability was simply hanging there, completely motionless, as if it were fake.
It made people unable to help wondering.
Were they doing it on purpose? Had they deliberately acted this