After Toby finished recounting his first complete confrontation with the Extreme Grudge Intent, Gloria finally understood why Angel had said, "What Toby went through was worse than being on the brink of death."
Because Toby's first encounter with the Extreme Grudge Intent had ended in death.
For Toby, the greatest difficulty was that it simply could not directly withstand the torrent of resentment unleashed by the Extreme Grudge Intent. When Toby was battered by that resentment, it was like sitting in a lone skiff before towering, wave-swallowing seas.
It could neither save itself nor offer the slightest resistance.
Even though it kept telling itself to endure, to hold out against the Extreme Grudge Intent's lure, it still failed. In the end, countless resentments flooded into its mind, and amid boundless terror, Toby fell into the void.
The horror before death, the shock of having its mind burst apart beneath a crush of tangled emotions, and the unease of impending corruption made Toby tremble uncontrollably even as it recalled it.
Fortunately, it had only been a nightmare. Toby had not truly died, but the sensation of facing death, of facing the Extreme Grudge Intent, had been deeply branded into its heart.
After hearing it all, Gloria looked at Toby with immense heartache in her eyes.
What Toby described might not have sounded like much to an outsider, but its evasive, cowering gaze explained everything. When she had trained Toby, no matter how grueling it had been, Toby had never shown such fear and terror.
And this was only the first time, yet Toby was already so frightened. According to Angel's plan, Toby would have to go through this hundreds more times!
Gloria could not help looking at Angel. "Will this... really work? Can the Extreme Grudge Intent simulated in a Bright