"Is that him? Hmm, aside from looking decent, he's pretty ordinary in every other way." The Miko offered her casual assessment.
Black mist brushed across the boy's cheek, then vanished without a trace.
Satou Yunona tore open the enormous ancient tree and used vines to pull Su Qing'an out. The ancient tree had become as fragile as thin paper. In the minute that the Key of Restraint had locked it down, her creation had lost its special properties and had even become far more brittle than ordinary plants.
Su Qing'an remained asleep. During the earlier treatment, she had deliberately mixed in a harmless soporific poison to ensure that he would not wake up.
What exactly had driven her to do this, and what emotions had prompted it?
She was running away.
Why didn't she, as a Pseudo-Herrscher, want to kill this human?
She chose to refuse to think about it.
If he woke up, this contradiction would instantly grow larger, forcing her to face the truth and find an answer.
She instinctively feared that answer, so she had done this subconsciously.
Would she become completely twisted into a Pseudo-Herrscher, or return to being the original Satou Yunona?
The Honkai-corrupted consciousness rejected the latter, while the original Satou Yunona rejected the former. Thus, they had reached a compromise.
However, that compromise was shattered by the Miko's actions, which were no different from those of a villain.
"Kill him," the Miko said. The fox shadow behind her let out a mocking laugh. Combined with her fox ears, she looked just like a demon that devoured people and drank their blood.
The girl picked up the spear that had fallen earlier, one step at a time. Her movements were slow and unnatural.
She was resisting. Honkai Energy frantically gathered within her body, forming