"No, this isn't right!"
The crazed Silver-Eyed One suddenly shouted. Shade's eyes widened, and the silver blade of light in his hand was about to fly out, but Miss Annette stopped him.
"She'll handle it."
"Hatred only breeds hatred!"
The Silver-Eyed One cried out. Her weakened body somehow found the strength to shout as though she had rallied at death's door.
"If you kill me, you'll only pass this hatred on. Spare me and end this hatred—that is the principle of so-called balance. Since you are balance, you cannot walk upon any extreme."
The weakened Miss Bayes wore a solemn expression. At that moment, the young girl appeared ever more sacred.
"The balance I speak of is dynamic balance. I am balance, but I am also human. I only need to stay around that line; I do not need to maintain absolute equilibrium."
Shade watched her with a smile. Those were words he had once spoken on a rainy morning.
"And this idea that hatred breeds hatred..."
Lightning gathered in her hand, while the Destiny Ring above her head completely fused with the Golden Scales. Amid the wind and pure white daylight, the brass Destiny Ring transformed toward gold. This was not like Shade's Destiny Ring just now, temporarily dyed gold by divine radiance—it was a genuine change in material.
The Destiny Ring changed shape, returning behind Miss Bayes, who hung upside down beneath the tree, in the form of the Golden Scales.
"...only a psychopath would suddenly forgive you now."
The Sunlight Gun in her hand fired straight downward. The Silver-Eyed One did not even have time to cry out before that bolt of lightning blasted her head apart. Her entire head completely evaporated in the golden lightning, leaving only two silver eyeballs rolling onto the ground.
Even at