"I want power—to save the world, to save all the survivors!"
Anna muttered to herself, clearly becoming somewhat lost in it. However, she kept feeling that something was off. It was not that there was anything wrong with fusing with the Eye of Fear, but rather that something about those words just now felt wrong.
How should she put it? It seemed someone had used those words to fool her before. Who was it? She could not quite remember. It seemed to be some bastard who never paid wages.
"Someone who doesn't pay wages? That bastard, the King of Abilities."
Anna suddenly thought of Andrew. In an instant, her previously hazy consciousness cleared. Fuck, she had been fooled once; she would never be fooled a second time.
"Come to think of it, is the King of Abilities really a good guy? Why are his methods exactly like a villain's? No, even villains aren't as bad as him."
Anna grumbled. Sensing the Eye of Fear between her brows, she snorted. "I will not fuse with you. You may be powerful, but the path the King of Abilities laid out for me is no weaker.
"More importantly, you clearly have ill intentions. If I fuse with the Eye of Fear, I am afraid I will no longer be my original self. Besides, you discarded your own collaborator so easily. You are obviously no good thing."
The collaborator Anna referred to was Big Mouth. He was still screaming miserably on the ground. Yes, he had been screaming the entire time, because his soul had been injured and the pain was unbearable.
"Collaborator? What qualifications does a mere human have to be my collaborator?"
The King of Negativity snorted. "A road to heaven lies before you, yet you refuse to take it. You truly