Of course, even if all the Shadow Servants had howled and charged at him, it would not have been much of a problem for Lianye. Though they all looked like indistinct "chaos," the Shadow Servants were still far inferior to The Crawling Chaos!
"Looks like you heard everything, didn't you?! The conversation outside..."
Lianye stopped when he was seven or eight meters away from Jeanne d'Arc (Alter) and spoke.
"Ruler's spiritual senses are much sharper than those of ordinary Servants. With barely one or two hundred meters between us, hearing the conversation between Caster and us clearly shouldn't have been difficult, right?"
"...!"
Jeanne d'Arc (Alter) did not respond, but her figure trembled slightly. It was enough to show that she was not deaf; she was merely doing her utmost to ignore the effect those words had on her.
"By the way, I deliberately interrogated Caster there because I thought that would let you hear the truth as well. It may be a rather cruel truth, but compared to keeping it hidden forever, it's probably better to confess directly. After all, short pain is better than long pain."
Jeanne d'Arc (Alter) finally could no longer keep her emotions steady and turned around indignantly.
"What do you want?—To laugh at me? To mock my current disgrace to your heart's content? Or to sneer at my past stupidity?"
The girl gritted her teeth, her anger nearly impossible to contain.
"You're the one who never lets things go when you have the upper hand and loves mocking others, aren't you?!"
2.7
Lianye shrugged, looking utterly unruffled. He was not the one who had been proven to be a False Heroic Spirit—Jeanne d'Arc (Alter) was. Naturally, he had no reason to worry over it.
"You—!"
Jeanne d'Arc (Alter) opened her mouth, yet she did