"Teacher! You're finally here. Look, Professor Charles is bullying me."
Jean Grey had been wandering alone through the Spirit Candle Mind Realm for quite a while. When she sensed the two mental presences finally appear behind her, she gave a cold laugh and curled her lip. Then she spun around, suddenly looking as pitiful and aggrieved as could be.
She turned to Emma Howlett and complained, practically in tears.
In Professor Charles's mental world, Emma still wore the white pantsuit she'd had on in the underground chamber. Her golden hair was pinned up, and she carried herself with noble elegance.
Emma looked her student up and down with interest. Jean Grey's bright scarlet hair had turned a deep, near-black shade, and her emerald-green eyes had darkened as well. The change was striking.
Professor Charles's unique mental realm really was exquisitely rendered.
"Ah, this is a little disappointing. Jean's negative personality has terrible taste. She looks like she's wearing cheap makeup. Maybe it's all the immature nonsense a little girl's been bottling up."
Emma chuckled as she teased Charles. Jean Grey, who had grown up studying at Emma's side for more than a decade, had blossomed into a stunningly beautiful young woman.
But this so-called "darkened" personality now looked like a rocker girl from the streets of New York, decked out in tacky, sleazy makeup.
Rumble.
Dark Phoenix's hair suddenly bristled. Her tearful expression turned vicious and cold in an instant, and she glared at the White Queen.
The entire Spirit Candle Mind Realm shook like it was caught in an earthquake. Books tumbled from the ancient shelves, which towered more than ten meters high. Some landed open, their pages displaying memories like scenes from an animated show.
"Madam, shouldn't we get started? The master once joked that I always talk