The sequence of movements was so smooth and fluid that everyone watching was stunned.
Then the people around them erupted in joy.
"It connected?"
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"How is it, Nora? Can you move?"
"I told you she wouldn't die. Look, didn't it connect just fine?"
"Shouldn't Castel abolish beheading?"
Even Nini could not help stepping out from behind the steel plate, her face filled with delight.
"Nora, try moving first."
"No! I still can't control my body!" Nora suddenly said.
Nini froze. Then, under everyone's astonished gazes, Nora's body slowly lifted her head again.
"I can't control her. There's no difference between being on her neck and being on a vase. I can't feel my body at all!"
Nora spoke rapidly and anxiously. The people around her sucked in a breath, staring fixedly at Nora as her body held her head in front of itself.
Had "she" become a completely independent existence?
What would happen if a body developed an independent consciousness?
Would "she" think that Nora had enslaved "her," and turn against her because of it?
Without drawing attention, Nini waved a hand behind her. Granny stepped forward, while the banshee assault team in heavy armor beside her also readied themselves.
If "she" harmed Nora later, Granny would snatch Nora away first, while the assault team forcibly restrained "her."
But Nora's body made no extreme moves.
"She" seemed equally confused. She placed the head back on the neck, carefully turned it to align the seam, and tried moving.
"No, I still can't control my body."
Nora's body instinctively scratched its head, only to knock the head off again. It hurriedly caught it in a fluster.
The situation fell into a stalemate.
The people around them could see it too. Nora's body