Chapter 860: Justice Exploited by Evil
An invisible aura suppressed everyone present.
Not only Seryu, who was barely an inch away from the blade, but everyone was rendered immobile beneath that invisible pressure.
The air seemed to have grown scorching hot.
It was as if invisible flames were blazing fiercely.
Seryu felt it even more intensely.
Because she was staring directly into the golden flames in Joan of Arc's eyes, she could clearly see what they were from the flickering images.
Hatred!
An unparalleled hatred that almost seemed capable of burning her entire heart to ashes.
Compared to this hatred.
Her hatred for criminals seemed so insignificant.
But—no matter how small the flame, it was still of the same nature. At this moment, Seryu finally understood that her hatred for evil did not come from a devotion to justice, but was merely hatred for the murder of her parents.
This was completely different from what she had always believed.
"Hatred can make a person powerful, but it can also make them lose their reason and their sense of self, until they are completely devoured by these blazing flames of vengeance." Joan of Arc—no, she should now be called Black Joan of Arc—stared at Seryu and spoke in a voice that was neither cold nor violent.
Seryu could not understand.
That hatred was countless times more intense than her own. It could even be called the flames of hell, and merely looking at it made her almost lose control of herself.
Yet the person before her could still remain calm?
"You don't need to understand. You only need to know that being devoured by hatred makes true vengeance impossible." Black Joan flicked a finger, directly knocking Shear's scissors aside, then raised her chin. "Take a look behind you."
Seryu subconsciously turned