This information completely exceeded everyone's expectations and came as a tremendous surprise. After all, when Raven had appeared before, she had been a major villain—a thoroughly crazy woman and a genuinely dangerous individual.
For someone like her, words such as evil and madness fit perfectly, but "kind" was the one word that should never have been used to describe her.
Yet here, in the eyes of Sora and the other children Raven had taken in and protected, Raven was an incredibly good person. She was their savior, their protector, and the reason they had been able to survive.
And Raven had not deceived the children. She had truly done those things.
In an instant, Raven's image underwent an enormous Reversal in everyone's eyes. People were utterly stunned, never having imagined that Raven could have such a side to her.
After all, a member of a mad organization that intended to carry out the Stigmata Project and destroy countless people had actually shown kindness by saving a group of children. No matter how one looked at it, it was far too out of character.
For a moment, some people entertained malicious thoughts, believing that Raven had taken in those children in order to train them into tools.
After all, taking in orphans and subjecting them to evil training was something seen time and again throughout human history. The earliest records dated back more than a thousand years before the Common Era, and those were merely the earliest surviving records—no one could verify when it had truly begun.
So, it was only natural for people to make such guesses.
However, the information conveyed by Sora and the other children in the Light Screen soon proved that Raven had not raised them as tools. Raven had merely adopted and protected them. Aside from