"Welcome, welcome~ Welcome to my—Theater of Domination!"
The puppet spoke in an affected tone.
Its words dripped with a desire to perform, accompanied by the puppet's bizarre body language—movements no normal person could possibly make, including but not limited to spinning its head three hundred and sixty degrees, twisting its arms, convulsing its body, and rotating its legs and feet.
Though they knew these Herrschers of a Thousand were puppets, most of them looked similar to ordinary humans, and their voices rose and fell with emotion. The result was an utterly abstract and warped feeling.
Of course, the way these things spoke was also incredibly punchable. Their urge to perform was far too intense, carrying a hint of Otto about it.
Yet they lacked Otto's elegance. Instead, they were dripping with sarcastic mockery.
Yes, sarcastic mockery. Though they did not openly curse or insult anyone, every word they uttered was steeped in derision.
In any case, after talking with Bronya for only a short while, the puppets' extremely sarcastic, sneering words were already enough to send one's blood pressure soaring.
Moreover, because Seele was nowhere to be found, the Herrschers of a Thousand kept using her to provoke Bronya. They mocked Bronya as a failure, saying that even after becoming a Herrscher, she still could not defeat anyone or protect anyone.
They even listed Bronya's record after becoming the Herrscher of Reason. She could easily deal with mere fodder, but that was all she could do—bully the weak. Against Kevin and the Herrscher of Sentience, she had only suffered crushing beatings.
The people of the real world immediately recalled Bronya's battle against the Herrscher of Sentience. Throughout it all, she had been lying unconscious, only waking after Kiana defeated the Herrscher of Sentience.
As for Kevin beating her up, they