Song Ren looked at Nia, who had transformed into a Blade, and could not help wanting to say for her, "I was the one who came first, whether it was getting to know you or teaming up."
But why had things turned out this way?
The Nia stock, which had still held a little hope, had crashed straight to the limit.
That earlier line, "I like Nia, and everyone else too," combined with her post-transformation field skills, endurance, and the unlock requirements for fighting alongside Homura and Hikari...
No matter how Song Ren read between the lines, he could only make out one message: bullying Nia!
If this was not deliberate, Song Ren would not believe it one hundred percent.
After all, he had already felt more than enough malice from the developers in this game, along with all kinds of memes.
For example, the Blade Glow he had pulled at the beginning. He had thought she was an adorable, delicate little girl. He fed her well, gave her plenty to drink, went to every length to find things she liked, painstakingly raised her Trust, and gradually unlocked her Affinity Chart.
Even after obtaining powerful-looking Blades like Force Man and Suzaku, he had never abandoned Glow.
But what he never could have expected was that the girl he had always thought she was turned out to be a scheming little boy.
Then there was the time he had salvaged in Sperbia for several hours just to earn enough money to buy the Core Crystal from the general store in that small Gormott town.
He had chosen Sperbia because its exploration music had more punch, but no matter how good it was, nobody could listen to it for that long.
After finally saving up five hundred thousand, he bought the Core