Viola slowly raised her head at Ellen's words, her gaze icy as she looked at Ellen.
"Just because the person closest to you pointed a gun at you once, you cried and whined like some pathetic wretch."
Ellen looked back at Viola. The violet-black magic around her, which had only just calmed down, began churning restlessly again with the violent fluctuations of her emotions. "What do you even have to feel wronged about? At least you have a father who dared charge into the forest to find you.
What about my parents? One ignored me completely, and the other abandoned me outright. And under those circumstances, I did not even have a healthy body! What exactly are you so upset about?! At least you had a chance to start over! What about me?! And why should you get a chance to start over in the first place?!"
"Because I never did anything so utterly wicked. No matter how strained things were between my father and me, I never murdered him. I still loved him."
Viola's hand had already settled on the hilt of her sword. "But you are different. Everything you did was cruel, selfish, and utterly inhuman. You no longer deserve to be called a person."
The atmosphere between them instantly dropped to freezing point. Viola's silver sword was already half-drawn, and it looked like she was about to fight Ellen again.
Lu Xiu's heart sank.
She did not want all their previous efforts to go to waste!
Whatever!
Steady!
"Enough. I'll talk to Ellen. This time, you are the one who needs to keep quiet."
Lu Xiu shot Viola a light glare as well. "What did I just say about Ellen? The same goes for you. Otherwise, I'll join forces with her and beat you up first."
Viola's