"Yes."
Seeing the look in Bronya's eyes, Seele hesitated for a second, glanced at Veliona beside her, and admitted it.
"What did she say?"
"She... What are you doing...?"
Seele was about to answer when she noticed Veliona had already floated behind Bronya and wrapped both arms around Bronya's neck...
"Hm?"
Listening to Seele's words, Bronya had yet to make sense of it, but the way Seele looked at her seemed to make her realize something. She only glanced behind herself and saw no one.
Just as Bronya was about to ask, she suddenly found someone clinging to her.
The feeling was like being haunted by a ghost... Even Bronya could not help but feel startled. Fortunately, she was currently in her forcibly emotionless state, so nothing showed on her face.
"Bronya, Seele is right here!"
Veliona held onto Bronya and spoke softly.
"Huh?!"
Looking at Veliona leaning against her, then at Seele eating nearby...
There were actually two Seeles at once??
"Two Seeles!!"
Though startled to see two Seeles appear at the same time, Bronya quickly noticed their differences, especially the red-eyed Seele beside her... She did not feel like a living person at all, but more like some ghostly existence.
"I'm Seele's other personality. But this isn't a real body right now—just a vessel formed from a quantum-state conversion."
Veliona was very pleased with Bronya's reaction. Bronya was clearly surprised, yet she was not afraid of her at all.
"It really is... There's no body temperature or heartbeat."
Bronya reached out and touched Veliona's current body. It truly was not human—there was not even a heartbeat...
That somehow made her seem even more like a ghost.
Of course, she was a little better than a ghost. Veliona at least had a physical form right now, one that could