Lightning Empress opened her eyes.
The Key of Corruption began to take effect without triggering any alarms. The alloy door suddenly opened, and for a moment, everyone both inside and outside could only stare at one another.
"Why did you open the door?" Hoshino reproached them.
"Careful, we never opened the door." Silence crouched down, while Mayer nervously looked around.
Only Ptilopsis remained where she was.
"Malicious intent detected. Activating self-protection mechanism."
She crouched down and immediately covered her head with both arms. Her expression remained as cold as ever, yet upon closer inspection, she was strangely adorable.
Very adorable.
Purple lightning rippled through the air.
Thin threads of electricity flashed from the left side of their vision to the right. Lightning Empress had vanished from the bed, and when Yae Sakura saw the empty bed, her pupils instantly shrank to pinpoints.
"She's awake."
Hoshino held a stopwatch, recovering from her [shock] as her expression gradually turned grave.
That was the look of someone entering battle.
"I may not be able to protect you for the time being. Fighting her will leave me unable to attend to anything else." Hoshino placed both hands on her sword hilts. "She has learned to use electromagnetism to interfere with your instruments."
"Hahaha."
A contemptuous laugh echoed through the air.
Purple lightning shook, and the thirty-second countdown began.
It was a strange sensation. Her consciousness existed in both Gyakushinn Miko's body and Lightning Empress's body, with all information shared between them. Everything Lightning Empress said and did was entirely under Hoshino's control.
Fenghuang Down was truly remarkable.
"Will you kill me? The original consciousness in this body is deeply cherished by you. She respects you, she is grateful to you, but those are merely the filthy emotions of ordinary mortals. My rage is overflowing,