"Jia Xiu."
"Yeah?"
"I'm nervous."
"Oh."
Jia Xiu looked through the materials on spatial magic and Fairy Runes he had just borrowed from the association archives, responding without looking up to the eighteenth time Justina had said she was nervous in the past half hour.
"Don't just say 'oh'!"
Justina finally took off her armor and returned to her big-sister appearance. If not for the biceps and triceps on her exposed upper arms being separated as sharply as if carved with a blade, looking capable of crushing someone's head between them, she would have seemed quite kind and approachable.
"Help me!"
"If I had the ability to knock you unconscious with one blow, I would have done it long ago. You definitely wouldn't be nervous if you were passed out."
"Why don't you try hitting me? Maybe I really will pass out?"
Jia Xiu truly didn't know what Justina had to be nervous about.
She only needed to reshoot a few scenes.
After the border fortress of the Iris Kingdom had been breached, Levis and his equipment had been teleported directly to safety, and none of Justina's actions during that time had been recorded.
What had been filmed only covered the defense of the fortress, the later decapitation operation, and some preparatory details the association was willing to disclose.
For a proper film, that was a little lacking in content.
There was no transition, making the rises and falls feel too abrupt. They couldn't very well have the fortress get breached in the final cut, insert a segment about the association's side, have the Radiant Knight not appear at all, and then suddenly cut straight into the decapitation operation.
The middle act of the three-act structure was missing.
Not only would that make the plot progression feel strange, more importantly,