The moment her identity as "Cornflower" was exposed, Larkspur pressed her lips together slightly and did not respond to the provocation.
She had no intention of admitting or denying it, nor did she show any desire to continue the conversation. Instead, she adjusted her posture slightly and watched the magical girl before her with full vigilance.
Compared to such trivial matters, what made her more wary was the strength her opponent had displayed just now. There was no other reason: the attack had been far too fast and far too well concealed.
Almost no fluctuations of magic power had leaked out. If Larkspur had not reacted quickly enough, that probing strike alone would have made an ordinary magical girl suffer badly.
Since the other side had chosen to attack, she had openly revealed her hostility. Rhetoric and deception had lost their meaning; all that remained was a contest of raw strength.
But Larkspur knew her own condition: she could never win.
She did not believe the people of Claw Mark were fools who would send an insufficiently capable member to seize the Beast Source. Since the magical girl before her, who called herself "Gladiolus," had once been a Flower Card, her current combat ability would definitely be no weaker than that of a Flower Card.
A Flower Card meant that the other party could surely wield Wonderland and Rules.
She had now completely lost the ability to deploy Wonderland normally. Once she entered the realm of a Rule battle with her opponent, she would inevitably be at an enormous disadvantage.
If she wanted to offset that disadvantage, she had only one card left to play—one she could use, yet could not truly use: destroying the final form of her Magic Armament, Weave Destiny, and overdrawing the power of its threads.