She sat on the edge of the bathtub and lightly touched the water's surface with her somewhat pale toes, like a dragonfly skimming the water. Once she felt that the temperature was just right, she slipped gracefully into the bath.
—She did not apologize immediately.
Having accidentally interrupted someone else's intimate moment, then specifically going back to apologize, would undoubtedly count as interrupting them a second time. By then, even if their relationship was fairly amicable, it probably would not end well.
So she needed to wait a while. At the same time, she tried to wash away the restlessness in her heart through bathing.
Warm water soaked into her skin, bringing gentle steam with it, yet the temperature that had always calmed her before could not soothe the anxiety in her heart.
She merely lay in the bathtub, while the scenes she had witnessed today replayed in her mind.
She had clearly exerted her Authority to the fullest.
Yet the results had been fragmented and scattered.
It was as though she had been tracing a remnant that had never existed in this world from the very beginning.
Could there be something wrong with her five senses?
She could not help but doubt herself.
That was a terrible thing, because for a Self-Extinguisher, every change in one's body could be a sign that Void's Path was eroding them.
If she allowed the erosion to continue, Acheron would eventually reach a point where she would not become angry even upon seeing Megumin and Kiana doing indecent things, nor would she feel stirred upon hallucinating her father's figure.
And that was clearly something Acheron did not wish to encounter.
Perhaps...
The plan to question Existence should be moved forward somewhat?
She remembered that Russell was trying to question the Path. That was