"Come on, Yaya, watch closely. This is us, and this is our next target: Star Torch Academy."
Inside the dim Remnant Star Society base, Napomo patiently explained the organization's next plan to Dania.
Napomo and Dania were still the only two people in the underground base, but the atmosphere between them was far stranger than before.
The underground space had always been dim, yet whenever innocent Dania met Napomo, she brought a little warmth into its cold halls.
Now, even as they spoke face-to-face, there was no warmth between them at all.
Their relationship had changed completely after Napomo tortured Dania inside the cultivation pod.
Dania no longer considered the girl before her a friend.
She knew now that Napomo was a devil wearing human skin.
Did Napomo care that Dania hated her?
Of course she didn't~
As the President of the Remnant Star Society, Napomo had long since achieved what she wanted by playing the good girl around Dania.
The Experiment before her had developed a sense of self, so she could move on to the next step of her plan.
Napomo formally brought Dania into the Remnant Star Society and ordered her to uphold the organization's proud tradition.
That meant sending her to sabotage Star Torch Academy.
And since Dania could only stay alive with the help of the Remnant Star Society's facilities and Void Matter, she had no way to refuse.
Now there was only one way she could protest against the devil before her.
"..."
Silence.
But that only made the President of the Remnant Star Society happier.
Dania's desire to resist proved beyond doubt that she had a genuine self.
Still, Napomo's delight didn't mean she would tolerate Dania's behavior.
She believed fear was a more efficient way to control someone.
She had often used