"Do you know what I found on your phone? You had no photos, no reading history, no browsing history. The only trace of use on the touchscreen was a single number preset in your contacts."
"The banknotes were brand-new, and so was the passport. You'd never used either of them. You didn't even know how. You were like a doll that knew nothing at all. Tell me, how was I supposed to consider you an opponent?"
Pure to the point of ignorance.
That was Lynn's assessment of her.
If she had been an ordinary person, that would indeed have been a rare, endearing quality. But since she stood on the front line of humanity's battlefield against Hell, that purity was an outright burden, a form of ignorance that would kill others as well as herself!
Lynn's brutally candid words left Messiah trembling all over, immense hatred flaring in her eyes.
Her fists were clenched tight.
It was as though a single remark had pierced her defenses, making her feel an indescribable humiliation.
"That's my assessment of you. You're nothing but an idealist completely detached from reality. No, you don't even qualify as an idealist. You're just a foolish, hotheaded child. Without that power, you wouldn't even survive. Never mind me-even my hand could sell you off."
He punctured her illusions without mercy.
He spared her no dignity.
Lynn gazed at her impassively and said, "Just like now. How are you going to deal with me? If I really were a demon, and I used your companions' lives to force you to kill all those soldiers, what would you do? If I made you strip naked and humiliated you in front of every one of them, what would you do?"
Whoosh-
Without the slightest hesitation, Lynn caught her ankle with a