"Because no one in this world knows you better than you know yourself."
Light Banquet's eyes flickered as she said:
"Are you saying-she noticed something?"
Lynn flicked the popcorn in his hand into the air, opened his mouth, and caught it neatly, chewing with wide eyes.
"Did I say that? I don't think so. When did you ever hear me say anything like that?"
"..."
Light Banquet took a deep breath and stopped letting herself get bogged down in this argument with him. They had more important things to do.
She sat down cross-legged and said quietly:
"What about the Meme Virus inside me-if it's really as my brother said-leaving this virus inside us for too long-could easily cause irreversible damage to us too-do you have a solution?"
Lynn shook his head. "No."
╬!
Light Banquet's hand clenched into a fist with a crack.
But she still forced herself to stay calm. Closing her eyes, she took another deep breath and suppressed her emotions.
"Then why did you just say-to leave everything to you?"
Lynn widened his eyes. "Yeah, but I never said I had any good solutions."
"..."
A brief silence.
The next instant.
An enraged Light Banquet sprang up, that blade of data light instantly materializing in her hand. A sweeping arc of light cleaved the popcorn bucket Lynn had conjured in two. Her blade spun again and slashed straight at his forehead.
"Then why were you so confident when you told me to absorb it?! I thought you'd already come up with something reliable!!"
Swish-
Swish-
Shocked, Lynn kept twisting aside and retreating to dodge as the sword in Light Banquet's hand slashed murderous arcs in front of him.
"Wait! How can you still chase me down and slash at me?! Shouldn't Protocol One have triggered by