Light Banquet lifted her chin and stood still, her eyes fixed on Silver Fantasy opposite her with hostility.
Deathly silence spread.
Lynn widened his eyes and immediately reached out to smooth things over.
"I turned her! I turned her! No need to be so tense. She's not one of the Light Banquets you devoured. She's a good Light Banquet who's already been reformed. She saw through your Mechanical Church's shameless ways, and now she's on the side of justice!"
"..."
An eerie silence settled over them.
But the light blades showed no intention of withdrawing. The silver-haired girl said quietly:
"She has the Meme Virus inside her-stay right there-don't come too close to me-"
Lynn glanced at Light Banquet behind him, who was gritting her teeth.
Then he gave her a hand signal.
Although unwilling, Light Banquet stopped and slowly retreated to the rift. Only then did the hovering light blades slowly draw back, though they still showed no intention of disappearing.
Light Banquet sneered:
"I never thought we'd meet like this-daughter-"
Silver Fantasy looked up and said:
"If I had a choice-I wouldn't want to either-"
Her voice held no emotional fluctuations at all, only rationality, which was more in keeping with her nature as a mechanical body.
But Lynn knew she was no longer the Mechanical Maiden she had once been.
Beneath that stern exterior, she already had a human heart.
Once, he had touched the softness beneath that mechanical shell. But clearly, she had closed her heart to him again, and perhaps it would be very difficult to open it once more.
Silver Fantasy's gaze shifted from Light Banquet back to the Lin-Surnamed Creature before her. She raised her hand, moved her fingers, and a Three-Dimensional Map appeared in front of her. Operating it rapidly, she said