Light Banquet stared blankly.
But looking again at everyone around her, who all seemed used to it, she realized this was clearly the Lin-Surnamed Creature's normal state.
The beating went on for another ten-odd minutes.
This time, Ether's entire body had been battered to pieces by the mob. His once-stylish silver hair had been yanked clean out, and not a single part of him remained intact. Eve held him dangling in the air, his face bruised and swollen.
Lynn squatted with a beaming smile on a bench a Night Doctor had prepared for him several hundred meters away. Adjusting his Monocle, he watched Ether from a distance and began his interrogation.
"Well? Do you understand what I find fun now? The tables have turned. Did you ever imagine earlier that you'd end up like this?"
"Don't you love acting like a badass? Come on! Show me some more!"
Zuo Zuo said, Ծ‸Ծ:
"Brain, mind your image! Being so cocky isn't good! We're supposed to be the good guys, after all. Don't open your mouth and sound like some throwaway TV villain! That's a great way to get yourself killed off!"
"..."
Suspended in the air by Eve, Ether stared venomously at Lynn in the distance. All his earlier swagger had vanished from his face. He spat viciously and demanded, half-mad:
"You planned this from the start?"
Lynn squatted on the bench with a beaming smile and said:
"What else? Did you really think I had nothing better to do than run around the Network Passage playing a Cat-and-Mouse Game with you?"
"How suicidal do you think I am, taking you on inside the Data Network? I knew it was your home turf. Did you think I was just messing around and wouldn't make any preparations?"
He hopped down from