Even Zuo Zuo was too stunned to say a word.
The Upside-Down Angel slowly clenched her hand, her knuckles cracking.
A few minutes later.
BOOM!!
A sound like a nuclear explosion suddenly erupted from the underground hall. Even the High Tower above bounced twice, and every Night Doctor in Dark Night City clearly felt the earthquake-like tremors.
"What happened? Was that an earthquake?"
"Doesn't sound like it! Seems like something exploded!"
"Could it be that Apprentice Night Doctor studying under the Matriarch again? But that doesn't seem right either. His explosions weren't this violent."
The Night Doctors in the city gazed toward the central High Tower, utterly bewildered.
Over ten minutes later.
In the dark underground hall, amid streams of holy light, the blasted-apart Lynn slowly reassembled, his face bruised and swollen.
Looking at the Matriarch opposite him, who had kept her eyes closed while blasting him apart with holy light over a dozen times, Lynn said with a (.;ﾟ;:益:;ﾟ;.) expression:
"I'm sorry."
The Upside-Down Angel still wore a sacred expression with her eyes closed, but her constantly heaving chest was more than enough to reveal her explosive mood.
She realized that the emotional ups and downs she had experienced over these few days of teaching him exceeded the sum total of the past three thousand years.
That damn brat!
I must have been too nice to him lately. Now he's taking a mile when I give him an inch!
He's actually started setting his sights on my... my...
"I'll only say this once," the Upside-Down Angel said with her eyes closed. "If you dare spread that matter around outside, I'll operate on you myself. When you wake up, you'll find that you've become a cute girl with a monthly cycle too. Do you understand?"
Lynn stared wide-eyed. "Understood..."