Lynn closed his eyes, a cold smile slowly curling his lips as he said:
"Really? But sometimes your eyes can't lie, and neither can your neural fluctuations. If you don't recognize her, then why did you tremble the moment you saw this photo? What are you afraid of?"
Ryan's gaze darted away, his expression shifting uncertainly.
Lynn adjusted the Monocle and said gravely:
"About a century or two ago, you captured a family that had fallen here from the Shattered World. To obtain their reality warping abilities, you subjected them to Flesh Modification and a series of horrific tortures and killings. In the end, your actions awakened warping abilities in the mother and the Cat-Eared Girl."
"You hunted them relentlessly and drove them into a corner. You wouldn't even spare a cat, because she was also a creature from the Shattered World. And then?"
"Did you kill her?"
There was no fluctuation of emotion in those words, yet anyone could hear the chill hidden in his voice.
He meant Miao Miao's mother, the woman who had desperately taken Miao Miao away from that hell!
What had happened afterward?!
Miao Miao had kept searching, searching with everything she had!
Ryan hardly dared meet Lynn's gaze. Those eyes were like knives, as if they could scrape the flesh off his body, slice by slice.
He said heavily, "I don't know. I wasn't involved in that incident. Besides, you said yourself that it was centuries ago. How could I possibly remember something from centuries ago?!"
But the moment he finished speaking-
Lynn had already risen to his feet.
Without the slightest hesitation.
With a wet squelch, the Night Demon Blade in his hand plunged into Ryan's abdomen.
Immense pain swept through Ryan in an instant. His face contorted in agony, even the bulging