By then, Bronya's speech had become a heartfelt outpouring.
None of it was in her original script.
Compared with a carefully prepared speech, these improvised words had no flowery language, yet they touched people's hearts all the more.
These were a younger sister's words to her older brother.
As she recalled the past, Bronya choked up several times.
Many in the audience were moved by the sight.
At that moment, the radiant Supreme Guardian seemed to become an ordinary girl next door, pouring out how much she missed her brother.
But her heartfelt display did not make people think their Supreme Guardian was weak, or question whether she could protect the city.
Quite the opposite. At that moment, they felt that the Supreme Guardian was not distant from her people. She stood among them.
The previous Supreme Guardian, Cocolia, had been far, far too distant from her people-so distant that no one knew what she was thinking, so distant that she never cared what they thought.
The people had had enough of such a lofty, untouchable Supreme Guardian.
Now, Bronya was showing them that she was different from Cocolia.
This young Supreme Guardian was not always strong.
More precisely, her duties as Supreme Guardian forced her to be strong.
That was what her position demanded of her.
When she set that identity aside, she had a vulnerable side.
That vulnerability meant she was not invincible, as the Supreme Guardians in legendary tales were portrayed.
And it was precisely that imperfection that made her seem more like a person than a ruler to be feared.
Belobog, having only just emerged from Cocolia's era, needed exactly this kind of Supreme Guardian.
Bronya had won the people's trust.
Only when thunderous applause rang out did Bronya come back from her memories of the