Mirror was still unconscious. After listening to Lilith's detailed report, Lin En finally confirmed his suspicions.
Looking at the exhaustion on Mirror's face, he could not help drawing a deep breath, his heart filled with conflicting emotions.
"Why did you have to go this far?"
The moment he saw this new Vessel, he had understood what she was thinking.
Perhaps she had always felt that she was the reason her master had lost a Vessel Master he could have put to great use. After all, no matter how one looked at it, keeping Tyrael back then would have been far more valuable than keeping her.
She had only just joined him at the time, and she did not believe she had any right to expect him to keep her.
But Lin En had still chosen to honor his promise to her.
And perhaps it was precisely this.
That had finally made her decide to take this path.
Even if it meant violating her own principles, she had to replace that vital piece her master had given up for her sake.
"Will... will you punish her?"
Lilith could not help asking in a small voice.
Lin En fell silent.
No.
He would not.
Without Mirror filling that gap for him, he would have lost his chance to descend into the human world. That would have meant utter defeat in this battle, forever robbing him of the chance to make things right.
Yet he also had no desire to see Mirror-a girl who had retained her humanity even after falling into the Spirit Realm-sink into such utter depravity. After learning what Tyrael had done, he understood better than anyone just how cruel and inhuman the path of his research was.
That was precisely why he had urged her so strongly back then