"Something's not right. This was too easy. Daisy, are you some kind of overpowered heroine?" Su Ming tossed the frozen chunks of corpse into the star by the handful while Strangle digested Vulcan's memories and genes. "Too many things don't add up. Vulcan wasn't particularly smart, but now it was like he'd been hit by a Stupidity Aura. This was too easy."
"What's wrong with easy? What doesn't add up?"
Daisy tilted her head. She did not understand what an overpowered heroine meant. Hadn't Gladiator pinned the enemy's hands down, allowing everyone to swarm him and kill him?
Looking closely, Gladiator had been injured too. Besides, Vulcan had been put through quite a beating by Su Ming earlier, and his head had been filled with rage. Once he lost his reason, shouldn't he have been easy enough to deal with?
"It's too early to say, but I suspect he might be someone else's pawn. In his memories, I can't even see how he learned that Phoenix and I were on Earth."
Su Ming gestured for Gladiator to prepare to blow up the star with him.
"His early plans had been quite clever—awakening Phoenix, shifting disaster onto others, and so on. But after we came here, he had made no preparations to deal with that 'disaster' and simply let us do as we pleased. Think about it carefully. Even before I carried out my plan and influenced his mind, his intelligence had already dropped by a huge margin."
Besides that, there had been several obvious turning points in Vulcan's past, all of them unnaturally abrupt.
Why had he fallen in love with the Second Princess? There was nothing in his memories. Why had he forgiven D'Ken? Nothing there either. Why had someone who had never attended school for even a day