A Well-Intentioned Lie (Continued)

Then she had sliced the entire training room in two?!

She had done that herself?!

Thinking of this, Yae Rin steadied her ragged breathing and asked in a trembling voice, "Potential... Is this really... my potential?"

"Yes, this is the potential that belongs to you."

Ren Yu struck while the iron was hot, leaning close to the girl's ear as he tempted her.

"Now, you can finally believe that you can do it, right? With this kind of power, you can definitely become as strong as your sister. You might even surpass her!"

"I can really... surpass my sister?"

After that.

Yae Rin was in a daze as someone led her back to the dormitory.

For some reason, a certain voice kept echoing in the girl's mind.

That person had said she could become just like her sister.

That person had also said that he was her greatest support...

It was not until she reached the dormitory building that Yae Rin came back to her senses.

She abruptly turned around, only to discover that the young man who had been following beside her was gone.

In his place was a tranquil nightscape.

It was as though what had happened earlier—her slicing the entire training room apart with a single strike—had never happened at all, as though she had imagined it.

Yae Rin went upstairs. Just as she was about to quietly slip back into her room and open the door.

She discovered a shadow at the end of the corridor, gazing into the distance.

"?!"

The girl cried out in surprise.

And at that moment.

Click.

The motion-activated fluorescent light above her head turned on as well.

At the end of the corridor, Yae Sakura suddenly turned around. "Rin?!"

Seeing that her younger sister had returned safely, the heavy stone