The moment she saw Lumian-na, Jenna hurried forward anxiously and caught her mother as she slid off Lumian-na's shoulder, worry plain on her face.
Franca quickly checked Jenna's mother's condition. Once she confirmed that nothing too serious had happened to her, she breathed a sigh of relief as well.
She raised her head and glanced around, only to see the girl with black-and-gold hair silently turn away and look into the chemical factory.
Seeing Lumian-na like this, Franca froze for a moment. A possibility seemed to occur to her, and she hurriedly called out, "Lu-Triona, what are you going to do? You're not planning to go into that chemical factory alone, are you?"
Had Lumian always been this eager to help others? The chemical factory was now filled with toxic chemical fumes. Even Beyonders of fairly high sequences would suffer some harm and adverse effects.
Franca suspected that the girl named Triona before her was not actually Lumian transformed, but genuinely his younger sister.
Lumian-na did not turn around. She simply continued walking inside and chuckled softly. "It's all right. If I really run into danger, I'll ask that person for help."
"I've already performed a divination. The official Beyonders won't arrive that quickly. Until then, the only thing in there that could be called dangerous is the toxic chemical fumes, but they won't harm me."
Lumian-na's gaze darkened a little. Her body suddenly seemed to become a shadow lurking in the darkness, flowing into the firelit shadows before her like a river returning to the sea.
What she had not told Franca was that, just after she rescued Jenna's mother, the Godfather's voice had sounded in her mind and told her the reason for the explosion.
This was a purge, a sacrifice, and, above all, a coincidence.
What had