"I... actually wasn't frightened by the Devil Dog's attack."
"It was the Silver Armor that came afterward," Audrey said then.
Her fingers tightened around her cup, and her face grew even paler. "At the time, I only caught a glimpse of it. It didn't even notice me, but I still felt as though an ocean of blood had swallowed me. I seemed to hear the wails and screams of countless dead people beside my ears, crashing straight into my Mind World."
"Even though I immediately moved away from it and used Soothing on myself, that despair of being endlessly on the verge of death still... still lingers in my mind. I can't dispel it."
His heart aching, Edward took her icy hand and comforted her gently. "It's all right. It's all right."
This was the first time he had seen Audrey like this since getting to know her.
After some thought, he said:
"The Silver Armor you saw was probably a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact."
Edward vaguely remembered that, in the original story, the Devil named Jason had been all but instantly killed by this armor, before Klein delivered the finishing blow. Leonard had been wearing the armor at the time.
The armor was said to have been stained with the blood of a God from the Ancient Era. Mad and bloodthirsty, it had once caused the deaths of a hundred thousand people in a city.
According to some later readers' analyses, considering its silver armor, its Silver Flash move, and the fact that it was a Devil's nemesis, the blood had very likely belonged to Aurmir, King of Giants.
If that was true, Audrey was already very lucky to have suffered only this much influence.
Edward explained his conjecture, and Audrey's mouth fell open in shock. "You mean I...