Edward stared at her blankly. Bernadette's deductions were half right and half wrong, and the only reason she was wrong was that he had given her false information. Otherwise, she probably could have laid all his secrets bare in just a few words.
I have to say, you certainly haven't lived these hundred-plus years for nothing!
She placed "A White Horse Is Not a Horse," The Emperor's New Clothes, and Hades' Invisibility Hat over Edward and Lilith again. "Wait here a moment. I'll go clear out the surroundings."
Edward hurriedly muttered, "Uh, I'm actually not quite that weak."
Soon, a one-sided slaughter and expulsion broke out in Afternoon Town. As a Sequence 3 powerhouse wielding several powerful Sealed Artifacts, she naturally had an easy time clearing out the monsters here.
Edward found a corner and obediently hid there. Lilith poked her head out, squinting at the battle not far away as she whispered:
"Wow! She's so amazing."
"She killed such a huuuge monster in one hit."
"Ah! She looks so fierce right now, even fiercer than Miss Lilith catching mice."
"A monster's trying to sneak up on her... she smashed it with her spear."
"...Those monsters are going to team up... ah, they're all dead already?"
"Ah, those monsters seem kind of pitiful."
"Come on, monsters, you can do it... ow."
She turned to look innocently at Edward. "Edward, why did you hit my head?"
"She's working hard to help clear out the monsters. Watching from the sidelines is one thing, but you're even cheering for the monsters, you ungrateful little thing!"
Lilith pouted. "But she doesn't look like she's working hard at all..."
Edward: "..."
A little over ten minutes later, Queen Mystic Bernadette walked slowly back. She was neither flushed nor out of breath, and her clothes were