Bronya hurriedly turned her head as well, only to see that the Trample Shadow struck by the Key of Reason had vanished. No... it was on the ceiling. Not only had this Trample Shadow not died, it was completely unharmed... It had taken a blast and nothing had happened.
The Trample Shadow that had leaped up then quantum-traveled a distance, appearing above the cage before plummeting straight down toward it.
"Not good!"
Seeing this, Bronya hurriedly prepared to construct a defensive barrier above the cage.
But the next moment, Bronya suddenly stopped moving...
The Trample Shadow, which had been about to fall, was frozen directly in midair, utterly motionless... as though time around it had been stopped.
"What's going on?"
Bronya froze for a moment. Looking at the Trample Shadow suspended in the air, she immediately glanced at Seele's other personality in front of her. But seeing Seele's surprised expression, it was obvious that Seele had not done this.
Was there someone else here? Someone capable of controlling the Trample Shadow? Bronya swiftly scanned the surroundings, but she found no one else.
Then there was only...
Bronya looked at the girl inside the cage again. The girl was still staring blankly at the ground, her face devoid of any reaction. Her body had not even moved. It did not seem to have been her, either.
"What exactly... is going on?"
Bronya could not understand it.
"The time and space around the Trample Shadow have been frozen. It was you... As expected, I can't let you live." Seele tried to contact the Trample Shadow, only to discover that the space and time around it differed from everywhere else. The area around the Trample Shadow had been frozen!
Seele's blood-red eyes fixed on the cage as her body entered a quantum shadow