Because Himeko stopped walking, Theresa finally caught up with her.
"Do you have some misunderstanding about Valkyries? How could you... G-ghost!"
Theresa had barely caught up and started speaking when she suddenly noticed movement from the nearby prison cell, along with a figure drawing closer.
The sight frightened Theresa so badly that she forgot all about arguing with Himeko. Like a startled rabbit, she jumped up and hid behind Himeko.
"Not a ghost. Just an ordinary human girl."
Himeko was utterly speechless at Theresa's reaction.
But when she looked at the girl clinging to the iron bars inside the cell... she was only twelve or thirteen, looking extremely weak, tears welling in her large, adorable eyes.
Though her face was somewhat dirty, it was still clear that she should have been a very cute girl.
"Save... save us!"
The girl in the cell could not help reaching out one hand. Her pale yellow eyes looked at Himeko with a trace of pleading.
It was impossible to refuse her.
Chapter 37: Pitiful Test Subjects
"She's human... a little girl... how could this be..."
Theresa looked at the girl locked inside the prison cell. She seemed like nothing more than an ordinary person. Although she looked about the same size as Theresa, Theresa was already in her thirties, while these girls were real children.
Little girls locked in a laboratory prison cell—were they criminals?
How could that be possible!
"Don't worry! It's all right now... I'll get you out soon." Himeko did not think of herself as a good person. Even after becoming a Valkyrie, she had never considered herself kind.
But... as a human being, she could not possibly lack the most basic emotions: sympathy, pity, sorrow...
Everyone had such emotions, unless they were not human. Even those "great villains" had