"Mm-hmm, everyone was safe now!"
Theresa walked in with a smile as well, bending slightly at the waist as she reached out to the pitiful girls with a sweet smile.
Then Theresa gently took the hands of the two nearest little girls and led them out of the prison. Only... Patrick stood outside with her arms folded, the corners of her lips slightly raised.
The girls before them were not only in extremely poor health, but were also covered in bandages and wounds. Their arms... elbows, wrists, thighs, ankles, calves... many places were wrapped in bandages.
Those were all places where Honkai energy had been injected...
After leading the pitiful girls out, Himeko did not follow them. Instead, she looked toward an empty patch in the corner of the prison.
It looked as though there was nothing there, but Himeko was absolutely certain... Sirin was there. The reason she could not be seen was because she was currently in another layer of space at that location, or rather... she was in a state of Imaginary Space.
Like a ghost, she could see others... while no one could see her.
What was with this woman...?
Sirin, hiding in another space, watched Himeko look in her direction. That gaze, which so obviously said she could see her, gave her a fright.
Can this person see me?
Clearly, she was not even in the same space as them, but... Himeko's gaze truly had seen her. That made Sirin somewhat worried. She did not have any spare strength left to fight. Yesterday's revenge... had already drained the power within her. She needed to replenish it.
Just as Sirin hesitated over whether to exhaust her last bit of Honkai energy and fight Himeko, Himeko suddenly turned and left the prison.
Himeko did not intend