Chapter 139

"What exactly was this experiment you mentioned?"

"It wasn’t anything that directly harmed you. It was merely about observing the flow structure of your mana while living alongside you, or collecting residual energy. It was closer to observation than an experiment, really."@@@@

"Data collection... Then that’s strange. Was there a reason you had to just observe? If you had taken direct action, the process would have been much simpler. Even kidnapping and dissecting me would have yielded far more samples. I don’t understand why you remained so passive."

"...I don’t know either."

She murmured, thrown off by my words.

Perhaps that had been her final boundary.

Despite working with the dark sorcerers, she had never directly harmed a student.

That smile—

"That smile... It reminded me of Lianne."

The black-and-white fragments of the past kept resurfacing.

The drunkard staggered under their weight.

The guilt tightened around her like a noose, unbearable without the numbing haze of intoxication.

Her mind was fragile, ready to shatter at the slightest push.

"So it worked."

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