"..."

Ah---

Her insides had twisted up inside of her like a knot.

All this work, all this effort, and it was just because of a trap for someone else? Did the Grovemasters not care a single bit what was going on beyond their borders?

Did they not care what was happening to people?

Did they not care the threat to their own people?

Clearly they didn't.

Clearly, if they wanted to take down one of the people who was actually putting an effort to try and stop this evil. Clearly, if they were willing to divert their attention from their purpose just for the sake of setting a trap.

It was all quite obvious that this was the acts of people who had no care for anything but themselves.

Robin's hands shook.

Her heart had twisted itself up into a knot.

Her fingers wrapped firmly around the hilt of her spada as she raised it, red flames licking at the corners of her vision.

How dare they?

How dare they shrug off the threat to millions of innocent people just to pursue one person who was actually trying to help? How dare they use this guise of a test to deceive them for that purpose?

What kind monsters, what kind of villains, did such things?

---Ah.

That was it, wasn't it?

No matter what the Grovemaster said, they were the villains. They were the ones standing in the path of the safety of so many innocent people. The ones actively trying to damage the effort to protect millions.

"... You're unforgivable."

The words left her lips as the pointed her sword towards the Grovemaster.

How many wards had she just cast?

Did it matter at this point?

No. Truly, it did not.

Lights danced along the edge of her spada, then flared brighter. This wasn't merely to bind a target. It was extremely unlikely, at best, to do any significant damage to the wards, too.

But at the moment, that didn't really matter.

The light erupted forward, hurtling towards the Grovemaster with a brilliant flash---