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In the shared vision from her Clairvoyance, she saw the black ground dragon running away at top speed. On her back was the girl who should have been Ram’s precious other half. The partner she couldn’t remember. The child who evoked an empty sense of loss…
“…Rem.”
Ram’s heart trembled with rage as she realized what had happened.
She was loath to admit it, but the power of Subaru’s authority had restored a fragment of her omnipotent power. She had used that to overwhelm Lye Batenkaitos and cornered the Archbishop.
However, that had lit a fire in Lye, inspiring a new level of tenacity to cling to life. As a result, Lye had used his authority to escape from Ram with the intent to seize Rem, her other half.
He knew he couldn’t win by fighting head-on, so he resorted to whatever underhanded scheme he could think of.
She didn’t want to admit it, but his plan was an effective one.
“What a mockery…”
Clairvoyance made it clear that Lye was toying with the fleeing Patrasche. Though he could have cornered her in an instant, he was intentionally indulging in the joy of the hunt. The whole point was to sear this scene into Ram’s mind as she watched through her Clairvoyance.
“I won’t let you do as you please anymore. I—ah?”
The moment she started to give chase, there was a shift in her vision. Her Clairvoyance almost came undone. In her right eye, she still saw through Lye’s eyes, but in her left, her own vision was blurry.
“Kh…aaa…”
It wasn’t just her sight. Incredible exhaustion suddenly sapped her, accompanied by a coursing pain that felt like an invisible hand clawing at her insides.
It was unmistakably the burden of a hornless that she normally endured.
“Did…Barusu die? …No, that’s not it.”
Judging by the relatively light burden, she could confidently say Subaru had not died a pathetic death somewhere. It had only been a few minutes, but considering how much strength she had drawn out, what she was feeling now would pale in comparison to the expected backlash. That suffering would probably leave her coughing up blood and writhing on the floor.
“I assume Barusu’s power hasn’t completely given out… He must have taken on an excessive burden from someone else unexpectedly… Lady Beatrice…or Meili.”
Those were the most likely possibilities. There was little point in dwelling on the cause.
The important takeaway was that right now, it would be difficult for her to wield the level of power that had overwhelmed Lye earlier. She could only undo the first limiter. She wouldn’t last even two seconds if she tried it with the second one.
Could she defeat Lye Batenkaitos like that…?
“What are you getting cold feet for? Just devise a new plan.”
The longer she hesitated, the worse their odds of victory became.
Steadying herself, Ram rushed up the stairs she had almost slipped on earlier.
As she did, she couldn’t shake the feeling that she had done this somewhere before, gasping for air as she rushed to her sister, who was in danger. But where there should have been a memory, there was only a void.
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