Chapter 76: Ch74. It ain’t human
Sarissa watched Miles fight, her blade still, her body poised but unmoving.
However, under the poised mask and body language, she was shaking in fear, anticipation, and...
Excitement?
She could have interfered. She should have, by all rational accounts. But something held her back. Something cold and calculated in the depths of her heart.
She needed to see.
Her grip tightened on the hilt of [Aria of the Lost] as her keen eyes followed Miles’ every movement. He was fast, but not faster than she had anticipated. His attacks were wild, driven by raw emotion rather than precision.
Power without control, drenched in a recklessness she had never witnessed before. Did that boy, Diego, mean that much to him, that he could not even refrain from losing his cool before a menace such as Shinji?
But what she was truly looking for was something else.
The power she had seen in her previous turns. That overwhelming, devastating force of nature made her gut twist with unease and awe. The power that had forced her into a corner more times than she could count.
She had killed him before. More than once.
And if he showed even the slightest sign of that power awakening again, she would not hesitate to bear that quest against him again.