Chapter 67: Phantom Thief Dauphin (11). Worth
“H-He fell in!! Should we jump in after him?”
“In the middle of the night?! We won’t find anything in that water! Get more people! Wait above—if he floats to the surface, we catch him immediately!”
While the other guards were panicking and scrambling to fish Dauphin out of the river, Dahlia stood alone, staring at the water with a deeply displeased expression.
It wasn’t because her attack had failed.
It wasn’t even because she hadn’t caught him.
What truly bothered her was the reaction Dauphin had shown moments ago.
When she’d charged through the vortex, Dauphin had clearly panicked and tried to weaken the attack.
Worried ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) that Dahlia might be seriously injured by his own spell, he’d ended up hesitating—so much so that he failed to properly defend against her counterstrike, which he might have avoided otherwise.
Didn’t that just make her counterattack feel like she’d exploited someone’s concern to land a cheap shot?
If Dauphin had heard her thoughts, he probably would’ve laughed and said, “If someone leaves an opening in battle because they got distracted, that’s on them, isn’t it?”—and meant it.
But for someone like Dahlia, who had always drawn clean lines between duty and principle, it wasn’t so simple.
“S-Squad Captain! Is it over? Did you take him out for sure?”