"Cough, cough!"

My lungs, which had been suppressed, began functioning again as I coughed. I staggered to my feet. Even though I thought I had defended myself, my entire body throbbed in pain. It felt as if I had received an intensely rough massage for hours on end without a break.@@novelbin@@

In the distance, Aria was grinning as she looked my way. It was a smile that seemed to suggest everything was going exactly according to her plan. It was no surprise, considering I was blown back the moment I sensed something had been completed.

"How do you feel about it?"

"I don’t know what you’ve done, but I can tell it was something insane."

"You don’t know what I did? Come now, surely you’re joking. Can you still say that after seeing this?"

A flame, a mix of orange and yellow, formed in Aria's hand. She lightly flicked her arm and sent the flame towards a nearby thicket. The fireball exploded upon impact, radiating light and heat with a force that could have taken down a building.

"……?"

But the forest remained untouched. Despite the apparent power that should have incinerated everything at the point of impact, the forest stood intact, as if nothing had happened.

Now that I think about it, I didn't hear any sound when that explosion occurred. It wasn’t as if she had cast a soundproofing spell.

‘The wind…?’

At some point, I had also stopped feeling the wind. The clouds in the sky didn’t move an inch, and the ground near Aria was frozen in a half-shattered state. Even the floating debris remained suspended in mid-air.

Leona, who had been crouching in the distance with my clothes draped over her, was the same. Her face was frozen in an expression of utter bewilderment, and she hadn’t moved at all.

"I'll ask you again, Mira. How do you feel about this?"

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