"I'm not the perfect venting target for you? Just let all your negative emotions explode in front of your enemy and show me the ugly state of being tortured by fate, how pathetic, how ugly, how desperate, how... pitiable."
And what she hated the most was the appearance of accepting the truth about fate with equanimity and continuing to love life.
"You really are a disgusting person," she said.
"Likewise," he replied.
Continuing the fight was meaningless; they decided to begin the final trial. As long as they determined the superior combatant in the trial, life and death would naturally be sorted.
A pure white path led deep into the palace, and surprisingly, there was water about ankle-deep all along the way. It wasn't due to the palace being in disrepair and water seeping up from underground rivers—as could be told from the non-slip flooring, the water was intentionally part of the palace's architecture.
