"I can understand, but I'm still very disappointed. You clearly know that wallowing in a mire of emotions is meaningless, yet you are still willing to sink into your negative emotions and refuse to use cultivation as a substitute for self-pity."
"I've said before, love only slows down my sword speed, and my attitude hasn't changed. Is love really so important to you that you would give up so much of yourself?"
Ingrid said all this in one breath, then sighed deeply: "This isn't the proud and stubborn Sword Maiden I knew."
Sonia stared blankly at Ingrid, feeling both bitter and self-reproachful, along with grievances she couldn't voice.
"I'm in trouble," she said pitifully.
All of Sonia's negative emotions ultimately could be traced back to a decree: The "Dazzling Star National Security Emergency Order No. 51."
This was an emergency decree issued the second day after the Technique Spirit outbreak at the Sky Gate in the Kingdom of Stars.
