Outside the barrier...
"Why do we have to kill these things?" Kai asked with a confused expression as he arranged the dead metallic figures in order. He glanced at Vesperine, who calmly walked toward them with the same unbothered grace.
Vesperine stared at the dead metallic figures, "Because we need them," she said.
Kai, Leon, and Finnian frowned as they looked at each other with the same confused expression, none of them fully understanding why Vesperine acted as if this routine slaughter was part of a larger design only she could see.
Vesperine crouched before the metallic figures, her finger softly touching their chests one by one. When her fingers graced the cold metal, their chests glowed faintly before their origin cards rose, hovering like glowing tags above their bodies.
Kai and the others raised their eyebrows in mild surprise.
