"W-what… How? Why? Why them?"
Xavier stuttered while looking at Thomas and Adam's fingers. He was stunned silent, with thoughts running in his head at extreme speed.
'Why them? I was obviously the weaker target. Why not the easy pickings? I'm sure nobody on the enemy side really knows the extent of my strength, so why did they risk a 1v2? This doesn't make sense…'
"If we knew why, we wouldn't be standing around here." Lafia said with a weak voice. Xavier could see in her eyes, she wanted to cry, but somehow she held her tears back. The former demon king perfectly understood her feelings, the feeling of losing those who had trusted their back to you.
'It might sound cruel, but she was ready to accept losing just one member. It was an unfortunate, unexpected casualty. But this… her party just got decimated. There's no way she could still stand strong in this situation. This mission is a failure.