Chapter 85.3 - Things sometimes end

"Why didn't you attack?" Astron's voice broke the silence, his eyes searching Sylvie's face for an answer.

Sylvie hesitated, her mind racing as she tried to find the words to explain her hesitation. She knew she had the opportunity to strike, to seize the advantage and turn the tide of the battle in her favor.

But something held her back; something deep within her psyche told her that.

"This will be our last training."

Those words somehow continued to echo in her head.

"I... I didn't think I could do it….."

She said that as an excuse. Yet, she forgot one important detail.

"That is not the reason." Astron cut her words, looking into her eyes. "You seem to forget that I was the one who taught you. You would have done it normally, but you didn't. Why?"

Astron was the one who taught her how to spar and fight from the start. Thus, with his meticulous observing skills, it wasn't that unusual for him to understand Sylvie.