Just at that moment, Jeanne's suppressed emotions suddenly erupted like a dam bursting.
It had been ten years.
Since Xiang Shan took her away from the training camp on the Moon, she had been hiding and running. Over these ten years, she hadn't established contact with anyone else. The Protector's system couldn't accommodate him, and because of her prejudice against Xiang Shan and her concealment of her own purposes, she never truly integrated into the community of the Hero.
Apart from some assistance she had received from Scientific Knights on Mars, she hadn't communicated with anyone else in ten years.
The sense of loneliness made Jeanne excessively tense inside.
She hadn't expected that after seeing someone who resembled an old friend, her emotions would react in such a way.
A process unrelated to combat had occupied too much of her brain's computational resources. She missed a segment resembling an ambushing poisonous snake: the Chain Sword.
