For a moment, nobody spoke. The only sounds were the wind shifting the desert sands and the distant, muffled sobs of Rebecca's sister. The tension in the air felt suffocating.
Then, Aria exhaled shakily. Her lips trembled, and her shoulders started shaking uncontrollably.
"You can't be serious, right? What instructions?" Her usual serene persona was nowhere to be seen. The Moon Valkyrie was just as outraged as her fellow Valkyries. "Your allies whom you trained and grew alongside for four years now were in extreme danger, with two even tragically falling, yet you dare not go all out as our strongest member? And you have the gall to shift the blame around? Have you no shame?!"
