'Why did you restrict my movement?'
Alex was still not satisfied.
He wanted an answer for the previous conduct.
Alex doesn't like it when someone tries to control him or play with him. This was something Sophia knew very well.
So, why did she still do it?
[... Alex, I did it for your own good.]
Sophia replied with a pause, trying to mellow down the situation.
She knew that directly stating the reason would be more offensive for Alex, as he was right now.
'For my own good? Do you want to say that stopping me, even when Luna was in danger, was for my own good??
You think that I would be all right even if something happened to her while I stood frozen on my spot-'
Alex's rebuke, however, was cut short by Sophia's soft words.
[But none of that happened.
Luna wasn't actually in danger, was she?
The man wasn't trying to harm her, was he?
She wasn't going to die, right?]
'.....'
Sophia's words left Alex tongue-tied.
He couldn't refute any of them.
Yes, he interpreted the situation in the wrong way, and none of them were actually happening, but still...
'I just don't like it.'
In the end, Alex just let out a frustrated sigh.
He knew that the situation wasn't favorable and that what he was going to do was not the best path to follow, but he couldn't just sit back when he saw an entity much stronger than him appearing right next to Luna.
[I know that, Alex.
I know that very well, but it was necessary.
The system would never allow me to do it if the situation didn't call for it.]
Sophia, who saw that Alex had now calmed down, finally decided to reveal the real reason.
[You would've died if you tried fighting that man.]
Alex's body, which had relaxed a bit, tensed again, his brows growing as his eyes turned sharp.
'Elaborate.'
Alex purred in a low yet commanding voice.
He could pretty much guess it, but he still asked for the reason why Sophia said that.
Unlike before, however, now he was walking toward Luna at a slow yet steady pace.
His feet would melt anything that they came in contact with; his SD form was still active after all.
Alex wasn't walking toward the man with an intention to fight, he was just moving close to Luna.
But still, as she felt the warmth emanating from Alex's body and the eventual jolts she felt when the white sparks on Alex's body touched her, they were enough to make her smile heartily.
They could die next second, sure.
They would be together, at least.
Alex, however, had his body tensed.
He did stand next to Luna, and he was staring at the man with a calm face, but his heart was anything but calm.
From afar, he couldn't tell much, but now that he was standing close to the man, he could perceive it perfectly.
That man's body was covered in a natural mana barrier, and unlike the mana barrier someone conjures, his was natural.
Alex could easily make out those things.
Alex's mana affinity was very high for some reason he didn't know, but that affinity got hany right now since he could tell why Sophia said that the most he would be able to do is put a scratch on that man.
Yeah, SD was strong; it was way stronger than anything he could handle, but the man in front of him had nature protecting him.
Even SD won't be able to harm him.
[You don't have to worry, Alex.
No matter how strong that man is, he's nothing for me.
The moment he shows even a hint of killing intent or the moment he is judged as an enemy by the system, his game would be over even before it starts.]
Sophia, who could feel Alex's emotional turmoil, reassured him.
'Hm?'
Alex, still trying to be calm on the outside, let out a confused hum on the inside.
[You didn't think that I was here just for show, did you?]
Sophia, however, frowned as she heard the confused hum coming out of Alex's mouth.
{Did he think of me as a literal receptionist?}
Sophia uttered inwardly - her voice filled with disbelief.
'No?'
Alex, unsure what to say, just said whatever came to his mind.
He wasn't in a situation where he could think too much since, right now, he had a man strong enough to wipe the floor of him, standing right in front of him, smiling softly.
[.....]
For a while, Sophia went silent.
{Sigh....}
In the end, she just sighed inwardly.
[I'm like a gaurdian angle for you, but only in cases which the system permits me to interfere.
If the system thinks that the situation is something you can face if you try harder, then it won't let me make a move.]
Alex finally relaxed a bit, but before he could, the man in front of them moved his lips.
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