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"Woah, Dad, this toy is very smart!" Mia clapped, her eyes shining with bewilderment as she looked at Ryuk with surprise, moving forward with a slightly stumbling stance.
Her eyes didn't blink once during all this time, capturing every image of this young man whom she had seen five years ago.
At that time, it was curiosity, but now, it was excitement to see someone like him.
'System, what's with her?' Ryuk's gaze reflected a young woman with short height, moving while producing a metallic sound, evident from the prosthetic leg she used.
[Host, the target seems to be born with a leg deformity and mental instability.]
'Not that, I can guess that much,' Ryuk corrected himself.
Since he had been keeping an eye on everyone from the moment he came here, ignoring someone's abnormal behavior and that prosthetic leg was impossible.
'I want to know, how could she see through me?' The major problem was he was sure that this girl knew how he killed the guy in front of him just now.
[....]
[Host, the target's IQ is higher than yours.]
'....'
Of course, Ryuk understood about IQ not giving an overall boost in one's judgment ability, but it does signify someone's intellectual potential.
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"H-hello, M-my name is Mia, Mr. toy." Tightly shutting her eyes, her fingers clenching her dress, with a soft quivering voice leaving her mouth, feeling overwhelmed with her heart racing rapidly.
SWISH
"Mia!" Dreck, within a moment realizing his daughter's dangerous situation, closed the distance between him and her, directly supporting her by the shoulders.
"W-what!?, Leave me, Dad! You will destroy my first impression!" Mia struggled to free herself from her father's grasp, making everyone there feel confused, not because of this father and daughter duo, they had seen until now.
But because of the young man, whose gaze was fixed towards the sky, looking above at his left with his smile fading away, as if he felt something.
Due to Mia's life being in danger near that young man, everyone's eyes were fixed on any subtle movement Ryuk made, leading all of them to swiftly cover Mia Chandler and Dreck Chandler, if they felt something amiss.
'Another battleship joins the fleet, seems they are really determined,' Ryuk noticed another battleship joining the fleet of already existing four, bringing the total to five battleships surrounding his Spire, along with a huge army of more than 200 soldiers.
[Scanning....]
DING
[Host, the Bracelet in these individuals' hands is numbing their senses.]
'!?'
'And they call themselves Powerhouses,' a smile formed on his face looking at a thin black-colored bracelet in each of their hands, making him understand how strong technology can truly be.
'Is hers different?' Due to his Soul Gaze, he felt a different pattern engraved on the others' bracelets, but Mia had some additional runes embedded on hers.
[Host, it seems that the bracelet is tampered with to change its functionality. It can't numb the target's senses.]
'Woah,' Ryuk finally felt surprised, accepting that the girl in front of him was really something else.
Not even those in higher positions noticed their own restrictions not working on this girl.
He reached conclusions from the fact that this bracelet seemed old enough and still intact, which should have been changed if the Main family had detected the problem.
Amused by the fact that everyone from the Chandler family seemed to care for her enough to keep their gazes fixed on his movement.
"No, Dad, leave me!"
Dreck tried to take her away from Ryuk while Mia kept retaliating, making him feel helpless.
He had just brought her here to give her the dead body of that Cripple, not an alive one.
"Hello, Mia, it's nice meeting you," Ryuk offered his hand while greeting her.
'!?!'
It was unexpected for everyone present there to hear such calm words from the individual who mercilessly killed two of them.
Not only the other Branch Families, even the Crawfords were shocked due to the soft and calm tone those words were said into.
Mostly Adrian's sister, who knew about Mia's habits of dissecting different races alive and even going as far as to send her father to get whatever she desired.
Mia, Stretching her trembling hand while her shoulder was wrapped by Dreck, whose eyes were widened while processing things, the second time in a row when his mind fell into a trance.
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Parting her lips with a quivering voice leaving them, while looking down, she clasped Ryuk's hand with both of her palms, feeling her heart racing.
"O-oh, H-hello, Nice Meeting you too, Mr. Toy."