Even so, the man continued without concern.
“Failure, frustration, pain…… I’ve experienced them countless times. I’ve nearly died plenty of times too.”
“Over something so trivial……”
“It is something that trivial, isn’t it?”
He threw the objection right back at her.
For a moment, the Grand Instructor could only furrow her brow.
What more could possibly need to be explained?
But the man thought differently.
“Someone like that isn’t so easy to break over something so small.”
Silence.
There was a strange certainty in his tone.
That was why the Grand Instructor found herself unable to say anything for a moment.
If only to judge whether those words were true.
She did not need long.
After remaining silent for a while, the old woman soon let out a quiet laugh.
Ha.
Haha.
“Hahahahahaha!”
How could a ‘genius’ say such a thing?
There was a world that the talented could never understand.
Had he ever faced a dazzling light and been blinded by it?
The old woman had.
No.
Back then, she had been a ‘girl.’
She had been terribly afraid.
Afraid that this man would…