>"I do my best. All of us here do."
>Gesture to our allies. We're not the only ones doing all the heroism here, after all.
>"Life may be a bit more complicated than on TV, but so long as there is good I can do with this power, I consider it my calling."
>Is there anything else we can recall about that scene?
>You point out the various friends and colleagues around you, but for some reason, you can't turn your head from Flandre's eyes. Those brilliant red eyes hold your gaze. You've never seen anything like them before.
>At least they hold your gaze until Flan turns to follow your gestures, looking around the room until she stops, very suddenly, at the smoldering form Semitur, all but forgotten with Flandre's arrival. Subala appears to have placed a barrier around the succubus, keeping her in one place until she can't be dealt with properly.
>"
She's the one that hurt me." Flandre states more than asks. "
Hurt a lot of people."
>Only that you felt a great sense of sympathy for the crying blonde. How she came to be there, how you came to be near her, how she came to be covered in blood... Nothing else.