"Looks like it's my win."
"Yeah…"
Edward and the Automaton stared at each other. A moment of silence emanated between the two immensely powerful individuals.
The environment could testify to their strength, as it was completely wrecked.
"In the end… I couldn't land a single hit…" Edward laughed, looking at the armored being floating before him.
Unlike the latter, the former's armor was as good as gone, and blood covered a great deal of his body.
He had definitely been through a lot, and he'd tried his hardest, but…
"I didn't know the gap in power would be so vast."
… Ultimately, even Edward couldn't win.
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"Do you all understand now?"
My defeated friends were now seated before me, completely mellow after suffering absolute defeat at the hands of Gawain.
Neron would have reversed time to make it as though their wounds never existed, but it was better to just heal them.
They grew a great deal from this exercise, after all—well, almost all of them.