"Flora, explain yourself now," I say angrily to Flora. It's obvious that she is not under my control.
I don't know how she kept her brain alive, but her body is still a corpse. If I deactivate my magic, she should stop moving... I think.
"Mistress, don't do this," Flora says, looking straight at me with a strange look.
"Flora, it's an order. Tell me the truth now or I'll stop keeping you reanimated." I have no reason to trust her. The Shizune of this world trusts no one but the dead.
But she trusts the dead because she has control over them. Now that this control has become uncertain, her trust shatters like glass.
"Mistress, are you sure you want to go down this path?" Flora asks as her gaze darkens.
I deactivate my magic, and the magical connection that binds me to the dead is severed.
'W-Why is she still standing?' She didn't fall to the ground as she should have. I soon deduce that she must have her own magic to keep herself upright.