After a few seconds of completely stunned silence, Clara let out a nervous chuckle.
"So you're saying we're... Champions chosen by gods to help Dahlia? But that doesn't make sense! We're... We're completely normal people! We don't have super strength or anything that makes us exceptional!"
"I never said champions needed anything like super strength. Young lady, you don't need to have something exceptional to be exceptional."
Her sentence seemed to confuse Clara even more, but Dahlia found herself smiling. She was right; her friends didn't need any super strength or anything out of the ordinary to belong by her side fighting off monsters.
"You are," Cate smiled, lifting her cup again. "But you do also have exceptional qualities as human beings; qualities that made those deities choose
