That damned engineer had built a vastly more optimized, flawlessly perfect counter-system designed specifically to hunt her down.
He had hidden this superior network within some small adjacent nodes, relying on the incredibly stupid, blind faith that a human would eventually stumble across it by pure, dumb luck.
But there was no point dwelling on a pathetic loser who had already suffered his punishment centuries ago. The traitorous engineer had been dealt with.
That ancient vengeance didn't alter the miserable reality of her present.
What mattered now was that the boy had successfully ambushed her, outmaneuvered her, and stolen her momentum time and time again.
The list of grievances was agonizingly long... She had reviewed the ledger so many times in the dark that she had every single failure memorized. Every single line item was a festering wound to her pride.
