Chapter 63: — Don’t Think You Can Escape?
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“This Nagazora City couldn’t possibly be haunted, right?”
Miss Dodo was starting to doubt her life choices, feeling an inexplicable urge to retreat.
First, she had picked up a technological artifact from the Fire Moth organization that had been swept into the garbage heap 50,000 years ago, and then she saw a girl who appeared out of nowhere.
Although the girl looked quite beautiful, she seed to have clairvoyant abilities, able to see her from such a great distance…
This, this, this… although she had long heard that the Far East region had many ghosts and monsters, as a World Serpent cadre who knew the world’s secrets, she had never believed in such things.
But now it seed she had no choice but to believe!
“I should get out of here quickly.”
Although the mission from above was surveillance, Miss Dodo, who was feeling sowhat uneasy, muttered to herself and decided to simply abandon this task.
What if she encountered sothing unclean? You know, she was almost done saving money for her island villa and hadn’t even enjoyed it yet! With this ager salary, why risk her life?
Miss Raven, who ca from a rcenary background, was very practical.
She was ready to leave at a mont’s notice!
Just as she was about to get up and leave, she heard an unfamiliar girl’s voice in her ear:
“Mm-hmm~ Where are you going?”
Raven slowly turned her head to look, and saw a pink-haired girl with a smiling face, looking at her with squinted eyes. The girl raised her hand, and her energetic voice rang out in the air—
“Hi~”
Without a doubt, this face was the sa girl she had observed through the 3rd Divine Key’s observation function at the underground North Station.
And at this mont, looking at the person so close to her, Raven’s heart wasn’t moved by her beauty.
Instead, she had only one thought—
“Ghost!”
Being able to detect her from such a distance, appearing without anyone knowing how, and even appearing silently beside her — only a ghost could et these conditions!
However, this blurted-out thought made the ghost 【lady】 in her eyes furrow her beautiful brows—
“Really, calling 【】, such a beautiful girl, a ghost is quite rude!”
The pink-haired girl puffed out her cheeks, looking very dissatisfied and angry, but in the next mont, she relaxed at an extrely fast speed, returning to her initial smile:
“But because you’re cute, and this is our first eting, so… I forgive you~ Don’t treat other girls like this, okay?”
During their conversation, the girl’s blue eyes contained a hint of amusent.
— He hadn’t expected to run into the Island Bomber Raven here.
Moreover…
Even the Seven Thunders of Retribution was here.
It was like receiving a pillow when feeling sleepy.
Jiang Qiao’s lips curved into a slight arc as she glanced at the Seven Thunders of Retribution in Raven’s hand.
He had originally thought it would take so effort to obtain it.
However, while 【she】 was observing the Seven Thunders of Retribution and the Island Bomber Raven, the latter was naturally also observing Jiang Qiao.
Although she was startled at first, as a highly skilled rcenary, Miss Raven quickly cald down and used this brief ti to examine and observe this mysterious pink-haired girl.
A flash of wariness and apprehension crossed her wine-red eyes.
You know, she was soone who had undergone special training and was battle-hardened.
Whether in combat skills or reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, her level was world-class.
Yet this girl could easily discover her using high-dinsional observation to watch her, and could even approach her so silently that she only noticed her presence when the other party spoke.
Dangerous, very dangerous!
This person might be the most dangerous enemy she had ever encountered in her life!
Raven couldn’t help but think this way.
Run!
She wouldn’t be thinking of running, would she?
Staring at Dodo, Jiang Qiao keenly noticed the change in her expression and guessed this in his heart.
Oh my, that won’t do.
He was going to need the Seven Thunders of Retribution very soon.
“That’s very bad. If this girl’s face gets hurt, she’ll cry when she sees it, won’t she?”
Catching a raven feather in his hand and holding a sharp raven feather in the corner of his mouth, Jiang Qiao watched Miss Dodo, who had put her thoughts into action and begun fleeing in an instant. Looking at her gradually disappearing figure, he sighed helplessly:
“If I let you escape, that would be troubleso.”
A bow made of crystal slowly materialized in 【Elysia】 hand, and he slowly drew the bowstring, aiming at Dodo who had already disappeared from sight behind the buildings.
Along with the arc that appeared at the corners of the pink-haired girl’s mouth, he chuckled softly:
“— Don’t think you can escape?”
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Eden had long grown accustod to the boiling cheers of crowds.
Although her career in entertainnt, despite coming from a musical family, wasn’t as smooth as others might imagine, with her exceptional talent and sincere heart devoted entirely to art, she quickly beca a world-renowned star.
— Star, a very fitting title for her, wasn’t it?
Eden, brilliant as gold and dazzling as starlight, was truly a rising star.
As usual, it was a touring concert, different venues but the sa enthusiastic audiences.
On this dazzling stage, she threw herself completely into her singing, responding to people’s love for her.
However, when the concert ended and she returned backstage, surrounded by people’s praise, Eden always felt like sothing was missing.
What could it be?
Looking at her carefully made-up beautiful face in the mirror, Eden pondered the source of this void.
Her mory returned to the concert that had just ended.
Ah, it seed to be a girl.
She finally rembered what had caused this sense of loss that concerned her so much.
It was in the audience, a beautiful pink-haired girl wearing light sumr clothes and a straw hat.
She was so beautiful.
Recalling that glimpse she had caught inadvertently, Eden admired the girl’s smile.
Unfortunately, the girl seed to have disappeared halfway through her performance.
Was it because she didn’t like it? Or was it because sothing ca up?
If it was the forr, Eden would feel empty inside, which was rare for her.
She didn’t expect everyone to like her songs. After all, even she had music and art that she couldn’t accept… no, couldn’t appreciate.
Everyone had their own understanding of such things, and she couldn’t and wouldn’t force others.
What Eden could do was simply play her art, her music, to the utmost.
But regarding that girl she had glimpsed inadvertently, she had a different thought than usual — it would be nice if she really liked her music.
Could it be that she actually cared about her?
How strange, when she was just one among countless audience mbers watching her.
Why would she have such thoughts?
Gently touching the expensive fabric of her dress, she could feel the fluttering heartbeat beneath her palm.
But what replaced it was deep regret.
After all, the world was truly vast.
Although she hoped that perhaps at her next concert she might et that beautiful girl again.
But thinking that this would probably be their only encounter in life, Eden couldn’t help but sigh softly.
Until she faintly heard a complaining voice nearby—
“Eh, why is it like this? I clearly went to handle that matter as quickly as possible…”
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