Chapter 109. The Xino Covenant (11)
Luo Nan turned the Amber Pendant over gently in his hand, rolling it back and forth.
"Luo Nan! You……where did you get this Amber Pendant?" A note of disbelief crept into Anya's voice.
Luo Nan glanced at Anya, whose face was failing to conceal her emotions, and quietly let out a small sigh inwardly.
"So my guess actually turned out to be right……"
He shook his head and said with resignation: "It was given to
by a certain Miss Cloth-Strip-Face, of course."
"!"
"You're that Crow-Beak Mask?! !"
Tucking the Amber Pendant back into his chest, Luo Nan produced the Golden Crow-Beak Mask he had worn inside the Whisper Market.
And gave it a small wave in front of Anya's eyes.
The aning required no words.
"It was actually……actually really you!"
In that instant, the young woman felt as though everything suddenly made sense.
That "Black Gold Card"—after returning from the market, she had made a point of looking into it, and that kind of card was essentially sothing only top-tier nobles and suprely powerful individuals could get their hands on.
Soone who possessed a Black Gold Card could stamp their foot and make the entire Lower City tremble three tis over, to say nothing of a small Whisper Market.
But Anya had never detected even a trace of Supernatural power from the Crow-Beak Mask figure, which ant the Crow-Beak Mask was in all likelihood a noble.
And then, factoring in how Luo Nan had concealed his Supernatural Practitioner status through so unknown ans, as well as the Black Gold Card he had once shown her……
So that was how it was!
No, wait……
Since Luo Nan was the Crow-Beak Mask……
"Luo Nan, it was you who outbid
for the Scales from the Corner of a rmaid's Eye at Hulos Exchange last ti, wasn't it?" Anya imdiately brought up the old grievance.
Just thinking about that incident made her blood boil!
If Luo Nan hadn't ruined things for her, she would have secured the scales at one Fara, and wouldn't have had to do this awkward, unrewarded favor for him.
Luo Nan nodded, wearing an expression of perfect matter-of-factness. "It was an auction—naturally the highest bidder wins. I needed the scales, and I had more money than you, so the scales going to
is perfectly normal, isn't it?"
"And besides, didn't I give you one at the end?"
"……Well, w-well, that's true, but……" Anya thought it over carefully and found she truly had no solid grounds to fault Luo Nan's conduct.
But upon learning that Luo Nan was the Crow-Beak Mask, that vague, lingering sense of displeasure she had been harboring instantly surged even more intensely.
She absolutely had to say sothing!
No particular reason!
"But I just feel like you've been deliberately targeting !" The young woman planted her feet, and declared this with iron certainty.
"……"
Luo Nan let out an imperceptible sigh, looking at Anya's seething, indignant expression, montarily at a loss for words.
Wasn't Anya Sivans from the original storyline supposed to be like this?
Whatever happened to your sense of justice? Your heroic bearing?
How did she end up just like so unreasonable woman……
Oh, right—she really is a woman.
It seed even the "Chosen Hero" couldn't escape the emotional impulses uniquely characteristic of won.
At this thought, Luo Nan decided to back down first. After all, "her" threat was imminent, and Aina's whereabouts had still not been found.
These two matters—or rather, what was very likely a single matter—mattered far more than winning an argunt with soone who had let her emotions get the better of her.
"Alright, alright. I admit I was targeting you, Miss Anya Sivans. I apologize to you now." Luo Nan said calmly.
"Huh?"
Anya had not expected at all that Luo Nan would just capitulate outright like that.
Honestly speaking, the mont she had said those words, she already felt she had been sowhat unreasonable.
She didn't know why she had let her emotions get the better of her in that one mont.
But having said it……it wasn't as though she could just take it back herself, was it?
Anya had in fact already steeled herself to hold her ground to the bitter end against Luo Nan.
Who would have thought he wouldn't argue back with her at all, and instead actually apologized?
It caught her completely off guard.
"You—you just need to know you were wrong!"
"Alright, Miss Anya, I was indeed wrong. I'll make it up to you later," Luo Nan nodded, then retreated further on the verbal front. "The specifics can be discussed later. As for right now……"
"I need your help with sothing." Luo Nan waved the Golden Crow-Beak Mask in his hand once more, his tone sincere and earnest.
"Hmph……since you know you were wrong……then this young lady won't hold it against you. After all, I did make a promise to you once—go on then, just what is it you need
for?"
Looking at Luo Nan, who had tilted his head down slightly, his expression composed, Anya turned her face to the side, not quite daring to et his dark eyes directly.
"Thank you for your understanding and reasonableness, Miss Anya. Here's the situation……" Luo Nan resud walking, speaking as he went.
Anya fell into step beside him, and to hear him more clearly, she quietly closed the distance between them.
"According to intelligence I obtained in advance, a highly dangerous and powerful individual may well appear at this Covenant Banquet—and she may have already set her sights on ."
"With Archbishop Kolitio having departed early, we have almost no chance of defeating her in a direct confrontation."
"And also……my personal maidservant Aina—you know her, right?" Luo Nan turned his head and glanced at Anya, who was now right beside him. "Why are you standing so close?"
He had only just noticed that Anya was standing quite a bit too close to him now—close enough to practically press herself against him.
"Oh, oh……sorry."
Only then did Anya realize the distance between them had shrunk to less than a fist's width. A scent blending alcohol and n's cologne rushed straight into her nostrils all at once, making her feel rather uneasy.
Hastily stepping back to put so space between them, Anya continued: "Yes, I know Miss Aina—I just saw her earlier……what's happened to her?"
"She's gone missing."
"What?!"
"Tell
when and where you saw her."
Luo Nan hadn't expected he might get a lead from Anya.
"It was in……"
Anya suddenly found that her mories on the subject were a bit hazy.
"Hss……no, no, wait—how can I not rember?!" Anya furrowed her fine brows, a flicker of gravity crossing her golden eyes.
"Can't rember?" Luo Nan sensed sothing was wrong as well.
"Right. I have the impression that I definitely saw Aina in the Side Hall. At that ti I was with Miss Rose, and we were with……who were we with again?"
Anya still could not recall the appearance of the person who had Hard-Controlled her, let alone their gender.
"You and Rose?"
"Yes. Miss Rose was also telling
about you……"
Anya nearly blurted it out, but then rembered she was currently working on Luo Nan's behalf, and the words that had been rising to her lips were swallowed back down by force.
Forget it—there would be ti later to help Miss Rose reclaim that important item.
"Never mind. Miss Rose and I were talking with soone," Anya shook her head. "But I can't recall any features of that person whatsoever."
"It was while I was on my way from talking with that person that I encountered Miss Aina."
"That person?"
Upon hearing this, Luo Nan's mind began racing at full speed.
"According to what Anya said, she and Rose had been conversing with so entity whose features were completely unrecallable, and it was during this ti that they encountered Aina……"
"If it's 'her,' she would indeed have the ability to erase or suppress Anya's mories and consciousness at this stage……"
With that in mind, Luo Nan asked: "Anya, do you still rember the content of your conversation with them? And more specifically, when was it?"
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