While following Michael to the empty place, Iris suddenly got this familiar feeling. This weird situation—it felt like she had run into it once before, right? And that ti wasn't even that long ago.
"Oh great, you're suspicious of again?"
Iris rolled her eyes at Michael. She didn't understand what nerve he'd hit lately to be this paranoid.
Weren't the few years they lived together before totally fine? Why wasn't he questioning things back then, but now he's questioning so much stuff?
"Again?"
This ti, Leo was the most confused one. He really couldn't figure out what weird stuff these two had been secretly doing behind his back.
Since he'd been caught, Michael wasn't going to beat around the bush either. Now that him and Leo were here, if they found a problem, they'd imdiately take Iris in for questioning.
"Spill it. How did you find us six years ago? And what was your goal? I feel like the stuff you said back then is missing sothing."
"F*ck! Talking about six years ago again? Why the hell didn't you ask six years ago, dude?"
Her eyelid twitched a few tis, she couldn't help but curse. Michael was ninety percent sure she'd beaten him so badly his brain was ssed up. His brain got stuck six years in the past, so all he rembered was that old crap.
Michael's index finger pointed straight at Iris's face, his serious gaze eting her furious one.
"If there's nothing shady, then spill it! Otherwise, don't bla and Leo for tying you up and taking you in for questioning."
???
No way, dude? Why are you dragging into this nonsense? If you wanna go looking for death, go do it alone.
Leo really didn't want to poke Iris at all. Over the past few years, he understood clearly that she was the number one 'ritorious official' right now.
Just the fact that she gave Raphael a bunch of holy herbs ant she could hide as many 'little secrets' as she wanted.
Even if she betrayed them, he'd find a way to convince her to co back to the Ancient Forest to eat, sleep, and play out her days instead of running amok out here.
The promise he made, he'd still find a way to keep, even though he had no idea how to actually revive the dragon race.
Now Michael suddenly suspecting her and talking like she was actually guilty was clearly putting Leo in a tough spot.
If he imdiately argued with Michael, he'd definitely sulk. Sure, Michael wouldn't betray him, but he could definitely get 'lazy'.
"This has nothing to do with you, so step aside. I need to make things clear with this dumbass. What do you want to hear?"
Iris obviously saw Leo was uncomfortable being dragged into this, so she imdiately pushed him out of it.
"Everything."
Michael stood with his arms crossed, his expression triumphant like he was about to catch a 'criminal'. He didn't know why, but he felt a little thrilled right now.
"So annoying. Then I have to start from when Heaven told the gods were about to appear. The mont the gods' auras appeared, I marked five locations. Sea God was out at sea, Sun God was on land but really far from .
The other god was also really far from , don't know the na, but that aura was the thing that sealed . Only you two were closest to , so I ca that fast."
Even though her explanation was pretty detailed, it still wasn't enough to clear up Michael's questions. Until he stopped suspecting, he'd keep asking.
"Why were you so careful back then, but when you t us, you were extrely reckless? You said you transford into a human to not miss this chance, but why did you risk your life as soon as you t us?"
???
being careful was wrong?
Iris and Leo looked at each other. Both of them couldn't help but twitch their eyelids a few tis. This damn idiot seed to really have brain damage.
"Did you f*cking lose your mory? Compared to eting the other gods, getting revenge on the two bastards who caused the extinction of the dragon race was clearly way more important.
The first ti I t you guys, I wanted to kill you both right away. eting the other gods would be, at most, like running into 'old acquaintances', but you two are the most hated enemies."
"Hmph, then why did you beco our comrade? Obviously, you have ulterior motives. Leo, let's capture her."
Michael himself didn't realize how far off track he was getting. At first, he just wanted to ask why she approached them, but at so point, he wanted to… beat her up.
Leo looked at Michael with a strange look, then at Iris. The two of them, in a rare mont of agreent, nodded simultaneously. To Michael's shock, he got punched in the face by him.
His head was spinning, not knowing what just happened. He even thought Leo misunderstood him and hit the wrong person.
"Leo, you hit the wrong guy."
"Wrong my ass! We both wanted to beat you up."
"I can't take your side this ti. Daring to falsely accuse a comrade is a cri worthy of a beating."
…
After a while of brawling, Michael, with a swollen, dazed face, followed behind the two. In his eyes, a spark of unyielding defiance flickered because he felt his initial reasoning wasn't wrong… even if it was wrong later, at the beginning, he clearly had good intentions.
"Did you really forget how she beca our comrade?"
Leo sighed wearily. If Michael really forgot, he'd have to recount the whole story from six years ago again.
"Now I rember. I just temporarily forgot earlier."
Michael pouted as if he was feeling extrely wronged. He rembered now, it was Leo who first welcod Iris to join them. At the sa ti, it was Leo who pushed him into the 'darkest' years of his life by handing over full authority for his training to Iris.
Now he got it; he understood everything. Those two were on the sa side from the beginning to the end, only the poor genie was left out in the cold.
The more he thought about it, the more wronged he felt, giving him this feeling like he wanted to cry. But as soone like him, acting out a crying scene was one thing, actually crying for real was extrely hard.
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