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Seeing the ill-intentioned smiles appear on everyone's faces at once, Astrea felt a chill run down her back and threw herself at Wu Yan with tears in her eyes.
"Wuwuwu..."
Just as Astrea was about to pounce in front of Wu Yan, he suddenly said something utterly unexpected.
"I think it's a good suggestion too!"
Astrea froze mid-pounce in the air...
"Hey, Ikaros, what do you think? You think it's a good suggestion too, right?..." As though that was not stimulating enough, Hinagiku turned to Ikaros.
Ikaros looked at Astrea, staring at her intently without saying a word, yet that alone made Astrea feel somewhat uneasy.
"Senior Ikaros..." Astrea weakly raised a hand. "You're not really planning to fight me, are you?..."
Ikaros lowered her head, then abruptly raised it.
"If Master thinks so too..."
Astrea immediately lost her composure at those words, her face crumpling.
"No way? We're really fighting?..."
Looking at Astrea's expression as though the world was ending, Wu Yan and the others found it rather amusing.
They more or less understood what Astrea was thinking. They knew she did not like fighting, but that was not enough to make her lose her nerve whenever battle came up.
Astrea was acting like this only because her opponent was Ikaros...
For some reason, Astrea respected and even feared Ikaros immensely!
They got along quite well normally. But whenever combat was involved, Astrea would absolutely never try to be clever around Ikaros!
That was also why Astrea was resisting the idea of fighting Ikaros from the bottom of her heart...
"It's not like you're actually deciding a winner or loser, so it's fine..." Wu Yan shook his head with a laugh