Thinking maid training was easy... Hehe...
The smile at the corner of Rita's lips deepened, sending a chill down Raven's spine.
But for the island and the villa... Forget a chill down her spine—even if Rita put a scythe to her neck, she would never back down!
"Come on, Miss Raven. Don't just stand here. It's late, and the wind is chilly."
Rita warmly took Raven's hand and led her back onto the transport ship—if one did not know what Rita was thinking, anyone would have thought they were a pair of close sisters.
"Uh..."
Now that Rita mentioned it, her thighs really did feel chilly—though that was also thanks to the woman in front of her.
"By the way, is your identity clean?"
Rita asked as they entered the transport ship.
Even she could not casually bring someone with combat strength practically equal to an S-Rank Valkyrie into Schicksal.
"Clean."
Raven had clearly prepared for Rita's question.
"No matter how thoroughly Schicksal investigates, they'll only find my mercenary identity—the first Raven and the second Snake Feather of the Charon Registry are both me."
"...That's quite confident of you."
Rita could not help but look at her in a new light at that tone.
Although the serum incident had made her mock World Serpent as nothing more than a bloodsucking leech, objectively speaking, the fact that they had made so many moves right under Schicksal's nose without being discovered truly lived up to their name as "the serpent lurking in the shadows."
She had only managed to uncover it this time and escape disaster thanks to Liu Bai.
...Looking at it that way, she really owed Ghostly Gentleman a considerable favor.
"Rather than calling us confident, shouldn't you ask how much attention that Bishop has actually paid to us?"
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