Reunion at Last

"..."

At that moment, the air in the conference room grew rather quiet.

Everyone turned their eyes toward Shien, looking at him as though he were some brave martyr.

Even Shafna was no exception.

"What nerve."

Shafna sighed, then felt a faint sense of displeasure.

When this guy had first met her, hadn't he seemed desperate to stay as far away from her as possible?

Yet now, when faced with her ill-tempered and dangerous younger sister, not only did he not avoid her, he had directly put his hands on her?

He kept as far away as possible from a delicate, gorgeous beauty like her, but wanted to get close to a truly poisonous and dangerous woman instead. What kind of nonsense was that?

Thinking of this, Shafna's mood instantly soured.

Kamina, on the other hand, stared blankly at Shien. Her violet eyes seemed to hold a thousand unspoken words, carrying the faintest trace of complicated emotion.

But that sliver of complexity soon vanished.

"I have to say, you've got a lot of nerve." Kamina glanced at Shien's hand on her shoulder and said softly, "I've lived for twenty thousand years, and this is the first time anyone has dared to touch me so brazenly."

She was probably not deliberately trying to frighten him.

After all, upon hearing Kamina's words, the Devils present all lowered their eyes in silence to some degree.

Clearly, even these Devils had never touched Kamina as recklessly as Shien did.

Shafna had also said that Kamina's poison was a terrifying toxin that even Transcendent Class beings could not ignore. Even they normally did not dare get too close to Kamina.

Therefore, everything Kamina had said was true.

In truth, Shien knew it without her telling him.

There was no other reason. After touching Kamina, not