Shien really wanted to hit someone right now.
If he could be sure he could beat her, he definitely wouldn't mind charging right in.
He slowly raised the head he had leaned toward Roxie and looked expressionlessly at Lidas.
"Why are you here?"
Shien's tone was extremely hostile.
"Hmph!" Lidas looked even more displeased. "If I weren't here, were you planning to do something bad to my Roxie?"
As she said this, Lidas looked like someone guarding her precious cabbage against a pig ready to root it up, just short of chasing him away with a broom.
Of course, the way Shien looked at this tactless Goddess wasn't any friendlier.
"What I do is none of your damn business." Shien rolled his eyes, stood up directly, and said to Lidas, "Go on. What are you doing here?"
"Hmph!" Lidas snorted again. Only when she saw Shien glaring fiercely, looking as though he was about to come over and knock her on the head, did she hurriedly say, "I was already here. You just didn't notice me."
"You expect me to believe that?" Shien raised his brow. "If you'd been here the whole time, how could I not have noticed?"
When he entered, there had clearly been no one here. Only Roxie had been lying asleep on the bed.
Shien was certain that, at the time, he hadn't seen a single person in this room.
Unless...
"I used my Authority to erase my presence and form." Lidas said rather smugly, "My little Roxie's been very busy and tired lately, after all. I didn't want to disturb her rest."
Only then could Shien have failed to notice Lidas's presence.
Even Shien was not yet strong enough to ignore the power to manipulate fate.
If it were used directly on Shien, he could