Kiana: I'm In! Mei Let Me Join! (Continued)

Her rose-red eyes glared at Gray Serpent and Otto beside him with displeasure, as if she were about to pull out a gun from behind her and shoot them both at once.

"You told me to come and complete my resignation procedures, but then you told me there's a mission. Gray Serpent, it's one thing to fool the enemy, but now you're even fooling your colleagues?"

"You can't say that, Raven. This mission is indispensable for you, for the great cause of us World Serpent..."

"Didn't we agree when I joined that I could quit anytime? Even mysterious organizations need to be trustworthy!"

"Ahem! I'm doing this for your own good. Why not make a killing before you quit? This is your last deal, Mr. Otto is a big client, very wealthy. Don't you want your villa island to look even better?"

The Gray Serpent earnestly advised him.

Even the mechanical android felt embarrassed, extremely embarrassed. The excellent employee it had just introduced to the client suddenly announced that he wanted to resign.

Thinking about Otto's subtle look just now, Gray Serpent almost wanted to format his memory bank.

However, it was unaware that Otto's gaze just now was not one of mockery and contempt, but rather one of sympathy and understanding.

(Tsk tsk tsk~ This damn sense of déjà vu! When my old friend Fu Hua suddenly messaged me saying she was leaving Schicksal, I felt the same way. Sigh~ Some employees these days just take advantage of their strong skills and don't respect their superiors.)

However, Otto also poured Raven a glass of red wine in a conciliatory manner, expressing his hope that she would definitely accept the task.

Although, according to Gray Serpent, Raven's strength is only that of an ordinary S-Rank Valkyrie, similar to that of Sister Ta, she possesses the super weapon Cleansing Thunder of Seven Sins!

The Third Divine Key, the Key of Judgment? The Cleansing Thunder of Seven Sins.

The God Keys, forged from the Herrscher Core of the Previous Civilization, possesses the ability to disintegrate those it strikes into atoms!

Otto had previously experienced the power of this God Keys, which disintegrated its Soul Steel body from the atomic realm with a single shot. Had he not logged off quickly, he might have actually perished.

Well, all I can say is that they were easy to kill!

Whether it's S-Rank Valkyrie or even Herrscher, a single hit will result in a fatal blow.

Such an unreasonable and powerful weapon will surely be able to break the deadlock at crucial moments.

However, the Raven still firmly refused.

"Is this about money? I was just about to retire from this life and you suddenly give me a high-risk mission!"

Natasha wanted to give those two the middle finger.

"That guy White Dove once told me that people like us who do this kind of work usually suffer a major calamity when we retire. At that time, we must never accept any emergency missions, otherwise we'll definitely be in big trouble!"

I've already bought my own villa on the island.

Even the construction is nearing completion.

The Raven is just waiting to pack up and move in with its adopted children next month, so it can stop worrying about the outside world and enjoy its retirement.

She didn't want to take on a task that was obviously fraught with difficulties.

Is this about money? Do you really think I, Natasha Xiola, am the kind of woman who's only after money?!

"Raven, this is the advance payment. The reward for the mission afterwards is... this amount."

"Pfft—! Cough cough! I, I'll think about it."

Raven glanced at the check Gray Serpent handed him, then spat a mouthful of red wine directly onto the guy.

The string of zeros made her swallow hard, and her eyes instantly turned into the shape of money.

This one deal is worth more than her previous three years!

Thinking about it carefully, buying a villa on an island doesn't mean you won't need money anymore. While your current savings are enough to live a comfortable life, who wouldn't want to be even wealthier in the future?

The Gray Serpent felt utterly contemptuous as it watched the black dodo bird fall into the trap of money again.

(Hey~ this spineless girl, how did I teach you? All you think about is villas and islands all day long. We are the World Serpent, shouldering the great mission of defeating the Honkai! Stop thinking about money all the time, can't you have a little sense of mission?)

(By the way, let's find an opportunity to blow up her villa island later. Then even if she doesn't want to Raven, she'll have no choice but to obediently return to the World Serpent. Hmm, a mere villa island is nothing compared to our great cause of saving the world. Blame it on the fact that the island you bought can't fly.)

"... Hmm? Why do I feel a chill? Gray Serpent, what were you thinking just now?"

Raven felt a chill run through his body and questioned the Gray Serpent, who had inexplicably fallen into a long silence.

"I've been wondering why the island sank. Cough cough, I mean you really should have taken on this mission."

Otto and Gray Serpent exchanged a glance, and the two heart-shaped contraptions spoke in perfect unison, tempting Otto.

"Miss Raven, don't worry. All I need is for you to pull the trigger when the time comes. It's an extremely easy task that you can accomplish with just a flick of your finger."

"That's right, Raven. Mr. Otto just wants some assurance. Maybe you won't even have to fire a single shot; you can just go sightseeing and the mission will be complete. Missions that are both lucrative and easy are rare finds!"

At this moment Otto and Gray Serpent seemed to transform into product salesmen, constantly telling Natasha that this was an incredibly easy money-making task, one that she wouldn't lose out or be cheated.

Looking at the string of zeros on the check, the little Island Exploding Raven ultimately couldn't resist the temptation of money.

"Okay, alright, then this is the last order."

"Very good, Miss Raven, congratulations on making the right choice."

"Yes, Raven, as your colleague I'm happy for you. Afterwards, you'll return the Cleansing Thunder of Seven Sins, and the World Serpent promises not to disturb your retirement."

"Snort!"

Raven glared at the two men, then took out the Cleansing Thunder of Seven Sins and began to adjust the God Keys.

In her words, this Key of Judgment is a capricious lady; if it is not used to its whims, it will deteriorate and may even refuse to be used.

The Cleansing Thunder of Seven Sins are extremely selective about their users.

Currently, among all World Serpent, only the Raven can be accepted by the Cleansing Thunder of Seven Sins, and it must be constantly cared for and pampered, otherwise it will become a slingshot that she cannot use properly.

Raven: (Seriously, what was the designer thinking when they created this thing? What's the point of this slingshot form?)

Vill-V: (Hehe~!)

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Seeing that Raven had finally accepted the task, Otto and Gray Serpent breathed a sigh of relief. Otto then looked at her with interest, thinking of some things about Natasha.

"By the way, Miss Raven, I heard that you used to have a partner codenamed 'White Dove.' For a period of time, the two of you were known as the strongest mercenary duo in the underworld..."

What do you want to say?

Raven paused for a moment as he adjusted the Cleansing Thunder of Seven Sins.

Otto continued to ask.

"I'm just a little curious. Your partner seems to have suddenly disappeared a year ago. Miss Raven, do you know anything about this?"

The reason he cares is simple.

White Dove, Bai Ge.

The two names sound exactly the same, and the moment Otto heard them, he immediately thought of a certain white-haired boy.

"White Dove, humph, he's long dead."

The Raven's voice grew colder and lower, as if it didn't care at all, and it continued with the adjustments.

However, Otto narrowed his eyes, then curled his lips into a pleased/annoying smile.

"Dead? No, no, no, no~ Miss Raven, your eyes don't seem to think that way."

When the White Dove was mentioned, the Raven's dim yet stubborn gaze felt strangely familiar to Otto.

Five hundred years ago, he was the same. In the period shortly after Kallen's death, he also escaped reality and stubbornly hoped that it was all a nightmare and that the Saintess had not actually died.

He treated the facts as lies.

Treat death as if it doesn't exist.

Fantasy is nothing but a dream.

The stubbornly blindly believing Saintess survived in the world.

"Miss Raven, humans always believe that their important people are immortal and indestructible, but that's ultimately a false belief. You should try to think more positively. Although you've lost your partner, you still have..."

Click!

The next second, Raven's Cleansing Thunder of Seven Sins transformed, and a black, oddly shaped Sniper Rifle was pressed against Otto's head.

The blue electromagnetic light flashing within made even the dog-obsessed man feel a real threat to his life.

"Mr. Otto, let me remind you, if you get hit on the head by this Cleansing Thunder of Seven Sins, even your most prized trick of escaping will be useless."

Because before the consciousness switches to the next Soul Steel body, the head will be instantly broken down into atoms.

The threat in the Raven's eyes is self-evident.

Otto awkwardly raised his hands to indicate that he was not going to say anything more.

The Gray Serpent beside him also sighed.

"Mr. Otto, you really love to court death. Friendly reminder: that's Raven's minefield, don't touch it."

"Gray Serpent, judging from your tone..."

"Hey~ just as you thought."

The Gray Serpent sighed and looked out the window. Back when the White Dove disappeared, it did try to send a clone to comfort the devastated Raven, but it was immediately blown off its head by the Cleansing Thunder of Seven Sins.

Even today, there is still a top-priced missing person post on the dark web, offering an exorbitant sum for any information about 'White Dove' —posted by Raven using a secondary account.

Just then, a flock of White Dove, seemingly destined to be Schicksal on the Floating Island, flew past the window. They caught Natasha's eye, and she was momentarily dazed and her thoughts drifted away.

"The White Dove in the church won't kiss the crow; perhaps he disappeared because he didn't like my black clothes..."