Cecilia said as she pulled out the hourglass from her backpack.
Then she stared at it in a daze.
More than half the sand in the upper chamber still had not fallen through, and with the dynamic vision of a quasi-S-Rank Valkyrie, Cecilia clearly noticed that the sand was falling much slower than it had last night.
At this rate, it would probably take another two days.
"What exactly is going on?"
"Yes, what exactly is going on, I wonder~"
Bai Ge revealed a delighted smile.
Cecilia was too innocent and too inexperienced to know just how deep the tricks of the outside world ran. Bai Ge had deliberately tampered with the hourglass when he made it.
He had made some of the sand grains very fine, allowing them to fall into the lower chamber quickly, while the other grains were much larger, so naturally they fell much more slowly.
That caused Cecilia to misjudge the time.
(There was no helping it. She could agree to one day, but she would definitely refuse three days, so I could only find a way to fool this silly girl.)
"No backing out, Cecilia. You already agreed to it yesterday."
"But I..."
"You've already gone back on your word once. If you break your agreement with me again this time, I'll get angry. And then... I might come to dislike you, Cecilia."
Bai Ge narrowed his eyes slightly and pressed both hands against the railing behind Cecilia, leaving her nowhere to escape.
"!!!"
Cecilia's heartbeat skipped. She did not want anyone to dislike her, especially not Bai Ge.
Just imagining it made Cecilia feel an unprecedented sense of loss, as though something had been hollowed out inside her. She even felt so sad that she wanted to cry.
"Have you been happy spending