The Three-Year Term Has Ended-Welcome Back, Wolf King!

"Miko, was it you who saved me?"

Lumine remembered that she seemed to have seen her just before losing consciousness.

—Yae Miko.

"That's right, little one."(′^ω^｀)

The corners of Yae Miko's lips curled up slightly, her eyes narrowing into smiling slits.

"I paid quite a hefty price to get you out, you know."╮(???????)╭

"A price? Did you pay some kind of price, Miko? When I saw Lumine collapse, I was so busy taking care of her that I didn't notice anything."

"Well..."

Yae Miko turned sideways and spoke in a tone that sounded utterly unconcerned:

"If I said I merely gave him a chess piece, and he left in grateful surrender, obediently retreating, would you believe me?"

"How could that be possible?! How could that dangerous, annoying guy possibly run off because of one chess piece?! You might as well say you used some super-powerful spell to drive him away!"o(′^｀)o

Paimon shot Miko an angry glare.

Forget her—even Klee would not fall for something like that!

But after hearing it, Lumine lowered her head and pondered for a moment. Then she suddenly looked up, her eyes widening as she stared at Yae Miko in disbelief.

A few words slowly left her mouth.

"The Gnosis?"∑(??д??lll)

"Huh?!"∑(°口°?)??

"Oh my, little one, you really are clever."

Yae Miko smiled faintly.

"That's right. To save you, I gave up Lady Electro Archon's Gnosis, along with a few other things, to make that fellow spare you."╮(‵▽′)╭

"Huh? But why was the Gnosis with you?"

"Shouldn't something like that be with the Electro Archon? Why did you have it?"(?-_?)??

Paimon scratched her head and thought hard about the other two unreliable gods she knew.

Their Gnoses seemed to have been carried on them at all times. Zhongli was uncertain, but according to what Lumine had said,