Is Illuga Really in This Pool?

"Hmph, you don't need to tell me." o(′^｀)o

With that, Scaramouche vanished from where he stood in the blink of an eye. From the rooftop, he gave Yae Miko one final look, as if saying, "I'll be watching you." Then he disappeared from everyone's sight.

Even now, Paimon and Lumine both felt like their brain CPUs were overheating.

Lumine even thought she was still unconscious. She lightly tugged Paimon's cheek, making Paimon yelp in pain and fly off like a bolt, and only then did she confirm that what she had just seen was not an illusion.

"Miko, what exactly is going on? Why would Scaramouche help us? Didn't you say he had already left with the Gnosis? And what was that sword? Why do I feel like I've seen it somewhere before?"

Lumine's questions came one after another.

She truly could not make sense of it! Yae Miko had clearly said that Scaramouche had left, and that he had taken the Gnosis with him. Why had he appeared here again?

And that sword, along with Scaramouche's attitude just now—something about all of it felt very wrong.

"Oh my, well... little one, do you remember what I said earlier?"

"To save you two, I gave up more than just the Gnosis. There were a few little things as well."

"You mean Scaramouche became like that because of something you did?" (′?ω?)?

Paimon rubbed her slightly reddened cheek and asked cautiously.

Darn it, Lumine's pinch had hurt way too much! Sob... I'll definitely get her back for this!

If she doesn't let me eat my fill at dinner this time, I absolutely... probably won't forgive her!

"That's right. Do you remember the reward the system gave my dear before?"

"It was a talisman engraved with a white tiger. In her pursuit