After asking the question, Christina instead fell into a state of nervous tension.
She herself did not know which answer she was hoping for: "I don't know them," or "Actually, I was very familiar with your parents."
Of course, as an adolescent girl, Tina had fantasized about being a member of some secretly wealthy family, about her parents actually possessing immense wealth and only pretending to be ordinary people who went to work every day in order to "temper" their daughters.
But after entering the world of mysticism in just this single day and learning so much hidden knowledge, she was no longer sure whether this "extraordinary" nature was a good thing or a bad one.
If her parents were Beyonders, perhaps even Angels, it would inevitably bring enormous changes to her and Dorothy's lives, and that might not be a good direction.
For instance, Pierre, who claimed that he had been swallowed by darkness eighteen years ago after extinguishing a candle in the Underground Catacombs and had only recently returned to reality, was entirely a victim of Beyonder powers.
Fortunately, the Genie did not give Tina much time to think. Rather than changing the subject or playing dumb as it had several times before, it answered almost instantly:
"If you mean whether I had crossed paths with them and had some contact with them, then my answer is: yes.
"But I was neither their friend nor their enemy. Our relationship was more like... collaborators."
"Collaboration? Such as?"
Because the conversation in their minds remained shared among the three of them, Dorothy immediately joined in, asking curiously.
Perhaps because they were already nearing the final seal, the Genie no longer concealed matters it had previously avoided even by changing the subject. It slowly answered in their minds:
"For example, just