Black Cat bounced anxiously in her seat. "Why won't you let Zhuri help you fight?"
Zhuri's curved smile flattened at Black Cat's words. She said seriously and solemnly, "Tian Huhaoqi must fight on her own."
"But didn't she ask you to help intercept Maple Sugar and the others before?"
"That was different." Zhuri watched the apprentice sprint down the corridor with a dagger clenched between her teeth and said softly, "She wasn't without options then. She was simply pressed for time. But she had to walk the final road to victory herself."
"This was respect for both herself and me. She didn't need that kind of help, and I didn't need that kind of pity. Whether she obtained Tian Huhaoqi or not, things were already perfect as they were."
"But the result of this match seems very important to her," Blood Elves suddenly said. "If you keep failing to draw the Red Dragon she wants... would that affect your relationship?"
"It won't, because she left the uncontrollable part to me." Zhuri's tone was light, without the slightest hint of displeasure. "Whether I can draw tiles depends entirely on whether she wins."
"How far she can go has always been in her own hands."
Yu Xunge, who had charged into the corridor with a dagger between her teeth, did not open the weapon crate. This dagger was enough.
She had been about to use the second unlock opportunity she had not had time to use after getting a double kill in the Snow Village corridor, but suddenly, the back of her right hand began to burn. Furious Moon was calling her.
She stopped where she was and watched the level-28 armored guard walk toward her.
But after waiting a second or two, she received no further prompt.
Perhaps this was