The girls of Item really did feel miserable.
"Why is this guy moving with us?"
"So he did this on purpose?"
"What exactly does he want to do to us?"
"...I feel so uneasy..."
Mugino Shizuri, Frenda, Kinuhata Saiai, and Takitsubo Rikou silently thought these things to themselves, feeling unbearably stifled.
With someone as terrifying as Fang Li following alongside them, the girls were constantly on edge.
It was not as though the girls of Item were simply too timid.
Other than Frenda, the rest of the girls had long since resolved themselves to risk their lives.
In a place like the Dark Department, dying at any time was nothing strange.
If it were merely death, then aside from Frenda, Mugino Shizuri, Kinuhata Saiai, and Takitsubo Rikou would not have been so afraid of one person.
The problem was that the terror of death Fang Li brought seemed magnified countless times over, inflicting an extraordinary kind of torment.
Remembering how Mugino Shizuri had once touched Fang Li's reverse scale and been crushed beneath that overwhelming, terrifying killing intent, as well as how Kakine Teitoku had recently been tortured to death so brutally that not even his corpse remained intact, the girls present could not help but be wary.
As a result, these girls, who had always acted however they pleased, now found themselves suppressed like this. Naturally, they felt both frustrated and miserable.
Mugino Shizuri especially—when had she ever admitted defeat to anyone?
This bad-tempered woman, whose pride and competitive spirit were ten times stronger than an ordinary person's, felt ten times more frustrated and miserable under such suppression.
In the end, Mugino Shizuri could not hold back any longer.
"Tell me, what exactly are you plotting?" Mugino Shizuri asked Fang Li with extreme displeasure. "Are you still worried that