----"I Want to Make You Mine"----
When those words came from Echidna's mouth, Fang Li was taken aback for a moment.
Then, Fang Li could not help but laugh.
Seeing this, Echidna seemed rather surprised.
"I never expected that sort of reaction." Echidna spoke with great interest. "I had imagined what kind of response you might give in this situation. You might panic, pretend to stay calm, feel confused, or fail to understand what was happening. Observing such things is my interest; it is how I have lived until now. Yet you laughed. That is interesting too, of course, but may I ask why?"
Even as she said this, Echidna's words remained full of curiosity.
She truly was curiosity incarnate.
But that was only natural.
After all, Echidna was the Witch of Greed.
Greed was intense desire—what people called avarice and covetousness.
Although Echidna was the embodiment of greed, her greed manifested solely in her endless thirst for knowledge. While alive, she pursued all kinds of knowledge and secrets, accumulating an almost unimaginable amount of information and becoming known as the personification of the desire for knowledge.
Therefore, satisfying her curiosity was Echidna's foremost principle of action. The reason she had invited Fang Li was presumably because something about him had greatly piqued her interest.
Fang Li did not put on any airs. He merely spoke with an amused smile.
"Because I've heard those words before."
He remembered that, when he had first arrived at Roswaal Mansion and met Roswaal, the kingdom's strongest mage had said the exact same thing.
Of course, that was only because Roswaal had wanted to extend an olive branch to Fang Li.
Now, Echidna had said the same thing as well.
Thinking of the relationship between the two, Fang Li could not help laughing.
That