Even at a time like this, Kitahara Kaede was still grumbling inwardly.
Ōtsutsuki Shin casually glanced at the man before her.
Though the middle-aged man had made quite a dashing entrance,
his legs began to tremble after the old woman merely gave him a look.
"What are you trying to do?"
the old woman, Ōtsutsuki Shin, said calmly.
"Even the law enforcement squad cannot interfere with me. What I say represents the will of the ancestor of my Dao Discussion Clan!"
At first, Kitahara Kaede thought he had encountered a rescuer.
He had not expected that he had been completely wrong.
This old woman had an even more terrifying trump card.
And now, it seemed no one present could help him.
So Kitahara Kaede stepped forward.
"Actually, I'm one of the Sage's people!"
Kitahara Kaede spoke with conviction.
Yet for some reason, he sounded somewhat lacking in confidence.
Even after Kitahara Kaede declared his affiliation, Ōtsutsuki Shin remained calm.
"The Sage? I know him. He is nothing more than someone who was exiled."
Kitahara Kaede's heart shook violently.
So that's all the Sage was? Looks like I got played.
But he had seen the Sage's methods before.
So he still decided to give it a try.
After all, his life was on the line.
"You dare say the Sage was merely exiled?"
Kitahara Kaede's tone carried reproach.
Ōtsutsuki Shin's expression darkened slightly.
"Are you questioning me? Then let me ask you—what is your relationship with the Sage?"
A relationship?
He could not exactly say he had been coerced.
So Kitahara Kaede simply said,
"I have a cooperative relationship with the Sage."
Ōtsutsuki Shin laughed.
"Hahaha—cooperation?"
Then she vanished from where she stood.
Everyone present changed expression.
Because Kitahara Kaede really was someone the higher-ups had specifically said could not be