Hearing the Eerie Courier's demand, Catherine stood where she was and frowned. "...If everything goes smoothly, what will happen to me?"
[Eerie Courier]: "I will tear 'you' out of this body and create separate fleshly bodies for you."
"In the end, you will enter the [Perfect Dungeon] and live forever in that world of your fantasies."
Catherine frowned even more deeply. "Just a verbal promise?"
At the end of the darkness, the Eerie Courier raised his bluish-black eyes. "That's right."
"You can choose not to believe me and return to the side of your old teammates."
"To me, the outcome is the same."
"Just one more corpse."
There was not the slightest hint of cooperation in the Eerie Courier's tone. From beginning to end, he sounded as though he were ordering a servant around...
Catherine's gaze darkened, malice stirring within her. Did "they" want to resist? They did!
But after seeing the "trump card" the Eerie Courier had revealed, Catherine knew that this Main Quest reset would still end in defeat.
And it would be an even more disastrous defeat!
In Catherine's eyes, Jiu Ye and Tianma were merely two canaries unwilling to extinguish their hope, dreaming of breaking free from their cage.
They believed that perseverance would eventually shatter the cage, but in the end, they would only become two foolish birds that smashed their heads bloody against it and died horribly...
Catherine said softly, "But my Haunted House can't withstand the collision between their two Dungeons..."
"They won't fight you to mutual destruction. They only want to seize your [Authority] and take the [Nine Myriad] card."
"Besides, now that they've discovered my existence, they'll be even more cautious."
"I understand."
Catherine nodded slowly.
Just as she was about to turn around, something fell from the darkness—a skull badge.