Before the End of the World--

At the instant Su Youzi arched her body backward.

An azure-blue giant hand had already reached in through the vine-wrapped hole, directly grabbing His Eminence the Pope and Su Youzi and instantly pulling them out of the area where the crystal hammock lay.

The bloody fluctuations almost simultaneously destroyed everything within the area around the crystal hammock, leaving the naked Origin Witch floating there.

The Origin Witch's wide, hollow eyes fixed on Su Youzi. The next second--

Vines and leaves formed from the converging bloody fluctuations wrapped around her body, condensing into a thin dress that could barely pass inspection.

"Ha... haha..."

Su Youzi panted heavily.

She twisted around to look at His Eminence the Pope and the Eight-armed Serpent Crown Goddess. Her expression shifted, and her heart was filled with mixed emotions.

Aside from the relief of having survived the calamity... there was also... a little shame.

Su Youzi had never expected this--

This time, she had truly suffered social death.

But the path to that social death... was just a tiny bit different from what she had imagined.

No matter how she thought about it, Su Youzi probably never would have expected that the first time in her life... well, possibly the second time she had messed up, would actually happen in front of her long-lost father.

Su Youzi looked at the azure-blue Serpent Crown Goddess.

Although the Eight-armed Serpent Crown Goddess still maintained her turned-away posture, refusing to look at Su Youzi, beneath her coiled serpent crown... another face appeared. It was completely different from that dignified and solemn face of anger—a more charming, friendly, and mischievous face.

That was right--

Although the Serpent Crown Goddess had obeyed Su Youzi's order and turned her head away, Youzi had never said that after turning her head, she could