Calling a Thief "Father"?
"What happened?" Jiang Xiao perched half his butt on the table, picking through the fruit platter.
Catherine's expression shifted repeatedly. She tried to stand, only to discover that she could.
However, she had used a little too much force. She should have simply risen from the chair, but instead, she bounced. Such a reckless action was completely at odds with her usual elegant and composed manner.
It was clear that her heart was in turmoil.
Catherine was no fool. In fact, she was quite clever in her own way—and even more so, she was an opportunistic fence-sitter.
Ever since Jiang Xiao had dealt with two Star Transformation members right before her eyes, Catherine had already shown signs of "defecting to the enemy." However, Plato had still been alive then, so Catherine had not openly rebelled.
But there was one thing Catherine had done with her own hands: she had been an accomplice in killing Hades. In a sense, she had helped Jiang Xiao kill Hades.
That blood bat whose wing Jiang Xiao had once pierced with an arrow had frantically begged for help and shrieked at the top of his lungs during the final chapter of his life, calling out to his teammates for assistance.
Yet Catherine, the only Medical Star Warrior in the team, had not stepped in to save him.
She had not healed her gradually withering teammate. She had simply allowed him to dissolve little by little, dying bit by bit.
This was a sign that Catherine's heart had begun to waver.
Without a doubt, before the battle began, Jiang Xiao's words—"What the prophet can give you, I can give you too"—had cracked something in Catherine's heart.
That was why Jiang Xiao had suddenly appeared here, intending to exchange a few words with