1109. Miss Kiki Never Gives Herself Away for Free

Kiana, floating in midair, blinked repeatedly, utterly dumbfounded.

"Kiki, um..."

"My name really is Kiki. After escaping Destiny, I chose that name for myself. Kiki."

"Alright..." Xu Qi smiled bitterly.

"Why would you... suggest something like that when you were so..."

"So resistant before..."

Xu Qi nodded. Kiki seemed a little regretful about how bold she had just been, but the words were already out. As the Queen, she would not act bashful now.

"What I resisted was not knowing why I had such inexplicable feelings for you. It felt like... love at first sight."

Xu Qi suddenly understood. Indeed, he had felt the same way—he had an innate fondness for Kiki.

"I hated how lacking in restraint those feelings were. I thought they made no sense at all! But... my feelings for you kept influencing me.

"But now that I know about your relationship with Kiana, I naturally don't resist those feelings as much.

"I don't have some strange insistence that, since I'm a newly born soul, I have to be completely separate from Kiana. I know that's impossible...

"Without Kiana, there would be no Kiki, so I'm willing to accept Kiana's influence on me."

"..."

At that moment, Kiana, floating nearby, suddenly said in a gloomy voice, "Who says you like him because of me?"

"Huh?"

Xu Qi looked over curiously as well.

"Although I do exert a tiny bit of influence on you—like letting you sense my Mental Power, which makes you instinctively trust Xu Qi—but!"

Kiana darkly pointed at Kiki's nose.

"I don't directly interfere with your feelings of liking or hating anyone!"

"..."

The atmosphere suddenly fell silent.

Xu Qi thought about it. He had assumed that Kiana was the reason Kiki let him flirt with her without hating him, but... if that wasn't the