I Didn't Want This Either

The attack came without the slightest warning.

The woman's expression changed drastically as she instinctively shouted:

"Dodge!"

Roar Eater Swallow immediately flew sideways, evading the Wing Blade's frontal attack.

However, the Wing Blade suddenly spun around from behind and continued shooting toward it.

Just as it was about to strike Roar Eater Swallow, Roar Eater Swallow suddenly seemed to lose control of its body and was yanked more than ten meters upward by an invisible force with a whoosh.

As if sensing something, Qiao Sang looked toward the front right.

There, where no one had been standing before, appeared a pale-skinned, middle-aged man with black hair and blue eyes, along with a cat-like Pet Beast about two meters tall. Its body was mostly white, and there was a moon-shaped ornament in the center of its forehead.

At that moment, the cat-like Pet Beast was carrying the man on its back, its eyes glowing blue—the appearance most Psychic Type Pet Beasts took when using a skill.

There was another person... Qiao Sang's heart tightened, but she did not panic too much.

She wasn't afraid of having many enemies. What she feared was enemies lurking in the shadows and watching her the entire time.

So this was probably the Pet Beast that had used Space Confinement... Qiao Sang's gaze settled on the white cat-like Pet Beast.

As if confirming her guess, the voice with the same tone as Little Treasure's rang out again:

"Let me take a look... Yue La Mu, an Advanced Pet Beast of the Psychic Type. The waxing and waning of the moon affects its physical condition and fluctuations in strength. It is especially lively on nights of the full moon, but when the moon cannot be seen during the day, it gets rather listless in every way and also likes to hide itself during the daytime."

"Since Yue La Mu is generally more active at night, Beast Tamers who contract it might only be able to bring out its greatest power at night."

"Not bad, not bad. It's daytime now, so beating it up will be ridiculously easy."

"Yue La..."

In the distance, Yue La Mu glared unpleasantly at Little Treasure, who was using the Pet Beast Identifier.

"Xun Xun~"

Noticing Yue La Mu's gaze, Little Treasure bared its teeth at it provocatively, though its body honestly put the Pet Beast Identifier back into the Ring.

It had just gotten it. It couldn't let it get damaged in the upcoming fight...

"I never thought you'd almost fall for a child's trick." The man sneered.

The woman steadied herself and said with an ugly expression, "Do you think she looks like an ordinary child?"

The man fell silent.

He looked at Qiao Sang, narrowed his eyes, and said:

"Attacking before we've even exchanged a few words isn't a good habit."

Qiao Sang asked:

"Was Space Confinement used by Yue La Mu?"

The man had not expected the girl before him to completely ignore what he said. He controlled his expression and gave a fake smile.

"That's right. There are two of us, so there's no way you can—"

Qiao Sang interrupted him.

"Focus your attacks!"

The moment she finished speaking, blazing rotating flames shot out from Ya Bao's mouth.

Little Treasure raised one short toe on each side, and two pitch-black shadows like satin suddenly shot out from its fingertips. Then two became four, four became eight...

Several shadows twisted toward them with wild ferocity.

Gang Bao shook its body, and the feathers that had previously returned to it transformed into purple blades once more, shooting out together.

Flames, black shadows, and purple blades—three attacks of different colors all swept toward Yue La Mu and the man.

The man: "!!!"

Fuck... The man's pupils constricted sharply. Without time to think, he shouted:

"Barrier!"

"Yue La."

Yue La Mu's eyes glowed blue.

A transparent Barrier roughly three meters wide and three meters long appeared in front of it.

The flames and purple blades struck the Barrier. It rippled with water-like patterns as though it had been violently hit, but no cracks appeared.

Watching from not far away, the woman mocked:

"I never thought you'd almost fall for a child's trick."

At that moment, the man's expression became utterly awful.

The man took a deep breath and was just about to speak when he saw several black shadows bypass the Barrier and attack him from both sides.

They were too fast. In almost the blink of an eye, the black shadows had tightly Bound him from head to toe.

Yue La Mu reacted quickly, wrapping its tail around its Beast Tamer's bound legs so he would not be dragged directly into the air by the black shadows.

However, Ya Bao and Gang Bao kept launching continuous attacks, so Yue La Mu could only maintain the Barrier and could do nothing else.

"Hurry up and help me!" the man roared.

"I don't need you to teach me." As the woman spoke, she formed a Hand Seal with both hands.

Qiao Sang caught sight of her movements from the corner of her eye and called out:

"Luobao!"

Luobao sprang from the backpack and landed directly on Qiao Sang's head. Without another word, it blasted icy air toward the woman.

The temperature plummeted, and the white chill was visible to the naked eye.

The woman's pupils shrank slightly as she sped up her Hand Seal.

A green star array lit up in the air.

A rather round Pet Beast, mostly purple all over, slowly appeared.

But at the instant it appeared, the freezing air swept over it and blew entirely onto its body.

Before this purple Pet Beast could even make a proper appearance, a thick layer of frost froze over its body!

The cold wind continued pressing forward in a fan-shaped spread.

Roar Eater Swallow sensed the danger and flew downward at full speed, barely evading the icy air.

After the purple Pet Beast was frozen into a block of ice, it began falling downward.

The woman had no choice but to wave her hand and recall the purple Pet Beast into her Pet Beast Codex.

After doing all that, the woman stared in stunned disbelief at the blue Pet Beast she had never seen before, one that was only the size of an ordinary low-level Pet Beast. For a moment, her mind could not process it.

What was going on?

Why could this Pet Beast's Icy Wind directly freeze her Advanced Pet Beast?!

The woman was only bewildered for one second before her gaze fell on the blue Miniature Shrinking Bracelet Luobao was wearing.

Then she understood everything.

This was not a low-level Pet Beast. It was only so small because of the Miniature Shrinking Bracelet!

What should she do? She still had an Advanced Pet Beast, but it was a Poison Type Pet Beast. It did not have a Miniature Shrinking Bracelet either and could not move through the air at all... Dick still had a commander-level Ghost Type Pet Beast that could move through the air, but his hands and feet were tied up now, and he could not even form the Hand Seal to summon it... She had to find a way to save him... Damn it, how could someone summon all their Pet Beasts and keep them by their side... The woman's mind raced, and in the end, her gaze landed on the Ghost Type Pet Beast she had never seen before.

Three-Dimensional Mode Darkness Shadow Control... Although it was small and wasn't wearing a Miniature Shrinking Bracelet, this was definitely not a low-level Ghost Type Pet Beast... It seemed she had to attack it first. Only then could Dick's hands be freed so he could summon a Pet Beast...

While the woman formulated her plan, Qiao Sang looked around and discovered that ever since the Pet Beast called Yue La Mu had used Barrier, the surrounding Space Confinement had disappeared.

Little Treasure could use Space Movement now...

But the other side could track her. If she moved some distance and more people came to stop her, that would be troublesome.

Of the two people here, one had already been controlled by Little Treasure's Darkness Shadow Control and only had an Advanced Psychic-type Pet Beast beside him, so he could not summon any other Pet Beasts... The other also seemed rather weak. Her star array was green, and after dealing with that purple Pet Beast, she had not formed another Hand Seal. Her last Pet Beast probably could not move through the air either...

Rather than using Space Movement to leave and allowing these two to exchange information with others in the organization so they could intercept her again, it would be better to deal with them directly and take them both to the Police Station... Having thought this through, Qiao Sang withdrew her thoughts and sighed.

"I didn't want this either, but who told you to appear in front of me and refuse to tell me exactly how you tracked me?"

With that, she raised her hand and snapped her fingers.