"Miss Ishtar!"
Seeing Ishtar descend from the sky, Mash, who had been on guard, froze for a moment before breaking into a delighted smile.
But Ishtar immediately mocked that delighted expression.
"Hey, I came here to pick a fight, not reunite with family. What's with that look on your face, like you've just met a friend you lost years ago?"
It had to be said: this shameless Venus Goddess's retort was brutally effective.
"B-But..."
Mash looked at Luo Zhen in confusion, as if asking, Isn't that how it is?
Ishtar immediately panicked.
"Of course it isn't! I'm not your friend! Don't forget, I'm a goddess!"
Ishtar emphasized this point intensely.
In this situation, Luo Zhen patted Mash's slender shoulder and said,
"See? I told you she was an inhuman goddess."
That completely infuriated Ishtar.
"You! Don't think that just because we spent some time together, you can insult me!" Ishtar said furiously. "The fact that I didn't hold your previous disrespect against you was already an enormous act of mercy. Not to mention that I helped you over at the Beast Goddess's place. A favor like that would have been absolutely impossible for me in the past. After that, we should have been even, yet you actually dared to come to my territory and run wild. Do you really think I don't have a temper?"
There was no denying that she had a point.
At least, ever since Luo Zhen had encountered Ishtar after coming to this era, the goddess had constantly suffered setbacks at his hands. Not only had she never gained the upper hand, she had even helped Luo Zhen out quite significantly.
Such a way of repaying resentment with kindness would have been absolutely impossible for the Ishtar of the past.
This time, if she had not