It had to be said: why Agui had risked his life to snatch away his own mission target was certainly worth pondering.
After all, he was a demigod. In theory, running away on his own shouldn't have been any harder.
Surely he wasn't planning to sleep with it?
"Ji Ping, what's going on?"
Having realized that the target had escaped, Ji Xun decisively stopped expending effort to maintain Gray Descent.
As the world's colors returned, he looked at Ji Ping and demanded sharply,
That scene just now might have caught him off guard at first, but it wasn't hard to figure out now.
Ji Ping's performance had been meant to get close to Old Master Lu, so the thing in his mouth could deliver a fatal strike.
From the beginning, his supposed honest confession and repentance had all been for this moment. He had been on the Native Council's side all along.
The move had been undeniably underhanded. At least in Ji Xun's eyes, if their positions had been reversed, he would have had a hard time escaping it, too.
And yet Old Master Lu, the Rebirth Club's demigod, had casually foiled it almost as if he were toying with him.
Even Ji Liushuang's reaction throughout had been unnaturally calm...
As the one sustaining the merge, Ji Xun was even more keenly aware of everyone's movements within Gray Descent. He knew that even when Lu Ming was ambushed just now, Ji Liushuang's presence had only turned sharply fierce. She still showed no intention of stepping in, as though she had complete confidence in the former.
That display made him all the more wary of the mysterious organization's strength.
Rather than a question, Ji Xun's sharp rebuke of Ji Ping was a way of making his position clear.
"I—I'm sorry. I