"What happened?"
Looking at Naruse Mio, who was sitting on the floor with a flushed face and sweat pouring down her body as if she had a fever, Duanmu Huai was just as confused. He frowned and glanced at Maria, who also wore an utterly astonished expression, as if she had never expected things to develop this way.
"Damn, the curse's effect..."
"A curse? What happened?"
Faced with Duanmu Huai's question, Maria hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"As a matter of fact, what I cast just now was the unique Master-Servant Contract of our race. Once the contract is signed, both parties can sense each other's location, and... to ensure that the servant maintains loyalty, a punitive curse will activate whenever the servant betrays or resists the master. Of course, the curse is in principle affected by the caster's traits..."
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Duanmu Huai narrowed his eyes and stared at Maria.
"So you wanted to secretly form a contract and turn me into Naruse Mio's servant?"
"Ahaha..."
Faced with Duanmu Huai's stern gaze, Maria gave an awkward laugh, but she quickly changed the subject.
"No, but that's not the problem right now! Mio Lord seems to have some resistance to forming a contract with Duanmu Mr., and for some reason, the contract magic I released just now went wrong, causing Duanmu Mr. to become Mio Lord's master instead! So Mio Lord's resistance to forming the contract was treated as a betrayal of her master, which is why the curse was triggered..."
That was nonsense.
Hearing Maria's explanation, Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes. He was a true god, after all. No matter what kind of contract it was, thinking it could affect him was simply wishful thinking. Given Duanmu Huai's highest priority as a true god, this outcome had