Ada carried Hermione and landed on another walkway.
Kirk shouted, "Beautiful!"
Ada thought, At last, this guy's said something sensible.
But Kirk went on shouting to himself, "As expected, Amos is the best!"
Ada stumbled and nearly fell. Her pretty face flushed red with anger.
While everyone else was fighting for their lives, he was focused on the view beneath the high slit of her cheongsam. This guy...
"Amos?" The righteous Leon had no idea what this wicked word meant.
Ada's pretty face turned red. She snapped, "We'd better hurry up and take down the Giant!"
She was afraid Kirk would keep spouting nonsense and tell Leon about that embarrassing scene from that night.
Ada felt a faint fondness for Leon. Though that fondness might never turn into love or bear fruit, Ada also sensed that the vast gulf between their identities and positions would be a major obstacle to the two of them ever being together.
Still, she didn't want the perfect image Leon had of her to be sullied by that despicable little cockroach.
Kirk chuckled.
He wasn't trying to win Ada over through a pure-love route. In fact, with Leon—a handsome, righteous, witty, and charming man—standing right there, Kirk had no chance of proving himself superior to him.
So he could only find another way.
If he couldn't win her over head-on, he'd have to take the crooked path!
There were only two kinds of people women remembered most: the ones they were in love with and the ones they hated most.
Kirk only needed to catch Ada's attention, then gradually lead her into his trap. He could slowly put his plan into action, and that would be enough.
His ultimate trump card against Ada was shamelessness plus coercion!
It was a twisted path, utterly different from