"Right when you, Cipher, picked up and ran off with Krydrla, whom I'd worked so hard to find." Pardo stepped out from around the corner, sounding somewhat aggrieved as she waved a pink-covered book in her hand.
When it came to luck, Pardo was a notch above Cipher.
But when it came to speed, Pardo and Cipher were about evenly matched—if Pardo could open a portal before Cipher caught her, Pardo would win, but opening a portal took time too.
So after Pardo opened five Random Teleportation Gates and actually appeared before Krydrla, she had just been about to open another when, in the time it took to turn around, she saw Cipher already carrying Krydrla over her shoulder.
What else could Pardo do? Of course... Steal!
"You have the person, and I have the book. Split it fifty-fifty?" Pardo waved the Pink Book in her hand at Cipher and blinked her azure eyes.
"Mm... A bet was a bet. You can have it all. But the next commission is mine, okay?" After thinking it over briefly, Cipher spoke to Pardo, her tail swaying lightly.
"Deal." Pardo gave a thumbs-up, her smile dazzling.
After Pardo placed the Pink Book into Chen Li's hands, Chen Li began handing out the Starstone reward he had promised the two cats—500 Starstones.
Yet while Cipher and Pardo were chatting happily, Krydrla, who had been the target of the two cats' mission all along, felt inexplicably irritated.
"You two... all illegal gains are hereby confiscated!"
The Scales of Justice instantly appeared in Krydrla's hands. With her judgment pronounced, the 500 Starstones that had already reached Pardo began floating toward Krydrla's hand before Pardo's disbelieving eyes.
Pardo instinctively looked toward Cipher, but Cipher merely shrugged. Just as she had said: a bet was a bet.
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