Cipher: Mei Is Obviously Super Strong, So How Come She... Can't Find Her Way Around? (1W1, continued)

Vita naturally knew that Sparkle had two aeon-level Servants: the Trailblaze Aeon A Kivili and the Aeon of Joy Aha.

She also knew that the Command Spell on Sparkle's left hand represented the Aeon of Joy, Aha.

But Vita was also a Masked Fool. With the power of Kingslayer, she could forcibly borrow all of the Aeon of Joy Aha's power for herself!

Aha was your trump card?

Very well, he was hers now!

"Want to go outside and spar?" Sparkle raised her chin and gestured toward the window with her eyes.

"Let's spar, then! You think I'm scared of you?" Vita rose to her feet as well, her fighting spirit blazing.

The smell of gunpowder between them was so thick it could practically ignite the air. It seemed as though they would rush out the door the next second for a duel of the century... and successfully leave Chen Li's field of vision at the same time—

"Rustle, rustle..."

A faint sound of fabric rubbing together reached them.

Sparkle and Vita froze at once, instinctively turning toward the source of the sound.

Chen Li had somehow seated himself in a chair beside the bed and was unhurriedly unfolding an utterly ordinary-looking tablecloth.

The tablecloth appeared completely unremarkable. Its material was plain, it gave off no energy fluctuations, and it looked like the sort of thing one could find in any ordinary kitchen.

Yet the instant they saw it, all color drained from the faces of Sparkle and Vita, who had just been itching to go outside and fight to the death.

The two exchanged a terrified glance, each seeing the same bone-deep fear and despair in the other's eyes, before instinctively hugging each other.

They were done for.

The thought flashed through both their minds at once.

"Come on.