"I never said what I got from Chen Li was Starstones or something else from the past. My past self misunderstood it. What did that have to do with me?" Tokisaki Kurumi said indifferently.
"Go tell Chen Li that!"
"...What do you want?"
"The reward for this mission, thirty-seventy split."
"You only provided one doll, and you dared ask for thirty percent?" Tokisaki Kurumi looked at the Sparkle doll in surprise.
"The thirty percent is yours."
"???"
Sparkle, weren't you afraid someone would haul you off and string you up from a streetlamp?
"As they say, fortune was found amid danger. This scam route was a little risky... but the good stuff in the limited card pool Hako Ni World was really tempting."
"..."
As Tokisaki Kurumi's consciousness gradually returned, she blinked to ease the soreness in her eyes before finally making out the situation before her.
Chen Li had abandoned the gentleness he possessed before her time travel. His face was now cold as he pressed the muzzle of a gun against her forehead.
"???" Seeing the flintlock pistol in Chen Li's hand, Tokisaki Kurumi froze for a moment.
Wasn't that my gun?
"Tokisaki Kurumi, I... wasn't lying." As Tokisaki Kurumi sensed her own gun, Chen Li pulled the trigger as his words fell.
Bang!
The bullet struck Tokisaki Kurumi with perfect accuracy, without any surprise.
Only shock remained in Tokisaki Kurumi's somewhat vacant eyes.
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"I understand, I understand. Everyone went through a phase like that while growing up."
"You know, when you thought you'd gained extraordinary power and deliberately did strange things to show how special you were. You might even add 'fallen' after your name."
"Or come up with some new, cooler codename."
Tokisaki