Sure enough, they got to witness some excellent tsundere sharp-tongued play!
Lianye wore a dazzling smile worth +10 healing points, utterly satisfied, utterly satisfied.
"..."
—So this was my fault?
Jeanne d'Arc (Alter) ground her teeth with a creak, then indignantly turned her head away.
If this conversation continued, it would probably turn into another "public execution" for her. And this time, there were even more bystanders watching the spectacle. The cute and clever Miss Jeanne d'Arc (Alter) decisively chose the method of "silence is golden."
"Then, without further delay, I'll hurry up and deploy my Territory Creation."
Lianye did not keep pressing the matter. He flamboyantly flicked out a gilded scepter and held it in a brazen pose.
The entirely golden scepter shone as brilliantly as though it had been forged from the blazing sun. Its head bore a trident-like Crown-class gold ornament. Even though it looked somewhat like a variant of the dark gold Fangtian Huaji—or perhaps the result of "Prince of Demacia (Lu Bu-Fengxian)" getting another skin—the two weapons looked like entirely different Noble Phantasms, both in appearance and in the impression they gave.
"Huh? Isn't the foundation for deploying your Territory Creation a battle flag?" Gudako clicked her tongue in surprise. She had even held it in her hands and played around with it before.
"Oh—you mean Earth Shattering Sky Collapse? That's true, but I'm deploying another Territory Creation now, so naturally I'm using a different Noble Phantasm."
Lianye explained with a completely matter-of-fact expression.
"Another Territory Creation...?"
Everyone who heard that could not help but suck in a breath.
—Since it was a different Territory Creation, the foundation that eroded reality was also different, so a different Noble Phantasm was needed as the "key" for passage. Wasn't that perfectly simple logic?
However, there was a