()°One Person Eats It All
Annie and Xiadow's wager was nothing more than a little side event. It didn't really matter who won or lost!
After all, what White Moon Kui—Boss Bai—had most wanted to see was Annie's personal strength. Now she'd finally seen it, and that was what mattered most.
Sure, that might have been only part of the strength Annie had shown, but even a glimpse of the whole picture gave White Moon Kui confidence that she could roughly gauge Annie's abilities. She figured Annie's strength was probably about on par with her own when she went all out.
There might be some differences in the details, but in any case, Annie wasn't an enemy of Dragonbone Village, so that was that.
After Annie wiped out the group of grim beasts and burned them all to ash, making sure they wouldn't regenerate and that there were no new dangers nearby, the group lit a campfire on the mountain peak and settled in for the night. They would keep watch over the "Lighthouse" hanging high in the sky.
As for the grim beasts gathering ceaselessly around them beneath the Lighthouse, they weren't too concerned. As long as they remained in the state of Returning to Origin and kept their emotions steady, those monsters were like a bunch of blind fools and could hardly detect them.
"..."
After staring for a while at the meat sizzling over the campfire, its fat popping, Annie glanced at the enormous black "Lighthouse" in the distant sky and suddenly asked:
"Are we really just going to sit around here and wait?"
"Just what are you waiting for?"
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"And how long are we supposed to wait?"
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(゜゜)
As she spoke, Annie turned to the White Moon Kui beside her and asked impatiently.
She'd