Diligence Easily Makes One Bald

"Grandpa Ryze..."

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"That energy fluctuation just now was definitely your imagination. You should stop looking... If you keep wasting your mental energy like this, you'll go even balder~!"

?乛?乛?

Annie knew that the energy fluctuation from just now really had come from that Miss Ahri. But she didn't want some old geezer to actually find her and make Annie—because of her promise—help capture her. So, other than jumping in now to cause trouble or throw him off the scent, she didn't have any better ideas.

She couldn't keep this up for long, but she could stall for a little while. As for everything else, she didn't want to deal with it right now!

"..."

"Annie, Master Ryze is already bald. Can he really get any balder?"

With the people of Wuju Village long since slaughtered by the Noxian Empire's army, the Wuju Order had been reduced to a single surviving member: himself. His lack of social interaction had left Master Yi, the Wuju Sword Saint, rather blunt and reserved. Hearing the little girl's words, he first touched his curly hair, badly singed by the magic of a certain bald archmage, and what remained of his beard. Then he asked her, puzzled.

The question of how an utterly bald man could become even balder from overusing his mental energy had caught him off guard. He'd subconsciously assumed it was some kind of joke to lighten the mood.

"Eh?"

∑(′△｀)?!

Oh, right!

It seemed...

It really did seem that old geezer Ryze was already bald... With not a single hair left on top of his head, getting any balder would be a little difficult, wouldn't it?

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"..."

Ryze, the wandering archmage in question, ignored the two impertinent people over there discussing the ridiculous topic of his head. He simply