"Bring him in."
At Bai Fu's instruction, Odoayak was brought in, his face full of worry.
Bai Fu stood atop the high platform, looking down at Odoayak, whose body was trembling nonstop.
"I heard you have a secret to tell me?"
Odoayak hurriedly replied, "Yes."
Before coming here, he had wrestled with himself for a long time.
Should he really reveal this secret?
If he did, it would mean taking a firm stand against Ignatz.
As the emperor of the empire, and a descendant of Ignatz, did he really need to go this far?
If Bai Fu learned the secret and still couldn't defeat Ignatz, and Ignatz later found out that he had been the one to reveal it, he'd be done for.
Should he tell her? Should he? Should he really?
Odoayak had questioned himself again and again, trying to find an answer.
Only when he recalled Ignatz's attitude toward him, the empire's past glory and its present predicament, Dmitry and Bualuo, did he finally make up his mind.
Tell her.
He had to.
Not just for himself, but for Bualuo and the empire as well.
Odoayak raised his head.
He was no longer as frightened as he had been when he first came in.
Bai Fu asked, "What do you want in exchange for this secret?"
Odoayak wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and spoke as calmly as he could. "Originally, I wanted to trade this secret for my life. But I've thought it through. You won't kill me. If you really wanted me dead, you would've executed me in public when you captured the empire's capital planet. So I don't want anything in exchange."
Bai Fu looked at Odoayak in surprise.
She even wondered whether someone had possessed him, but the attribute panel returned by her