"So this is how you handled it?" C.C. hugged the newly acquired Cheese Lord, a Sealed Card still pinched between two fingers as she regarded Jiu Ming's somewhat embarrassed expression with a faint, elusive smile.
Jiu Ming had replaced every appliance that had been blown up, but there was one thing he had forgotten—clothes. If he went now... those stores were probably all closed. He would have to wait until tomorrow if he wanted to buy any.
So, faced with the green-haired girl wrapped in nothing but a bath towel, Jiu Ming felt incredibly awkward.
"Yeah. Looking back on it, I feel like I went a little too easy on them."
"Is that so?" C.C.'s eyes were slightly unfocused as she examined the Sealed Card held between her fingers.
Name: Concealment Type: Skill Attribute: None Notes: None Remarks: La la la! I'm a little pebble by the roadside... An essential skill for assassins!
This was the ability that had been stripped away... In Jiu Ming's words, it had been a "fair trade." That black-market dealer had sacrificed his superpower in exchange for avoiding the calamity that would otherwise have come at Jiu Ming's hands. Very fair, wasn't it?
Looking at this Sealed Card, C.C. had already made a preliminary confirmation. Jiu Ming truly possessed the ability to free her from that "curse of immortality" that had worn her down so deeply.
Yet this incident had also made her see even more clearly just how difficult it would be to make Jiu Ming do it.
"I thought you'd fly into a rage and massacre that place back and forth until it ran red with blood."
"Hey, that kind of instigation is way too bloody. You know, ever since I made my debut, I've never taken a human life!" Jiu