"Um, this... what exactly is going on? Why would you, Anna...?"
"Hehe, don't be so nervous. Actually, this was all the Captain's arrangement, specifically to give you a chance to regain your confidence."
Anna explained to Wendy.
"The Captain?"
Only then did Wendy remember that she still had not seen any sign of Mo Wang.
"Haha, looks like my acting was pretty good. Wendy was so fooled by me that she even cried."
Just as Anna mentioned Mo Wang, he appeared behind Wendy with a cheerful grin.
From the look of him, forget injuries—even a speck of dust had not touched him.
No matter how slow Wendy was, she could already tell that Mo Wang had tricked her.
In an instant, Wendy went full Pufferfish, glaring at Mo Wang with puffed-up cheeks.
Her little fists kept pounding against him.
Of course, aside from making metallic clanging sounds and leaving Wendy's hands numb, Mo Wang's expression did not change at all.
"Alright, alright, I was wrong. Isn't that enough?"
"Stop hitting me. If you damage your hands, won't your disability be even worse?"
"It'd be bad if you ended up needing someone to feed you too."
But the moment Mo Wang finished speaking, Wendy got even angrier. Her fists became like sledgehammers, pounding Mo Wang without pause.
"Alright, you two, stop messing around. The Captain was trying to help you out of kindness this time, so don't be angry with him anymore, okay?"
Anna tried to smooth things over beside Wendy, and after considerable effort, finally turned her back from a Pufferfish.
"So you two worked together to trick me?"
Wendy stared at them, still somewhat angry.
"How can you call it a trick?"
Facing Wendy's questioning, Mo Wang said, "The competition was real, the contestants were real, and Anna really