The first to react was not Pagliu, but Alice.
The name "Chen Rui" made the little princess's ears perk up at once, and some hidden attribute of godlike deduction exploded within her. "Brother? Brother is here? Right... Oliphis!"
"Oliphis?" Isabella frowned, glanced at Pagliu, then turned her gaze to Clobellus. "Betty, what exactly is going on?"
The Emerald Dragon girl guiltily lowered her head. "I'm sorry, Ine."
"Oliphis went back to the Red Fruit Inn to pack..." Alice suddenly sprang up. "Don't tell me she packed Brother up too!"
That sentence struck right at the heart of the matter. Pagliu's heart began pounding like a drum. Athena and Jia exchanged a glance and spoke in unison, "We're going to the inn right now!"
"No!" Pagliu blurted out almost without thinking. Calculating the time, the Black Dragon girl should already have given Chen Rui that bottle of "nutritious fruit juice." Though they would not be doing the smack-smack-smack so quickly, the medicine should have slowly begun taking effect. If they went to the inn now, all their previous efforts would be wasted. And once this was exposed, the chances of encountering another opportunity like this would be practically nonexistent.
The moment the words left his mouth, a powerful sense of danger surged into Poison Dragon Master's heart. A figure appeared before him in an instant and seemed to ask, as though she had not heard clearly, "What did you say?"
Poison Dragon Master could not help shuddering. This was not an imitation show by the Black Dragon girl, but the genuine original. Compared with her usual two words and a question mark, there were now two more words—clearly, the hatred meter and danger level had risen to the fourth power.
Pagliu dearly wanted to imitate a certain someone by pointing at