Crack!!
Hansel gouged two large holes straight through the wooden round table!
Seeing this, Fireball Li's expression did not ripple in the slightest. He merely shifted his gaze away from Hansel's face and casually looked toward the damaged tabletop.
He watched as countless crayon lines materialized around the holes, sticking the flying wood chips back one by one and restoring them.
Only after the tabletop had returned to normal once more did he raise his eyes again and look at Hansel across from him.
By then, Hansel had shed his elegant suit and changed back into the tattered clothes he had worn when he first met Lu Li.
The monocle over his left eye had vanished as well. His clean face was once again smeared with gray-black grime, making him look every bit like a destitute beggar.
The deathly silence in the private room lingered for a long time before Hansel finally broke it with a mutter:
"How could the King leave that piece of history in the Secret Realm for changing classes? He shouldn't have let you know any of that..."
"He clearly knows that what 'Deception' fears most is being exposed. Why would He do this? Why?!"
Fireball Li still showed little change in emotion. He merely raised an eyebrow and replied as if casually:
"Perhaps He only saw you as a chess piece—the kind He throws away once it has served its purpose."
"The King would never abandon me!!" Hansel's despondence suddenly turned to agitation as he shouted, "Deception is the best assistant to Fear and revenge! Once the King regains His former glory, He will surely need me again. He has no reason to abandon me!!"
"I'll wait for Him here, wait for His descent!!"
"You will never shake my loyalty to the King!"
"No one