Renzik, an Oglin Kobold and the younger male cousin of the late Player Rasekton, froze on the spot.
He could clearly sense the mockery in Nikita's words.
But somehow, he also felt that the woman had a point.
Wasn't his mother part of the canine branch of the Oglin Orcs?
Calling him a son of a bitch really didn't seem wrong.
Seeing his companion fall into bewildered silence, unable to process things for the moment, the foxman hurriedly changed the subject.
"Your black-sailed ship looks familiar, sir. Didn't it come to the Palu Star Belt some time ago?"
Nikita shifted her gaze from the mentally crashed kobold to the foxman beside him and let out an exaggerated "Oh?"
"Oh?"
"Pretty good memory!"
"When I was racing that ship through the sky back then, were you one of the pursuers?"
"Hiss... wait, you probably weren't one of them. I remember none of those pursuers being as scrawny as you..."
The foxman's expression stiffened, and the corner of his mouth twitched wildly.
This woman...
had just admitted it outright?
Wasn't she being a little too arrogant?!
"Eh, forget it. They were just some nameless trash anyway..." After thinking for a moment, Nikita lost interest and stopped pondering the matter. She asked, "Why are you asking?"
"Don't tell me you want to snatch my Alisa away again?"
As she spoke, the Cat-Ear Girl happened to step out from behind Nikita, fully entering the foxman's view.
A beast pet, golden all over and shaped like a snake but with a pair of delicate little horns on its head, slithered out from her arms.
It loosely coiled around her neck, hanging over her chest like a luxurious gold necklace.
The beast pet's eyes were filled with biting coldness.
Just meeting its gaze made the foxman