"Listen to yourself." Nikita looked thoroughly wronged as she rattled off at breakneck speed:
"Sure, I'm usually not the most reliable, but how could I possibly mess up something this important?"
"Besides, I'm not the Saint Mother. I don't have her bad habit of drinking heavily, so my head's perfectly clear."
"Also, did you know? The Saint Mother actually signed a Servant Contract with Old Black!"
"If not for that, she'd probably still be stuck in the Palu Star Belt, continuing to lock horns with Shi Bashi and those bunch of bastards..."
At this, Pan Xiaoxiao's eyes widened even more than Nikita's.
"A S-Servant Contract? Xu Xiao and Black Star?"
But she quickly recalled the circumstances she had recorded in the past. After piecing them together, she swiftly reached a conclusion:
"Oh—so that's how it was..."
Nikita did not possess Li Luo's mind-reading ability, much less the means to dissect someone's thoughts from minor changes in expression.
Seeing Pan Xiaoxiao's look of sudden realization, she was instantly left utterly confused.
She immediately asked curiously:
"How was it, exactly?"
"Do you know when the Saint Mother signed a Servant Contract with Old Black?"
"It's only a guess." Pan Xiaoxiao glanced at Nikita before turning her gaze into the distance. "Probably when Octopus Lady had just emerged from the God Realm and went to meet Xu Xiao in the Palu Star Belt."
"I didn't witness it myself, but according to Li Luo, Xu Xiao signed an 'Oath Contract' with a Myriad Realm Trader wearing a multicolored robe, then used the power of her authority to heal him once."
"That trader switched out the contract right in front of everyone. He must have replaced it with a Servant Contract."
"Suka... so there was something like that..." Nikita raised her brows, her azure eyes