"Yes, Master."
Li Luo replied in her mind.
Only after sensing Eternal Night's will leave her mind and stop rifling through her memories did the woman's taut nerves ease slightly.
Yet before she could catch her breath, another sudden change followed close behind!
The pocket watch clenched tightly in her palm suddenly glimmered without warning. With a soft click, its cover sprang open.
The hands on the dial silently shifted, and the restriction was lifted.
Her sealed memories resurfaced, dispelling the last trace of confusion from the woman's eyes.
"Mite..."
Li Luo parted her thin lips and called the name of the small figure before her.
Mite froze, secretly startled that this strange woman knew his name.
The next second, something small and icy was forcibly stuffed into his hand.
"S-So fast..." Mite, who had not reacted at all, instinctively cried out and tried to throw it away.
But Li Luo was faster. She closed her palm around his hand, tightly gripping both it and the [Time Scar Pocket Watch] in his palm as she said sternly:
"Keep this safe. You must take proper care of it!"
"In the future, give it to someone who needs it!"
"Uh... huh?" Mite was utterly confused.
What was going on?
Just a moment ago, this woman had looked fierce, with a murderous glint in her eyes.
She had also been extremely wary of everything around her.
Why had she suddenly become like this?
The pocket watch taken from the woman's body clearly looked far from ordinary.
Yet without asking anything, she had simply stuffed it into his hand...
Wasn't this change a little too abrupt?
It was even more absurd than those power-fantasy dramas the Goblins used to perform for the Great Demons back when they had yet to escape their oppression!
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