"Sigh, I was just about to keep playing. But in that case, I guess I'll pass."
Chen Xi rose from her seat with exaggerated reluctance.
"Heh." The other two rolled their eyes at her in unison.
The three followed the attendant out of the room and along the lavishly decorated corridor. After a winding route, they finally arrived at the meeting room.
"Please." The attendant opened the door for them, then stepped aside.
Chen Xi peered inside and saw that Todds and Iseriel were already seated at the round table, waiting for them.
Todds wore a calm, placid expression, while Iseriel looked stern and imposing.
With a single glance, Chen Xi saw through their little act—one was playing good cop, the other bad cop.
Sigh. What a disappointment.
She'd been the one to save him, and now that he'd only just woken up, the first thing he did was start testing her.
Chen Xi shook her head, pretending to be disappointed.
"Are you coming in or not?" Lin Yue interrupted her performance. Only then did Chen Xi realize she was blocking the doorway.
The three entered in an orderly fashion and took their seats opposite Iseriel around the table.
Iseriel maintained her stern expression. "My subordinates have already gathered all the information from the battlefield. The situation is indeed much as you described."
"Then you know who I am, right?" Gu Yu leaned both hands against the table and asked eagerly.
Iseriel nodded earnestly. "That's right. You're Gu Yu, a Saintess candidate. You happened to escape from the Spark Federation just before its destruction, so there's nothing suspicious about that."
Chen Xi, sitting nearby, bristled at those words. On the ship, she'd covered for Gu Yu because she hadn't known anything about the Saintess candidates.
So it turned out that