There was nothing.
Only the old-fashioned clock hanging on the wall continued ticking away, its second hand turning.
"What's wrong?" Mei Terumi asked.
"Nothing. My neck just feels chilly," Lin Qing said. "It's not the first time."
"That's what happens when you spend too long hunched over a desk. Back when I was a ninja on the front lines, I got beaten up every so often. Everything hurt except my cervical spine. Now nothing hurts except my cervical spine."
As Mei Terumi spoke, she set down her pen, rubbed her aching neck, straightened up, leaned against the back of her chair, and tilted back slightly.
The motion made her already voluptuous chest stand out even more.
Lin Qing glanced over instinctively, then looked away. He copied Mei Terumi's movement and stretched backward as well.
But he knew.
This had nothing to do with cervical spondylosis.
An Ultimate Lifeform getting cervical spondylosis?
If Kars heard that, he would laugh himself back to life.
It was the Threefold Calamity.
Lin Qing was certain of that.
What he could not determine was how these so-called world-class, grand-fortune-class calamities would descend.
Lin Qing had made many guesses about this. He had sought out the Great Toad Sage and Priestess Shion several times, asking whether they had seen any clues about the future.
Unfortunately, neither had an answer.
All Lin Qing could do was wait.
Besides the Threefold Calamity, there was something else worth noting.
In the past, Lin Qing had consumed vast resources on card draws and upgrades. Basically, whatever Stand the system gave him, he used. The ones he truly could not use were stored away until a suitable opportunity arose.
Now that he had the Lucky Roulette, although the thing was rather underhanded, Lin Qing could replace idle Stands at a low