Two Preparations

"What are you going to do next?"

"What am I going to do? Tch. I'll deal with that secondary personality that's about to take shape first. It's too much of a nuisance."

"Do you need help?"

"No. This is simple. It won't take long."

"As long as you have a plan."

Then, the man and the snake simply looked at each other in silence.

"What? Is there something else?"

"Uh, no."

"Mm. Then I won't see you out."

"Uh... sigh. All right. Goodbye, Granny." With that, Shiro turned and left. But just as he was about to turn the corner, he paused, tilting his head slightly back. "Also, Granny... thank you."

Then he vanished in a puff of smoke.

The Snake Sage smiled. "So this is what Gray Snake meant by acting cool? What an interesting little fellow."

"Yo, Gray Snake. Thanks." As soon as Shiro returned to the camp, he first thanked Gray Snake, who was coiled in the middle of the camp.

"Hiss~" It looks like you've recovered. Does the plan still continue?

"The plan?" Hearing Gray Snake bring that up, Shiro's eyes narrowed slightly.

To be honest, Shiro truly, from the bottom of his heart, did not want to do that thing. But just as the Snake Sage had said, with some things, no matter how much you disliked them, once your life was involved, the vast majority of people had only one choice.

And unfortunately, Shiro was one of that mediocre majority.

He might not even count as mediocre. He was just a hypocrite who wanted to have it both ways.

But now that Shiro had come to his senses, he naturally would not proceed according to the original plan. Though the overall direction would remain the same, he would change the methods.

After all, a