You'd Better Come Clean, Otherwise

The moment she saw this guy, who had turned and tried to slip away the instant he saw her, dash into the kitchen without looking back, Ling felt one of her nerves twitch violently.

Ling gritted her teeth slightly and flung out an invisible wave of telekinesis!

"You idiot, get back here!!!"

Then Meng Lang and Gou Yu both heard a scream from the kitchen, like someone had been grabbed by the ankles and slapped onto the floor like a rag.

"Ah—!"

Then, under Meng Lang's sweaty stare and Gou Yu's silent speechlessness, a certain C-Rank idiot who had tried to flee before an A-rank Upper Tier—

was dragged out from the kitchen floor by both feet like a salted fish.

"Ah! No! Yamete!"

At the same time, this "salted fish" desperately clawed at the floor, trying to crawl forward with squeaking friction noises, his survival instinct overflowing.

If the atmosphere had been different, this scene would have been straight out of a horror movie. Gou Yu, who had been the first to spot Ling outside the balcony and had actually wanted to warn Fang Ran not to say anything, sighed helplessly and covered his face in embarrassment.

So, Captain... why did you always badmouth Her Majesty whenever she wasn't around?

Meanwhile, Meng Lang trembled as he watched the "tragic" scene, like a death row prisoner being dragged from his cell to the execution ground, and swallowed hard.

L-Lucky I hadn't gotten curious about what photos that pervert little brother had secretly taken, or else...

Since Fang Ran had only gotten halfway through his sentence earlier, Meng Lang, who had not had time to answer, felt that he had come within a hair's breadth of dying.

"Uh, hehehe... Your Majesty, you're back?"

Thus, to show his loyalty and prove that