Bang—!
The moment the trigger was pulled, the deafening gunshot rang out!
Combining beautiful craftsmanship with outstanding performance, the Colt Python Revolver was immensely powerful. At close range, it could easily take down a medium-sized beast!
Only a hair's breadth away from having her head blown apart, her silver-gray hair stirred slightly in the muzzle blast as the bullet struck the bedroom ceiling.
The smile on Veronica's face did not waver in the slightest. She simply watched, still smiling, as the black-haired young man before her suddenly rose and broke open the revolver's cylinder, his right eye shining brilliant gold.
"Ha..."
Still shaken, Fang Ran let out a long breath. He withdrew the Ability of "Wisdom" from his right eye, relaxed his body from its instant tension, and collapsed back into his seat, casually snatching the dangerous "toy" from her hand.
Fang Ran silently stared at Veronica, speechless.
"Are you insane? Just now, the person in control of all Fies Erde nearly shot herself dead."
Just to be safe, he had instinctively been ready to deploy the Gluttony Barrier.
"But you were here, weren't you? I believe no normal man would want to watch the beautiful woman in front of him turn into exploding brains, blood, and skull fragments."
Not believing in the least that she had just brushed past death, Veronica interlaced her fingers beneath her snow-white chin. She looked at the young man before her with the smile of a blindly lovestruck girl.
"And aren't we friends? You would definitely save me."
What if I hadn't reacted in time?
Faced with that seemingly flawless reasoning, Fang Ran looked at Veronica smiling in the night, as though he were the one who had been nervous enough to fire the gun just now.
"Still, I didn't expect the first shot