"-Aren't you two going to ask?"
Witch Forest, Wooden Cabin.
When Lu Xiu noticed the two lowering their heads again, she turned back.
Shen Nian looked up again, curious. "Ask what?"
"What I need your blood for-what if I wanted to do something weird with it?"
Lu Xiu tilted her head. "Like curse you."
"You can do that too?"
Shen Nian's eyes lit up at once. "Then can you show me?"
"No."
Seeing that Shen Nian genuinely wanted to watch, Lu Xiu was left rather speechless.
Shen Nian looked a little disappointed.
Jian Li, on the other hand, answered seriously, "There's nothing to ask. If you really wanted to hurt me, you could just draw your blade. There's no need to go to all this trouble. Besides, you wouldn't hurt me."
"Exactly."
Shen Nian smiled too, then said earnestly, "If it's you-even if you use it for something weird, I won't mind."
"-First, explain exactly what you mean by 'something weird.'"
Lu Xiu lightly tapped her forehead.
Shen Nian lowered her head to let out more blood and fell silent.
Soon.
A shallow layer of fresh blood had collected at the bottom of both little bottles.
But their bleeding had stopped too. After all, biting a finger really couldn't draw much blood.
Jian Li clearly realized this wasn't working and was already reaching into her backpack for a knife, but that silly Shen Nian seemed ready to bite her finger again.
"-Do you have a grudge against your own finger?"
Speechless, Lu Xiu stopped Shen Nian from hurting herself again. With a slight movement of her fingertips, she controlled two invisible Energy Blades, precisely cutting an opening in each woman's arm, just enough to draw blood.
Then she extended a finger, releasing invisible psychic power.
Hum.
In midair, the crimson