Lin Chongshu continued questioning Mikoto. "Tell her, what's your identity now?"
Mikoto lowered her head, clutching the sleeve of her loungewear. Her lips moved several times, but she just couldn't say it.
Nonō tilted her head as she watched her, looking thoroughly entertained.
Lin Chongshu waited a few seconds. Seeing that Mikoto still could not bring herself to speak, he said, "You don't know what your identity is? Then coming here so late at night... you weren't actually here to assassinate me, were you?"
Mikoto immediately raised her head and waved her hands repeatedly. "No... no..."
After saying that, she turned her face away. She did not dare look at Nonō or Lin Chongshu, and even the tips of her ears had begun to redden. "I'm Lin Chongshu's woman now."
[Detected intense negative emotions from Uchiha Mikoto toward the host: shame. Reward extraction complete.]
[Obtained: Agility +0.4]
Lin Chongshu nodded in satisfaction. I really underestimated Mikoto. I can still squeeze some points out of her.
Nonō raised an eyebrow and shifted her gaze from Mikoto to Lin Chongshu's face, her tone surprised. "Oh? So you're Lin Chongshu? That Lin Chongshu?"
As an intelligence agent, she had naturally taken note of Lin Chongshu—the man in the Land of Wind who openly carried a C-rank bounty but secretly had a privately funded A-rank bounty on his head.
"Oh dear, I got too carried away and exposed myself," Lin Chongshu replied with a smile.
"You're sure?" Nonō tilted her head. She had seen Lin Chongshu's bounty photo, and it was not this face.
"I'm sure."
Mikoto stood to the side, her eyes moving back and forth between them. Were they speaking in code? And were there several Lin Chongshus?
Seeing the utterly confused look on Mikoto's face, Lin Chongshu wrapped an arm around