Chapter Titles Don't Always Have Anything to Do with the Content~ / You're Watching Me, Aren't You?

She smiled, giving Maria little room to refuse, then turned and led her out of the slums.

After hesitating for a while, Maria silently followed.

The girl's commission was not something she could complete just because she wanted to.

In that case, she might as well take a walk and have some fun with her.

Besides...

Maria quietly turned her head.

She could clearly feel that ever since meeting Nian, many concealed gazes had been watching her.

Perhaps they thought they were well hidden, but to Maria, such concealment was still far too crude.

At first, Maria had thought they were Reunion Movement members here to support Faust and the others.

But now, it seemed...

"This place isn't safe either."

Maria let out a quiet sigh.

Silence...

But it was a deafening kind of silence.

Texas was usually quiet when she drove, but today was clearly different.

Seeing the operator named Ceobe cling so intimately to Maria seemed to have made Texas uncomfortable, leaving her in a resentful yet irritable mood behind the wheel.

Her tail had drooped, yet the car sped along faster than it ever had before.

Her entire mind was intensely focused, and she did not say a word.

She had a kind of silent, composed fury about her.

Exusiai, on the other hand, did not seem to mind much.

She even wanted to open a window and see just how fierce the wind could get.

If Croissant had not desperately stopped her, it was hard to say what might have happened.

Thanks to the fast ride, they returned to Penguin Logistics very quickly.

This time, Exusiai proactively took on the task of reporting in. She grinned and vanished in a flash, while Croissant, unusually enough, got carsick.

Only Texas, belatedly realizing what she had done, felt