Kaguya skipped over to Lin Xiao's side, wrapped an arm around his, and swayed it as she coquettishly said in a syrupy voice:
"Big brother~ Don't help him! I just love watching this kind of ultimate public execution where someone secretly alters his bro's daughter's settings and gets caught red-handed, nya!!"
Lin Xiao: "..."
Ainz: "..."
A deathly silence fell over the stairwell.
Ainz looked at Kaguya, who was fanning the flames beside him like mad and trying to nail him completely to the pillar of shame.
This old hand, who had struggled at the bottom of society for more than a decade, had his survival radar blaring wildly in his head!
He suddenly realized that this woman was the key person who could influence Lin Xiao in private! As long as he could make this "sister-in-law" happy, he would definitely survive today!
To preserve the last shred of dignity he had before his guild brothers, Ainz gritted his teeth and directly unleashed the ultimate workplace bribery technique!
"Sister-in-law! Please, show mercy! Don't screw me over!!"
Ainz turned around and gave Kaguya another fierce New Year-style kowtow, his voice brimming with the sincerity of someone staking the entire Great Tomb of Nazarick's fortune:
"As long as you say a good word for me today! Once we return to the Great Tomb of Nazarick, I'll immediately have Yuri and Narberal erect a hundred-meter-tall pure gold statue of you in the center of the guild's grandest plaza!!"
"No! Not just a statue! I'll place your divine plaque in the same main hall shrine as Big Brother Lin Xiao's! I'll have all the Floor Guardians kneel three times and kowtow nine times, morning and night, worshipping you eternally as the Mother Goddess of Creation!!"
"What do you think, sister-in-law!!"
The moment those words