"Dream-chan, are you planning to come back to me~? If you come back now, I can pretend none of that ever happened."
"No, we only came back to talk some sense into you."
Lingmeng shrugged casually as she spoke.
Then Shido shouted Miku's name too.
"Miku—!"
Unlike her reaction to Lingmeng, however, Miku immediately looked disgusted.
"What is that voice? Could you stop polluting my ears and my girls' ears with that filthy voice?
How unpleasant~ You have no value whatsoever. You're nothing but a blight~
So ugly that even if you were ground to pieces and returned to dust, you could never nurture new life. You'd leave an everlasting curse on that soil~ Would you please shut up, you walking filth~?"
She mocked Shido in her usual sharp, vicious tone.
There was barely a swear word in it, yet everything she said sounded exceptionally nasty.
Still, in Lingmeng's eyes, all that was less effective than a simple, "Shido Itsuka, fuck your ancestors!"
"Ugh..."
Shido couldn't help frowning. But even if she insulted him, he still had to speak.
"Miku! Listen to me! We have to go save Yoshino, Kaguya, and Yuzuru right now!
DEM captured those three because they were protecting you! So I want—"
"Didn't I tell you... to shut up—!"
Before Shido could finish, Miku drew a deep breath and unleashed a sound wave infused with spirit power at him.
But before the attack could hit him, Lingmeng casually dispersed it from beside him.
Lingmeng gave her hand a light shake and spoke.
"Calm down first. Interrupting people like that isn't very polite~
Besides, our side is clearly stronger right now. I suggest you keep a low profile."
"Ugh... Dream-chan, do you really have to oppose me!?"
"If I had a choice, I wouldn't want to either."