She put all her strength into repeatedly twisting her hands.
This was the ultimate move she had learned from a certain twenty-nine-year-old housewife for dealing with bratty kids!
"Uwaaaah...! Dream-chan, stop! My head's going to explode...!"
With a pained expression, Miku finally began frantically begging for mercy.
"Are you going to try that again!?"
"No...! No!"
"Do you know who's boss!?"
"Y-you are!"
After this brief exchange, Lingmeng finally let her off for the moment.
Having escaped disaster, Miku let out a "Mkyuu—" and collapsed face-first onto the ground.
Her eyes had turned into spirals, too. Holding her still-aching head, she muttered.
"I... I oppose violence...!"
"You brought this on yourself, okay?"
Lingmeng gave her a dead-eyed look and casually shook out her hands.
The moment she treated Miku a little better, the girl started getting cocky. She really couldn't let her guard down.
"I couldn't help it! You were the one who got so close, Dream-chan! You were obviously tempting me!"
Getting back up from the ground, Miku shouted with righteous conviction.
"Sheesh... you're hopeless."
Lingmeng covered her forehead, her face full of exasperation.
"Haha..."
Shido chuckled, then thanked Miku.
"Um... Miku, thank you for agreeing to help us."
"Hmph—!"
Miku glanced at Shido, then quickly turned her head away with a snort.
"Don't get the wrong idea! I'm only helping for Dream-chan's sake. It has nothing to do with that little outburst of yours about being a hero of justice!
"Besides, I'm mostly doing this in exchange for canceling our earlier agreement to let you seal my Spirit Power! And to make the captured Spirits part of my collection again!"
"Oh, now she's acting like a tsundere, too."
Lingmeng offered that dry remark.
Just then, Kurumi's voice came from somewhere.
"Heeheehee, you three seem to be having quite