Vishy blinked.
"No. I'm not a child. Who still has nightmares?" she said casually.
Ash glanced at her and let go of her hand.
Vishy breathed a sigh of relief inwardly, sat up, and said, "You must be hungry too, right? I'll go prepare some food for you—"
"Vishy."
Ash hugged her waist from behind, rested his chin on her shoulder, and whispered by her ear, "Although you're devoid of humanity, utterly lacking in mercy, cruel and violent, and especially fond of going against me, you at least have one good point... you're too disdainful to lie."
"Did you forget you forbade me from lying with the Ruby Chains?" Vishy grumbled.
"Speaking of which, you've undone the Ruby Chains, haven't you?" Ash smiled. "Let me guess. It was probably back in Senluo that you became confident you could, right?"
"You noticed?" Vishy was a little surprised.
"Because that time, you deliberately showed that you could briefly resist the chains' control. Based on my understanding of you, you'd reveal at most one-tenth of your trump cards. In other words, you could already break free of the chains back then." Ash giggled. "From that moment on, what truly bound you was no longer the chains, but me!"
Vishy curled her lip and clicked her tongue.
"You're the least trustworthy Phantom Prophet, but at most you'd withhold things from me. You would never lie to me," Ash said softly. "So no matter what you say, I'll believe you. For example, that I'll be with you forever... or that I like you..."
"I never said that last part."
"Didn't you just say it?"
"I told you I was lying to you."
"Then say it again."
"No." Vishy paused, lowered her head to look at her thighs between her black silk stockings and skirt hem,