"Zhou, screw your eight a.m. class!"
As green flames shot into the sky, visible from half of Shrek City, Cao Quan, head of the Holy Spirit Cult's Shrek branch, was scared witless. He had been sitting in his shop, eating hot pot and humming a tune.
Goddammit, you'd only just said we needed to lie low, and then you went and blew up?!
For fuck's sake, you're an Evil Soul Master! How dare you act so brazenly in Shrek City?!
A whole herd of goddamn alpacas thundered through Cao Quan's mind.
He couldn't stay.
Cao Quan made an immediate decision. Forgetting the pickles and tofu on the table, and the traces still left in the basement, he bolted through the door and plunged into the night.
His most pressing task now was to get out of the city, fast!
He didn't think he could hide Zhou Yi's frequent visits to his little shop over the past while for very long.
Tracking down those traces would be far too easy.
After all, the strongest person on their side was only a Soul King-him...
No, it might be even worse.
That lunatic Zhou Yi might directly reveal all their details!
"Damn it!"
Approaching Shrek City's gate along the shortest route he had planned long ago, Cao Quan worked to calm himself down and look like the other frightened people.
Now he could only gamble that he had moved fast enough to exploit this brief window.
But thinking back...
What the hell had he been thinking then?
He had actually believed that deranged woman could be controlled?!
Goddammit, have I gotten complacent from staying in Shrek City too long?
Cao Quan felt he must have lost his mind earlier.
Or perhaps someone had simply put a curse on him.
As an undercover Evil