At those words, panic immediately crossed Lin Ying's face.
But before she could voice any objection, Lynn had already grabbed her slender wrist and leaped out of the high window.
"W-wait-!"
Lin Ying cried out in panic, desperately clutching her windblown hair and holding the front of her clothes shut against the gale. She was still wearing nothing but pajamas, while that lunatic had rushed out in nothing but boxer shorts.
None of it did a damn thing.
The moment they jumped out, he hoisted her over his shoulder, much to her humiliation, then bounded across the surrounding rooftops like an agile cheetah.
Lin Ying breathed rapidly, pressing down hard on her flying hair.
It was all so familiar.
Every route he took, every spot where his feet landed, was exactly the same as the ones she had used to sneak out growing up. It was as though, in another world, he too had loved slipping through the darkness, never tiring of it.
"Time to broaden your horizons."
A faint smile curved Lynn's lips as he leaped from rooftop to rooftop and raced along the eaves, the dark figure speeding through the street reflected in his Monocle.
"This world already had plenty of monsters and demon ghosts, but they hid in corners you couldn't see. Since the Flesh God Cult arrived, though, a lot of restless demon ghosts have come here from Hell. If you can't even protect yourself against them, how are you going to protect Mom and Dad?"
In an instant.
Amid Lin Ying's startled cry.
Lynn jumped straight down from seven or eight stories up. With an eerie smile on his face, he pulled a bottle of vivid green potion from his system space and swooped down like an eagle, landing precisely on the dark figure racing