Her gaze flickered as she said solemnly:
"Fine, I agree. But I suggest you stop playing tricks on me. You should understand that some things are always more terrifying than death."
And the very moment she finished speaking...
The dying Lynn promptly climbed to his feet as though nothing had happened, clapped his hands, and tossed the Revolver back into System Space. He picked at the bullet hole in his Celestial Sense with his little finger, blew on it, and exhaled before saying:
"Couldn't you have just said that earlier? You made me take a bullet for nothing. I even blew my brains out. What a waste of my time."
Zuo Zuo and Little Darling both stood frozen.
For a moment, they could neither advance...
Nor retreat.
The girl the Mother Tree of Desire had become closed her eyes. As she continued healing him, she clenched her slender fists with an audible crack, one "╬" after another popping above her head as she forcibly tried to suppress her turbulent emotions.
But it didn't do a damn thing.
She hadn't felt this way before.
But now she genuinely felt the urge to kill him for no other reason than to kill him!
Lynn clapped his hands, smiled, then turned and strode toward the dumbstruck Zuo Zuo and Little Darling. The girl beside him, who kept healing him to stop him from dropping dead, could only grit her teeth and hurry after him, lest he really die the moment she broke contact.
"All right."
Lynn held Zuo Zuo by the shoulders and smiled as he tucked the stray strands of hair on her forehead behind her ear.
"You two should go. Let Little Darling stay with you. I'm afraid your head really will have to spend some time away from you. Remember,