"So in the end, you agreed to join the Salvation Hall of Fame because..."
"Because you're annoying."
Ye Buyu: ...
How blunt.
Ye Buyu gave a dry cough and finally asked the crucial question.
"Then what exactly are you?"
Little Brat rolled its eyes. "Haven't you two been looking for me all along?"
Ye Buyu's voice trembled with disbelief.
"All along?!"
Kou Ying blurted out almost simultaneously, his voice rising in utter shock.
"Looking for you?!"
The instant the words fell, the two of them seemed to have been struck squarely by an invisible thunderbolt. Their bodies went rigid, their minds blank.
The color rapidly drained from their faces, leaving only bewilderment and horror. Their eyes lost focus, and they sank into a distracted daze, as though even the ground beneath their feet were shaking.
Ye Buyu felt as though her head would split open, as if countless pieces of chaotic information were crashing around inside her skull.
She abruptly raised both hands and pressed hard against her temples, then thrust her right palm forward in a quick, clear gesture for "pause."
"Wait... don't say anything yet. Stop! I need time... I need to shut my brain down completely and restart it. This is too much information. My thoughts can't process it at all right now!"
Kou Ying's reaction, meanwhile, was even more violent and direct.
As though he could no longer face the person before him or bear this horrifying truth, he spun around, turning his back to Ye Buyu, then all but stumbled into a crouch.
The pupils in his wide eyes contracted sharply, with a few words written plainly across them: questioning his entire life.
An utterly absurd answer, entirely beyond every logical deduction and realm of possibility, had appeared before them.
A conclusion they had never