"All right. I hope you keep your word."
Tamamo Hotaru felt sorrow in her heart, but she had already resigned herself to her fate.
After all, she had nothing else left to offer. She could hardly give Bright Moon to him.
"Then hand it over."
"What? You want it now? Here?"
Tamamo Hotaru's face flushed crimson as waves of shame washed over her.
Tears were already welling in the corners of her eyes.
Shinji, however, said impatiently, "Hurry up. Why do we need to go somewhere else for something this simple?"
"But... there are other people watching."
"So let them watch. You care about that? You took it out readily enough just now."
Tamamo Hotaru felt this bastard was deliberately humiliating her.
What woman wouldn't care?
But the last part sounded a little off...
"Just now? I took it out?"
"Why are you playing dumb with me?! Have you got any more of these? If you do, hurry up and hand them over as payment for taking you to the Land of Vegetables. If not, go find somewhere else to cool off and stop being an eyesore! All this sniveling makes me want to slap the other side of your face swollen too!"
Shinji, the ultra-titanium-alloy man of steel oblivious to women, kept tossing the [Bear King Order] he had just acquired up and down in his hand. Once the last of his patience ran out, he was ready to take it by force.
Tamamo Hotaru stood frozen in bewilderment.
So the two of them hadn't been on the same wavelength from the very beginning.
"Then why were you staring so lecherously at my... there just now?"
"No shit. Don't you have any fucking idea where you just pulled this thing out of?"
Bang!
Her defenses shattered instantly!
Remembering how