"What do you mean, 'sort of'?" Lu Mingfei laughed and clapped Lu Mingze hard on the shoulder. "We're 'real brothers.' If you die, I can do whatever I like. If I die, don't think you'll get to live."
"Of course, of course," Lu Mingze said with a laugh.
Watching this display of brotherly affection, Giovanni momentarily forgot what she had wanted to say. Once she gathered her thoughts, her first question was, "Where's Lu Lincheng?"
"He's different from you. The Secret Party can't possibly allow me to shelter a senior member of the Apocalypse Faction. I need to keep people reassured," Lu Mingfei said.
Giovanni looked at the radiance outside the window. The divine Lu Mingfei had already passed through the surface and floated into the air. His fierce radiance was like the rising sun, making the snowfields dazzlingly bright. With the blizzard stilled, distant mountains emerged. Light pierced the cold air, casting its sharp radiance onto the mountainsides and gilding the snowy peaks. In this barren land that seemed to lie at the end of the world, no sight could have been more spectacular, more worthy of being called a miracle.
"Are you sure you need to?" Giovanni's brain had short-circuited for a moment, too.
"Of course. Sheltering you is no problem, though." Lu Mingfei spread his hands.
Giovanni suddenly reached out and kneaded Lu Mingfei's cheeks. "How do I know my perception of reality hasn't been altered? Are you really my Mingfei?"
Rather than testing whether he was real, her gesture seemed to contain more "pride" and "if I don't squeeze them now, I'll never get another chance."
"Pack up. We should go." Lu Mingfei broke free.
Aside from personally taking Giovanni away, he had also come to deal with Caesar and Pazzi. The brothers' bodies had been