The best way to handle this situation was still to divert her attention.
As long as he got Sucrose to focus on something else, everything would naturally be fine.
This was probably one of the better approaches, too.
Li Qiuzhi thought for a moment, slipped his thumbs beneath Sucrose's glasses, and wiped away the tears spilling from the corners of her eyes. Cupping her soft cheeks, he soothed her:
"Oh, right, I have another very rare biological material I'd like to give you. Want to guess what it is?"
He was naturally referring to Stormterror's scale.
He had been planning to give this to Sucrose anyway. Wasn't now the perfect opportunity?
All he does is rub my ears and bully me, and now he wants me to guess, too... At that thought, Sucrose's eyes grew even redder, and silent tears threatened to spill again.
Seeing this, Li Qiuzhi did not make her keep guessing.
He took the stored Stormterror scale straight out of the Delusion's space and placed it before Sucrose.
"All right, Sucrose, look. What's this?"
Li Qiuzhi glanced at the Stormterror Scale, then turned his gaze back to Sucrose and wiped away the tears gathering at the corners of her eyes again.
"What... is this...?"
Sucrose pressed her lips together and, with her hands against Li Qiuzhi's chest, leaned forward slightly to look at the blue-green scale before her.
It felt a little familiar, as though she had seen it somewhere before, but she could not recall where just then.
Li Qiuzhi stopped keeping her in suspense and said with a smile:
"This is a scale from Stormterror. There's a very powerful Archery technique recorded in it, too. That should make it a very rare biological material, right?"
"Stormterror?!"
Hearing that, Sucrose remembered. This scale really was exactly