"Sampo, what are you up to this time?" Seele fixed Sampo with a sharp gaze.
"Ah, Seele's about to blow her top. Buddy, I'm getting out of here. Take your time chatting."
Sampo seemed frightened. He said a quick word to Li Qiuzhi, then slipped away.
Rather than believing he had been frightened, Li Qiuzhi suspected the fellow wanted to use this chance to wrap up his work as their guide, earning two hundred Shield in less than an hour.
He really was a sly one.
"That guy." Seele pressed a hand to her forehead helplessly, then looked at Li Qiuzhi and the others. "So what brings you here? If you don't need anything, please leave."
She did not seem particularly welcoming toward Li Qiuzhi and his companions, probably because they had come down from the Overworld.
"Seele, they haven't even told us what they need yet." Natasha was rather helpless in the face of Seele's bluntness, too.
"Hmph."
Seele folded her arms, making her chest look slightly fuller.
"I understand," Bronya said. "I'm Bronya, commander of the Silvermane Guards. I came to ease the tensions between the Overworld and the Underworld."
"You're the commander of those guards?" Seele walked over and looked at Bronya, speaking through gritted teeth. "Tell them to leave. What gives them the right to walk out on us back then, only to think they can come back and take over the Underworld so easily now?"
"..."
Bronya did not know how to answer. Her mother had dispatched the Silvermane Guards to the Underworld; she was not in charge of that.
Still, she knew her mother had done it to keep the Underworld stable. She simply had not expected it to worsen the tensions instead.
"What should we do? They seem to be arguing."
Charlotte had