She looked with a smile at Zhao Lin, who stood in the doorway, having only just run back.
Yet that smile struck Zhao Lin as extraordinarily terrifying.
"B-Boss, what are you talking about? I don't understand..."
Zhuxing Tu cupped her cheeks in both hands, the thirteen Fate Cards behind her flickering constantly.
"Nothing, hehe. Zhao Xiaomei~ Where's Ye Qiyan? Isn't he here?"
"Qiyan has his own things to do."
As Zhao Lin spoke, she cautiously backed away.
"Don't worry, I won't do anything to you. After all, I don't want Brother Ye to dislike me. Sigh, I've really been played."
Zhuxing Tu held the unconscious Ailei in her arms, as though holding an exquisite human-shaped doll.
"In that moment just now, I think I understood, too."
She gently poked Ailei's cheek.
The scene she had witnessed inside this planet's Star Core, which carried its will and power, surfaced in her mind.
"Even if nothing had changed, I probably still wouldn't have obtained the fourteenth card. Astrology practitioner, we've been deceived."
The Blasphemy Card came to her side.
Zhuxing Tu looked at Zhao Lin with a smile.
"Ultimately, it wasn't just because of Brother Ye's blankness, but also your good luck, Zhao Xiaomei, was it? Or was it because... this is what's special about the fourteenth Fate... no, the fourteenth card sequence?"
"D-Does it have something to do with me? W-Well, I'm really sorry about that... Boss, I've got something to do. I'll be going now."
Zhao Lin turned to run, only to be stopped by a Star-Colored Bubbles that appeared out of thin air.
Without hesitation, she immediately activated all her Game Cards and magical devices, facing her nervously.
"Boss... what are you trying to do?"
"Nothing, I just-huh?"
Before she could finish, a fragment of the Planetary Defense Layer