"Huh?"
Sky Garden, District Eleven.
Inside the boss's office on the top floor of the company behind the city's bestselling [Type One Cola].
Monrojina curled her lips as she read the message Ye Qiyan had sent on the Light Screen before her.
"He's coming so soon~ I thought he'd take a while longer."
"Annie."
Little Annie ran in from outside.
"Gina?"
"Hehe~ Ye Qiyan is coming to pick something up. Go meet him outside, at the platform by the city entrance."
After Annie left.
Monrojina's gaze settled on a transparent cover in front of her.
Inside it, a silvery-white flower swayed gently, as though its petals might fall to the soil at any moment.
"The Fengyue Flower. Getting it from Garden Star really wasn't easy."
"But it was all worth it."
Ritual Card: Cause and Effect Recompense.
Three of the chains upon it had already broken.
After finishing his exchange with Monrojina.
Ye Qiyan found a streetside arcade to kill some time.
A while later, he habitually took out a Whiteforest Fruit, put it to his mouth, and took a bite.
Just then, the wind chime on the arcade door suddenly rang.
He instinctively glanced toward the entrance.
One glance was all it took for his good mood to vanish without a trace.
He saw a woman wearing oversized sunglasses, a face mask, and a baseball cap slip quietly through the door.
She was Zhuxing Tu.
As for why Ye Qiyan could recognize this woman...
Wisps of extremely faint bad luck flickered silently around her.
"Huh?"
"Hey there~ young man?"
Zhuxing Tu seemed to sense Ye Qiyan's gaze and hurried over.
She removed her mask and sunglasses and was about to sit beside him when Lisette held her in place.
Lisette smiled at Zhuxing Tu.
Yet the pressure of her