And the instant Zhou Heng clicked "Accept" and took on "Boundless Endless · Ancient Era · Fault · Unique Quest: Return the Severed Divine Energy System"...
"Tsundere Ao Tiantian," who had been repeating her tsundere gestures beneath the neon lights, suddenly stopped moving.
The pose she had repeated for who knew how many billions of years, hands on her hips and head held high, abruptly froze at that moment.
It was as though a machine endlessly repeating a programmed routine had suddenly triggered a hidden mechanism buried in the deepest layer of its code, undergoing some fundamental change.
Then, "Tsundere Ao Tiantian" slowly lowered her little upturned head. The movement was extremely slow, like a statue that had slumbered for countless epochs finally awakening from petrification... its stiff joints regaining flexibility little by little.
Then she looked toward Zhou Heng and "Bobo" with her little jet-black eyes.
At first, those eyes were hollow, like two black mirrors reflecting nothing at all.
But soon, a faint light slowly flowed from those hollow depths, like the first trickle of clear spring water welling up from a spring that had run dry for countless epochs.
"Oh, I was wondering who it was~"
Growing ever more animated, "Tsundere Ao Tiantian" spoke...
Her voice was clear and sweet, with a girlish quality that did not match her terrifying attributes at all.
"So it's that little Sea of Stars Skywhales fellow's child~"
"How many times have I told you... don't come looking for me... don't come looking for me~"
"Even if you kneel before me and kowtow for a hundred million billion years... there's no way I'll help you!"
Looking at "Bobo," "Tsundere Ao Tiantian" still maintained her signature pose with both hands on her hips.
This time, however, her expression was noticeably more animated. Her