Then, 99 smiled in understanding, spread his hands and said, "Well~ It's okay, expose it. In that case, if it were me, I would have told the truth. You don't need to have any mental baggage."

"But......" Yan Liu's face still had a bit of handsome self-reproach.

"It's okay~" Ninety-nine sells cute.

"Okay, okay......" Yan Liu smiled bitterly.

……

[The end of the interlude, back to the present]

The young nun suspended in the air looked at the lively scene of Pomp Mai City at night.

He eavesdropped on Joshua's conversation, his little hands playing with the bangs on his sideburns, and the corners of his mouth snickered from time to time.

Because Joshua is at this moment, he is engaged in a friendly exchange with President Ye Zheyu of the Beixing Chamber of Commerce:

- Boss Ye, the demon retired early, but it is not in the exemption clause.

- I know that, too, but I'm... I can't help it. I thought that this year's Pengmai City would be even more serious than last year's, but it backfired. There have been few major losses in Pom-Mai City this year. Therefore, the appropriation from the higher authorities has been greatly reduced, and I really can't buy so many materials. Lord Joshua, can't you just look at our past friendship and reduce the liquidated damages a little?

- Boss Ye is reasonable, so why can't you look at our past friendship and fulfill the contract?

Due to the early withdrawal of the demon clan that attacked Pengmai City, the need for the repair of Pengmai City was greatly reduced.

So Ye Zheyu, who originally planned to buy a batch of infrastructure materials from Joshua, now wants to break the contract. But the high cost of breach of contract made him a little dilemma.

On the other side, Joshua tried his best to let Ye Zheyu eat this batch of goods.

As for the reason, it's not that Joshua is afraid of stockpiling, nor is it that he is afraid that there will be problems with cash flow due to not being able to sell.

It's that he wants to win a favor in front of Ninety-Nine. Although he couldn't see 99 at all, let alone feel 99, he stood next to him with the worst possibility - 99. He had to do everything in his power to show his business skills.

But Ye Zheyu is not a novice either, and like Joshua, he is also a business veteran.

So these two people are constantly threatening each other with 'superficial and friendly words' and testing each other's bottom line.

- Master Joshua, you need to think clearly about our future cooperation.

- Boss Ye, you have to think clearly. Without me, some of your transactions would have to be terminated.

- Ah, that's a bit of a pity. But I'm sure there will always be new partners over there.

Just when the atmosphere gradually became ossified, Joshua had no choice but to show his trump card:

- Yes, with the strength of the Beixing Guild, it is indeed possible to find an escort who can replace 'our song building'. But can you find a high-level archmage who can use teleportation magic?

- You, what you say... What is the meaning?!

Ye Zheyu's eyes lit up.

Hearing this, the young nun floating in the air lowered her brows helplessly and grinned a little awkwardly.

"Hehe, I wasted 15 minutes, and in the end, did you still show your hole cards......

Thinking about it, the young nun raised her eyebrows, tilted her head, and smiled and looked into the distance.

He had no interest in continuing eavesdropping.

After all, for a race that can't use 'teleportation magic', Joshua's hole card has an irresistible allure.

In this game of chess, Ye Wenzhe has been checkmated.

But he didn't recover the Blood Butterfly, after all, he still had to wait for Joshua to come out.

Ninety-nine saw the main church that he had gone to the rescue that day. Since the main church is an important building, it was repaired early. And because there are too many lights on it, it makes Ninety-Nine almost unrecognizable.

Pseudo-Lori involuntarily cast her eyes in the direction of the main tower.

At this moment, two women of the Red Devil Clan were chatting in the long outer corridor outside the main tower. And it happened to be two of the four nuns saved by the Ninety-Nine.

"Huh~Still alive~" Ninety-Nine looked at the two of them in surprise, and muttered in a strange tone, "It seems...... Haven't revealed your stuff yet......"

He muttered, thinking back to the terrible state of the Catholic church.

the bright red earth; the corpses of soldiers; the corpse of an adventurer; the body of a child; As well as the nun's... Corpse......

Ninety-nine's little hands couldn't contain the shape of tiger claws, as if they were about to crush something, and their eyes were a little more ruthless.

In the next second, he noticed that his heart was a little blackened, and immediately took a deep breath. At the same time, the calming spell is activated, and the eyes are withdrawn from the direction of the church.

"Hmph~" He snorted lightly, and then comforted himself: "Forget it, it's all annihilated anyway." ”

The silver-haired young girl smiled ignorantly.

But the next moment, his eyes dimmed instantly.

A layer of tears crossed the ruby eyes, and the young nun curled up in the air with her hands clasped around her knees like a snowball.

"Hmm......"

"Why did you go to confess that day!"

Ninety-nine buried his head in his knees in frustration and hovered in the air for 10 seconds of silence.

As he recalls what Sawa had done to him, Ninety-Nine suddenly feels remorse and self-blame for his confession to Anna that day.

Tears have not been shed for a long time. After all, sedation magic was used......

"Hehe......"

The young girl sighed lightly in her heart, and then slowly lifted her cute and childish face that had completely calmed down.

The originally strong emotions in his heart also dissipated in these ten seconds.

“…… Is that the case again? ”

He thought helplessly.

Although sedative magic is used to prevent blackening.

But when he thinks back to "I've been relying on this magic all these days," he inexplicably has the illusion that he is taking drugs.

99: "After all, what is the difference between a person who can't even control his own mentality, a person who uses magic to escape when things don't go his way, and those who rely on drugs to escape from reality, and can't control their behavior as soon as they quit drugs?" (At this time, 99, due to self-loathing, did not realize that the logic of this idea was problematic.) )

And this delusion will aggravate Ninety-Nine's disgust with himself.

And this disgust was a negative emotion that forced him to continue to maintain his calming magic. And then a vicious circle occurs.

Ninety-Nine soon realizes this (vicious circle), so he forces himself to look up and look at this world, which is not perfect, but still beautiful.

The young girl frowned, slightly sadly and puzzled, looking at the bustling and bright city in front of her, looking at the blue and clear sky.

The crowds and carriages shuttling through the shopping street, and the festive music coming from nowhere.

“……”

He was silent, not to judge, not to think in words, just to watch quietly.

……