Chapter 96: Playing Along

Because the team leader had suddenly gone ahead alone to investigate the assassination target without a word, Nanaya went directly to Miaomiaonia’s place.

No matter how she thought about it, the investigation plan was simply unreliable, so Nanaya chose to go directly to Menglinna.

Nanaya had heard a bit about the environment inside those factories. There was a certain distance between each point. If the two assassination targets sensed something in advance, it wasn’t entirely impossible for them to forcefully kill the big-breasted blonde woman.

Unable to rest easy no matter what, Nanaya decided to go and see for herself.

But as soon as she reached the factory entrance, she saw Yixing and Menglinna walking out together.

A second ago she was wondering why the two were coming out together, and the next second Menglinna took off her gloves and mask and threw herself at her.

“Darling, what brings you here to see me today?”

‘What medicine did this woman take today?’

Faced with this sudden special situation, Nanaya shook off the other’s hand with some annoyance and glared angrily at Menglinna.

Then she saw Menglinna’s helpless expression and Yixing’s amused look nearby.

In an instant, Nanaya realized that Menglinna seemed to be acting against her will as well.

‘Since that’s the case, I’ll play along with you.’

With that thought, the disgust in Nanaya’s eyes deepened. She said in a low, irritated voice to Menglinna, “Know your place. I’ve told you before, don’t do this outside.”

Facing Nanaya who had shaken off her embrace, Menglinna was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized the other was cooperating with her act. She lowered her head, putting on a dejected look. “Yes, Your Holiness the Saint.”

‘That “Your Holiness the Saint” really put Nanaya on the spot.’

Although there were no believers around, Nanaya still felt a lingering fear. She extended her hand impatiently. “Enough of this. Come back with me now!”

Nanaya’s intention was simply to grab Menglinna and hurry home together. But Menglinna, deep in character, misunderstood the meaning of Nanaya’s extended hand. She stepped forward, knelt on one knee, and grasped Nanaya’s hand, performing a hand-kiss.

Before Nanaya could react, her hand was caught, and then she felt a warm touch on her hand.

‘What is this?’

Nanaya’s brain went blank for a moment.

Instead, the amused Yixing let out an angry snort and quickly left the scene.

‘This Menglinna really never tells the truth. She said she got close to Nanaya to secretly learn divine arts, but seeing the shy expression on that saint candidate’s face, it’s obvious these two aren’t just a simple physical relationship, right?’

The more she thought, the angrier she got, and Yixing left directly.

Seeing Yixing leave, Menglinna released Nanaya’s hand and slowly stood up.

“What just happened was actually…”

“No need to explain,” Nanaya directly interrupted Menglinna’s explanation. “I understand everything.”

Just as Menglinna was feeling relieved that Nanaya was so perceptive, Miaomiaonia suddenly jumped out from the side—more accurately, it was Miaomiaonia’s clone, Little Keycap.

“So have you two confirmed your relationship?”

Although it was just a clone, Little Keycap still possessed the same nosy nature as the original.

“Don’t talk nonsense, kid!” Menglinna wanted to scold Little Keycap loudly, but she was afraid Yixing might come back, so she just casually said, “Stay out of grown-up business!”

After settling the payment, Menglinna pulled Nanaya away from the scene as if fleeing.

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“So we absolutely must be careful. From what I saw of that Yixing’s movements, I estimate that even in human form, those two have the strength of their beast forms!”

In the private room, Menglinna carefully described her observations of the day to the other three members of the team. Finally, she took a sip of pig blood soup.

She didn’t know if it was because her vampirization was becoming more severe, but she was increasingly fond of foods like pig blood and duck blood. Although she hadn’t reached the point of drinking blood, she inexplicably liked eating raw things now.

Although Menglinna had seriously warned the other three, everyone’s focus was completely different.

“So have the two of you confirmed your relationship?”

As the brainless shield guardian, Shiya only cared about the strange relationship between the two.

She exchanged a glance with Kaili, as if showing off her judgment.

The moment she saw Menglinna choose to save Nanaya, Shiya had already made her judgment: these two were definitely a couple. Maybe they had some past conflict, but she had already decided—they would definitely reconcile and then start sleeping together.

“Ahem!” Menglinna coughed because of Shiya’s words. After catching her breath, she began to defend herself. “I’ve said it before, that was just a necessary lie. How can you take it seriously?”

“A great love begins with a necessary lie, interesting…”

“Enough!” Menglinna was almost frantic. She scratched her hair and looked at Nanaya beside her. “Nanaya, you can testify for me, right?”

Nanaya was not in a hurry. She calmly lifted her eyes and replied flatly, “The innocent are innocent. I can’t be bothered to respond to such childish talk.”

Although she spoke as if it had nothing to do with her, the real reason Nanaya showed no reaction was that she was currently arguing with the Flame Evil God in her mind.

“You were definitely moved at that moment, weren’t you? Why won’t you admit your inner desires!”

“What the hell do you know!”

Although she wanted to end the topic as lightly as she did with Shiya, the Flame Evil God, being the boring fellow he was, couldn’t be brushed off so easily. Ever since Menglinna performed the hand-kiss, this guy had been arguing non-stop, which was really annoying.

Since Nanaya had made such a statement, the two didn’t press further and calmed down a bit.

Next was the battle plan for tomorrow. Since they had agreed to listen to Quyi’s confession tomorrow noon, the temporary focus was on what Quyi would confess.

Everyone would come to the church then. Although there was no plan to assassinate at the church, they at least had to prevent the other party from suddenly going berserk and attacking Menglinna.

After that, it would depend on whether Menglinna could extract some information, to see if they had any subsequent action plans, or if Miaomiaonia could track their movements, before deciding on the assassination.

Although Miaomiaonia repeatedly stressed that they must not compromise when taking action, this issue couldn’t be dragged out forever. If possible, it had to be resolved early.

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