She messed up again.

Looking at An Shiyu and Yiyi, who regarded her with unfamiliar eyes, Keke took a deep breath.

She couldn't help but think back to her childhood.

Back when she ran the hundred-meter dash, she was blazing fast—not just outstanding in her own school.

Later, when compared to other schools' running records, she dominated them all. Even many high school seniors and juniors couldn't match her times.

For a long time, she felt she was super talented. Her parents always thought she had the same athletic gift as her big brother, even planning to train her specifically for sprinting.

Only her big brother always felt she was actually average in this area. But because he poured cold water on the whole family, the three of them united against him, ganging up to counter his sarcastic remarks.

Dad even joked that big brother was afraid she'd surpass him in sprinting, so he had to deny her talent and all that...

In the end, it turned out the school had embezzled funds, which led to the track being shortened...

That was Keke's life. Whenever she felt a little proud, thinking she was special and outstanding—

The world would play a joke on her, slapping her hard across the face to wake her up.

Just like now.

It wasn't just that she had mistaken Silver Lotus and An Shiyu—her very identity had been directly swapped with Black Keke.

"Do you want to eat something first?"

Seeing her grim expression, Silver Lotus still couldn't help showing concern.

After all, in her memory, even Black Keke was pitiful.

But for Keke, this kind of unfamiliar concern was even harder to bear.

"No, I'll go out to eat."

After stepping outside, she first greeted the aunties next door who were sitting at their doorsteps cracking sunflower seeds, just as usual.

Although the aunties responded warmly as always—

None of them recognized her.

The nearby supermarket owner, the cold drink shop owner further down the street, everyone she used to know—when they saw her, their faces were all blank!

Logically, even if their identities had been swapped, her appearance hadn't changed. They should still recognize her, right?

But no. Everyone seemed to have developed a cognitive disorder.

Yiyi and An Shiyu treated her like a stranger—Black Keke. The rest treated her like a stranger, as if she had a completely different face.

Later, she went to the Disaster Control Bureau and found that her identity verification had failed. The bureau's system couldn't even recognize her...

After that, she went to the school, the mall—every place where verification was possible—and ran through all of them. Only then did Keke confirm the truth.

She really had been forgotten by the world.

Not just people—even machines and systems had no idea who she was. — "Hello, please loudly call out your name for verification."

"Jiang Keke."

"Jiang Ke... what? Please repeat."

"Jiang Keke..."

"Jiang Ke... who? Please support Magical Girl Ruri."

From the initial hopeful anticipation, by the end, she couldn't find even a sliver of possibility in the despair.

Keke didn't even dare to call her big brother.

She was terrified that his first words would be, "Who are you?"

If it came to that, Keke wasn't sure she wouldn't completely break down.

But deep down, she knew big brother was probably the same.

After all, even though he was amazing, he didn't have any special abilities. Even the Magical Girls and those machines had been affected, so he would definitely be affected too.

But as long as she didn't confirm it, and then took care of Black Keke, she could pretend none of this happened!

Keke currently felt like when she wet the bed as a kid and then poured tap water all over it, deceiving herself into thinking she hadn't done it. Then, as long as she hung the sheets to dry, the bed-wetting incident simply didn't exist!

However, Yiyi and An Shiyu—and even the entire Disaster Control Bureau—were all on Black Keke's side.

The moment she thought about that, Keke immediately retreated back into her shell.

Even if she could beat her in a fight, what then?

Could she actually lay a hand on Yiyi and An Shiyu? Or fight the entire Disaster Control Bureau?

And even if she won, so what?

Keke looked at the Inner Sect disciples of Azure Cloud Sect not far away.

When she used to work at the Disaster Control Bureau, she had actually gotten to know quite a few Magical Girls from Azure Cloud Sect.

Everyone was nice and had enthusiastically made friends with her. Especially the true-transmissions—Senior Dandelion had even taken good care of her.

But now, no one recognized her.

In fact, this group of Azure Cloud Sect disciples even bore a natural hostility toward her.

As soon as they saw her, they pinched their noses and fanned the air with disgust.

"What a stench."

"Don't act like I'm dirty!"

"It smells like a witch. You'd better not do anything rash, or Azure Cloud Sect will definitely come after you."

That was the result of Keke's conversation with the Azure Cloud Sect disciples.

She even had a witch's stench on her now, let alone going to find Shion and the true-transmissions.

Later, Keke couldn't help but suspect that back then, when Shion insisted on letting Black Keke stay in her house, it was because Shion was already dissatisfied with her from the start and planned to have Black Keke replace her...

Being replaced by Black Keke was all Shion's plan.

It was a bit malicious, but she simply couldn't help thinking that way.

Azure Cloud Sect was unreliable, the Disaster Control Bureau had fallen, and everyone in the new world had forgotten her...

With no way out, Keke returned to her loyal Saint Hall.

The Saint Hall was just like before—the bustling Saint Hall Square was packed with people.

"My points are clearly enough! Let me go to Chongxu!"

"Get in line. The slots for going to Chongxu are already booked until next year. If you want to cut, you'll need extra points. Jumping ten people doubles the points required..."

"What the hell, are you robbing me?"

"If you can't afford it, we also have a line-jumping loan service..."

"With that kind of high-interest loan, you'd never pay it off in a lifetime. Who would dare take it?"

"Too poor and too cowardly. Then what are you pretending for? Get lost!"

Keke watched as the old world member, who had been tossed out of Saint Hall Square, left cursing. She didn't have the energy to care about the Saint Hall's situation, but she couldn't help sighing at how Chongxu had turned around and affected the Saint Hall...

Most of the Saints of the Hall didn't recognize her, so Black Keke's cognitive disruption didn't seem to work here.

Keke carefully made her way, one step at a time, to find the private space that used to belong to her team.

This was something she and White Fox had exchanged a lot of points for. Tiptoeing, she peeked through the glass.

Sure enough, Prince and White Fox were both inside the private space. White Fox was still reading, but this time it wasn't web novels—it was some classic literature.

Of course, Keke had recommended this too. Since her big brother didn't care about her anymore and reading web novels was a struggle, she might as well read something she liked. Keke had originally recommended a lot of comics.

But in the end, White Fox chose these classics and was reading them with great interest.

Keke actually felt that classics weren't as fun as comics or web novels...

It felt like reading a textbook. She didn't know why White Fox liked them so much.

Maybe she really had never gone to school.

Now, outside, before she could knock, White Fox was the first to look up and notice her.

Then she turned back to look at Prince.

Earlier, when Keke withdrew, her Black Ruri Squad was left with only White Fox. Prince later joined the team voluntarily. Now, the private space's authority and the team's points were basically in Prince's hands.

After all, White Fox had long been used to being Prince's sidekick. Besides Sir, Prince was the one she listened to most.

Now that Keke had returned, she naturally looked to Prince.

"Come in."

Prince was currently lying sideways on the sofa, lazily adjusting the Void Mirror floating before her—the last time, the Void Mirror's authority was seized by Lu Ya AI, and later it was shattered in a battle with Shion. Ultimately, it was Prince who recovered the fragments and reassembled it.

As one of the original creators of the Void Mirror, she had the privilege of renting it at half price, since many of its technological copyrights came from the Mirror Kingdom.

Now that it was broken, Prince was also responsible for the repairs. The Saint Hall's Demon Squad had even generously offered to lend the Void Mirror to Prince for free for a month to cover the repair costs.

She was still continuously adjusting the Void Mirror's internal permissions, but because the Saint Hall had its own security system installed, it was impossible to monopolize the Void Mirror completely. Not to mention, if she tried to steal it, she would face the Saint Hall Master's wrath...

Keke glanced at Prince, then at White Fox, and quietly asked, "Do you two still remember me?"

"Although I know you're about as dumb as your brother, do you have to come here specifically to show off?" Prince waved her hand impatiently. "If that's all you wanted to say, you can get lost."

Even though her tone was impatient, it still made Keke sigh in relief. She glanced at White Fox again, and this somewhat dazed girl clearly still remembered her too.

"Have a seat first, Keke."

As she spoke, she even brought her a stool.

It was a secondhand stool bought from outside, super cheap. Things in the Saint Hall were all extremely expensive.

Prices here were way higher than tourist spots, so everyone bought whatever they could from outside instead of from the Saint Hall.

White Fox pushed the stool over for her to sit. For a moment, Keke felt a little warmth in her heart.

Then she continued, "The President of the Witch Association—that Black Keke who looks like me—has completely taken my place now. No one in Beihai recognizes me anymore. I... I really have no other choice, so I came to ask you two for help..."

"You voluntarily left the Saint Hall before, didn't you? You even clashed with the Saint Hall, abandoned White Fox, and went back to Beihai on your own." Without looking up, Prince's pitch-black, smooth stockings wrapped around her toes as she tapped Keke's knee.

There was a hint of disrespect and mockery in it. "It's only been a few days, and now you want to come running back, asking for our help? Don't you know outsiders aren't allowed into the Main God Space casually? Go outside and apply to post a mission yourself."

Seeing that Prince was about to forcefully shove Keke out, White Fox directly sat down on Prince's lap, pinning her restless legs down.

Prince angrily kicked White Fox twice, but her legs were entangled by Blue Silver Grass. White Fox then soothed her, "Hold on, Prince. Keke, what do you want us to help you with?"

"Help me drive that impostor out of my home." Keke said pitifully. "Let me go back, make everyone remember me. I... I don't want to be forgotten by everyone... I don't want to be alone..."

"You're just forgotten by people."

Although she was tangled in Blue Silver Grass, Prince still sneered. "I, on the other hand, was directly caused by your brother to lose my entire kingdom! I've become a lingering, dying king of a fallen nation. In the history books, I'll be an absolute joke."

"Please rest assured," White Fox immediately comforted. "History books won't record a roadside country like the Mirror Kingdom. So you won't be evaluated as a doomed king..."

"They will record it!"

Suddenly, a voice interrupted White Fox's comfort. An Alice popped out from behind the sofa. "Mirror Kingdom's exiled historian Alice Unit 10086, ready for duty!"

"The summer of July has ended; the Prince murdered her husband!"

Prince's expression turned ugly. "Why doesn't the Saint Hall destroy the Alices? Kill her."

She casually disabled this Alice's functions, but another Alice poked its head out. "The Prince murdered her husband! The nation has fallen!"

"Kill her again."

Alice Unit 10000 remained unyielding. "The historian records history as it is, not a single word changed!"

"Kill, kill, kill, kill!"

"Wow, sister, it's getting intense..." Alice Unit 114514, seeing the threatening look Prince shot her, immediately put on a serious face. "I'll change it, I'll change it. In the summer of July, the last Mirror Queen, Itaen, misappropriated a large amount of military funds to build gardens and hold wedding banquets."

Prince finally cleared out all the Alices.

But then she suddenly heard White Fox speak up. "So it was because of a man that the kingdom fell. What a foolish ruler..."

"Did I give you permission to speak?"

Prince kicked White Fox to shut her up, then looked at Keke. "Just this little setback, and you can't take it? Then how are you supposed to compensate me for what your brother did to me?"

Keke was momentarily speechless.

"But, if you're willing to kneel down and apologize on behalf of your brother, then as a monarch..."

Keke, who had been withdrawn for a while, suddenly stood up.

Prince, who had been closing her eyes and casually making demands, paused, then looked at the standing Keke.

The girl's previously depressed and pitiful expression now seemed to have changed slightly. "I... I don't know the reason why my brother did those things, so I can't apologize to you on his behalf."

As she spoke, she backed away.

"You're right. Both my brother and I owe you a debt of gratitude. I shouldn't have come to you for help like this. Besides, this is my own problem. It has nothing to do with you, and even less to do with my brother. Sorry for bothering you."

Prince sat up, about to say something, but Keke had already closed the door with a "smack."

Even Prince was stunned for a moment.

"Ah." White Fox said blankly. "Keke is angry. When the time comes, Sir will definitely be angry too. You'll be hated by both siblings."

"What's the big deal?"

Prince snorted coldly and lay back down. "They owe me this!"

...

Although she had come out of the Saint Hall with a tough front, not wanting to embarrass her big brother, as soon as she stepped outside, Keke felt like crying.

Just last night, she had vowed to him that she would be independent and not rely on him.

But in reality, when she actually encountered something like this, when she was alone, she instinctively wanted to find a companion to lean on.

Keke was still too useless.

Thinking like this, she made up her mind. Even if it ended in a complete mess, she would deal with Black Keke herself.

Even if it meant being completely hated by Yiyi and An Shiyu, she still had to do it...

She trudged alone back to the front of her home.

It had only been one night, but this once warm and reassuring place had suddenly become cold and unsettling.

Then, the neighbor next door stood up and waved at her.

Keke was stunned, a small glimmer of hope rising in her heart.

Had they recovered...?

"Hey hey hey, you're late, girl. Jiang Si has brought back another girl..."

"I heard some commotion from inside just now. It's probably not a good time. Wait a while."

"Yeah, yeah. It wouldn't be good to run into something that's not suitable for children."

...You guys are so noisy!

Keke took a deep breath, about to go inside and go all out against Black Keke—

The door was pushed open.

Keke's pupils suddenly dilated.

"Shion..."

She ultimately swallowed the word "Master." The purple-haired Magical Girl pushed open the door, looked up at her, and said coldly, "Who told you to come back?"

Her heart slowly sank.

Before Keke could say anything, Shion had already thrown a punch!

Keke transformed instantly!

But Shion's fist punched straight through the invincibility frames of the transformation and slammed into her stomach.

Keke was sent flying, shooting across the sky like a meteor, crashing into a lake on the outskirts of Beihai!

Crimson flames slowly dyed the lake water into magma, and then Keke shot out from it, splashing magma and sparks like rain.

She looked down at her chest. Shion's punch had torn through the Magical Outfit there. Even the invincibility frames of the transformation hadn't been able to protect her...

But with a large amount of mana, she could slowly recover.

She looked up. Shion stood above her, and standing beside her was none other than Black Keke, who had taken her place.

A bitter taste filled her mouth.

She no longer cared whether Shion was actually being deceived or not. In fact, it hurt more if she wasn't affected...

But soon, Keke pulled herself together.

"I won't forgive you."

She had originally prepared a whole bunch of grandiose speeches, but in the end, her mind went blank, and this was all that was left.

And it came out a bit weak, a bit unconvincing.

After all, with Shion there, what could she even do even if she didn't forgive her...

Sure enough, it seemed no one had heard her. So Keke took a deep breath, gathered her courage.

"I won't forgive you! Black Keke!"

Black Keke watched the enraged Keke, then, as An Shiyu flew up from behind, she took An Shiyu's hand and shook her head. "Calm down. If you just scream and shout when something happens, you won't solve anything."

Keke pursed her lips and looked at Shion—at least Shion wasn't holding hands with Black Keke, and they were keeping their distance.

Otherwise, Keke would have really retreated into her shell.

After all, Shion had never been that close to her before, never held her hand like that.

Even if she had to break ties with Shion, even if they had a falling out, she didn't want this other version of herself, who had suddenly appeared, to have a better relationship with Shion than she did.

"Just accept your identity, how about it?"

"I am the real Keke."

"That's why I said you're not mature enough."

Black Keke let go of An Shiyu's hand. "If you're so stubborn, then don't blame us for being rude. Xiao An, let's go too."

An Shiyu hesitated for a moment, but after glancing at Shion, she nodded. "Okay."

Keke didn't mind. She just looked around. "Where's Yiyi?"

Black Keke shrugged. "How could Yiyi participate in such a dangerous activity? I made her fall asleep at home first. Don't worry."

Mùjǐn immediately started yelling, "I'm dangerous too! Shion, protect me..."

Then she was pulled aside by Black Keke.

After that, Black Keke opened her arms as if in mockery, showing off the companions beside her—Shion and Mùjǐn. "Sorry, it's three against one now."

With that, the mana of the three of them lit up simultaneously. The terrifying power began to distort space, locking firmly onto Keke.

In this spatial distortion, she couldn't even escape. She could only brace herself and take the hit.

Gritting her teeth, while her Dream Core was in Full Bloom, she layered the Buddha's Fury Lotus again and again, forming a stunning lotus shield!

But when Shion's mana was hurled at her, Keke knew she had been naive.

She couldn't even self-destruct. The sharp mana pierced through her Fire Lotus shield in a single breath, heading straight for her right eye!

She was going to die...

The terrifying mana and aura left only that thought in her mind.

"Void Mirror."

Then, within Keke's constricted pupils, a faint glimmer of mirror light flickered.

First, the outline of an arc appeared in front of Keke. Then, gradually, the mirror's surface filled the frame.

"Reflect."

The spear Shion had thrown, which was about to pierce through Keke's head, rebounded at an even faster speed!

Shion reached out and caught her own rebounding spear. A massive explosion erupted in her palm. The little wings on An Shiyu's head flapped wildly as she tumbled, nearly crashing to the ground.

Fortunately, Black Keke pulled her back, preventing her fall. Then Black Keke looked down and heard a voice dripping with arrogance echo softly.

"Bullying the weak with numbers? Then I, from the Saint Hall, naturally have to come and even the odds."

Soon, the figures of Prince and White Fox also emerged from the mirror. Prince flashed a contemptuous and cold smile. "Now it's three against three, trash."

Keke, who had narrowly escaped death, panted heavily—in truth, even if that spear had pierced her skull, it would only have kicked her out of her transformation state, not killed her. But the lingering fear was still real.

Then, a little moved, she looked at Prince and White Fox. "White Fox, Miss Prince..."

"Don't get the wrong idea, idiot." Prince cut her off. "We're not here to help you. It's just that compared to you, I dislike Shion and that smug Magical Girl Mùjǐn a little more."

Mùjǐn immediately started yelling. "I haven't even said anything yet, you remnant of the Mirror Kingdom!"

Beside them, White Fox helped Keke to her feet and glanced at An Shiyu.

Then she nodded. "I'll handle her..."

"No need." Prince interrupted her directly, then raised the Void Mirror and stared coldly at An Shiyu and Mùjǐn inside her body. "I have a personal grudge against her. Let's settle old and new scores together. The vendetta from the destruction of the Mirror Kingdom ends here."

"Fine." Mùjǐn sneered. "I've been wanting to beat you up for a long time, you villain who resurrected Changgeng and almost ruined her reputation!"

With that, the two of them flew off in sync, far into the distance, and clashed in the sky above the sea with a thunderous boom!

White Fox hesitated.

Then she looked at Black Keke. "I'll take this one..."

"No need." Keke interrupted her, stood up, and stared coldly at Black Keke. "I'm going to defeat her with my own hands and get my identity back."

"This is truly an unavoidable battle of fate." Black Keke smiled faintly. "Come on, little girl. I'll teach you what it means to grow!"

The two of them tore through space and clashed directly in the chaotic currents!

White Fox stood still, looked up, and met Shion's indifferent gaze.

A losing battle...

The phrase flashed through her mind. The problem was, making her, a low-level horse that couldn't even transform, go up against Shion, this super horse, was that going too far?

After thinking for a moment, White Fox still steeled herself and said, "Old and new scores, old and new scores together..."

In an instant, a tsunami of purple mana engulfed the sky and earth, causing White Fox to abandon controlling the Blue Silver Grass that squirmed beside her like tiny ants in comparison.

And in that instant, she found release.

This wasn't a losing battle—it was a horse-less battle...

...

"Is it really okay to put this much pressure on Keke?"

On the empty, expansive plaza, the afternoon sun was warm. Fresh sod had been laid on both sides, carrying the earthy scent of grass. A white carpet stretched from the plaza entrance all the way to the central stage.

Bingtang was currently holding Jiang Si's hand, walking on the white carpet. There was no one else around.

Most of the true-transmissions had been sent away by Bingtang on missions last night.

In recent days, there were a lot of messy things in the old world, the other worlds near Chongxu, and even the Saint Hall that needed handling. Sending the true-transmissions to oversee things was the most convenient—of course, it also conveniently got them out of the way.

She gently wrapped her arm around Jiang Si's. Although she wasn't wearing a wedding dress, she wore a similar gown. The surroundings were as quiet as if it were night—with her current financial resources, transforming the plaza into a private space wasn't hard, and it didn't even cost much.

The two of them were rehearsing privately, alone. For an annulment ceremony, there was naturally no need for an audience.

But Bingtang still used the surrounding ice crystals to record every second of this happiness she felt.

"It's fine."

Jiang Si glanced into the distance. "If she can't even get past this, how can Keke ever grow?"

"Education should have a balance of pressure and release. I'll go check on her later."

As she spoke, she walked arm-in-arm with Jiang Si toward the stage while adjusting his tie. "If you push too hard, the child will have psychological problems. Keke is both a Magical Girl and a witch in one. If her emotions lean too far in either direction, it's bad for her growth."

"When I was her age..."

Jiang Si paused mid-sentence, then just snorted coldly. "Do whatever you want."

Bingtang could naturally tell that his CPU was spinning at high speed, struggling to keep up.

Magical Girl Shion was suppressing things on Keke's side, Jiang Si himself and she were rehearsing the annulment ceremony, and Witch Shion had been dispatched outside of Chongxu.

She was currently following the path the Magical Girls had taken earlier when they attacked the World Tree, continuing forward.

But in reality, the difficulty was enormous.

Not only was it easy to get lost with no clear path, but the traces left behind by those former Magical Girls had become misleading. Many Magical Girls had never found the World Tree and had lost their lives halfway.

Coupled with the interweaving of various worlds and the chaos of space and time—

Even Jiang Si, controlling Witch Shion, felt exhausted after flying this entire way.

He really wasn't very good at finding his way.

"Do we really not need to worry about Black Keke? Although she said she'd tell us the method to advance beyond Full Bloom if we let her live as Keke for three days, I still feel her credibility isn't high..."

"Just three days." Jiang Si said calmly. "If she breaks the agreement after three days, we can kill her then."

Bingtang nodded obediently, completely lacking the commanding and unquestionable aura she had in Azure Cloud Sect.

In reality, when they were in public, even Jiang Si would make slight concessions to give her some face.

This was also to prevent Bingtang's words from carrying too little weight.

But when there were no outsiders, most of the time, whatever Jiang Si said went.

"It's just hard on Sister Keke."

"She needs to suffer a bit. Having things go too smoothly along the way isn't good for her."

Although Bingtang didn't fully agree with Jiang Si's philosophy of hardship-based education, she naturally didn't want to argue at a time like this.

They could discuss the issue of parenting methods later.

The two stopped in front of the stage. Bingtang let go, trotted up onto it, and looked up. Above was the floral archway she had specially ordered.

"So, what do you think of the stage I prepared?"

Several pillars entwined with vines supported the crisscrossing framework. Pink and white roses and hydrangeas crowded together, hanging down from above. The not-too-strong sunlight filtered through the gaps between the flowers, casting scattered, flowing light and shadows that danced on the girl's ice-blue gown and scattered across the ground.

Slightly lost in the moment, Bingtang raised her hand as if to catch the sunlight and slowly spun around.

With this turn, her gown floated up gently, her ribbons swimming like fish in water.

The dancing sunlight flickered, creating an almost shimmering, rippling effect.

Bingtang turned back, a gentle yet alluring smile on her face, as if showing off her figure to Jiang Si. "Isn't it beautiful?"

Jiang Si, his pupils a little unfocused, simply nodded.

"So, first I'll go on stage, then you'll follow. Someone will introduce us as an engaged couple. Then..."

She trailed off mid-sentence.

She crouched down slightly, looking at the Sect Master below, whose attention was completely focused. When she fell silent, it was as if time had stopped, and the sunlight had dimmed with it. "Then, I'll first say I want to call off the engagement, and you'll say you want to divorce me. Anyway, that's how the script goes..."

Seeing that Jiang Si didn't respond, Bingtang, crouching on the stage, couldn't help but shake her head in frustration and irritation. She kept poking Jiang Si's cheek with her index finger. "Sect Master~ Sect Master—are you listening? We need to rehearse—"

Jiang Si snapped back to reality and nodded. "I heard you."

"Come up."

Then, pulled by Bingtang, Jiang Si also jumped onto the stage.

Bingtang hugged her Sect Master with a grand gesture. "Forget it, I can handle the rest of the rehearsal myself. You go deal with other things first."

"Okay."

Seeing Jiang Si nod in agreement, Bingtang, still holding her Sect Master, poked him on the forehead again.

She found that her Sect Master really didn't react much.

He had probably discovered something important?

Either way, it had nothing to do with her right now.

"After we finish the formalities, we need to add one more act. Although we're calling off the engagement,"

As she spoke, Bingtang studied her Sect Master's eyes, then his nose bridge, and finally, her gaze slid down to his lips.

His thin lips were pressed tightly together like steel.

So she reached out and touched his lips, whispering in his ear, "But in the end, we still have to kiss. Preferably a forceful kiss. That's popular these days, the emotions are fuller."

As she spoke, she pinched his lips and gently pulled on them. "Did you hear me? If you don't respond, I'll take it as your agreement."

Then, imitating Jiang Si's voice, she said to herself, "Mm-hmm, I agree."

Enjoying her own little game, Bingtang, bathed in the shimmering light, slowly brought her face closer.

When her lips touched his, it felt like kissing frozen steel in the middle of winter.

It hurt a little...

But at the same time, it was hard to pull away.

Just as she was trying to pry open her Sect Master's lips, Jiang Si suddenly bit down on hers.

The pain made Bingtang instinctively pull back.

Jiang Si, snapping out of it, licked the slightly sweet and metallic blood from the corner of his mouth and took a deep breath.

Then he looked at Bingtang, who was covering her lips. "What are you doing?"

Bingtang said with perfect justification, "The final step of annulling the engagement—a kiss."

"Is there such a step?"

"There is in modern annulments. I plan to add it."

"...We'll talk about it later."

Even so, Bingtang touched her lip. Jiang Si's bite hadn't hurt much—just a small cut. He had held back after all.

She had thought he would bite a chunk off...

After wiping away the blood and lightly touching the wound, Bingtang asked curiously, "What did you see?"

Jiang Si didn't answer. He just looked up into the distant void.

That direction was where Witch Shion, after flying for who knows how long since leaving Chongxu, had finally stopped.

And at this moment, Witch Shion had come to a halt.

Below her was an endless expanse of land and bottomless ravines, clearly visible even in the pitch-black void.

Of course, these weren't important. What was important was that on the land and within the ravines, there were mountains and oceans of—household bodies.

They stretched from under her feet all the way to an invisible horizon, nearly filling even those bottomless ravines!

Witch Shion landed silently and walked forward step by step, using both her demonic sense and her eyes to examine every single body.

All of them, without exception, were Keke!