Chapter 120: The Promise

They said it to this extent already—if Veil still couldn’t understand, then there really must be something wrong with her intelligence.

“You… you mean her purpose is… you?” Miss Goddess blinked in surprise.

But… why?

Well, she still hadn’t fully grasped it.

Ileya let out a slow sigh.

“Why did you throw me into this [Hellish World]?”

“Uh… because you killed a lot of people… ah!!”

Between her instinctive answer, Miss Goddess finally caught on to the connection!!

“Could it be… she’s one of the people you killed, and she came specially to seek revenge on you?!”

“Correct.” Ileya didn’t expect that in this lifetime she’d still get to say those three words to Veil.

“Then… who could it be?” Veil pursed her lips and blinked her big eyes at Ileya.

“I don’t know, but sooner or later, I’ll find out…”

The young lady smiled, the obscure light flickering in her slightly narrowed crimson eyes.

And Veil was clearly frightened by that look and expression, shrinking back like a startled kitten wanting to hide in a cramped corner.

But… as if she suddenly thought of something else, Miss Goddess mustered the courage to ask back.

“So… after you find out, what do you plan to do?”

To her question, Ileya merely cast her a cold glance.

“If I can kill her once, I can kill her a second time. But…”

In the young lady’s eyes, a pale blue soul fire flickered.

“This time, she won’t get another chance to reincarnate.”

“W- wait… just… just a moment!” Veil’s lips trembled as if she were about to cry.

But still, she forced herself to speak.

“Can’t you… reconcile with her?”

“I killed her entire family, and you want me to reconcile with her?” Ileya tilted her head, looking at Miss Goddess as if she were stupid.

Besides, the other party’s condition had already reached the “Reincarnation Pursuit” level.

People like that… if she didn’t kill them now, was she really going to wait until they grew stronger and then play a cat-and-mouse game with her?

Did she look like one of those brainless villains from movies and dramas?

Hmm…

Veil instantly lost her voice, unable to refute her at all… what could she do?

“But… but… she managed to enter the [Unlimited Scales] space, which means this lifetime… she hardly did anything wrong!”

Miss Goddess clenched her fists, trembling.

Although she didn’t think highly of that scale, she still respected its judgment.

“If… she’s killed by you again, wouldn’t that be too pitiful?”

“So… what does that have to do with me?”

Ileya tilted her head to the other side again…

Hmm…

Veil’s small mouth puckered; in intelligence, logic, and rhetoric, she was completely overwhelmed.

Only in morality did she have the advantage, but…

Unfortunately, Ileya had no morality.

Racking her brains, Veil couldn’t come up with any reason to persuade Ileya to give up killing Holly.

“Really so dumb…”

Ileya crossed her arms, chin slightly raised.

Her tone was icy cold.

“You could’ve just lied and said… if you kill her, that thing called [Flawless Scales] will target you, and it’d be dangerous, isn’t that enough?”

“No, it wouldn’t… The Scale is just an object; it doesn’t care about how reincarnators live.”

Veil pursed her lips and shook her head, then lifted her chin, her glossy black eyes locking onto Ileya’s.

“Besides… I don’t want to lie to you.”

Thud!

Those words seemed to strike directly at the girl’s cold heart.

She looked at Veil in surprise, but soon her expression turned into relief.

Sigh… a fool is just a fool, truly unable to take any detours.

“She probably doesn’t know my identity yet, right?” Ileya said while her calculating eyes instinctively avoided Veil’s pure black gaze.

“Eh? Ah… ah! Right! You… just don’t let her know who you are!”

Veil seemed to have grasped a last chance and spoke eagerly!

She was really clever… hmm!!

But before she could even praise herself in her mind, Ileya grabbed her face and began kneading it nonstop~

“Well then, let’s set some rules~”

“As long as she doesn’t discover my identity, we can get along normally, but the moment she finds out, I’ll kill her immediately.”

“Understood?”

Hmm… Veil blinked, her face being squeezed.

Since coming to this world, this was the first time after a debate that she had actually won a concession from the young lady.

“O-okay!”

“Even if you beg me all pitifully then, I won’t go easy on you~”

Releasing Miss Goddess’s cheeks, Ileya flicked her forehead with a finger before Veil could catch her breath.

Smack!

Really…

Turning her back on Veil, Ileya suddenly felt a bit frustrated.

Why had she agreed to such a foolish request? Right now… crushing that “threat” would be as easy as crushing an ant.

It really wasn’t like her.

For a moment, Ileya felt a bit dispirited.

No matter what she did, she just couldn’t summon any interest, and she shuffled out of the warehouse door.

Tap, tap, tap…

But just as she stepped out, a figure suddenly rushed from the side!

Before Ileya could frown and kick the person away, she… plopped! dropped to her knees.

“Hm?”

It was… the girl she had just thought about killing immediately, Holly Hills.

Thump thump thump!!

The girl, injured and having endured a night of pain and great shock, knelt straight on the ground and kowtowed firmly three times before Ileya.

“Thank you… thank you very much!”

Her voice was hoarse and muffled, also choking up.

Before… in her understanding, the people in this world actually… weren’t very important.

She could even abandon everything here for revenge but…

She was wrong.

Though not entirely Holly Hills…

She was certainly not the “Qianjin Miss Hao Aiai” who had no relation to her grandparents or sister.

She was… a deeper fusion of both.

The people of this world, the feelings here, all connected to her intimately—some cared for her, some worried about her, some loved her…

These people were just as important to her heart as her own parents from her past life.

And after experiencing all this… Holly finally fully understood.

The grudge… still had to be avenged.

But everything here, she also wanted to protect well!

No… she absolutely must protect it!

“Thank you so much… for rescuing my sister, truly… thank you!!”

Looking at the girl before her, endlessly expressing gratitude…

Ileya remained silent.

Because that girl reminded her of someone.

Someone who also had hatred in her eyes but also a light.

Only…

She suddenly regretted the promise made to Veil.

She really should have killed her… if she had to kill her again in the future, even she herself would feel a pang of guilt.

Hah… she used to think that feelings like “guilt” and “sympathy” had long been thrown into the deepest gutter…

But now it seemed she had indeed lived too comfortably for too long.

Subconsciously, she was picking those useless things back up… wasn’t she?