How strange. What is this feeling?
Soft, sweet, with a taste like jelly, and a faint fragrance…
Was this a dream?
Could a dream really have such a realistic sensation?
Bai Tang’s eyes were tightly closed. Her arms unconsciously tightened a little more. The pitch-black tentacles covered in countless eyeballs behind her wildly waved about. She actively extended her small pink tongue, as if wanting to properly savor the taste.
Their soft lips met. The tavern echoed with faint smack smack sounds of water. Several silver threads were faintly visible under the dim candlelight.
As expected.
The Witch teacher’s delicate face surfaced in her mind. This really was a dream, wasn’t it? Since it was a dream, it should be fine to indulge a little.
It was completely acceptable, right?
In truth, even Bai Tang herself did not know why she would dream of the Witch teacher. Most likely, back on Earth, aside from helping out at her parents’ small restaurant, she had spent most of her time shut in at home and really did not know many girls.
Even the few girls she did know, their appearances were far from as refined as the Witch teacher’s. Of course, there was also that unique sense of mystery.
It was still too shallow to suddenly say she liked her or anything like that, but there were still feelings of admiration and respect… probably?
If it was a dream, she really did want to open her eyes and see what kind of expression the usually somewhat cold Witch teacher — who never seemed to blush no matter what — would show when kissing her student.
Even if it was just a dream. Even if the Witch teacher’s expression was also something she had imagined…
Her long, curled eyelashes trembled slightly. Bai Tang slowly opened her already hazy eyes.
“O-Old… Theresa?!!”
In a panic, she pushed Theresa away and took several steps back. Bai Tang’s eyes were so wide they looked like they were about to pop out.
“Wh-Wh-Wh-Why is it you?!”
Her gaze frantically swept around. The entire tavern had been turned into a complete mess from the battle. Not far away was also a puddle of black mud that looked like the remains of some large creature that had died and rotted.
No wonder a new brain is so useful. In an instant, Bai Tang summarized the current situation.
Just like the result of the tarot divination, she had been shot in the head by the demon hunter lady. However, thanks to the Witch teacher’s backup plan, she had not actually died. When she was on the verge of suffocating to death inside the Barrel Butcher’s stomach, she had gone all out and force-fed every remaining potion she had — regardless of its effect — to the Barrel Butcher.
And now the result was good. The Barrel Butcher was dead, and she had survived as well.
That meant the kissing sensation just now had been real. It was not a dream!
She had even actively stuck out her tongue just now!
Bai Tang covered her mouth. Tears were almost falling.
No, that was not the main point.
“The main point is — why did you kiss me, Theresa?!”
Looking at the demon hunter lady who was currently standing dazed not far away, seemingly savoring the taste by licking her lips, Bai Tang felt anger surge from within and scolded furiously.
Bai Tang thought of a possibility.
Could it be that Theresa actually had a necrophilia fetish? She had mistakenly thought Bai Tang was already dead, so she had kissed her without any hesitation and planned to do something afterward…
She did not dare to think further. Her face had turned deathly pale from shock.
Otherwise, how else could she explain why the other party had kissed her? Their relationship had clearly never reached that level. Not to mention, she had just blown her head off!
“You stopped breathing, so… um, artificial respiration…”
Theresa also seemed somewhat flustered. She did not know how to explain to Bai Tang. She had really only intended to perform artificial respiration on the girl just now. The one who had actually taken the initiative was…
“Then I was clearly about to wake up just now. Why didn’t you push me away?!”
Her cheeks were burning hot like a branding iron. The tentacles wildly waving behind her seemed to reveal that Bai Tang’s inner panic was even greater than what she was showing on the surface.
“You wrapped your arms around my neck.”
In truth, what Theresa really wanted to express was that she felt truly sorry for almost killing Bai Tang. Since Bai Tang had actively stuck out her tongue, if it could make Bai Tang less angry, then…
She felt that it would not be unacceptable.
Bai Tang sniffled. Suddenly, she raised her Demon Hunter Revolver.
“I don’t feel like wasting words with you right now. You’d better give me an explanation for why you shot me back then!”
Bai Tang’s eyes suddenly turned sharp. The fact that the other party had blown her head off with the flintlock gun was an undeniable truth. She was not the type of person who would abandon pursuing the issue of Theresa’s betrayal just because of a brief farce and an accidental kiss.
If it were not for the fact that Theresa had saved her before, her finger on the trigger would not have paused for even a moment.
“At that time, my mind was in chaos. The moment I saw the tentacles, I treated you, Bai Tang, as an evil creature from the hell world. It was my body’s instinctive reaction to danger…”
She was not lying.
That was the talent of a demon hunter. Their reaction to crises was much faster than that of ordinary creatures. It did not require any training. Just like how, when a fist comes flying at your face, the instinctive blink is much faster than the thought “I need to close my eyes to protect my fragile eyeballs.” It was something etched into their bones.
“I’m telling the truth!” Theresa said with sincere eyes.
Bai Tang frowned and carefully recalled the scene at that time.
At the moment they killed the undead, she had also seemed to be affected by its dying counterattack and felt a moment of fear.
The difference was that the tentacles had immediately whipped her butt to wake her up, so aside from some pain in her butt, she had been almost unaffected.
In contrast, Theresa’s flintlock gun was a major tool that consumed spiritual power. After several rounds of fighting, her spiritual power had nearly bottomed out. She had not managed to drink a small blue potion in time to recover, so the effect of the undead’s control on her was probably especially severe.
“Heh~” Bai Tang let out two cold laughs. “You say whatever you want. It’s not like we can revive that big guy to confront you. Why should I believe your one-sided story?”
Theresa fell silent.
In truth, she also thought Bai Tang was right. Although perhaps if she had drunk a potion in time to replenish her spiritual power back then, that situation would not have occurred, the fact that she had shot Bai Tang was already something she could not argue against.
No matter how she explained it afterward, it would seem pale and weak.
“Alright~ Alright~”
Theresa then saw Bai Tang suddenly raise the corner of her mouth and say:
“Actually, I don’t care at all about the reason you betrayed me, Theresa. I also don’t care whether you had planned it all along or whether your mind really became confused and made the wrong judgment. Right now, I just want revenge!”
The girl’s face was filled with indifference.
“I don’t want to die. So at the moment you shot me, that brief bit of companionship between us has already completely scattered.”
Bai Tang aimed the muzzle of her Demon Hunter Revolver.
“So right now, we are not friends. Whatever you did to me, I will do back to you.”
“Right now, I will also shoot you in the head. As for whether you live or die, after tonight we’ll go our separate ways anyway. It’s up to you. I don’t care.”
Her face was expressionless, even calmly cold — exactly the kind of expression she only showed when facing bizarre creatures.
“Good,” Theresa replied without any hesitation.
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